Speaker 1: Hello, friends, and welcome to bedtime Stories with mister Jim. Oh.
Speaker 1: I was just getting ready for bed, are you as well?
Speaker 1: Oh good? I hope you brushed your teeth and found
Speaker 1: all of your comfy things like pillows and blankets and stuffies.
Speaker 1: Oh yes, oh good. Well, as long as you have
Speaker 1: all those things ready, then it's time for our story.
Speaker 1: But first we must close our eyes so that we
Speaker 1: can travel to an imaginary world. Bessie the Cow had
Speaker 1: always dreamed of greatness. She lived on a farm full
Speaker 1: of marvelous animals like Phyllis the fiddle playing cat and
Speaker 1: Fido the dog Magician. Fid A loved to make the
Speaker 1: dishes come alive and entertain the farm animals at night,
Speaker 1: alongside Phyllis, who played the musical accompaniment for their shows.
Speaker 1: Bessie the Cow had tried to be brilliant herself, but
Speaker 1: she wasn't sure what her talents were. She had tried painting,
Speaker 1: but she couldn't figure out how to hold the brush
Speaker 1: in her hoofs. She attempted to sing along with the
Speaker 1: cat's fiddle, but the barn animals all groaned and covered
Speaker 1: their ears. She even dabbled in competitive eating, but her
Speaker 1: four stomachs were no match for the pig's unending appetites.
Speaker 1: One thing Bessie enjoyed, however, was jumping. Bessie loved to
Speaker 1: leap and prance all around the fields, dashing over flower
Speaker 1: patches and sometimes small goats, but she didn't know how
Speaker 1: to turn her hobby into something great. She wanted to
Speaker 1: be able to entertain to wow all the other farm animals,
Speaker 1: but she didn't know where to start. One night, after
Speaker 1: Phyllis and Fido had put on another great show involving
Speaker 1: a dance routine completed by an enchanted dish and spoon,
Speaker 1: the cat and dog approached her. Bessie, what's wrong. You
Speaker 1: didn't seem to enjoy the show very much. Bessie sighed,
Speaker 1: Oh no, the show was great. I'm sorry. I just
Speaker 1: want to be able to do something special, but I
Speaker 1: don't know how. Bessie explained how her love of jumping
Speaker 1: and her dreams of dazzling the farm with her talent
Speaker 1: never left her. Fido gave Bessie advice. Well, first, Bessy,
Speaker 1: you have to do what makes you happy. Jump for you,
Speaker 1: not for other animals. Then if performing is really what
Speaker 1: you want, you need to practice The more you practice jumping,
Speaker 1: the better you will be. Bessie gave the dog her
Speaker 1: first smile of the night. The friends chatted a bit
Speaker 1: more before heading off to bed. That night, Bessie dreamed
Speaker 1: of jumping. She jumped over cars and buses, then houses
Speaker 1: and skyscrapers. Bessie felt amazing as she soared through the
Speaker 1: air in her dreams, even with no one watching. The
Speaker 1: next morning, it was decided Bessie would practice her jumps,
Speaker 1: and she was determined to jump as high as the sky,
Speaker 1: maybe even higher. Bessie entered the barn and greeted the horses.
Speaker 1: She convinced them to line up and allow her to
Speaker 1: practice jumping over them. First, she jumped over one horse,
Speaker 1: then two, and eventually she jumped over all five horses.
Speaker 1: It was a long day and she went to bed
Speaker 1: that night exhausted and proud of herself. Each day, Bessie
Speaker 1: gave herself a new challenge. She had master jumping over
Speaker 1: the barn animals, so she moved on to the tractor.
Speaker 1: Once she could do that, Bessie began to prepare herself
Speaker 1: to jump over the barn. At that point, the other
Speaker 1: animals began to watch. Whoa look at Bessie go. She
Speaker 1: can leap over the barn in a single bound. That's
Speaker 1: one amazing cow. Bessie was happy with all the kind
Speaker 1: remarks from her barnyard friends, but she wasn't ready to
Speaker 1: stop challenging herself. She had made a goal to jump
Speaker 1: as high as the sky, and she was going to
Speaker 1: reach it. Once Bessie master jumping over the barn, she
Speaker 1: had to move on to higher and more challenging leaps.
Speaker 1: One night, as the farmer slept, Phyllis and Fido swiped
Speaker 1: the farmer's keys and borrowed the trailer. They loaded all
Speaker 1: of the barn animals up and ventured into the city.
Speaker 1: All right, Bessie, this is the city's tallest skyscraper. Give
Speaker 1: it a go. Encouraged the dog, Bessie practiced all night.
Speaker 1: By the time the sun began to rise, she had
Speaker 1: done it. Bessie could jump over the skyscraper. The farm
Speaker 1: animals watched in amazement before piling back into the trailer
Speaker 1: and heading back to the farm, where the farmer woke up.
Speaker 1: Everyone was extra sleepy that day, but it was worth it.
Speaker 1: It was exciting to watch Bessie complete a goal. Bessie
Speaker 1: kept practicing at the farm each night, jumping higher and
Speaker 1: higher before bed. She was jumping full into the sky
Speaker 1: while she was out leaping by moonlight. One night, Phyllis
Speaker 1: and Fido reproached her with a question, Bessie, would you
Speaker 1: like to join us in a show? Bessie nodded and
Speaker 1: mooed with excitement. She would love nothing more than to
Speaker 1: perform for all the barn animals. So the next night,
Speaker 1: after the farmer went to bed, the farm animals all
Speaker 1: gathered to watch. Phyllis played a song she had named
Speaker 1: Hey did a little. While the animals settled down to
Speaker 1: watch the performance of the cat and the fiddle. Behind Phyllis,
Speaker 1: Bessie jumped. She reached the sky and kept going. She
Speaker 1: jumped higher and higher until the cow jumped over the moon.
Speaker 1: Fido was thrilled, and the little dog laughed to see
Speaker 1: such an amazing thing. He forgot all about the table
Speaker 1: where he had been making dance, and at the first
Speaker 1: chance the dish ran away with the spoon. Bessie landed
Speaker 1: beside the cat and dog, and all of the farm
Speaker 1: animals almost erupted in cheers. That night, Bessie slept more
Speaker 1: soundly than ever, full of joy from her happy friends,
Speaker 1: and having jumped further than she could ever have dreamed
Speaker 1: the end. Well, friends, as we close our eyes and
Speaker 1: cozy up, you all have very happy dreams. Good night,
Speaker 1: my friends,