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Speaker 1: Hello, friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. This story

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Speaker 1: is about a little girl named Ava. She is a sweet, loving,

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Speaker 1: happy girl with a little sister who is blind. Ava

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Speaker 1: knows she will never be perfectly happy as long as

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Speaker 1: an old woman who everyone says can help her with

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Speaker 1: her problem. Will the old woman be able to help

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Speaker 1: Ava and what will Ava need to do the little

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Speaker 1: blind sister. Once upon a time there lived a child

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Speaker 1: whose name was Ava. She was sweet and loving and

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Speaker 1: had everything in the world to make her happy. But

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Speaker 1: be perfectly happy as long as her sister's eyes were closed,

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Speaker 1: so that she could not see the beautiful world nor

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Speaker 1: was not something that she could do which would open

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Speaker 1: her little sister's eyes. At last, one day she heard

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Speaker 1: of an old old woman nobody knew how old, who

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Speaker 1: had lived for hundreds of years in a dark cave

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Speaker 1: not many miles away. This peculiar old woman knew a

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Speaker 1: secret enchantment by means of which the blind could receive

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Speaker 1: their sight. The child Ava asked her parents permission to

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Speaker 1: make a journey to the cave in order that she

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Speaker 1: might try to persuade the old woman to tell her

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Speaker 1: this secret. Then she exclaimed, joyfully, my dear sister need

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Speaker 1: no longer sit in darkness. Her parents gave her a

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Speaker 1: somewhat unwilling consent, as they had heard many strange and

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Speaker 1: unsettling stories about the old woman. At last, however, one

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Speaker 1: fine spring morning, Ava started on her journey. She had

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Speaker 1: cool breeze seemed to be whispering a song to her

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Speaker 1: all the way. When she came to the mouth of

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Speaker 1: the cave, it looked so dark that she almost feared

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Speaker 1: could see the old woman, sitting on a stone chair,

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Speaker 1: She looked nearly bent over double with age, and her

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Speaker 1: and thought she is so old that she must be

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Speaker 1: hard of hearing. The old woman did not turn her

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Speaker 1: head nor stop her spinning. Ava waited a moment and

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Speaker 1: then took fresh courage and said, I have come to

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Speaker 1: ask you if you will tell me how I can

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Speaker 1: at her as if she were very much surprised. She

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Speaker 1: then spoke in a deep, hollow voice, so hollow that

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Speaker 1: it sounded as if she had not spoken for a

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Speaker 1: can tell you well enough, but you'll not do it.

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Speaker 1: People who can see trouble themselves very little about those

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Speaker 1: and then she scowled at Ava until the child's heart

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Speaker 1: please tell me, I will do anything to help my

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Speaker 1: This time. She then stooped down and searched in the

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Speaker 1: it all around the world, and when you have done that,

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Speaker 1: eagerly seized the tiny thread, wrapping it carefully around her

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Speaker 1: hastened out of the close stamp cave. She had not

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Speaker 1: thread had not broken. It was so thin. Imagine her

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Speaker 1: surprise to see that, instead of its being a gray

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Speaker 1: it were made of the most precious stuff on earth.

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Speaker 1: she saw a flowery path with a glittering line of

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Speaker 1: This thought filled her with such joy that she pushed

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Speaker 1: while she felt quite sure that she could see the

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Speaker 1: now and then a gray squirrel would frisk by her

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Speaker 1: in a friendly fashion, as if to remind her that

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Speaker 1: soon she was out in the glad sunshine again. But

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Speaker 1: could see stretched a low, swampy marsh of wetland. The

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Speaker 1: and she bravely plunged into the mire. The dirty dripping

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Speaker 1: only with a great effort that she could pull out,

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Speaker 1: be through it. When she had at length last reached

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Speaker 1: thread of golden light which trailed along after her. What

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Speaker 1: do you think had happened? Wherever the mysterious and beautiful

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Speaker 1: and the earth had become firm and hard, so that

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Speaker 1: any other person who might wish to cross the swampy

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Speaker 1: happy that she began to sing softly to herself. Soon, however,

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Speaker 1: now the grass became parched and dry, Until at last

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Speaker 1: For miles and miles, the scorching sand stretched on every side.

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Speaker 1: She could not even find a friendly rock in whose

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Speaker 1: behold what did she see? Tall shade trees had sprung

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Speaker 1: she came to some rough rocks tumbled about in great confusion,

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Speaker 1: Soon the path grew steeper and steeper, and the rocks

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Speaker 1: which frowned down upon her, as much as to say,

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Speaker 1: brave child hesitated. Just then, two strong eagles with outspread

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Speaker 1: As they passed far above her head, they uttered a

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Speaker 1: As she neared the top, she turned and looked back

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Speaker 1: at the enchanted thread of golden light, which she had

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Speaker 1: heart rejoiced. She turned again to continue on her journey,

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Speaker 1: when only a short distance in front of her she

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Speaker 1: The beautiful princess told Ava to dip her hands into

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Speaker 1: is the end of our story. Good Night, sleep tight.