1 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:15,760 Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. This story 2 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:20,319 Speaker 1: was originally published in sleep Tight Premium. To listen to 3 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:25,560 Speaker 1: more stories like this, please visit sleep Tightpremium dot com 4 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:43,320 Speaker 1: and subscribe. That's sleep Tightpremium dot com. Thank you. This 5 00:00:43,520 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 1: story is about a little boy and his snowman. The 6 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:53,559 Speaker 1: snowman was the finest snowman the little boy and his 7 00:00:53,720 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: friends had ever made. That night, the wind was blown 8 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 1: and the snowman started to sneeze. He wished he had 9 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:10,240 Speaker 1: a hat on his head. The little boy heard him 10 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: and got him a hat, And then the snowman said 11 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:18,760 Speaker 1: he was going to take him on an adventure. Let's 12 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:29,039 Speaker 1: see where they go. Once upon a time there was 13 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: a man who was made of snow. He had sticks 14 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:39,120 Speaker 1: for his arms and coal for his eyes. His nose 15 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:43,280 Speaker 1: was made of an icicle, and his mouth was a 16 00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:47,520 Speaker 1: bit of bent twig which turned up at the ends, 17 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: so he looked as if he were smiling. He's the 18 00:01:55,240 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: finest snowman we've ever seen, said the children who made him, 19 00:02:00,880 --> 00:02:05,160 Speaker 1: And they joined hands and danced around him till their 20 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:11,960 Speaker 1: mother called them in to supper. Goodbye, they called to 21 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:15,600 Speaker 1: him as they climbed the fence that divided the field 22 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:21,239 Speaker 1: from their yards. Goodbye, we will bring you a hat tomorrow. 23 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:29,079 Speaker 1: There were a half dozen of the children, and the 24 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: youngest of them was a little boy who had never 25 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:38,960 Speaker 1: helped to make a snowman before. He thought of the 26 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 1: snowman all the time he was eating his supper, and 27 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:48,680 Speaker 1: even after he had gone to bed that night, he 28 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:53,320 Speaker 1: knew just how the snowman looked, with his smiling mouth 29 00:02:54,120 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 1: and stick arms. I wish we had taken him a 30 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 1: hat tonight, he thought, as his eyelids dropped down like 31 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 1: two little curtains over his eyes. At you, at you, 32 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 1: I wish that you had said something outside the window. 33 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:25,680 Speaker 1: And do you believe it? It was the snowman, sneezing 34 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 1: as hard as he could. This is what comes from 35 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 1: standing out in the cold. Bear headed, he said. I 36 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 1: shall sneeze my head right off. I know. I shall 37 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 1: at you, at you, at you, dear me, said the 38 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: little boy. I will get you a hat, but it 39 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:53,040 Speaker 1: will have to be my sailor hat, or I wear 40 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:55,840 Speaker 1: my new hat to church and to parties, and my 41 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 1: everyday hat will not fit you. I am afraid, uh 42 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 1: you made your head so large. The sailor hat will 43 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: do nicely, said the snowman, if I may have it 44 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 1: at once. As it is, I am catching a very 45 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:20,479 Speaker 1: bad cold. At you, at you, at you. When the 46 00:04:20,520 --> 00:04:24,359 Speaker 1: little boy heard this, he jumped out of bed and 47 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:27,599 Speaker 1: ran to the cupboard and got the sailor hat from 48 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:33,600 Speaker 1: the top shelf and gave it to the snowman. How 49 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:37,240 Speaker 1: do I look in it, the snowman asked, as soon 50 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:42,239 Speaker 1: as he had put it on. Very nice, answered the moon, 51 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 1: who had been watching all the while. But you will 52 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 1: have to make haste if you want to go anywhere 53 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 1: before daylight. Don't you hear what the moon is saying? 54 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:58,800 Speaker 1: Said the snowman to the little boy. What are you 55 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:05,719 Speaker 1: waiting for? Am I going somewhere? Asked the child? Of course, 56 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:13,599 Speaker 1: answered the snowman. Why shouldn't you go? The little boy 57 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:16,920 Speaker 1: could not think of an answer to this, and the 58 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: next thing he knew he was out of the window 59 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 1: with the snowman. Where are we going? He asked? Why, 60 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 1: said the snowman, hurrying away into the street. I have 61 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: never thought of that, but since you speak of it, 62 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 1: I think we had better go to the winter King's 63 00:05:38,960 --> 00:05:42,960 Speaker 1: palace and ask him if he cannot do something to 64 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:49,719 Speaker 1: keep the sun from shining tomorrow, Oh, said the little boy, 65 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 1: for his mother had promised that he might go to 66 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:58,279 Speaker 1: his grandmother's if the day was fine. He had no 67 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:02,640 Speaker 1: time to say anything about this, however, for just then 68 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 1: the snowman cried out, I have dropped one of my 69 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:11,279 Speaker 1: eyes and I cannot go on without it. Dear me, 70 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:15,039 Speaker 1: dear me, said the little boy, how will we ever 71 00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 1: find it? But while he was talking, a little dog 72 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 1: that he knew very well came by. His name was Fido, 73 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:34,240 Speaker 1: and he could find anything that was lost. He had 74 00:06:34,279 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 1: found the little ball when it rolled under the house 75 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:42,600 Speaker 1: and his owner's overshoes when everyone else couldn't, And when 76 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 1: he heard of the lost eye, he started back at 77 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 1: once to look for it. Don't worry, said the little boy. 78 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 1: Fido will find it, And sure enough, in the twinkle 79 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:02,200 Speaker 1: of a star, he was back with the coal in 80 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 1: his mouth. The little boy put it in its place 81 00:07:07,680 --> 00:07:12,120 Speaker 1: as quickly as he could. Or The snowman seemed to 82 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:17,920 Speaker 1: be in a hurry. Didn't you see that we were 83 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:21,720 Speaker 1: at the baker's shop, he said. I know, I must 84 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: have been too near the oven, for one of my 85 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:29,720 Speaker 1: ears is starting to melt. Why you haven't any ears, 86 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: said the little boy. We did not know how to 87 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 1: make them. No ears, cried the snowman. Then how do 88 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 1: I hear what you say? Besides, here we are at 89 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 1: the palace, and you must be quiet. The little boy 90 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:53,960 Speaker 1: had thought he was passing the schoolhouse where his big 91 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:57,720 Speaker 1: brothers and sisters went to school. But when he went 92 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 1: inside he saw that he was wrong, and the snowman 93 00:08:01,960 --> 00:08:06,119 Speaker 1: was right. Or In the place where the teacher's desk 94 00:08:06,280 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 1: should have been was a throne, And on the throne 95 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 1: sat the winter King, with icicles in his beard. As 96 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:22,559 Speaker 1: soon as he saw the snowman and the little boy, 97 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:27,520 Speaker 1: he began to talk very fast. What has this little 98 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 1: boy been doing? Why isn't he in bed? Come here, 99 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:35,280 Speaker 1: Jack Frost and tickle his toes. Oh no, no, cried 100 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:40,280 Speaker 1: the snowman. He has done nothing wrong. He is one 101 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:43,640 Speaker 1: of my best friends, and I have brought him here 102 00:08:43,800 --> 00:08:46,760 Speaker 1: with me to ask you not to let the sun 103 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:54,480 Speaker 1: shine tomorrow. I don't want to melt yet, ah, said 104 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:59,720 Speaker 1: the king. I don't know about that. You will have 105 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:04,119 Speaker 1: to else sometime, won't you. It happens to all snowmen, 106 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:10,720 Speaker 1: of course, said the snowman. But I'd like to last 107 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:15,200 Speaker 1: as long as I can. It made the little boy 108 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 1: very sad to hear the snowman talk this way. He 109 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 1: thought then that he would rather not go to his 110 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:26,079 Speaker 1: grandmother's the next day, but stay and see the snowman. 111 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:31,840 Speaker 1: We are very fond of him, he said to the 112 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:36,959 Speaker 1: Winter King. He is the finest snowman we have ever seen, 113 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 1: and he looks just as if he were smiling. So 114 00:09:43,240 --> 00:09:47,080 Speaker 1: he does, said the Winter King, looking at the snowman again. 115 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:51,520 Speaker 1: And since you ask it, I'll tell you what I 116 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:56,400 Speaker 1: will do. I cannot keep the sun from shining, but 117 00:09:56,520 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 1: I will ask the north wind to freeze the snow, 118 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:09,680 Speaker 1: and perhaps he will last longer. When the snowman heard this, 119 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:14,360 Speaker 1: he began to dance, and as the little boy had 120 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 1: hold of one of his stick arms, he had to 121 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:24,840 Speaker 1: dance too. Together they danced out of the winter King's palace, 122 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:30,680 Speaker 1: down the streets into the field, where they found the 123 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:37,959 Speaker 1: north wind waiting for them. The first thing he did 124 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:42,000 Speaker 1: was to blow the hat from the snowman's head. At you, 125 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 1: at you, sneezed the snowman. I know I shall catch 126 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:53,120 Speaker 1: a cold. And at you sneezed the little boy, and 127 00:10:53,160 --> 00:11:00,120 Speaker 1: he sneezed so loud that he woke himself up. Do 128 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:05,720 Speaker 1: you believe it? He had been asleep and dreaming all 129 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:13,720 Speaker 1: this time. One part of his dream did come true, though, 130 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 1: or when he looked out of the window the next morning, 131 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:28,400 Speaker 1: there stood the snowman in the field, frozen hard. And 132 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 1: that's the end of our story. Good Night, sleep tight.