1
00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:14,720
Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. A short

2
00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:20,040
Speaker 1: message for grown ups. Looking for more bedtime stories per week,

3
00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:26,520
Speaker 1: subscribe to sleep Tight Premium. With sleep tighte Premium, you

4
00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:30,960
Speaker 1: can listen to four ad free stories per week, a

5
00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:36,320
Speaker 1: growing library, and an extensive selection of sleep sounds, guided

6
00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:44,080
Speaker 1: meditations and music for sleep. Visit sleep Tightpremium dot com

7
00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:48,879
Speaker 1: and start your free trial. A link can also be

8
00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:56,680
Speaker 1: found in our show notes. I'd like to say hello

9
00:00:56,760 --> 00:01:03,120
Speaker 1: to some friends. Hello to Melanie Sterling and Lily White,

10
00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:08,800
Speaker 1: and hello to Olivia who is four years old. Thank

11
00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:18,160
Speaker 1: you so much for supporting us. Tinkle is enjoying his

12
00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:22,119
Speaker 1: new home and loves George and Mabel and the sugar

13
00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:26,679
Speaker 1: cubes they share with him. He is always very careful

14
00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:29,800
Speaker 1: when they are taking him out and enjoys going on

15
00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:35,640
Speaker 1: trips with them. Tinkle is about to meet a new

16
00:01:35,800 --> 00:01:42,760
Speaker 1: character who is going to influence what happens next. Meeting

17
00:01:42,959 --> 00:01:48,640
Speaker 1: Dido the Dancing Bear and his owner gives George an idea.

18
00:01:53,240 --> 00:02:00,320
Speaker 1: Tinkle the Trick Pony Part six. George and Mabel were

19
00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,200
Speaker 1: soon at the store and going in they bought the

20
00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:10,000
Speaker 1: loaf sugar. Patrick stayed out in the pony cart and

21
00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:14,400
Speaker 1: Tinkle stood near him. To the curb. Near him was

22
00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:18,720
Speaker 1: a horse hitched to a wagon full of coal. Ullo,

23
00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:22,920
Speaker 1: my little pony, called the coal horse. You have a

24
00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:28,320
Speaker 1: fine rig there, Yes, it is pretty nice, said Tinkle,

25
00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:32,960
Speaker 1: and he was sure he must look very gorgeous, for

26
00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,200
Speaker 1: Mabel had tied a blue ribbon in his mane that morning.

27
00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:42,800
Speaker 1: You are quite stylish, went on the coal horse. Well,

28
00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:48,880
Speaker 1: I s'pose you might call it that, admitted Tinkle. It's

29
00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:51,840
Speaker 1: much more fun to be pulling a light little cart

30
00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:55,760
Speaker 1: like that around the city streets than to haul a great,

31
00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:59,200
Speaker 1: big heavy coal wagon such as I am hitched to.

32
00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:04,160
Speaker 1: Went on the big horse. Yes, but see how strong

33
00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:08,720
Speaker 1: you are, observed Tinkle. I never could pull such a

34
00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:13,720
Speaker 1: heavy load as you haul. No, I guess you couldn't,

35
00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,760
Speaker 1: said the coal horse, Especially up some of the hills

36
00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:21,520
Speaker 1: we have. It is almost more than I can do,

37
00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:25,160
Speaker 1: and there is one hill that I have to take

38
00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:29,480
Speaker 1: a rest on half way up. But my driver is

39
00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:32,520
Speaker 1: good to me and never hurries me, which is more

40
00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:35,000
Speaker 1: than I can say of some drivers I have known.

41
00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,440
Speaker 1: So I guess, after all, it is better for you

42
00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:41,920
Speaker 1: to draw the pony cart and for me to stick

43
00:03:41,960 --> 00:03:47,440
Speaker 1: with the coal wagon. Indeed, it is, said a horse

44
00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:51,320
Speaker 1: that was hitched to one of the grocery wagons. You'd

45
00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:54,840
Speaker 1: look funny, coal horse trying to fit between the shafts

46
00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:59,880
Speaker 1: of that pony cart. I suppose, I would, admitted the other,

47
00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:09,280
Speaker 1: laughing and away horses have among themselves. When George and

48
00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:11,720
Speaker 1: Mabel came out of the store with the bag of

49
00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:16,120
Speaker 1: sugar lumps, they saw the two horses, one hitched to

50
00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:19,119
Speaker 1: a coal wagon and the other to a grocery cart,

51
00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:25,479
Speaker 1: rubbing noses with Tinkle. They're kissing each other, laughed the

52
00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:30,080
Speaker 1: little girl. But the horses and the pony were really

53
00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:35,039
Speaker 1: talking among themselves, and even Patrick, much as he knew

54
00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:41,159
Speaker 1: about animals, did not understand horse talk. Let's give Tinkle

55
00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:46,039
Speaker 1: some sugar now, said Mabel. All right, answered George. So

56
00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:52,520
Speaker 1: they gave the pony two lumps. My that sugar certainly

57
00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:56,400
Speaker 1: smells good, exclaimed the horse that was hitched to the

58
00:04:56,480 --> 00:05:02,359
Speaker 1: coal wagon. Certainly does, said the other horse, sniffing hard

59
00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:06,480
Speaker 1: through his nose, for the air was filled with the

60
00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:11,120
Speaker 1: sweet smell of the sugar lump's Tinkle was eating, you

61
00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:15,120
Speaker 1: might think, went on the grocery horse that working for

62
00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:18,000
Speaker 1: a store. As I do. I'd get a lump of

63
00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:24,280
Speaker 1: sugar once in a while, don't you, asked Tinkle, reaching

64
00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:28,560
Speaker 1: out for another sweet lump George offered him. Never a bit,

65
00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:35,039
Speaker 1: said the grocery horse. And I just love it, so do,

66
00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:39,840
Speaker 1: I said the coal horse. I'm sorry I didn't offer

67
00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:44,920
Speaker 1: you some, apologized Tinkle. But it's too late now I've

68
00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:53,440
Speaker 1: swallowed it. Just then Mabel thought of something nice. Oh, George,

69
00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:57,160
Speaker 1: she cried, Let's give the two horses some of Tinkle's sugar.

70
00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:00,560
Speaker 1: I guess horses like sweet stuff the same as ponies,

71
00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:05,159
Speaker 1: don't they, Patrick, she asked the coachman. Sure they do.

72
00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:10,599
Speaker 1: He answered, sure they do. Then give them some, George,

73
00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:16,600
Speaker 1: she begged. We have more than enough for Tinkle, all right,

74
00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:20,839
Speaker 1: said the little boy. So he held out two lumps

75
00:06:20,839 --> 00:06:24,000
Speaker 1: of sugar to the coal horse and two to the

76
00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:28,520
Speaker 1: grocery horse. And I just wish you could have seen

77
00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:31,800
Speaker 1: how glad those horses were to get the sweet stuff.

78
00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:37,359
Speaker 1: If they could have talked man language, they would have

79
00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:41,520
Speaker 1: thanked George and Mabel, But as it was, they could

80
00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:46,200
Speaker 1: only say to one another and to Tinkle, well, you

81
00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:49,720
Speaker 1: certainly have a good home with some nice children in it.

82
00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:54,279
Speaker 1: I'm glad you think so, Winnie tinkled to them, and

83
00:06:54,440 --> 00:07:02,480
Speaker 1: he felt very happy. George and Mabel drove home in

84
00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:05,760
Speaker 1: their pony cart, carrying what was left of the bag

85
00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:09,720
Speaker 1: of sugar. When they were near their home and on

86
00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:13,760
Speaker 1: a quiet street, George let his sister take the reins

87
00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:19,320
Speaker 1: so she would learn how to handle them. Patrick watched

88
00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:22,920
Speaker 1: the little girl carefully and told her how and when

89
00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:26,160
Speaker 1: to pull, so Tinkle would go to the right or

90
00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:32,160
Speaker 1: to the left, and also around the corners. Oh, mother,

91
00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:36,160
Speaker 1: now I know how to drive, cried Mabel as she

92
00:07:36,400 --> 00:07:39,720
Speaker 1: ran into the house to tell her father and Missus

93
00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:43,360
Speaker 1: Farley about their first trip down town in the new

94
00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:51,480
Speaker 1: pony cart. After that, George and Mabel had many rides

95
00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:56,200
Speaker 1: behind Tinkle, even in the winter when they hitched him

96
00:07:56,240 --> 00:08:00,960
Speaker 1: to a little sledge. The little pony grew to like

97
00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:05,640
Speaker 1: his little boy and girlfriends very much, indeed, and they

98
00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:11,160
Speaker 1: loved him dearly. They would hug him and pat him

99
00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:13,800
Speaker 1: whenever they went out to the stable where he was,

100
00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:20,080
Speaker 1: and feed him lumps of sugar. When spring came, they

101
00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:28,920
Speaker 1: took long rides in the country. One day, a funny

102
00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:32,560
Speaker 1: thing happened to Tinkle. He had been hitched to the

103
00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:35,319
Speaker 1: pony cart, which was tied to a post in front

104
00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:39,080
Speaker 1: of his house, waiting for George and Mabel to come out.

105
00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:44,560
Speaker 1: And then from somewhere down the street sounded the tooting

106
00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:49,000
Speaker 1: of a horn, and a strange odor, which made him

107
00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:54,640
Speaker 1: tremble came to the pony's nostrils. I wonder what that is,

108
00:08:55,320 --> 00:09:02,719
Speaker 1: said Tinkle to himself. Very soon he found wound out.

109
00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:08,640
Speaker 1: Along came a man wearing a red cap, and every

110
00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:11,439
Speaker 1: once in a while he would put a brass horn

111
00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:16,760
Speaker 1: to his mouth and blow a tooting tune. But this

112
00:09:17,040 --> 00:09:22,040
Speaker 1: was not what surprise Tinkle most. What did was a big,

113
00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:27,240
Speaker 1: shaggy animal that the man was leading by a chain.

114
00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:33,200
Speaker 1: And when Tinkle saw the shaggy creature, he was afraid.

115
00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:37,800
Speaker 1: But the other animal, rising up on its hind legs, said,

116
00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:41,640
Speaker 1: don't be afraid of me, little pony, I won't hurt you.

117
00:09:43,559 --> 00:09:49,480
Speaker 1: Who are you, asked Tinkle, wonderingly. I am Dido the

118
00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:54,560
Speaker 1: Dancing Bear, was the answer, and I have had many

119
00:09:54,640 --> 00:10:03,480
Speaker 1: adventures that have been put into a book. For a

120
00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:07,520
Speaker 1: few seconds, Tinkle stood looking at Dido the Dancing Bear,

121
00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:13,840
Speaker 1: not knowing what to do or say. Some ponies would

122
00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:16,959
Speaker 1: have been afraid of a bear, they would have snorted,

123
00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:21,400
Speaker 1: stood on their hind legs, and maybe have run away.

124
00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:27,200
Speaker 1: But Tinkle had never seen a bear before, no one

125
00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:30,760
Speaker 1: had ever told him about them, and he really did

126
00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:37,240
Speaker 1: not know enough to be afraid. Besides, Dido seems such

127
00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:41,400
Speaker 1: a funny, good natured and happy bear that I believe

128
00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:47,800
Speaker 1: no one would have been afraid of him. So you

129
00:10:47,840 --> 00:10:51,840
Speaker 1: are Dido the Dancing Bear? Are you? Asked Tinkle? And

130
00:10:51,960 --> 00:10:55,360
Speaker 1: you say you are in a book? What does that mean?

131
00:10:56,800 --> 00:11:02,080
Speaker 1: I'll tell you, went on Dido. While his master, the

132
00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:05,679
Speaker 1: man who blew such jolly tombs on the brass horn,

133
00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:09,480
Speaker 1: was picking up some apples that had fallen from a

134
00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:15,200
Speaker 1: roadside tree. He let Dido walk on ahead without even

135
00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:18,680
Speaker 1: a string tied to him, for he knew that Dido

136
00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:25,560
Speaker 1: would not run away. You see, it's this way, went

137
00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:28,520
Speaker 1: on the Dancing Bear. Years ago.

138
00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:31,440
Speaker 2: I used to live in the woods with my father

139
00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:36,280
Speaker 2: and mother, sisters and brothers.

140
00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:39,920
Speaker 1: I never lived in the woods, said Tinkle. But I

141
00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:46,200
Speaker 1: lived in a big green field that was nice, murmured Dido.

142
00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:51,680
Speaker 1: I have been in the fields too well. One day

143
00:11:51,720 --> 00:11:54,240
Speaker 1: I was caught by a man who took me away.

144
00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:57,199
Speaker 1: At first I did not like it.

145
00:11:57,640 --> 00:11:58,560
Speaker 2: But the man was.

146
00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:03,840
Speaker 1: Good to me and taught me to do tricks. What

147
00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:08,480
Speaker 1: are tricks? Asked the pony, For he could speak all

148
00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:11,640
Speaker 1: animal language as well as understand them.

149
00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:18,280
Speaker 2: Tricks are well, I'll.

150
00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:22,240
Speaker 1: Show you in a minute, went on Dido. The man

151
00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:25,080
Speaker 1: was good to me, as I said, and taught me tricks.

152
00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:28,840
Speaker 1: Then I was sold to a circus, and I had

153
00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:32,520
Speaker 1: lots of good times with Tom Tum the jolly elephant

154
00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:36,640
Speaker 1: and Mappo the merry monkey. They are in books too.

155
00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:43,240
Speaker 1: What are books? Asked Tinkle? Are they good like sugar?

156
00:12:43,559 --> 00:12:48,600
Speaker 1: And do you eat them? Oh? No, laughed Dido.

157
00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:53,520
Speaker 2: Books are funny things like blocks of wood, only you

158
00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:57,720
Speaker 2: can open them like a door, you know, and inside

159
00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:01,040
Speaker 2: are funny black marks on paper that is white like

160
00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:06,240
Speaker 2: the snow. Boys and girls and men and women open

161
00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:09,880
Speaker 2: these funny things called books and look at them forever

162
00:13:10,000 --> 00:13:11,240
Speaker 2: and ever so long.

163
00:13:13,559 --> 00:13:18,079
Speaker 1: Why do they do that, asked Tinkle. Well I don't

164
00:13:18,080 --> 00:13:22,199
Speaker 1: really know, said Dido. But after they have looked at

165
00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:25,000
Speaker 1: the books, turning over the white things with the black

166
00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:32,280
Speaker 1: marks on them called leaves, the boys and girls laugh. Why,

167
00:13:33,280 --> 00:13:37,760
Speaker 1: Tinkle demanded, because of the funny things printed on them,

168
00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:43,040
Speaker 1: answered Dido, you see in my book are all the

169
00:13:43,080 --> 00:13:46,600
Speaker 1: things I did, and the things Mapo did and the

170
00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:50,560
Speaker 1: things Tom Tum did are in their books. Some of

171
00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:53,560
Speaker 1: the things were funny, and that is what makes the

172
00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:58,959
Speaker 1: boys and girls laugh. Tom Tum's book is enough to

173
00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:05,720
Speaker 1: make anyone laugh. He is a very jolly elephant. Is

174
00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:09,160
Speaker 1: it fashionable to be in a book? Asked Tinkle. I

175
00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:12,640
Speaker 1: have quite a stylish pony cart here, as you can see,

176
00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:16,360
Speaker 1: so if being in a book is, of course it's

177
00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:20,440
Speaker 1: fashionable to be in a book, exclaimed Ido. You should

178
00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:26,560
Speaker 1: see the funny pictures of me and my book. Doo dooo.

179
00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:31,000
Speaker 1: Dude blew the horn again, and the man who owned Dido,

180
00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:35,360
Speaker 1: having picked up all the apples he wanted, came walking

181
00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:40,480
Speaker 1: along the road. Dido had been in a circus for

182
00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:45,040
Speaker 1: some time, but now he was out again, traveling round

183
00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:49,440
Speaker 1: the country doing tricks. Ah, you have met a friend,

184
00:14:49,520 --> 00:14:53,280
Speaker 1: I see, Dido, remarked the man who had little gold

185
00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:59,000
Speaker 1: rings in his ears. A little pony. Huh. Well, where

186
00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:02,560
Speaker 1: there is a pony, there must be children, and I

187
00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:05,920
Speaker 1: think they will like to see your tricks, Dido. Come,

188
00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:12,760
Speaker 1: we'll get ready for them. The man blew another merry

189
00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:16,200
Speaker 1: tune on his horn, and just then George and Mabel

190
00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:19,440
Speaker 1: came running out of the house ready to go driving

191
00:15:19,520 --> 00:15:24,720
Speaker 1: in the pony cart. Ah see the bear, cried Mabel.

192
00:15:24,960 --> 00:15:29,320
Speaker 1: And look what he is doing, added George. For just

193
00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:32,840
Speaker 1: then the man told Dido to do a somersault, and

194
00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:37,840
Speaker 1: this the bear did. That's one of my tricks, said

195
00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:41,480
Speaker 1: Dido to Tinkle, though of course George and Mabel did

196
00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:45,000
Speaker 1: not know the two animals were speaking to one another,

197
00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:49,800
Speaker 1: for they talked in a low whisper. Oh so that

198
00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:54,480
Speaker 1: is a trick, is it, asked Tinkle in surprise. Yes,

199
00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:58,080
Speaker 1: and I can do others. Wait, I'm going to do

200
00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:04,000
Speaker 1: some more when Dido, come on, Dido, show the little

201
00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,640
Speaker 1: boy and girl you can play. Soldier called the man,

202
00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:12,680
Speaker 1: and he tossed a stick to the bear. Dido clasped

203
00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:15,320
Speaker 1: it in his paws and held it over one shoulder

204
00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:19,360
Speaker 1: and marched around in a circle, standing up, stiff and

205
00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:25,720
Speaker 1: straight like a soldier on parade. Oh that's great, cried George.

206
00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:30,760
Speaker 1: Is he a trained bear, mister, asked Mabel. Oh, yes,

207
00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:35,120
Speaker 1: he is a good trained bear, answered the man. I

208
00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:38,880
Speaker 1: have taught him to do many tricks. Now stand on

209
00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:43,000
Speaker 1: your head, Dido, and Dido stood on his head without

210
00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:47,560
Speaker 1: so much as blinking his eye. Only he could not

211
00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:51,120
Speaker 1: stand that way very long because he was quite a

212
00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:57,160
Speaker 1: heavy bear now, but he did very well. Can he

213
00:16:57,200 --> 00:17:01,240
Speaker 1: do any more tricks? Asked George, and by this time

214
00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:05,720
Speaker 1: Patrick the coachman, Marry the cook, and Missus Farley had

215
00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:09,520
Speaker 1: come out to watch Dido. I will have him climb

216
00:17:09,600 --> 00:17:13,280
Speaker 1: a pole, said the man, pointing to a telegraph pole

217
00:17:13,359 --> 00:17:17,680
Speaker 1: in front of the Farley home. Up you go, Dido called,

218
00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:21,800
Speaker 1: and the bear walked slowly over to the smooth pole.

219
00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:26,639
Speaker 1: He stuck his sharp claws into the soft wood, and

220
00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:29,760
Speaker 1: up and up he climbed until he was nearly at

221
00:17:29,760 --> 00:17:34,199
Speaker 1: the top. Then he climbed down again, while Mabel and

222
00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:39,920
Speaker 1: George clapped their hands and laughed. He is a fine bear,

223
00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:42,800
Speaker 1: said George. I wonder if he would eat sugar as

224
00:17:42,880 --> 00:17:47,560
Speaker 1: tinkle my pony does. Try him and see, answered the

225
00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:52,160
Speaker 1: man with a laugh. Won't he bite, asked Mabel, as

226
00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:55,920
Speaker 1: George took some lumps of sugar from his pocket. Oh no,

227
00:17:56,560 --> 00:18:00,480
Speaker 1: Dido never bites, answered the man. He is a very

228
00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:08,119
Speaker 1: gentle bear. George held a lump of sugar on his hand.

229
00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:12,680
Speaker 1: Up Dido walked to the little boy. Don't you dare

230
00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:17,160
Speaker 1: bite him, said Tinkle to Dido, speaking in animal talk.

231
00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:22,320
Speaker 2: Of course, Oh no, fear, exclaimed Dido. I wouldn't bite

232
00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:23,199
Speaker 2: him for the world.

233
00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:28,679
Speaker 1: Just watch. Then Dido put out his big red tongue,

234
00:18:29,119 --> 00:18:32,600
Speaker 1: to which the lump of sugar stuck, just like a

235
00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:37,080
Speaker 1: postage stamp, and in another second it had slid down

236
00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:46,399
Speaker 1: Dido's throat. Oh wasn't that cute, cried Mabel. Then Dido

237
00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:49,720
Speaker 1: did more tricks, and after Missus Farley had given the

238
00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:55,840
Speaker 1: man some money, he and Ido walked down the road. Goodbye, children,

239
00:18:56,400 --> 00:19:01,080
Speaker 1: called the man. Goodbye, answered George and Mabel, waving their

240
00:19:01,119 --> 00:19:02,600
Speaker 1: hands good bye.

241
00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:06,720
Speaker 2: Tinkle called Dide. Perhaps some day I may see you again,

242
00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:11,280
Speaker 2: I hope, so called back the pony. I want to

243
00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:13,720
Speaker 2: hear more about being in a book and about Tom

244
00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:18,040
Speaker 2: Tom and Mapple. They are in the circus now, I think,

245
00:19:18,520 --> 00:19:21,199
Speaker 2: said Dide. If you ever go to the circus, you

246
00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:22,000
Speaker 2: may meet them.

247
00:19:23,359 --> 00:19:26,639
Speaker 1: I don't believe I ever shall, said Tinkle, but you

248
00:19:26,800 --> 00:19:31,639
Speaker 1: just wait and see what happens. Well, go for your

249
00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:35,080
Speaker 1: drive now, children, said Missus Farley. And don't let Tinkle

250
00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:40,959
Speaker 1: run away with you. We won't, answered George laughingly, and

251
00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:44,800
Speaker 1: as he and Mabel drove away, Patrick not going with

252
00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:49,080
Speaker 1: them this time, George said, I wish I could teach

253
00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:54,959
Speaker 1: Tinkle some tricks. Oh, wouldn't that be great? Exclaimed Mabel.

254
00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:58,439
Speaker 1: I once saw a trick pony in a show. He

255
00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:01,560
Speaker 1: could bow and tell how old he was by pawing

256
00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:05,639
Speaker 1: on the ground with his hoof. Then I'm going to

257
00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:09,800
Speaker 1: teach Tinkle some tricks, said George. And when he learns them,

258
00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:13,000
Speaker 1: we'll take him around the country and show him off

259
00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:18,960
Speaker 1: and earn money. Oh how nice, cried Mabel, clapping her hands.

260
00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:24,000
Speaker 1: When George and Mabel got back from their drive, George

261
00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:28,600
Speaker 1: spoke to his father about teaching Tinkle to do some tricks.

262
00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:35,159
Speaker 1: I hardly think you can, said mister Farley, but you

263
00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:39,200
Speaker 1: may try better, ask Patrick about it. Though he knows

264
00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:44,880
Speaker 1: a lot more about horses and ponies. Teach Tinkle tricks,

265
00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:48,160
Speaker 1: is it? Asked Patrick, when George spoke to the coachman

266
00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:54,040
Speaker 1: about it. Well maybe you can. He's young. Yet, you

267
00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:57,080
Speaker 1: can't teach an old pony tricks any more than you

268
00:20:57,080 --> 00:21:03,879
Speaker 1: can teach an old dog. We'll try someday. A few

269
00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:07,360
Speaker 1: days after this, Patrick called George out to the stable

270
00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:11,800
Speaker 1: yard where Tinkle was standing. What are you going to do,

271
00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:17,480
Speaker 1: asked George. Teach Tinkle his first trick, was the answer.

272
00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:20,920
Speaker 1: He is going to learn how to jump over a stick.

273
00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:26,840
Speaker 1: Patrick put two boxes about two feet high on the

274
00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:32,040
Speaker 1: ground and laid a stick across them. He led the

275
00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:37,080
Speaker 1: pony close to the stick and stood there beside him. Now, George,

276
00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:40,159
Speaker 1: you stand on the other side of the stick and

277
00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:44,320
Speaker 1: hold out these lumps of sugar, said Patrick. We will

278
00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:50,240
Speaker 1: see what Tinkle will do. George held out the sugar

279
00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:54,439
Speaker 1: a few feet away from Tinkle's nose. Tinkle could smell it,

280
00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:59,800
Speaker 1: and he wanted it very much. Go get it, called

281
00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:02,960
Speaker 1: pat Patrick, letting loose the halter strap he had been holding.

282
00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:08,960
Speaker 1: Go get the sugar, Tinkle. Instead of jumping across the

283
00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,480
Speaker 1: stick as they wanted him to do, Tinkle walked right

284
00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:16,960
Speaker 1: against it and knocked it off the boxes. That won't do,

285
00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:20,560
Speaker 1: cried Patrick. Don't give him the sugar, George, until he

286
00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:26,640
Speaker 1: jumps over the stick. So George held the sugar behind

287
00:22:26,680 --> 00:22:30,800
Speaker 1: his back, and Tinkle was quite disappointed at not getting it.

288
00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:35,200
Speaker 1: I wonder what they want me to do, and why

289
00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:37,800
Speaker 1: they put that stick in front of me, thought the

290
00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:42,800
Speaker 1: little pony. Patrick placed the stick back on the boxes,

291
00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:46,560
Speaker 1: and this time he nailed it down so the pony

292
00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:51,160
Speaker 1: could not easily knock it off. Then the coachman held

293
00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:54,399
Speaker 1: the pony as before, and George put the lumps of

294
00:22:54,440 --> 00:23:00,760
Speaker 1: sugar out on his hand. Again. Once more, Tinkle walked

295
00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,760
Speaker 1: forward to get them, but this time he could not

296
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:07,720
Speaker 1: knock the stick down with his legs. He shoved the

297
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:14,320
Speaker 1: boxes aside, though, and again Patrick led him back. Jump

298
00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:17,920
Speaker 1: over the stick, Tinkle, jump over the stick, and I'll

299
00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:23,879
Speaker 1: give you the sugar, called George. And then after two

300
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:31,120
Speaker 1: or three more times, Tinkle understood he found that stick

301
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:33,919
Speaker 1: always in his way when he wanted to get the

302
00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:38,040
Speaker 1: sweet sugar. And finally he thought of the fence he

303
00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:43,120
Speaker 1: had once jumped over. I guess that's what they want

304
00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:46,119
Speaker 1: me to do now, he said, and with a jump

305
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:54,240
Speaker 1: over the stick he went. Tinkle had done his first trick.

306
00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:04,920
Speaker 1: It's one I can come on, and that is the

307
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:10,320
Speaker 1: end of this episode. Things I can for night, sleep tight.

308
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 2: It's one few things I can come on. One of

309
00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:21,000
Speaker 2: the few things I can ju