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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 Avril and

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Speaker 1: Oakley Jones. Hello to Carolina who is six years old

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Speaker 1: from Portugal. Hello to Jalen and Teddy from Toronto. And

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Speaker 1: hello to Ellie who is seven, Toby who is five,

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Speaker 1: and their baby brother, Judah, who is eight months old.

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Speaker 1: I have a special message for Ellie, Toby and Judah.

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Speaker 1: Mommy misses you and is thinking of you all non

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Speaker 1: stop while she's away. Thank you all forting us via

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Speaker 1: our premium feed or Patreon. It means so much to us.

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Speaker 1: Today's story is about a big old cricket who thinks

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Speaker 1: he can teach the smaller crickets about the world. They

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Speaker 1: talk about how they do things compared to others, and

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Speaker 1: about how to be brave. This conversation about bravery ends

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Speaker 1: very abruptly when a cow comes too close to the crickets.

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Speaker 1: The cricket's school in one corner of the meadow lived

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Speaker 1: a fat old cricket who thought a great deal of himself.

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Speaker 1: He had such a big, shining body and of chirping

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Speaker 1: so very loudly that nobody could ever forget where he lived.

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Speaker 1: He was a very good sort of cricket, too ready

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Speaker 1: to say the most pleasant things to everybody, yet sad

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Speaker 1: to say he had a dreadful habit of boasting. He

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Speaker 1: had not always lived in the meadow, and he liked

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Speaker 1: to tell of the wonderful things he had seen and

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Speaker 1: done when he was younger and lived up near the

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Speaker 1: white farmhouse. When he told these stories of what he

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Speaker 1: had done, the big crickets around him would not say much,

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Speaker 1: but just sit and look at each other. The little crickets, however,

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Speaker 1: loved to hear him talk, and would often come to

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Speaker 1: the door of his house, which was a hole in

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Speaker 1: the ground, to beg him to tell them more. One evening,

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Speaker 1: he said he would teach them a few things that

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Speaker 1: all little crickets should know. He had them stand in

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Speaker 1: a row, and then began with what part of your

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Speaker 1: body do you eat with our mouths? All the little

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Speaker 1: crickets shouted with what part of your body do you run?

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Speaker 1: And leap our legs? They cried? Do you do anything

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Speaker 1: else with your legs? We clean ourselves with them, said one.

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Speaker 1: We use them and our mouths to make our houses

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Speaker 1: in the ground, said another, Oh, yes, and we hear

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Speaker 1: with our two front legs, cried one bright little fellow.

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Speaker 1: That is right, answered the fat old cricket. Some creatures

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Speaker 1: hear with things called ears that grow on the sides

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Speaker 1: of their heads. But for my part, I think it

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Speaker 1: is much nicer to hear with one's legs as we do. Why,

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Speaker 1: how funny it must be not to hear with one's

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Speaker 1: legs as we do, cried all the little crickets together.

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Speaker 1: There are a great many strange things to be seen

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Speaker 1: in the great world, said their teacher. I have seen

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Speaker 1: some terribly big creatures with only two legs and no

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Speaker 1: wings whatsoever. How dreadful, all the little crickets cried. We

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Speaker 1: wouldn't think they could move about at all. It must

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Speaker 1: be very hard to do so, said their teacher. I

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Speaker 1: was very sorry for them, and he spread out his

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Speaker 1: own wings and stretched his six legs to show them

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Speaker 1: how he enjoyed them. But how can they sing if

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Speaker 1: they have no wings, asked the bright little cricket. They

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Speaker 1: sing through their mouths in much the same way that

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Speaker 1: the birds have to. I am sure it must be

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Speaker 1: much easier to sing by rubbing one's wings together, as

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Speaker 1: we do, said the old teacher. I could tell you

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Speaker 1: many strange things about these two legged creatures and the

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Speaker 1: houses in which they live. And perhaps someday I will

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Speaker 1: There are other large, four legged creatures around their homes

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Speaker 1: that are a very terrible But my children, I was

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Speaker 1: never afraid of any of them. I am one of

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Speaker 1: the truly brave people who are never frightened, no matter

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Speaker 1: how terrible the sight. I hope children, that you will

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Speaker 1: always be brave like me. If anything should scare you,

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Speaker 1: do not jump or run away, stay right where you are.

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Speaker 1: And but the little crickets never heard the rest of

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Speaker 1: what their teacher began to say, or at that minute,

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Speaker 1: Brown Bess the cow came through a broken fence toward

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Speaker 1: the spot where the crickets were. The teacher gave one

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Speaker 1: real chirp and scrambled down his hole. The little crickets

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Speaker 1: fairly tumbled over each other in their hurry to get away,

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Speaker 1: and the fat old cricket, who had been out in

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Speaker 1: the great world, never again talked to them about being brave.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to share a poem with you now, also

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Speaker 1: about going to school and learning. The schoolhouse by Lenor Hetrick.

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Speaker 1: School is where I spend long hours learning the world's legends.

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Speaker 1: And stories. I learn of the wonders of ancient times.

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Speaker 1: I learn of Greek and Roman glories. I travel into

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Speaker 1: the dusty past, and from their tombs the kings arise.

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Speaker 1: I take a trip with some fair queens. I dine

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Speaker 1: beneath those long gone skies. Pioneers and those who ventured

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Speaker 1: to a frontier fraught with danger come alive and speak

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Speaker 1: to me and make me feel I'm not a stranger.

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Speaker 1: I learn of icy climes where snow lie eternally on

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Speaker 1: the peaks. I learn of lands unknown to man, where

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Speaker 1: the voice of the jungle hoarsely speaks. The trade winds

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Speaker 1: blow and carry me to countries that I've learned to know,

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Speaker 1: and wet with rain, and a tropical land, the weeping

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Speaker 1: monsoons blow and blow. The schoolhouse is a magical place,

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Speaker 1: for it changes so many many times, and before I

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Speaker 1: can blink, I'm miles away, dwelling in far off, colorful climes.

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Speaker 1: I will be sorry when the day has come that

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Speaker 1: I must leave this enchanted room. And when I say goodbye,

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Speaker 1: I know I'll feel the very deepest gloom. Good Night,

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Speaker 1: sleep tight,