1 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:26,440 Speaker 1: Hello, friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. This story 2 00:00:26,840 --> 00:00:33,840 Speaker 1: is about a little girl called Nellie. Nellie has been sick, 3 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: and when she was sick, she got lots of dolls 4 00:00:38,440 --> 00:00:44,479 Speaker 1: from her aunts and cousins. Now that she is feeling better, 5 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:47,880 Speaker 1: she is thinking of something that she'd like to do 6 00:00:48,400 --> 00:01:03,200 Speaker 1: with her dolls. Nellie and her dolls, Mamma, little Nellie asked, 7 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:06,959 Speaker 1: is it all right to give away things that have 8 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:13,360 Speaker 1: been given to you? Her mother replied that it might 9 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 1: be all right sometimes, and she said, but I would 10 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 1: feel a little sad if I had made a little 11 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 1: friend a present she did not appreciate, and so was 12 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 1: glad to part with. Oh, Mama said, Nellie, you know 13 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 1: how I love my dollies, everyone that my dear aunts 14 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:45,680 Speaker 1: and cousins sent me when I was sick. Now I 15 00:01:45,720 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 1: am well again, but I have heard that there are 16 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 1: some sick little girls in the hospital who want dollies. 17 00:01:56,880 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 1: Could I, if I knew which ones to choose, keep 18 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 1: only one of my dolls for myself and send the 19 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:08,240 Speaker 1: other five of them to those poor sick children who 20 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:12,280 Speaker 1: don't have any dolls to make them happy or keep 21 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:20,080 Speaker 1: them company. Her mother liked the plan, so she gave 22 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:25,160 Speaker 1: Nellie a box, and Nellie began kissing her babies and 23 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 1: laying them one after another very carefully in the box. 24 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:38,280 Speaker 1: There were two of nearly the same size that were 25 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 1: very dear to this little girl. Nellie called them twins. 26 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:49,720 Speaker 1: They wore white dresses and blue kid boots. They had 27 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: real curly hair, and their eyes would open and shut. 28 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: These lovely twins Nelly held in her arms a long 29 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:07,040 Speaker 1: time before she could decide which one to part with. 30 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:12,920 Speaker 1: When she did place one in the box to be 31 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:17,640 Speaker 1: her own, no more, a tear was on the doll's cheek. 32 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 1: I do not think the drop came from Dollie's eye, 33 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:32,120 Speaker 1: but from Nellie's own eye. A few days after the 34 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:36,560 Speaker 1: dolls were given, Nellie's mother let her invite three little 35 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:42,160 Speaker 1: girls to play with her. Each girl brought their own 36 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:47,120 Speaker 1: special doll to play with, and the three dolls with 37 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 1: Nellie's looked very cute sitting together in a row. After 38 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 1: a while, Nellie's mother came to her room, which she 39 00:04:00,880 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: had given to the girls to use that afternoon for 40 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:09,080 Speaker 1: their party. She told the girls she would give them 41 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:13,800 Speaker 1: a little supper of cakes and pears and grapes, and 42 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 1: it would be ready as soon as Nellie's brother could 43 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:24,720 Speaker 1: bring the ice cream from down the street. The smiling 44 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 1: girls gathered around the mother, saying thank you, thank you. 45 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:36,279 Speaker 1: That is so very kind of you to do for us. 46 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:41,920 Speaker 1: Nellie said softly, Mamma, dear, I wouldn't take my dollies 47 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:45,040 Speaker 1: back if I could. I love to think that they 48 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: are helping the sick children feel a little bit better, 49 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:53,200 Speaker 1: but I do wish that, for just a minute, we 50 00:04:53,360 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 1: had them here at this party. Her turned to her 51 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:05,799 Speaker 1: makeup table. It stood low enough for the smallest child 52 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:13,440 Speaker 1: to look into the mirror at the back. Easily moving 53 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:17,559 Speaker 1: off the makeup bags and bottles of perfume, her mother 54 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:23,160 Speaker 1: put the four dolls in front of the mirror. Their 55 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:30,919 Speaker 1: reflection in the glass showed four more six seven, eight, 56 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 1: cried the girls, delighted, and all are twins, four pairs 57 00:05:38,160 --> 00:05:47,920 Speaker 1: of twins. After supper, the girls made the twins sit 58 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:55,240 Speaker 1: and stand and dance, bow and shake hands before the mirror. 59 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:02,080 Speaker 1: The little girls played until die when their mothers came 60 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:06,240 Speaker 1: to take them home. After saying thank you and good 61 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:13,000 Speaker 1: night to Nellie, Nellie helped clean up and went to 62 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 1: bed with a big smile and a happy heart, and 63 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:30,400 Speaker 1: that is the end of our story. Good Night, sleep tight. 64 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:26,760 Speaker 2: Com Egalam conclude 65 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 1: A comp