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

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Speaker 1: is about Queen Winter. She asks her snow fairies and

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Speaker 1: frost fairies what they have been doing and if they

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Speaker 1: have made anyone happy with their work. They all reply

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Speaker 1: that they have, and Queen Winter is very happy. She

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Speaker 1: feels that it is important to make people happy by

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Speaker 1: the things we do. Queen Winter's Harvest. A long time ago,

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Speaker 1: Queen Winter sat upon her iceberg throne in the land

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Speaker 1: of ice and snow, and waving her staff a huge icicle,

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Speaker 1: asked for all the snow fairies and frost fairies to

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Speaker 1: draw nearer as she wished to see them. Please tell me,

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Speaker 1: snow fairies, said Queen Winter, what have you been up

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Speaker 1: to lately? Have you made anyone happy by the work

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Speaker 1: you have been doing? Queen Winter always thought it important

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Speaker 1: that we all tried to make people happy by the

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Speaker 1: things we do. Oh yes, they all said at once

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Speaker 1: with joy. We had a great time last night, putting

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Speaker 1: white clothes on the trees, white blankets over the grasses,

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Speaker 1: caps on all the fence posts, and making things look

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Speaker 1: so unique that when the children came out in the morning,

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Speaker 1: they just shouted and laughed, and soon threw so much

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Speaker 1: snow over each other that they were dressed in white

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Speaker 1: and looked just like us. Snow fairies too. They wanted

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Speaker 1: to make castles, forts, snow animals, and other things with

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Speaker 1: the snow as we had done. Sleds were bought out,

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Speaker 1: and when the sleigh bells began their music, it seemed

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Speaker 1: that everybody was made happy by our efforts. Well done,

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Speaker 1: said Queen Winter. I won't keep you from your work, then,

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Speaker 1: as the work you do is so important. In a twinkling,

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Speaker 1: the snow fairies were up in a purple cloud boat,

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Speaker 1: throwing a shower of snow flake kisses down to Queen

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Speaker 1: Winter to thank her for giving them important things to do. Now,

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Speaker 1: frost fairies, said Queen Winter, turning to a glittering band

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Speaker 1: who wore some of her own colorful jewels. What have

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Speaker 1: you been up to lately? Have you made anyone happy?

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Speaker 1: We have made pictures upon the windows, and hung your

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Speaker 1: jewels upon the trees for the people to look at,

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Speaker 1: and covered the ponds so people can skate, said Jack Frost.

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Speaker 1: The leader. That is good, said Queen Winter. You and

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Speaker 1: the snow fairies seem to be making people so happy.

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Speaker 1: But pretty soon our work will be done, and the

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Speaker 1: change of seasons will hide our efforts again. They will

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Speaker 1: hide the snowballs and melt them skating ponds so that

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Speaker 1: the ice may float downstream. Now, I would like to

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Speaker 1: make something that will keep long after we are gone away.

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Speaker 1: Queen Summer is asleep, but her harvest of hay and

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Speaker 1: grain is in the barns. Queen Autumn is gone, but

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Speaker 1: her harvest of apples and potatoes are in the market.

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Speaker 1: Now I want to leave something lasting for people too.

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Speaker 1: But the sunbeams are away most of the time now,

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Speaker 1: said Jack Frost. Can anything grow without them? My harvest

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Speaker 1: will grow best without them, said Queen Winter. And I'll

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Speaker 1: just hang up a thick cloud curtain and ask them

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Speaker 1: to play upon the other side while my harvest grows.

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Speaker 1: Mister north Wind will help, And if all you frost

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Speaker 1: fairies try your best, harvest will soon be ready. North

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Speaker 1: Wind soon came with bags of cold air, which he

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Speaker 1: scattered around the land, while the frost fairies carried it

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Speaker 1: into every little place, wondering all the while what the

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Speaker 1: result would be. But after two days of effort they

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Speaker 1: found out. For horses were hitched to sleds, and people

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Speaker 1: started for the lakes and rivers, saying the ice has

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Speaker 1: frozen so thick that it is time to fill the

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Speaker 1: ice houses. Saws and poles were carried along, and soon

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Speaker 1: huge blocks of ice were finding places upon the sleds,

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Speaker 1: ready for the ride to some ice house, where they

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Speaker 1: would be packed so securely in sawdust that Queen Winter's

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Speaker 1: harvest would keep through the very hottest weather. Now people

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Speaker 1: can have ice to keep their food fresh all year long,

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Speaker 1: said a frost fairy. And don't forget ice cream, ice

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Speaker 1: cream in summer, fall and winter, and I think ice

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Speaker 1: cream is just about the happiest thing around. Good Night,

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Speaker 1: sleep tight, t