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

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Speaker 1: another story for Halloween. Are you excited about Halloween? What

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Speaker 1: is your favorite part about Halloween? I love to see

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Speaker 1: all the different costumes that people are wearing. This story

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Speaker 1: is about a grubbity witch and a witchity Grub. The

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Speaker 1: grubbity witch is unhappy that the people don't like her,

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Speaker 1: so she is going to make a spell to bring

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Speaker 1: the snow. Then the witchity Grub shows up. Let's listen

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Speaker 1: to the Witchity Grub and the Grubbedy Witch, written by

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Speaker 1: Daniel Williamson and see what's going to happen. The Wichity

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Speaker 1: Grub and the Grubbedy Witch read with permission by Daniel Williamson.

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Speaker 1: Winding away from the bright city lights on a hill

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Speaker 1: up high in the clouds, a spooky old castle glows

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Speaker 1: in the night, where a lonely witch hides from crowds.

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Speaker 1: She reads the spells from her witchity books as she

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Speaker 1: pours her witch depotions, stirring her cauldron with a witchety look,

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Speaker 1: going through her witchety motions. They don't like me, and

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Speaker 1: I don't like them, she sings as the cauldron bubbles.

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Speaker 1: This spell will make it snow again and bring them

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Speaker 1: awful troubles. That's not a good choice, said a posh

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Speaker 1: little voice from behind the big wooden door. Your spell

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Speaker 1: won't last. You're doing it wrong, said the tiny, strange

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Speaker 1: creature on the floor. Yak, what are you, said the witch,

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Speaker 1: bending down. You look like the slime from my tub. Slimy,

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Speaker 1: not me. I'm clean as can be. A fidgety, witchety grub.

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Speaker 1: A witchety grub, There's no such bug. And what makes

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Speaker 1: you think you're so clean? You crawl around on the

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Speaker 1: dirty rug where all the animals have been. But look

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Speaker 1: at my face, no mud, muck or moss, not one

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Speaker 1: bit like yours. When was the last time you had

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Speaker 1: a good wash and cleaned all your spots and sores.

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Speaker 1: The witch grabs a mirror and shrieks at the shock. Aha,

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Speaker 1: what happened? You're right, you're showing the signs of working

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Speaker 1: too hard, making spells deep into the night. But my

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Speaker 1: hands are so crooked and my arms are all bent.

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Speaker 1: I can't even wash my own face. Don't worry, said

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Speaker 1: the grub. My hands are nimble. I'll help if I

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Speaker 1: can stay at your place. It's a deal, said the witch.

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Speaker 1: But watch out for the cat. If you're too slow,

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Speaker 1: he'll catch you and eat you. Fair enough, said the grub.

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Speaker 1: I won't forget that. Now pick me up so I

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Speaker 1: can reach you. The witchety grub crawled over her face

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Speaker 1: with hot soap and water in a bucket. Each time

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Speaker 1: he found a straggly hare, he'd pull it until he

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Speaker 1: could pluck it. He rubbed and scrubbed right round the clock,

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Speaker 1: rolling back the years. He covered up the witch's spots

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Speaker 1: and scooped the wax from her ears. Oh dear, oh dear,

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Speaker 1: said the witchity grub, Your brows are too bushy and long.

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Speaker 1: I'll simply have to trim them down. Good job, I

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Speaker 1: brought scissors along, even the warts on the Witch's face.

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Speaker 1: He'd jump on until they went flat. But he bounced

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Speaker 1: off the Witch's crookedy nose and knocked off her witchety hat.

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Speaker 1: Oh dear, oh dear, said the witchity grub. Your hair's

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Speaker 1: all greasy and smells. We'll have to pop you in

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Speaker 1: the tub and give it a wash as well. The

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Speaker 1: witch laid back in her witchety bath, her head all

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Speaker 1: covered in SuDS. The grub picked out all the sticks

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Speaker 1: and grass and washed away the mud. Oh dear, oh dear,

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Speaker 1: said the witchety grub. Your shoulders are lumpy and hot.

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Speaker 1: I simply must give them a witchity rub. No wonder

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Speaker 1: you're bent in the arms. He rubbed her shoulders with

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Speaker 1: all his hands and bounced on her witchity lumps. It

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Speaker 1: took a while, you understand, nearly ninety nine rubbity jumps

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Speaker 1: in front of the mirror. He dried her hair for

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Speaker 1: more than just a while. The witch was so happy

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Speaker 1: that someone cared. But just when she started to smile,

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Speaker 1: Oh dear, oh dear, said the witchity grub. Your teeth

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Speaker 1: are all green and rotten. Twice a day. They need

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Speaker 1: a scrub. But clearly you've forgotten. The grub climbed into

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Speaker 1: the witch's mouth with a toothpick and a long mantear brush.

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Speaker 1: He found bits of food and picked them out, even

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Speaker 1: bits of old bread and the crust. He scrubbed every

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Speaker 1: tooth a hundred times and polished them up so shiny.

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Speaker 1: It's a darn good job. I think you'll find that

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Speaker 1: witchity grubs are so tiny. They walked across to the

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Speaker 1: dressing room to find the witch some clothes. Oh dear, oh, dear,

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Speaker 1: it can't be true. You've got holes in all of those.

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Speaker 1: The witchety grub took a needle and thread while the

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Speaker 1: witch relaxed by the fire. Don't worry, I'll sew them

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Speaker 1: all up, he said, though I'm starting to feel quite tired.

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Speaker 1: Witchity grub then started to yawn, which made the witch

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Speaker 1: yon too, her eyelids falling to the floor. I do

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Speaker 1: hope it's bedtime soon. All done, said the grub. Now

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Speaker 1: look in the mirror and tell me what do you see.

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Speaker 1: I see the color in my cheeks again. I feel

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Speaker 1: like a whole new me. No more nights around the

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Speaker 1: cauldron casting spells upon the city. My time I'll now

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Speaker 1: spend with my new little friend that can make an

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Speaker 1: old witch look so pretty.