1 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 1: Hello, friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. I'd like 2 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 1: to say a happy belated birthday to Tessa from Beaverton, Oregon, 3 00:00:20,440 --> 00:00:25,560 Speaker 1: who turned four on August sixteenth. I'd like to say 4 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 1: a happy belated birthday to Xander from Portland, Oregon, who 5 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:34,560 Speaker 1: turned seven on August fifteenth. And I'd like to say 6 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 1: happy birthday to Lavinia, who listens to the podcast all 7 00:00:39,080 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: the time and is turning seven on August eighteenth. Happy 8 00:00:44,120 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 1: birthday to you all. I hope you have a wonderful day. 9 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:08,000 Speaker 1: This is the second part of our story The Kite 10 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:12,400 Speaker 1: that Went to the Moon. In the first part, Jerry 11 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:16,040 Speaker 1: was very disappointed when the kite that he made didn't 12 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 1: fly up to the moon. He went to tell Chloe 13 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:23,319 Speaker 1: about it, and they decided to go and find someone 14 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:28,400 Speaker 1: who could help them figure out why. When they stop 15 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:32,360 Speaker 1: for a bite to eat, the kite disappears, will they 16 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:40,240 Speaker 1: be able to find it? The Kite that Went to 17 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 1: the Moon Part two. Of course, no one but an 18 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 1: elf would have appeared like that just in time to 19 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:55,080 Speaker 1: say the right thing, So the children were not at 20 00:01:55,120 --> 00:02:00,640 Speaker 1: all surprised when a particularly elfish elf came tumbling out 21 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:04,480 Speaker 1: of the hedge and perched himself on a thistle and 22 00:02:04,600 --> 00:02:09,799 Speaker 1: winked at them. Do you mean to say you know 23 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 1: where the kite has gone? Asked both the children breathlessly. 24 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:19,160 Speaker 1: Look up there and see, answered the elf, pointing to 25 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:26,800 Speaker 1: the sky. The sky was covered with stars, hundreds and 26 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:32,200 Speaker 1: thousands of them, all twinkling round the moon, just as 27 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 1: Chloe had painted on the kite. Only she could not 28 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:41,519 Speaker 1: help thinking that her stars had more shape and were 29 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 1: decidedly more like stars than the real stars were. But this, 30 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 1: she supposed, might be because the real stars were such 31 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:56,760 Speaker 1: a long way away. One of them was different from 32 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:01,320 Speaker 1: all the others. It had a long bright that glittered 33 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 1: like a cracker at Christmas time, and it was scurrying 34 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 1: across the sky at such a pace that the rest 35 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 1: of the stars had to get out of its way 36 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 1: as best they could. Most of the people who looked 37 00:03:17,720 --> 00:03:20,520 Speaker 1: out their windows that night thought they saw a comet, 38 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:27,399 Speaker 1: But Jerry and Chloe knew better. Oh, they cried, clapping 39 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:31,519 Speaker 1: their hands with excitement. There is our kite, and it 40 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 1: is flying to the moon. After all, There's no doubt 41 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 1: about that, said the elf, who was still winking at 42 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:44,680 Speaker 1: them from the top of the thistle. But Why did 43 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: it not fly to the moon this afternoon when all 44 00:03:47,760 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 1: the other boys were looking, asked Jerry regretfully, because there 45 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 1: wasn't a moon to fly to. Of course, answered the elf. 46 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 1: You shouldn't expect too much, even from the biggest kite 47 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 1: in the village. As soon as there was a moon, 48 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:13,040 Speaker 1: you see, away it flew. Then if I had painted 49 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:16,120 Speaker 1: the sun on it instead of the moon, it would 50 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:21,720 Speaker 1: have flown away this afternoon, exclaimed Chloe. Exactly so, said 51 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 1: the elf. Now whatever made you paint a thing like 52 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:31,440 Speaker 1: the moon on anybody's kite? Huh? Well, you see, the 53 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: moon is so nice and easy, explained Chloe. All you 54 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:39,040 Speaker 1: have to do is dry circle round the biggest plate 55 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:42,279 Speaker 1: you can find, and then you take away the plate 56 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:45,040 Speaker 1: and you paint in the eyes and the nose and 57 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:50,919 Speaker 1: the mouth, and there you are. You can't do much 58 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 1: more than that with three paints and a brush that's 59 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 1: got hardly any hairs, can you? Yes, you can, said 60 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 1: the elf, paint the sun, and that's ever so much 61 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:07,719 Speaker 1: better than painting the moon. Oh but you can't paint 62 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:11,400 Speaker 1: the sun when you've only got three paints, objected Chloe. 63 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:14,560 Speaker 1: It takes ever so many more paints than that to 64 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: make it shine properly. And even then it doesn't always shine, 65 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:27,359 Speaker 1: repeated the elf, who said anything about shining. When I 66 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:30,279 Speaker 1: say the sun, I mean the other side of the sun. 67 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:37,040 Speaker 1: Of course that doesn't shine. He seemed so hurt about 68 00:05:37,040 --> 00:05:40,839 Speaker 1: it that Chloe quickly said, oh, I'm very sorry. Of 69 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 1: course I would like to paint your side of the 70 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:47,360 Speaker 1: sun very much, but it is a little difficult when 71 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:52,000 Speaker 1: I have never been there, isn't it, perhaps it is, 72 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:55,040 Speaker 1: admitted the elf. But if that is all, I will 73 00:05:55,040 --> 00:06:00,720 Speaker 1: take you there this very minute, will you come. Chloe 74 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 1: looked around and there was Jerry still gazing up at 75 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 1: the star with the long tail that was causing so 76 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:14,280 Speaker 1: much commotion in the sky. Just then it reached the 77 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 1: moon and went straight into it with a big splash, 78 00:06:18,680 --> 00:06:26,279 Speaker 1: and Jerry heaved a deep sigh That decided things for Chloe. 79 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:29,800 Speaker 1: If you could, she said, turning to the elf in 80 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:32,680 Speaker 1: a great hurry, I think we would rather go to 81 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: the moon. The elf instantly got upset what he exclaimed, 82 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:42,880 Speaker 1: shaking all over. You would sooner go to the moon 83 00:06:43,240 --> 00:06:46,880 Speaker 1: than the back of the sun. Well, I am sorry 84 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 1: for you, LOOE was just going to say something else 85 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:56,200 Speaker 1: when Jerry came. You see, he explained to the elf, 86 00:06:56,839 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 1: it's not the moon we want, it's the kite, and 87 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 1: the kite has gone to the moon, unfortunately, I suppose. 88 00:07:05,000 --> 00:07:08,599 Speaker 1: I am glad it has gone there, he added, rather doubtfully, 89 00:07:08,640 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 1: but I do wish it had waited to take me 90 00:07:11,640 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 1: with it. Oh, well, said the elf, calming down a little. 91 00:07:17,080 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 1: If you are quite sure you don't want to go 92 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:22,120 Speaker 1: to the moon, I shall have the greatest pleasure in 93 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:26,600 Speaker 1: taking you there. I'll call a comet. At once. He 94 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:29,320 Speaker 1: put his fingers to his mouth and blew a whistle 95 00:07:29,360 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 1: that was long enough to reach the sky. Now that 96 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 1: I come to think of it, he continued thoughtfully, it 97 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 1: is a very good thing you do not want to 98 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 1: go to Elfland, because we would have to wait until morning. 99 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:49,280 Speaker 1: Why couldn't we go to night, asked Jerry, Because there 100 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:52,760 Speaker 1: is no elf Land to go to, answered the elf promptly. 101 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 1: When the sun goes down, it takes the back of 102 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:59,600 Speaker 1: itself with itself, and there isn't an elf Land again 103 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:03,960 Speaker 1: till the next morning. I wouldn't be here now if 104 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:07,600 Speaker 1: I hadn't missed the last sunbeam this evening. That is 105 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 1: the worst part of living in a place that disappears 106 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 1: every night. Oh but it doesn't disappear, really, said Chloe, 107 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 1: who wanted to show that she knew a little geography. 108 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:23,320 Speaker 1: The sun is shining somewhere else at this very moment, 109 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 1: only we can't see it. Rubbish, said the elf. Don't 110 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:32,720 Speaker 1: you believe everything you're told about the sun? Who said 111 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 1: it didn't disappear? Huh? Has anyone ever gone after it 112 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 1: to see No, said Chloe doubtfully. But that proves it 113 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 1: doesn't go on shining, Then said the elf triumphantly. Here 114 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 1: is our comet. Jump in, or else we shall be late. 115 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 1: Down swooped the great shining comet, and there it lay 116 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:03,320 Speaker 1: across the road wait for them to get on. The 117 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 1: children climbed onto its broad, glittering tail and held tightly 118 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:10,840 Speaker 1: to each other, while the elf got in front of 119 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 1: them and stood like a man at the wheel, with 120 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 1: his hand on the comet's head. Then up they flew 121 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:22,479 Speaker 1: at a terrific pace, right through the wonderful blue darkness 122 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:28,840 Speaker 1: that stretched all around them. Far above was the great 123 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:32,640 Speaker 1: land of light that lay round the moon. But the 124 00:09:32,640 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 1: country of the stars came in between, and the stars 125 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:39,760 Speaker 1: were still so far off that they had not even 126 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:45,200 Speaker 1: begun to look like real stars. Afraid of the dark, 127 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:50,360 Speaker 1: asked the elf over his shoulder. Oh no, said Chloe. 128 00:09:50,679 --> 00:09:56,240 Speaker 1: This is a nice, friendly kind of darkness. They are 129 00:09:56,559 --> 00:10:01,080 Speaker 1: like real stars, murmured Chloe. She had begun to have 130 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:04,240 Speaker 1: serious doubts whether the stars she had painted on the 131 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 1: kite were not wrong. After all, it was very comforting 132 00:10:09,679 --> 00:10:12,440 Speaker 1: to find that the stars that were whizzing past them 133 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 1: in hundreds and thousands looked just like the stars she 134 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: had been used to seeing on Christmas trees. It grew 135 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:26,719 Speaker 1: lighter and lighter as they came nearer the moon, and 136 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 1: even the stars began to look pale in the white 137 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 1: light that was shining so close to the edge of 138 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 1: their country. The stars were growing fewer, too, for stars 139 00:10:39,160 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 1: naturally prefer to shine in a place where they can 140 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:46,680 Speaker 1: be seen. Then the elf gave another turn to the 141 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:50,000 Speaker 1: points of the comet, and it glided gently from the 142 00:10:50,040 --> 00:10:53,559 Speaker 1: country of the stars into the pale white of the moon. 143 00:10:55,840 --> 00:10:58,839 Speaker 1: It's like being inside a great flame that isn't hot, 144 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:04,080 Speaker 1: whispered Chloe. Even the elf had to admit that the 145 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 1: country of the moon had something in its favor for 146 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:12,240 Speaker 1: those who like light. He allowed, The moon is very nice. 147 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 1: For my part, I prefer elfland where there isn't any 148 00:11:16,160 --> 00:11:23,040 Speaker 1: light at all, if you please, Chloe said politely, can 149 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:26,439 Speaker 1: you tell me when we shall get to the moon? Why, 150 00:11:26,720 --> 00:11:31,960 Speaker 1: laughed the elf, We are at the moon now. Chloe 151 00:11:32,000 --> 00:11:35,800 Speaker 1: looked around her in bewilderment. But where are the eyes 152 00:11:35,880 --> 00:11:39,680 Speaker 1: and the nose in the mouth, she asked. The elf 153 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:43,840 Speaker 1: shook his head. I am afraid, he said, seriously, that 154 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:47,760 Speaker 1: you must have found them in the plate. Perhaps Jerry 155 00:11:47,800 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 1: knows where they are. But Jerry was looking everywhere for 156 00:11:52,440 --> 00:11:57,720 Speaker 1: something that was far more important. Some people might want 157 00:11:57,760 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 1: to come all this way to look for the man 158 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:03,680 Speaker 1: in the moon, but for his part, he intended to 159 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:07,520 Speaker 1: find the biggest kite in the village, the kite that 160 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 1: had taken him so long to make. Do you think 161 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 1: we will find it soon? He asked, impatiently. Nobody answered him, 162 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:22,360 Speaker 1: or just then the comet came to such a sudden 163 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 1: standstill that all three of them were nearly flung off 164 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 1: into the air. It was not the comet's fault, however, 165 00:12:31,160 --> 00:12:36,080 Speaker 1: or right in its way was Jerry's kite. Why don't 166 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 1: you look where you are going, asked the kite rudely. 167 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:44,000 Speaker 1: Jerry was so surprised at being addressed in this manner 168 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 1: by the thing he had made with his own hands, 169 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 1: that he did not know what to say. Just then, 170 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 1: a strange, clear voice from beyond spoke, who is daring 171 00:12:56,200 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 1: to make all this commotion in my country? Said the voice? Hello, 172 00:13:02,280 --> 00:13:05,840 Speaker 1: muttered the elf. Suddenly I was expecting that, good bye, children, 173 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:10,360 Speaker 1: I'm off, And pointing his hands downward, he took a 174 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 1: dive from the head of the comet and disappeared in 175 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:20,960 Speaker 1: the direction of the stars. At the same instant, out 176 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:23,640 Speaker 1: from the pale white distance of the country of the 177 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:28,680 Speaker 1: Moon glided a tall figure, as white and delicate and 178 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 1: shimmering as the light that surrounded it. Is it? Can 179 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:37,080 Speaker 1: it be the man in the moon? Whispered Chloe to 180 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:41,960 Speaker 1: the boy beside her. Then the figure came closer, and 181 00:13:42,040 --> 00:13:46,320 Speaker 1: they saw that it was a wonderful, mysterious looking woman. 182 00:13:48,120 --> 00:13:51,560 Speaker 1: I am the lady of the moon, she said in 183 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:57,559 Speaker 1: the same clear, cold voice. Snow and stillness and space 184 00:13:57,679 --> 00:14:02,280 Speaker 1: are wherever I go. When I smile, I make the 185 00:14:02,320 --> 00:14:07,400 Speaker 1: whole world beautiful. But my smile takes the color away 186 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:10,880 Speaker 1: from the flowers, and the ripple away from the water 187 00:14:11,559 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 1: and the warmth away from the sunshine. She looked around, 188 00:14:17,440 --> 00:14:21,560 Speaker 1: and her eye landed on Jerry's kite. What is that 189 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:28,520 Speaker 1: creature doing in my country? She demanded. All the rudeness 190 00:14:28,560 --> 00:14:30,840 Speaker 1: seemed to have gone out of the biggest kite in 191 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 1: the village, for it lay there at the feet of 192 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:36,680 Speaker 1: the Lady of the Moon and had not so much 193 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 1: as a word to say for itself. Jerry, however, summoned 194 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,960 Speaker 1: up courage to answer for it. After all, it was 195 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:49,400 Speaker 1: through him that the kite was there, and he naturally 196 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:53,800 Speaker 1: felt bound to defend it. If you please, he said, 197 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:57,440 Speaker 1: it is my kite. I made it all by myself, 198 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:00,600 Speaker 1: and Chloe painted the moon and the star on it. 199 00:15:02,760 --> 00:15:06,000 Speaker 1: I'm afraid, said Chloe quickly, that the moon is not 200 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:09,160 Speaker 1: very much like the moon, but it was the best 201 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 1: I could do with three paints and a brush that 202 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:16,480 Speaker 1: doesn't have many hairs. The stars are right, she added anxiously. 203 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:23,200 Speaker 1: The Lady of the Moon smiled stars indeed, she observed, 204 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 1: what does it matter how the stars are painted? The 205 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 1: moon is far more important. And you have made a 206 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:35,440 Speaker 1: regular muddle of that. And who told you children that 207 00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:38,800 Speaker 1: you might come into my country? I would like to 208 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:44,200 Speaker 1: know the elf brought us, explained Jerry. He was here 209 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 1: a minute ago, but he has just left. No doubt 210 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:51,040 Speaker 1: he has, said the Lady of the Moon with a 211 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:54,960 Speaker 1: little laugh. Elves know better than to come my way. 212 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:58,760 Speaker 1: I can turn their laughter into frost, and they don't 213 00:15:58,920 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 1: like that. As for you, unless you want to be 214 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:05,280 Speaker 1: stuck in the middle of the moon for the rest 215 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:08,480 Speaker 1: of your lives, you had better quickly head home again. 216 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 1: Chloe was only too anxious to be off, for she 217 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:15,800 Speaker 1: had no wish to spend the rest of her life 218 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:20,320 Speaker 1: with some one like this. Jerry, however, did not mean 219 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:24,520 Speaker 1: to have his journey to the moon mean nothing. Please 220 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:28,520 Speaker 1: may I take my kite back with me, he asked boldly. 221 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:31,360 Speaker 1: I want to show the other boys and girls that 222 00:16:31,480 --> 00:16:36,040 Speaker 1: it did fly to the moon after all. That's all 223 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 1: very well, objected the kite. But I don't want to 224 00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:41,680 Speaker 1: go back among the boys and girls who do not 225 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:45,640 Speaker 1: know how to appreciate me. When a fellow has once 226 00:16:45,680 --> 00:16:48,640 Speaker 1: been a comet, you cannot expect him to end his 227 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:54,320 Speaker 1: days as an every day kite. Oh well, said the 228 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:57,880 Speaker 1: Lady of the Moon, gathering her cloak closely round her 229 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:04,480 Speaker 1: and stepping away from them settle that among yourselves. She 230 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:09,000 Speaker 1: had hardly finished speaking when a faint gleam of pink 231 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:12,280 Speaker 1: pierced the white light around her and touched the edge 232 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: of her cloak. She gave a cry and waved her 233 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:19,480 Speaker 1: arms about her in the greatest excitement. Go go, go, 234 00:17:20,320 --> 00:17:22,720 Speaker 1: Don is coming and you will be stuck on the moon. 235 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 1: She said to them, go go go. Chloe began to 236 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:34,720 Speaker 1: feel worried, but Jerry had a sudden inspiration. Jump Chloe, Jump, 237 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:38,479 Speaker 1: he shouted, seizing her by the arm and springing away 238 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:43,200 Speaker 1: from the comet. Now, said Jerry to his kite, You've 239 00:17:43,359 --> 00:17:46,320 Speaker 1: just got to take us home straight away without any 240 00:17:46,359 --> 00:17:49,880 Speaker 1: more fuss. If you want to stay, you can come 241 00:17:49,920 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 1: back again and be a comet for the rest of 242 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:56,479 Speaker 1: your days. But first you will show the village that 243 00:17:56,560 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 1: you know how to fly. Now down go. Evidently the 244 00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:05,880 Speaker 1: kite felt that there was some sense in Jerry's words, 245 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 1: for it made no further objections, but sailed quickly out 246 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:15,480 Speaker 1: of the country of the moon, just in time. The 247 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:18,480 Speaker 1: downward journey was much simpler than the one of the 248 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:22,440 Speaker 1: night before, for the sun was rising as fast as 249 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:26,640 Speaker 1: it could and the stars were disappearing, so quickly that 250 00:18:26,640 --> 00:18:28,960 Speaker 1: there were hardly any of them left to get in 251 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:33,440 Speaker 1: the way. This was a very good thing, for as 252 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:37,240 Speaker 1: I said before, Jerry's kite had not been trained to 253 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:40,040 Speaker 1: be a comet, and it takes a great deal of 254 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:43,400 Speaker 1: steering to get through the country of the stars without 255 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:49,880 Speaker 1: any problems. The sun was shining brightly, the birds were singing, 256 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 1: and the children were laughing on their way to school. 257 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:57,159 Speaker 1: When Jerry and Chloe at last reached home on the 258 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:02,320 Speaker 1: biggest kite in the village. Oh oh, cried all the 259 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 1: boys and girls, rushing up to them in great excitement. 260 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 1: Here's Jerry and Chloe. They have been sailing about on 261 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:14,000 Speaker 1: the biggest kite in the village. Where have you been, Jerry? 262 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:18,240 Speaker 1: Jerry smiled and waved at them with the back of 263 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:22,239 Speaker 1: his hand. Where do you think, he asked, didn't I 264 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:27,160 Speaker 1: tell you my kite was going to the moon? Then 265 00:19:27,400 --> 00:19:31,639 Speaker 1: Jerry went home for breakfast. But Jerry's kite sailed back 266 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:34,520 Speaker 1: to the countries of the sky, and it has been 267 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:43,880 Speaker 1: a comet ever since. And that's the end of our story. 268 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:48,119 Speaker 1: Good Night, sleep tight.