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Speaker 1: Hello, friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. I'd like

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Speaker 1: to say hello to some friends. Hello to Bernie and

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Speaker 1: Greta from Kirkland, Washington, and Rooney and Winslow from Lompoc, California.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for supporting us on Patreon. Have

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Speaker 1: you ever wanted to do something so much that when

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Speaker 1: you couldn't, you felt sad and disappointed. I can remember

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Speaker 1: trying to do things as a little girl and not

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Speaker 1: having them work out quite as I had hoped. Of course,

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Speaker 1: this didn't stop me from trying again and again and again.

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Speaker 1: This episode has a little girl who wants so much

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Speaker 1: to help her mom. She has a great idea, but

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure it will work out exactly as she

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Speaker 1: has planned. Buttercup Gold, Oh the cupperty butts, and oh

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Speaker 1: the cupperty butts out in the meadows, shining under the

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Speaker 1: trees and sparkling over the lawn, Millions and millions of them,

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Speaker 1: each one a bit of purest gold from Mother Nature's mint.

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Speaker 1: Jessie stood at the window, looking out at them and thinking,

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Speaker 1: as she had often thought before, that there were no

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Speaker 1: flowers so beautiful. Copperdy butts she had been used to

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Speaker 1: call them when she was a wee baby girl and

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Speaker 1: could not speak without tumbling over her words and mixing

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Speaker 1: them up in the strangest fashion. And now that she

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Speaker 1: was a very great girl, actually six years old, they

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Speaker 1: were still copperdy butts to her and would never be

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Speaker 1: anything else, she said. There was nothing she liked better

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Speaker 1: than to watch the lovely golden things and nod to

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Speaker 1: them as they nodded to her. But this morning her

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Speaker 1: little face looked anxious and troubled, and she gazed at

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Speaker 1: the flowers with an intent and inquiring look, as if

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Speaker 1: she had expected them to reply to her unspoken thoughts.

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Speaker 1: What these thoughts were, I am going to tell you.

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Speaker 1: Half an hour before, she had called to her mother,

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Speaker 1: who was just going out, and begged her to come

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Speaker 1: and look at the cupperty butts. They are brighter than ever, Mama,

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Speaker 1: don't just come and look at them, Golden, gold and golden.

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Speaker 1: There must be fifteen thousand million dollars worth of gold

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Speaker 1: just on the lawn, I should think, And her mother,

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Speaker 1: pausing to look out, said very sadly, ah, my darling,

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Speaker 1: if I only had this day a little of that gold,

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Speaker 1: what a happy woman I should be. And then the

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Speaker 1: good mother went out, and there little Jessie stood, gazing

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Speaker 1: and over again, if I only had a little of

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Speaker 1: that gold. She knew that her mother was very, very poor,

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Speaker 1: and had to go out to work every day to

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Speaker 1: And the child's tender heart ached to think of the

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Speaker 1: sadness in the dear mother's look and tone. Suddenly Jesse started,

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Speaker 1: and the sunshine flashed into her face. Why, she exclaimed,

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Speaker 1: Why shouldn't I get some of the gold from the

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Speaker 1: copperty butts? I believe I could get some perfectly well.

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Speaker 1: When Mama wants to get the juice out of anything

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Speaker 1: meat or fruit or anything of that sort, she just

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Speaker 1: boils it. And so if I should boil the copperty butts,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't all the gold come out? Of course it would? Oh, joy,

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Speaker 1: how pleased Mama will be. Jesse's actions always followed her

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Speaker 1: thoughts with great rapidity. In five minutes, she was out

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Speaker 1: on the lawn with a huge basket beside her, pulling

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Speaker 1: away at the buttercups with might and main. Oh how

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Speaker 1: small they were, and how long it took even to

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Speaker 1: cover the bottom of the basket. But Jesse worked with

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Speaker 1: had picked enough to make at least one thousand dollars,

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Speaker 1: as she calculated, that would do for one day, she thought,

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Speaker 1: And now for the grand experiment. Before going out, she

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Speaker 1: So now the water was boiling, and she had only

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Speaker 1: When this was done, she sat as patiently as she could,

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Speaker 1: trying to pay attention to her knitting, and not to

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Speaker 1: They must boil for an hour, she said, and by

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Speaker 1: that time all the gold will have come out. Well.

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Speaker 1: The hour did pass somehow or other, though it was

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Speaker 1: a very long one, and at eleven o'clock Jesse, with

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Speaker 1: might cool the boiling water. At first, when she lifted

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Speaker 1: in a quantity of dirty, greenish water, and that was all.

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Speaker 1: Not the smallest trace of gold, even in the buttercups themselves,

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Speaker 1: would break. Presently through her sobs, she heard a kind

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Speaker 1: you cry? So she looked up and saw an old

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Speaker 1: gentleman with white hair and a bright, cheery face standing

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Speaker 1: by her. At first Jessee could say nothing but oh,

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Speaker 1: the cupboardy butts, Oh the cupboardy butts. But of course

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Speaker 1: the old gentle didn't know what she meant by that,

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Speaker 1: so as he urged her to tell him about her trouble,

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Speaker 1: she dried her eyes and told him the sad little

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Speaker 1: wished she had some gold, and how she herself had

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Speaker 1: tried to get the gold out of the buttercups by

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Speaker 1: boiling them. I was so sure I could get it out,

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Speaker 1: she said, And I thought Mamma would be so pleased.

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Speaker 1: And now here she was very near breaking down again,

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Speaker 1: but the gentleman patted her head and said, cheerfully, wait

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Speaker 1: a bit, little girl. Don't give up the ship yet.

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Speaker 1: You know that gold is heavy, very heavy, indeed, and

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Speaker 1: if there were any, it would be at the very

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Speaker 1: bottom of the kettle, all covered with the weeds so

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Speaker 1: that you could not see it. I should not be

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Speaker 1: at all surprised if you found some. After all, run

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Speaker 1: into the house and bring me a spoon with a

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Speaker 1: long handle, and we will fish in the kettle and

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Speaker 1: see what we can find. Jesse's face brightened, and she

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Speaker 1: ran into the house. If anyone had been standing near

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Speaker 1: just at that moment, I think it is possible that

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Speaker 1: they might have seen the old gentleman's hand go into

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Speaker 1: his pocket and out again very quickly, and might have

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Speaker 1: heard a little splash in the kettle. But nobody was near,

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Speaker 1: so of course I cannot say anything about it at

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Speaker 1: any rate. When Jesse came out with the spoon, he

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Speaker 1: was standing with both hands in his pockets, looking in

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Speaker 1: the opposite direction. He took the great iron spoon and

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Speaker 1: fished about in the kettle for some time. At last

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Speaker 1: there was a little clinking noise, and the old gentleman

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Speaker 1: lifted the spoon. Oh wonder and delight. In it lay

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Speaker 1: three great, broad, shining pieces of gold. Jesse could hardly

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Speaker 1: old gentleman put the gold into her hand, she still

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Speaker 1: stood as if in a happy dream, gazing at it.

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Speaker 1: Suddenly she started and remembered that she had not thanked

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Speaker 1: her kindly helper. She looked up and began, thank you, sir,

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Speaker 1: But the old gentleman was gone. Well, the next question

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Speaker 1: was how could Jesse possibly wait till twelve o'clock for

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Speaker 1: her mother to come home. Knitting was out of the question.

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Speaker 1: She could do nothing but dance and look out the window,

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Speaker 1: and look out the window, and dance, holding the precious

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Speaker 1: coins tight in her hand. At last, a well known

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Speaker 1: footstep was heard outside the door, and missus Gray came in,

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Speaker 1: very tired and worn. She smiled, however, when she saw

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Speaker 1: Jesse and said, well, my darling, I am glad to

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Speaker 1: With my little housekeeper. Oh, mother, cried Jessee, hopping about

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Speaker 1: very very well, oh my mother, dear, what do you

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Speaker 1: think I have got in my hand? What do you think?

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Speaker 1: And oh, what do you think? And she went dancing

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Speaker 1: round and round till poor missus Gray was quite dizzy

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Speaker 1: with watching her. At last she stopped and, holding out

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Speaker 1: she cried, where did you get all that money out

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Speaker 1: of the copperty butts? Mama said, Jesse, out of the

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Speaker 1: cupperty butts. And it's all for you, every bit of it,

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Speaker 1: dear mama. Now you will be happy, will you not,

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Speaker 1: Jesse said missus Gray. Have you lost your senses? Or

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Speaker 1: are you playing some trick on me? Tell me all

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Speaker 1: about this at once, dear child, and don't talk nonsense.

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Speaker 1: But it isn't nonsense, Mama, cried Jesse. And it did

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Speaker 1: come out of the cupperty butts, And then she told

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Speaker 1: her mother the whole story. The tears came into Missus

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Speaker 1: Gray's eyes, but they were tears of joy and gratitude,

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Speaker 1: Jesse dear, she said, when we say our prayers tonight,

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Speaker 1: let us not forget to pray for that good gentleman.

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Speaker 1: I hope he is blessed and rewarded. You Lord fit.

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Speaker 1: Had not been for him, Jesse dear, I fear you

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Speaker 1: would not have found the buttercup gold. Good night, sleep tight.

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Speaker 2: So them perfectly world spinneral like child, all and all

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Speaker 2: there you you are good from my heart.

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Speaker 3: Something arose, something strong stands against.

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Speaker 2: All the eyes love their booms in dark.

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Speaker 3: Something perfectly Eld's been around like a shot, all and

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Speaker 3: all that you are. You are good from my heart.

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Speaker 3: Something arose, something strong stands against all They eys love

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Speaker 3: their booms and dark.

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Speaker 1: You worre good.

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Speaker 2: You are good from my heart,