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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 Elijah and Ezekiel.

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Speaker 1: Hello to Nova, Hello to Ave Reddy Fekenberg. Hello to

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Speaker 1: Rose from Ottawa. Hello to Asher Kilmanick. Hello to Marceline,

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Speaker 1: who is seven years old and lives in Wisconsin. Hello

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Speaker 1: to Finnegan, Clara and Julian in New Orleans, Louisiana. Hello

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Speaker 1: to Lake and Clarence, who is three years old and

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Speaker 1: is from Missouri. Hello to Annabelle and Athena from South

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Speaker 1: Windsor can Etiquette. Hello to all of from Port Townsend, Washington.

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Speaker 1: Hello to Cora, and hello to Gina, who is seven

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Speaker 1: from Gatineau, Quebec. I'd like to wish a happy belated

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Speaker 1: birthday to Ezekiel, who turned eighth on December fifteenth. Happy

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Speaker 1: birthday to you. I hope you had a wonderful day.

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Speaker 1: Thank you to Elijah and Ezekiel, Nova, Ave, Rose, Asher, Marceline, Finnegan,

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Speaker 1: Clara and Julian, Lacoln, Annabelle and Athena, Olive, Cora and

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Speaker 1: Gina for your support. It's so nice meeting all of you.

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Speaker 1: This story is about a drop of water and the

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Speaker 1: adventures that it goes on. Aqua is a merry little

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Speaker 1: drop of water who loves dancing on the backs of

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Speaker 1: fish and playing in the ocean. One day, he thinks

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Speaker 1: he would like to have a ride on a cloud

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Speaker 1: to see the earth, and asks the sun to lift

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Speaker 1: him up. Once Aqua has been taken up into the sky,

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Speaker 1: things begin to happen. Let's listen and see what Aqua

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Speaker 1: does on his adventures. Aqua the water baby. It was

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Speaker 1: a clue sunshiny day, and out on the great wide

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Speaker 1: open sea there sparkled thousands and thousands of water drops.

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Speaker 1: One of these was a merry little fellow who danced

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Speaker 1: on the silver backs of the fish as they plunged

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Speaker 1: up and down in the waves, And no matter how

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Speaker 1: high he sprung, always came down again plump into his

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Speaker 1: mother's lap. His mother, you know, was the ocean, and

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Speaker 1: she looked very beautiful that summer day in her dark

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Speaker 1: blue dress with white ruffles. After a while, the happy

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Speaker 1: water drop tired of his play, and, looking up to

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Speaker 1: the clear sky above him, thought he would like to

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Speaker 1: have a sail on one of the white floating clouds. So,

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Speaker 1: giving a jump from the ocean's arms, he begged the

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Speaker 1: Sun to catch him up and let him go on

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Speaker 1: a journey to see the earth. The Sun said yes,

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Speaker 1: and took many other drops too, so that Aqua might

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Speaker 1: not be lonesome on the way. Aqua did not know this, however,

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Speaker 1: for they all had been changed into fine mist or vapor.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what vapor is? If you breathe into

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Speaker 1: the air when it is cold enough, you will see

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Speaker 1: it coming out of your mouth like steam. And you

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Speaker 1: may also see very hot steam coming from the nose

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Speaker 1: of a kettle of boiling water. When it is quite

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Speaker 1: near to the earth where we can see it, we

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Speaker 1: call it fog. The water drops had been changed into

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Speaker 1: vapor because in their own shape, they were too heavy

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Speaker 1: for the sunbeams to carry higher and higher. They sailed

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Speaker 1: so fast that they grew quite dizzy. Why in an

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Speaker 1: hour they had gone over a hundred miles. And how

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Speaker 1: grand it was to be looking down on the world

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Speaker 1: below and sailing faster than fish can swim or birds

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Speaker 1: can fly. But after a while it grew nearly time

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Speaker 1: for the Sun to go to bed. He became very

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Speaker 1: red in the face and began to sink lower and lower,

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Speaker 1: until suddenly he went clear out of sight. Poor little

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Speaker 1: Aqua could not help being frightened, for every minute it

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Speaker 1: grew darker and colder. At last, he thought he would

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Speaker 1: try to get back to the earth again. So he

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Speaker 1: slipped away, and as he fell lower and lower, he

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Speaker 1: grew heavier, until he was a little round, bright drop again,

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Speaker 1: and landed on a rose bush. A lovely velvet bud

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Speaker 1: opened its leaves, and in he slipped among the crimson

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Speaker 1: cushions to sleep until morning. Then the leaves opened, and

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Speaker 1: rolling over in his bed, he called out, please, dear son,

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Speaker 1: take me with you again. So the sunbeams caught him

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Speaker 1: up a second time, and they flew through the air

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Speaker 1: till the noontime, when it grew warmer and warmer, and

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Speaker 1: there was no red rose to hide him, not even

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Speaker 1: just as he was crying out, please dear son, let

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Speaker 1: me go back to the dear mother ocean, the wind

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Speaker 1: took pity on him and came with its cool breath

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Speaker 1: and fanned him and all his brothers into a heavy

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Speaker 1: gray cloud, after which he blew them apart and told

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Speaker 1: them to join hands and hurry away to the earth.

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Speaker 1: Hurriedly down they went rolling over each other, pell mell

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Speaker 1: of the drops fell on a mountainside Aqua among them,

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Speaker 1: and down the rocky cliff he ran, leading the way

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Speaker 1: for his brothers. Soon together they plunged into a mountain brook,

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Speaker 1: which came foaming and dashed along, leaping over rocks and

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Speaker 1: heard the strangest clattering noise. On the bank stood a

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Speaker 1: and clothes were gray with dust. Inside the mill were

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Speaker 1: two great stones which kept whizzing round and round faster

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Speaker 1: than a boy's top could spin, worked by the big

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Speaker 1: wheel outside. And these stones ground the wheat into flour

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Speaker 1: and the corn into golden meal. But what giant do

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Speaker 1: you suppose it was who could turn and swing that

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Speaker 1: tremendous wheel together with those heavy stones. No giant at all,

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Speaker 1: No one but our tiny little water drops themselves, who

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Speaker 1: sprang on it by hundreds and thousands, and whirled it

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Speaker 1: over and over. The brook emptied into a quiet pond

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Speaker 1: where ducks and geese were swimming. Such a still beautiful

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Speaker 1: place it was, with the fuzzy brown cattails lifting their

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Speaker 1: heads above the water, and the yellow cow lilies with

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Speaker 1: their leaves like green platters floating on the top. On

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Speaker 1: the edge lived the fat green bullfrogs, and in the

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Speaker 1: water were spotted trout, silver shiners, cunning minnows, and up

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Speaker 1: their fish. Aqua liked this place so much that he

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Speaker 1: stayed a good while sailing up and down, taking the

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Speaker 1: duck's backs for ships and the frogs for horses. But

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Speaker 1: saw another brook tumbling down a hillside. Come let's join hands,

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Speaker 1: cried Aqua, and so they all dashed on together till

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Speaker 1: they came to a broad river, which opened its arms

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Speaker 1: to them. With the help of Aqua and his brothers,

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Speaker 1: the beautiful river was able to float heavy ships, though

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Speaker 1: not so long ago it was only a little stream

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Speaker 1: just as easily as if it had been a paper boat.

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Speaker 1: There a steamer piled with boxes and barrels, and crowded

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Speaker 1: with people, passed by its great wheel, crashing through the

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Speaker 1: water and leaving a long trail as of foamy soap

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Speaker 1: SuDS behind it. On and ever on the river went,

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Speaker 1: seeking the ocean, and whether it hurried round a corner

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Speaker 1: or glided smoothly on its way to the sea, there

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Speaker 1: of all sorts, of vessels large and small, with flags

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Speaker 1: of all colors floating from the mass, and sailors of

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Speaker 1: all countries working on the decks. But Aqua did not

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Speaker 1: wider and wider, and nearer and nearer its end, he

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Speaker 1: could almost see the mother Ocean, into whose arms he

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Speaker 1: was joyfully running. She reached out to gather all her

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Speaker 1: children the water drops into her heart, and closer than

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Speaker 1: all the others, nestled our little Aqua. His travels were over,

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Speaker 1: his pleasures and dangers passed, and he was folded again

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Speaker 1: to the dear mother heart, the safest, sweetest place in

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Speaker 1: all the whole wide world, in warm, still summer evenings,

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Speaker 1: if you will take a walk on the sea beach,

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Speaker 1: you will hear the gentle, rippling swash of the waves.

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Speaker 1: And some very wise people think it must be the

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Speaker 1: gurgling voices of Aqua and his brother water Drops, telling

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Speaker 1: each other about their wonderful journey around the world. And

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

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Speaker 1: so pret