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Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. I am

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Speaker 1: starting to get excited for the Christmas holidays to arrive.

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Speaker 1: Christmas for me is the time to spend with family.

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Speaker 1: We usually start the month of December by decorating our tree.

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Speaker 1: We have some ornaments that have been around for years

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Speaker 1: that bring back memories of past Christmases. This episode is

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Speaker 1: about a Christmas star and how the star becomes special

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Speaker 1: to a little boy. A Christmas Star. Come now, my

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Speaker 1: dear little stars, said Mother Moon, and I will tell

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Speaker 1: you the Christmas Story. Every morning for a week before Christmas,

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Speaker 1: Mother Moon used to call all the little stars around

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Speaker 1: her and tell them a story. It was always the

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Speaker 1: same story, but the stars never got tired of it.

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Speaker 1: It was the story of the Christmas Star, the Star

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Speaker 1: of Bethlehem. When Mother Moon had finished the story, the

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Speaker 1: little stars always said, and the star is shining still,

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Speaker 1: isn't it, Mother Moon, even if we can't see it.

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Speaker 1: And Mother Moon would answer, yes, my DearS, only now

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Speaker 1: it's shine for men's hearts instead of their eyes. Then

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Speaker 1: the stars would bid the Mother Moon good night and

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Speaker 1: put on their little blue nightcaps and go to bed

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Speaker 1: in the sky chamber. For the stars bedtime is when

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Speaker 1: people down on earth are beginning to waken and see

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Speaker 1: that it is morning. But that particular morning, when the

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Speaker 1: little stars said good night and went quietly away, one

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Speaker 1: golden star still lingered beside Mother Moon. What is the matter,

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Speaker 1: my little star, asked the mother Moon. Why don't you

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Speaker 1: go with your little sisters, Oh, Mother Moon, said the

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Speaker 1: golden star. I am so sad. I wish I could

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Speaker 1: shine for someone's heart, like that Star of wonder that

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Speaker 1: you tell us about. Why aren't you happy up here

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Speaker 1: in the sky country, asked Mother Moon. Yes, I have

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Speaker 1: been very happy, said the star. But tonight it seems

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Speaker 1: just as if I must find some heart to shine for.

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Speaker 1: Then if that is so, said Mother Moon, the time

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Speaker 1: has come, my little star, for you to go through

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Speaker 1: the Wonder Entry. The wonder Entry. What is that? Asked

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Speaker 1: the star. But the Mother Moon made no answer. Rising

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Speaker 1: she took the little star by the hand and led

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Speaker 1: it to a door that it had never seen before.

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Speaker 1: The Mother Moon opened the door and there was a long,

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Speaker 1: dark entry. At the far end was shining a little

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Speaker 1: speck of light. What is this, asked the star. It

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Speaker 1: is the Wonder Entry, and it is through this that

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Speaker 1: you must go to find the heart where you belong,

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Speaker 1: said the mother Moon. Then the little star was afraid.

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Speaker 1: It longed to go through the entry, as it had

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Speaker 1: never longed for anything before. And yet it was afraid

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Speaker 1: and clung to the mother Moon. But very gently, almost sadly,

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Speaker 1: the Mother Moon drew her hand away, Go my child,

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Speaker 1: she said. Then, wondering and trembling, the little Star stepped

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Speaker 1: into the wonder entry, and the door of the skyhouse

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Speaker 1: closed behind it. The next thing the star knew, it

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Speaker 1: was hanging in a toy shop with a whole row

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Speaker 1: of other stars, blue and red and silver. It itself

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Speaker 1: was gold. The shop smelled of evergreen and was full

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Speaker 1: of Christmas shoppers, men and women and children. But of

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Speaker 1: them all, the star looked at no one but a

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Speaker 1: little boy standing in front of the counter. For as

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Speaker 1: soon as the star saw the child, it knew that

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Speaker 1: he was the one to whom it belonged. The little

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Speaker 1: boy was standing beside a sweet faced woman, and he

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Speaker 1: was not looking at anything in particular. The star shook

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Speaker 1: and trembled on the string that held it, because it

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Speaker 1: was afraid lest the child would not see it, or

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Speaker 1: lest if he did, he would not know it as

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Speaker 1: his star. The lady had a number of toys on

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Speaker 1: the counter before her, and she was saying, now, I

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Speaker 1: think we have presents for everyone. There's the doll for Lou,

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Speaker 1: and the game for Ned, and the music box for May,

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Speaker 1: and then the rocking horse send the sled. Suddenly, the

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Speaker 1: little boy caught her by the arm. Oh, mother, he said,

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Speaker 1: he had seen the star. Well what is it, darling,

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Speaker 1: asked the lady. Oh, mother, just see that star up there.

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Speaker 1: I wish, oh I do, wish I had it. Oh

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Speaker 1: my dear, we have so many things for the Christmas tree,

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Speaker 1: said the mother. Yes, I know, but I do want

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Speaker 1: that star, said the child. Very well, said the mother, smiling.

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Speaker 1: Then we will take that too. So the star was

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Speaker 1: taken down from the place where it hung and wrapped

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Speaker 1: up in a piece of paper, and all the while

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Speaker 1: if thrilled with joy. For now it belonged to the

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Speaker 1: little boy. It was not until the afternoon before Christmas,

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Speaker 1: when the tree was being decorated, that the golden star

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Speaker 1: was unwrapped and taken out from the paper. Here is

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Speaker 1: something else, said the sweet faced lady. We must hang

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Speaker 1: this on the tree. Paul took such a fancy to

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Speaker 1: it that I had to get it for him. He

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Speaker 1: will never be satisfied unless we hang it on too. Oh, yes,

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Speaker 1: said some one else, who was helping to decorate the tree.

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Speaker 1: We will hang it here at the very top. So

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Speaker 1: the little star hung on the highest branch of the

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Speaker 1: Christmas tree. That evening, all the candles were lighted on

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Speaker 1: the Christmas tree, and there were so many that they

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Speaker 1: fairly dazzled the eyes, and the gold and silver balls,

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Speaker 1: the fairies and the glass fruits shone and twinkled in

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Speaker 1: the light, and high above them all shone the golden Star.

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Speaker 1: At seven o'clock, a bell was rung, and then the

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Speaker 1: folding doors of the room where the Christmas tree stood

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Speaker 1: were thrown open, and a crowd of children came trooping in.

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Speaker 1: They laughed and shouted and pointed, and all talked together,

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Speaker 1: and after a while there was music, and presents were

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Speaker 1: taken from them tree and given to the children. How

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Speaker 1: different it all was from the great, wide, still skyhouse.

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Speaker 1: But the star had never been so happy in all

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Speaker 1: its life. For the little boy was there. He stood

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Speaker 1: apart from the other children, looking up at the star,

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Speaker 1: with his hands clasped behind him, and he did not

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Speaker 1: seem to care for the toys and the games. At

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Speaker 1: last it was all over. The lights were put out,

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Speaker 1: the children went home, and the house grew still. Then

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Speaker 1: the ornaments on the tree began to talk among themselves.

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Speaker 1: So that is all over, said a silver ball. It

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Speaker 1: was a very lovely evening, the loveliest Christmas I remember, yes,

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Speaker 1: said a glass bunch of grapes. The best of it

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Speaker 1: is over. Of course, people will come to look at

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Speaker 1: us for several days yet, but it won't be like

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Speaker 1: this evening. And then I suppose we'll be laid away

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Speaker 1: for another year, said a paper fairy. Really it seems

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Speaker 1: hardly worth while such a few days out of the year,

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Speaker 1: and then to be shut up in the dark box again.

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Speaker 1: I almost wish I were a paper doll. The bunch

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Speaker 1: of grapes was wrong in saying that people would come

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Speaker 1: to look at the Christmas tree the next few days,

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Speaker 1: for it stood neglected in the library, and nobody came near.

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Speaker 1: Everybody in the house went about very quietly, for the

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Speaker 1: little boy was ill. At last, one evening a woman

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Speaker 1: came into the room with a servant. The woman wore

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Speaker 1: the cap and apron of a nurse, that is it,

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Speaker 1: she said, pointing to the golden star. The servant climbed

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Speaker 1: up on some steps and took down the star and

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Speaker 1: put it in the nurse's hand, and she carried it

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Speaker 1: out into the hall and upstairs to a room where

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Speaker 1: the little boy lay. The sweet faced lady was sitting

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Speaker 1: by the bed, and as the nurse came in, she

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Speaker 1: held out her hand for the star. Is this what

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Speaker 1: you wanted, my darling, she asked, bending over the little boy.

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Speaker 1: The child nodded and held out his hands for the star,

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Speaker 1: and as he clasped it, a wonderful, shining smile came

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Speaker 1: over his face. The next morning, the little boy woke

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Speaker 1: feeling better, and seeing the star still in his hand,

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Speaker 1: he smiled a happy smile. I would like to share

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Speaker 1: a poem now about a Christmas tree called it wasn't

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Speaker 1: a dream? Is this a dream? The pine tree cried,

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Speaker 1: when all its trimmings it had spied? Is this a

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Speaker 1: dream that I'm to wear these shining balls? Beyond compare?

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Speaker 1: Am I to have these strings of gold? I fear

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Speaker 1: a fairy tale, I am told. I fear someone is

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Speaker 1: teasing me. And in a thrice no balls, I'll see

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Speaker 1: my silver star will disappear, and I'll be plain again.

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Speaker 1: I fear, But no, They dressed the anxious tree and

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Speaker 1: put it where the world could see. They stood it

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Speaker 1: in a window wide to be admired by those outside.

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Speaker 1: It was so graceful and so proud. Folks loved the

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Speaker 1: pine and cried aloud. On Christmas Eve they lighted the tree.

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Speaker 1: Oh then it was a sight to see. It isn't

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Speaker 1: a dream, the pine tree said, when all the children

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Speaker 1: had gone to bed. No it isn't a dream. Santa

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Speaker 1: Claus cried as he entered, wearing a smile so wide.

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Speaker 1: It isn't a dream, said the Christmas Fairy as she came,

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Speaker 1: dancing her step. So merry. Wasn't it fine that the

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Speaker 1: little pine knew her dearest wishes had all come true?

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Speaker 1: Wasn't it great? She never need fear that her wonderful

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Speaker 1: tinsel would disappear. So the happiest pine tree in all

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Speaker 1: the land, in the wide window, we'll leave her stand

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Speaker 1: good night, Sleep tight,