1 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 1: Hello, friends, and welcome to sleep tight stories. The little acorn. 2 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 1: It was a little acorn that hung on the bough 3 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: of a tree that had a tender green cup and 4 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:43,320 Speaker 1: a beautifully carved saucer to hold it. The mother oak 5 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:48,320 Speaker 1: fed it with sweet sap every day. The birds sang 6 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:51,960 Speaker 1: good night songs above it, and the wind rocked it 7 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:58,240 Speaker 1: gently to and fro. The oak leaves made a soft 8 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 1: green shade above it, so the sun could not shine 9 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:06,000 Speaker 1: too warm on its green cover, and it was as 10 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:13,800 Speaker 1: happy as an acorn could be. There were many other 11 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:16,960 Speaker 1: acorns on the tree, and I am sure the mother 12 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 1: often whispered loving words to all her babies. The summer 13 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 1: days were so bright and pleasant that the acorn never 14 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:32,680 Speaker 1: thought of anything but sunshine and an occasional shower to 15 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:39,520 Speaker 1: wash the dust off the leaves. But you know that 16 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 1: summer ends and the autumn days come. The green cup 17 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:49,240 Speaker 1: of the acorn turned to a brown cup, and it 18 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: was well that it grew stiffer and harder, for the 19 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 1: cold winds began to blow. The leaves turned from green 20 00:02:00,440 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 1: to golden brown, and some of them were whisked away 21 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 1: by the rough wind. The little acorn began to grow uneasy. 22 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 1: Isn't life all summer? It said, No, whispered the mother oak. 23 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:25,280 Speaker 1: The cold days come and the leaves must go, and 24 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:32,920 Speaker 1: the acorns too. I must soon say goodbye to my babies. Oh, 25 00:02:33,480 --> 00:02:37,680 Speaker 1: I could never leave this kind bow, said the frightened acorn. 26 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:40,840 Speaker 1: I should be lost and forgotten if I were to fall. 27 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:48,399 Speaker 1: So it tried to cling all the closer to its bow, 28 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:55,000 Speaker 1: but at last it was alone there. The leaves were 29 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:58,200 Speaker 1: blown away, and some of them had made a blanket 30 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:05,640 Speaker 1: for the brown acorns lying on the ground. One night, 31 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 1: the tree whispered this message to the lonely acorn. This 32 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:15,880 Speaker 1: tree is only your home for a time. This is 33 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: not your true life. Your brown shell is only the 34 00:03:21,320 --> 00:03:25,040 Speaker 1: cover for a living plant, which can never be set 35 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 1: free until the hard shell drops away. And that can 36 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 1: never happen until you are buried in the ground and 37 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:39,200 Speaker 1: wait for the spring to call you into life. So 38 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 1: let go, little acorn, and fall to the ground, and 39 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:53,080 Speaker 1: some day you awake to a new and glorious life. 40 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:58,080 Speaker 1: The acorn listened and believed for was not the tree 41 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:04,280 Speaker 1: its sheltering mother, So it bade her fare well, and, 42 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:13,880 Speaker 1: loosening its hold, dropped to the ground. Then, indeed it 43 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:18,440 Speaker 1: seemed as if the acorn were lost. That night, a 44 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 1: high wind blew and covered it deep under a heap 45 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 1: of oak leaves. The next day, a cold rain washed 46 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:31,960 Speaker 1: the leaves closer together, and trickling streams from the hillside 47 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 1: swept some earth over them. The acorn was buried. But 48 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 1: I shall wake again, it said, and so it fell asleep. 49 00:04:51,160 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 1: It may have been cold, but the frost fairies wore 50 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:59,279 Speaker 1: a soft white snow blanket to cover it, and so 51 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 1: it was kept warm. If you had walked through the 52 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:11,160 Speaker 1: woods that winter, you would have said the acorn was gone. 53 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 1: But then you could not have seen the life slumbering 54 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 1: within the brown cover. But spring came and called to 55 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:25,479 Speaker 1: all the sleeping things underground to waken and come forth. 56 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:31,679 Speaker 1: The acorn heard and tried to move, but the brown 57 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 1: shell held it fast. Some raindrops trickled through the ground 58 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:43,599 Speaker 1: to moisten the shell, and one day the pushing life 59 00:05:43,680 --> 00:05:51,039 Speaker 1: within was set free. The brown shell was of no 60 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:54,479 Speaker 1: more use and was lost in the ground. But the 61 00:05:54,560 --> 00:05:59,960 Speaker 1: young plant was to live. It heard voices calling it upwards. 62 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:06,320 Speaker 1: It must arise a new and glorious life. The mother 63 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:11,880 Speaker 1: oak had said, I must arise, the acorn said, And 64 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:16,080 Speaker 1: up the living plant came up to the world of 65 00:06:16,279 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 1: sunshine and beauty. It looked around. There was the same 66 00:06:23,839 --> 00:06:30,800 Speaker 1: green moss in the woods, the same singing brook, And 67 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 1: I shall live and grow. It said. Yes, called the 68 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:40,760 Speaker 1: mother oak, you are now an oak tree. This is 69 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 1: your real life. And the tiny oak tree was glad 70 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:58,120 Speaker 1: and tried to stretch higher towards the sun. And that 71 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 1: is the end of our story. Good Night, sleep tight.