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Speaker 1: Welcome sleep night stories the poppies. A long distance from here,

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Speaker 1: in a far eastern country, there once lived a very

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Speaker 1: rich king. All kings are not rich, you know, but

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Speaker 1: this one was, and his jewels were the most beautiful

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Speaker 1: ever seen. But this king dearly loved all the good

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Speaker 1: things of this world, and gave feasts and dances that

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Speaker 1: lasted for days without anyone sleeping. Of course, he could

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Speaker 1: not lead such a life as that and have good health.

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Speaker 1: And at last there came a time when the king

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Speaker 1: could not sleep. At last he offered a reward to

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Speaker 1: any one who could put him to sleep, no matter

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Speaker 1: how it was accomplished. He said, to the one who

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Speaker 1: could do this, he would give them half his kingdom.

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Speaker 1: The poor king was the subject for many experiments, and

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Speaker 1: when he had almost given up hope of ever sleeping again,

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Speaker 1: there came a strange looking man to the gate of

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Speaker 1: the castle. He wore a turban and a long flowing

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Speaker 1: robe of white, and wore around his neck many chains

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Speaker 1: and strings of strange looking beads. I can make the

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Speaker 1: king sleep, he said, but I must be allowed to

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Speaker 1: have the grounds of the castle to myself, and the

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Speaker 1: king must obey me in every way. The king was

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Speaker 1: ready to do anything, and so the strange looking man

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Speaker 1: began his work. But before he would do anything for

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Speaker 1: the king, he insisted upon having half the kingdom given

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Speaker 1: into his hands, and when this was done he set

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Speaker 1: to work. No one was allowed to be near him,

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Speaker 1: and the king was left alone in the castle with him.

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Speaker 1: One morning, not long after, the king saw what looked

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Speaker 1: to be a sea of green all around the castle,

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Speaker 1: but it really was a bed of green leaves, and

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Speaker 1: soon there appeared white flowers among the leaves, and then

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Speaker 1: the strange man told the king to walk among them.

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Speaker 1: Soon the king felt a drowsy feeling stealing over him,

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Speaker 1: and he sat down in the midst of the sea

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Speaker 1: of green, and in a few minutes he was sound asleep.

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Speaker 1: Then the strange man began to repeat something in a

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Speaker 1: sing song tone and wave his hands over the sleeping king.

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Speaker 1: He walked among the leaves and flowers, repeating his strange rhyme,

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Speaker 1: and the leaves and flowers grew taller and taller, until

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Speaker 1: the king could not be seen, and the man moved away,

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Speaker 1: still chanting poppy, poppy, flower of sleep, your drowsy spell

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Speaker 1: around him, keep, for I can all his kingdom take

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Speaker 1: if you do not let him wake. The poppies grew

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Speaker 1: until they reached the top of the castle, and everyone

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Speaker 1: who went near to look for the king fell under

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Speaker 1: the spell of their strange power, till the people around

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Speaker 1: gave it up, and the strange man became king. He

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Speaker 1: built a new castle, and the old castle was forgotten.

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Speaker 1: All went well with the new king until a young

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Speaker 1: man called at his castle and asked him about the

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Speaker 1: old king, and the servants told him how the strange

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Speaker 1: flowers had grown around the castle and no one could

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Speaker 1: go near, and that everyone thought that the old king

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Speaker 1: was dead. The new king, when he heard that the

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Speaker 1: stranger was asking for the old king, had him driven

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Speaker 1: from the castle. Tell your master, said the stranger to

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Speaker 1: the servants, that he will hear from me again. The

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Speaker 1: stranger went into the woods where there lived an old witch,

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Speaker 1: and at midnight they came out and went to the castle.

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Speaker 1: Among the strange flowers. The witch held her hands high

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Speaker 1: above her head and waved them up and down, saying

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Speaker 1: all the time, poppy, poppy, sleepy flower. Now I have

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Speaker 1: you in my power. I would have you shorter grow

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Speaker 1: until the sleeping one you show down. Came the tall

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Speaker 1: flowers and bushes, until the young man cried out, here

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Speaker 1: he is, and then the flowers ceased to grow small.

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Speaker 1: The witch knelt beside the sleeping king and whispered in

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Speaker 1: his ear, Awake, good king, tis break of day, and

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Speaker 1: drive the false king far away. The king opened his

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Speaker 1: eyes and looked at the witch and the young man

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Speaker 1: beside her. What has happened, he asked, I will let

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Speaker 1: leave you to tell him, said the witch. The sun

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Speaker 1: is up and I must go. When you offered to

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Speaker 1: give half your kingdom to the one who could make

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Speaker 1: you sleep, said the young man, I set out for

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Speaker 1: your castle with a box which contained a strange flower

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Speaker 1: that had the power to make people sleep. But it

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Speaker 1: had to be used with the greatest care, and I

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Speaker 1: alone knew the secret of using it, for it was

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Speaker 1: given to my grandmother by an old witch doctor. Before

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Speaker 1: I could reach you, I was overtaken by a band

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Speaker 1: of robbers, and the box was stolen. They made me

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Speaker 1: tell what I intended doing with the flower on pain

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Speaker 1: of death, but I did not tell the whole secret.

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Speaker 1: Then they put me in a cave and rolled a

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Speaker 1: stone in front of it, too heavy for me to move.

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Speaker 1: And left. I was almost dead from starvation when I

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Speaker 1: was found by some peasants who nursed me until I

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Speaker 1: was well enough to travel. When I hurried here, only

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Speaker 1: to find that one of the band of robbers had

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Speaker 1: taken your whole kingdom. After putting you to sleep with

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Speaker 1: the charmed flower. He drove me from the castle when

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Speaker 1: he heard that I was asking for you. And if

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Speaker 1: it had not been for the witch who lives in

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Speaker 1: the woods, I should not have been able to wake you.

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Speaker 1: She knew the secret, as she is the daughter of

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Speaker 1: the witch who gave the flower to my grandmother. When

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Speaker 1: the king heard the strange story, he hurried with the

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Speaker 1: young man to the castle where the robber king lived.

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Speaker 1: He was asleep when they arrived, and the servants, who

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Speaker 1: did not like their new master, ran out to meet

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Speaker 1: the old king, And when they heard what had happened,

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Speaker 1: they went back to the castle and bound the robber

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Speaker 1: while he slept. And when he awoke he he was

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Speaker 1: so frightened that he promised to tell where the rest

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Speaker 1: of his band could be found if they would spare

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Speaker 1: his life. This they promised to do, and the country

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Speaker 1: was rid of these bad men, for they were put

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Speaker 1: on a ship and made to work for the rest

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Speaker 1: of their lives. The king was so grateful to the

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Speaker 1: young man who rescued him that he made him his heir,

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Speaker 1: And when the king died, he left him his kingdoms

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Speaker 1: to mine, to my