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Speaker 1: Hello, friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. This is

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Speaker 1: a story about how violets came to be born. There

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Speaker 1: were lots of different colors in the garden of the fairies,

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Speaker 1: and they were all beautiful. But one day, when the

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Speaker 1: fairies saw the rainbow, they realized that the purple color

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Speaker 1: in the rainbow was missing from their garden. The fairy

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Speaker 1: artist decides to try and match the beautiful purple, but

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Speaker 1: it is not going so well. The birth of the violet.

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Speaker 1: The raindrops were kept busy one morning in the garden

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Speaker 1: of the fairies. There were many flowers to be washed

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Speaker 1: clean of the dust that had dulled their bright colors,

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Speaker 1: and the green of the trees must be made bright

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Speaker 1: once more. And to leave without a dance with the

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Speaker 1: little waves of the brook was not to be thought of.

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Speaker 1: So the rain drops fell early in the morning. But

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Speaker 1: in the afternoon the sky became clear, and there was

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Speaker 1: promise in the beautiful rainbow that the rain drop's work

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Speaker 1: was done for that day. At least, isn't our garden beautiful?

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Speaker 1: After a shower, said one fairy to another sitting beside her. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the dust covers the colors of the flowers almost as

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Speaker 1: soon as we have painted them. But see the gold

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Speaker 1: of those daffodils. I like the reds and blues of

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Speaker 1: the other flowers too. They see brighter than ever today.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes I sit all day and look at them. Oh,

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Speaker 1: we have a rainbow this afternoon. It always looks to

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Speaker 1: me like a great garden of flowers stretched in bands

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Speaker 1: across the sky. I like to think that it's yellow, red,

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Speaker 1: and blue are made up of flowers like these in

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Speaker 1: our garden. Here do you see that color next to

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Speaker 1: the green? I love it. It is so dark and deep.

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Speaker 1: Many times I have wished we might have a flower

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Speaker 1: here on earth just like it. Surely you, fairy artist,

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Speaker 1: would have no trouble to make a color like that.

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Speaker 1: At least it wouldn't hurt for you to try. The

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Speaker 1: fairy artist sat with her eyes turned toward the rainbow.

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Speaker 1: It had faded from sight, and long after the sun

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Speaker 1: had sunk to rest, she sat alone under the trees thinking.

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Speaker 1: One morning she called all the fairies to her. Dear fairies,

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Speaker 1: she said, I AM going to try and make a

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Speaker 1: color like the dark one in the rainbow. It may

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Speaker 1: take me a long long while, but one cannot give

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Speaker 1: the children a greater joy than to add a new

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Speaker 1: color to the flowers on earth. No one knew better

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Speaker 1: than she that a great task lay before her. Many

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Speaker 1: days and weeks she tried. Sometimes the mixture was lighter

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Speaker 1: than the color in the rainbow, and sometimes it seemed

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Speaker 1: too dark, never quite what she wished it to be. Once,

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Speaker 1: as she stood before the large bowl, mixing and stirring patiently,

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Speaker 1: she stopped, and the fairies in the garden heard a

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Speaker 1: shout of joy, I have it the beautiful color, the

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Speaker 1: beautiful color. They hurried to the place where she always

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Speaker 1: stood with her bowl and brush. See it is the color, indeed,

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Speaker 1: they said. But as they looked into the bowl, the

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Speaker 1: beautiful color began to fade, and soon it was not

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Speaker 1: at all like the color she had longed for. Ah,

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Speaker 1: I see, said the artist Fairy. Sadly, it is of

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Speaker 1: no use to mix together these paints that I have

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Speaker 1: been using. We must gather my material from all the

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Speaker 1: colors of the earth. My dear fairies, you must all help.

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Speaker 1: Many were sent far and wide to bring from the

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Speaker 1: earth claves of every color they could find. The artist

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Speaker 1: Fairy kept working faithfully and patiently. One day, when she

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Speaker 1: had worked harder and longer than usual. She heard one say, surely, artist, fairy,

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Speaker 1: you do not mean to work all the evening. See

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Speaker 1: the sun is ready to sink just a little longer.

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Speaker 1: I feel sure that the color will come before sunset. Look,

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Speaker 1: does it not begin even now to change. The fairies

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Speaker 1: looked into the bowl, and all exclaimed at once the

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Speaker 1: color at last, it is, indeed the deep color of

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Speaker 1: the rainbow. Let us carry the bowl to the top

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Speaker 1: of the bank, and at moonlight we will celebrate the

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Speaker 1: new joy that has come to us. It was a

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Speaker 1: small bank that overlooked a little brook. Flowers had never

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Speaker 1: grown there, and sometimes the fairies felt sad when they

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Speaker 1: looked upon that bare spot in their garden. Perhaps the

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Speaker 1: great tree that spread out its branches took more than

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Speaker 1: its share of the sunshine. But the fairies loved this bank.

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Speaker 1: Moonbeams always seemed to lie so still there. It's just

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Speaker 1: the place for our moonlight celebration, one said. All the

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Speaker 1: creatures of the fairies garden came to the celebration. The

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Speaker 1: night was glorious. The moon sent down her silvery beams

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Speaker 1: earlier than usual, although the fireflies insisted that there was

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Speaker 1: no need of her shining so brightly, and that she

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Speaker 1: might throw all of her beams to the waves in

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Speaker 1: the brook, for they looked so beautiful with a silver covering.

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Speaker 1: Nod a grasshopper went to bed, and the frog made

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Speaker 1: the music for the dance, at which the crickets felt sad,

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Speaker 1: for she knew her voice could not be heard above his.

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Speaker 1: The flowers sang their sweetest songs about the new color

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Speaker 1: that was to come among them. It was not very

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Speaker 1: late when the fairies joined hands and danced together around

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Speaker 1: the bowl. Perhaps this moonlight celebration would have lasted many

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Speaker 1: hours longer. But as the fairies were finishing the dance,

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Speaker 1: one of them touched the precious bowl, and oh, no, oh.

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Speaker 1: The next moment they saw the beautiful color flow in

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Speaker 1: tiny dark streams down the hillside. For a little while

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Speaker 1: it glistened beneath the rays of the moon, and then

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Speaker 1: it sank into the dark earth. The fairy stood and

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Speaker 1: watched it helpless. It is all lost, It is all

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Speaker 1: gone in a moment, said the artist fairy, as she

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Speaker 1: turned for comfort to the rest. No, no, my dear fairy,

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Speaker 1: what you have once done you can do again. I

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Speaker 1: do not remember how it was made. No I don't

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Speaker 1: think I can do it again. It is gone forever.

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Speaker 1: Do not say that. Please, have you not heard the

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Speaker 1: saying that nothing is ever true? Lost? Once more, the

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Speaker 1: raindrops visited the garden, and the fairies worked all day

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Speaker 1: long and all night long before everything was done. It

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Speaker 1: is so refreshing when the garden has been washed clean

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Speaker 1: again of its dust. Look, cried one. See our bank

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Speaker 1: this morning. It is covered with a carpet of purple. Come,

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Speaker 1: let us look closer, called another. It is the color,

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Speaker 1: It is the color, said the artist fairy as she

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Speaker 1: hurried toward the bank. Nothing is lost, she added softly

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Speaker 1: as she looked closer. Purple violets had been born that

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Speaker 1: morning while the rain drops fell. And that is the

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Speaker 1: end of our story. Good night, sleep tight.