1 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. Hi friends, 2 00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 1: we've released a whole new selection of merch just in 3 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:23,759 Speaker 1: time for the new school year. Go to sleep tightstories 4 00:00:23,840 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: dot org and click merch to see our new collection. 5 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:37,120 Speaker 1: I'd like to say hello to some friends. Hello to Felix, Sage, Arthur, 6 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:45,159 Speaker 1: Kit and Eddie who are in Australia. I'd also like 7 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:49,640 Speaker 1: to say a great, big happy birthday wish to Owen 8 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 1: who is turning seven years old. Happy birthday to you. 9 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 1: I hope you have a very special day. Today's story 10 00:01:18,520 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: is about going to school. Peter Rabbit and his cousin 11 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:27,959 Speaker 1: Jumper are going to school with Old Mother Nature in 12 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:33,040 Speaker 1: the green forest. Mother Nature is happy to see them 13 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:38,800 Speaker 1: arrive on time and asks some questions before school begins 14 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:43,920 Speaker 1: about how Peter and Jumper are the same and different. 15 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 2: Peter and Jumper go to. 16 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: School hardly had jolly round Red mister Son thrown off 17 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:03,480 Speaker 1: his rosy blanks and begun his daily climb up in the. 18 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 2: Blue blue sky. 19 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:10,680 Speaker 1: When Peter Rabbit and his cousin Jumper the hare arrived 20 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:14,160 Speaker 1: at the place in the green forest where Peter had 21 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 1: found Old Mother Nature the day before. 22 00:02:20,560 --> 00:02:24,000 Speaker 2: She was waiting for them ready to begin. 23 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 1: The first lesson. I'm glad you are so prompt, she said. 24 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 1: Promptness is one of the most important things in life. 25 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:36,840 Speaker 2: Now. 26 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:40,120 Speaker 1: I am very very busy these days, as you know, 27 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:46,440 Speaker 1: so we will begin school at once. Before either of 28 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 1: you ask any questions, I am going to ask some myself, Peter, 29 00:02:55,520 --> 00:03:00,440 Speaker 1: what do you look like, where do you live, what 30 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:05,359 Speaker 1: do you eat? I want to find out just how 31 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:15,799 Speaker 1: much you really know about yourself. Peter scratched one ear 32 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: with a long hind foot and hesitated, as if he 33 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 1: didn't know just how to begin. Old Mother Nature waited patiently. Finally, 34 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:34,240 Speaker 1: Peter began, rather timidly. 35 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:36,760 Speaker 2: Of course, he said. 36 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: The only way I know how I look is by 37 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 1: the way the other members of my family look. For 38 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 1: I've never seen myself. I suppose in a way, I 39 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 1: look like all the rest of the rabbit family. I 40 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 1: have long hind legs and short front ones. I suppose 41 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:02,280 Speaker 1: this is so I can make long jumps when I 42 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 1: am in a hurry. Old Mother Nature nodded, and Peter, 43 00:04:08,800 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 1: taking courage, continued, My hind legs are plump and strong, 44 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:21,359 Speaker 1: but my front ones are rather weak. I guess this 45 00:04:21,520 --> 00:04:23,920 Speaker 1: is because I do not have a great deal of 46 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 1: use for them, except for running. My coat is a 47 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:33,839 Speaker 1: sort of mixture of brown and gray, more brown in 48 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 1: the summer and more gray in the winter. My ears 49 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:42,520 Speaker 1: are longer for my size than those of most animals, 50 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: but really not very long after all, not nearly as 51 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:50,960 Speaker 1: long for my size as my cousin jumpers are for 52 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:57,200 Speaker 1: his size. My tail doesn't amount too much because it 53 00:04:57,320 --> 00:05:01,320 Speaker 1: is so short that it is hardly worth calling it 54 00:05:01,360 --> 00:05:06,880 Speaker 1: a tail. It is so short I carry it straight up. 55 00:05:08,720 --> 00:05:12,480 Speaker 1: It is white, like a little bunch of cotton. And 56 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:16,839 Speaker 1: I suppose that that is why I am called a 57 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:22,719 Speaker 1: cottontail rabbit. Though I have heard that some folks call 58 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:30,160 Speaker 1: me a gray rabbit and others a bush rabbit. I 59 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:33,719 Speaker 1: guess I'm called bush rabbit because I like the bushy 60 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:39,839 Speaker 1: country in which to live. I live in the dear 61 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:45,279 Speaker 1: old briar patch and just love it. It is a 62 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 1: mass of bushes and bramble tangles, and it is the 63 00:05:50,320 --> 00:05:55,520 Speaker 1: safest place I know of. I have cut little paths 64 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:59,480 Speaker 1: all through it, just big enough for missus Peter and 65 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:04,480 Speaker 1: myself wealth None of our enemies can get at us there. 66 00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 1: Accepting shadow the weasel or billy mink. I have a 67 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,200 Speaker 1: sort of nest there where I spend my time when 68 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:17,240 Speaker 1: I am not running about. It is called a form, 69 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:24,040 Speaker 1: and I sit in it a great deal. In summer, 70 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 1: I eat clover, grass and other green things, and I 71 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 1: just love to get over into Farmer Brown's garden. In winter, 72 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 1: I have to take what I can get, and this 73 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:45,160 Speaker 1: is mostly bark from young trees, buds and tender twigs 74 00:06:45,160 --> 00:06:49,559 Speaker 1: of bushes, and any green plants I can find under 75 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:55,799 Speaker 1: the snow. I can run fast for a short distance, 76 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 1: but only for a short distance. That is why I 77 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:05,440 Speaker 1: like thick brush and bramble tangles. There I can dodge. 78 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 1: I don't know anyone who can beat me at dodging. 79 00:07:09,480 --> 00:07:12,680 Speaker 1: If Reddy Fox or bows or the hound surprises me 80 00:07:13,200 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 1: away from the dear old briar patch, I run for 81 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:24,680 Speaker 1: the nearest hollow log or hole in the ground. Sometimes 82 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 1: in summer I dig a hole for myself, but not often. 83 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:32,840 Speaker 1: It is much easier to use a hole someone else 84 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 1: has dug. When I want to signal my friends, I 85 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:41,720 Speaker 1: thump the ground with my hind feet. Jumper does the 86 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:48,000 Speaker 1: same thing. Oh, I forgot to say. I don't like water. 87 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:55,280 Speaker 1: Old Mother Nature smiled you are thinking of that cousin 88 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: of yours, the marsh rabbit, who lives way down in 89 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 1: the sunny south, she said. Peter looked a wee bit 90 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 1: silly and admitted that he was Jumper the Hair was 91 00:08:08,920 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: very interested at once. You see, he had never heard 92 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 1: of this cousin. That was a very good account of yourself, 93 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 1: Peter said, old Mother Nature. Now take a look at 94 00:08:23,880 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 1: your cousin, Jumper the Hair, and tell me how he 95 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:34,320 Speaker 1: differs from you. Peter took a long look at Jumper, 96 00:08:34,800 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 1: and then, as before, scratched one ear with a long 97 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:47,320 Speaker 1: hind foot. Hmm. In the first place, he said, Jumper 98 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:53,319 Speaker 1: is considerably bigger than I. He has very long hind legs, 99 00:08:53,640 --> 00:08:58,080 Speaker 1: and his ears are very long. In summer he wears 100 00:08:58,120 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 1: a brown coat, but in when he is all white. 101 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:06,840 Speaker 1: But the tips of those long ears and those are 102 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:12,000 Speaker 1: black because his coat change is so he is called 103 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:13,360 Speaker 1: the varying hair. 104 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 2: He likes the. 105 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:20,920 Speaker 1: Green forest where the trees grow close together, especially those 106 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:26,280 Speaker 1: places where there are a great many young trees. He's 107 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 1: the biggest member of our family. I guess that's all 108 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:34,680 Speaker 1: I know about cousin Jumper. That is very good, Peter, 109 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:38,680 Speaker 1: as far as it goes, said Old Mother Nature, you 110 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:41,000 Speaker 1: have made only one mistake. 111 00:09:41,640 --> 00:09:45,000 Speaker 2: Jumper is not the biggest of his family. 112 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 1: Both Peter and Jumper opened their eyes very wide with surprise. 113 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:57,760 Speaker 1: Also continued Old Mother Nature, you forgot to mention the 114 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 1: fact that Jumper never hides in hollow logs and holes 115 00:10:02,360 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 1: in the ground as you do. Why don't you, Jumper, 116 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:13,080 Speaker 1: I wouldn't feel safe there, replied Jumper rather timidly. I 117 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:16,360 Speaker 1: depend on my long legs for safety and the way 118 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:21,560 Speaker 1: I can dodge around trees and bushes. I suppose reddy 119 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 1: Fox may be fast enough to catch me in the open, 120 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 1: but he can't do it where I can dodge around 121 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:30,320 Speaker 1: trees and bushes. 122 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 2: That is why I stick. 123 00:10:33,760 --> 00:10:38,760 Speaker 1: To the green forest, if you please, Mother Nature. What 124 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:45,200 Speaker 1: is this about a cousin who likes to swim? Old 125 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:49,440 Speaker 1: Mother Nature's eyes twinkled. We'll get to that later on, 126 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:53,640 Speaker 1: she said. Now, each of you hold up a hind 127 00:10:53,720 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 1: foot and tell me what difference you see and Jumper 128 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 1: each held up a hind foot, and each looked first 129 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:08,559 Speaker 1: at his own and then at the others. They looked 130 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:12,040 Speaker 1: to me very much alike. Only Jumpers is a lot 131 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:17,199 Speaker 1: longer and bigger than mine, said Peter. Jumper nodded as 132 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:21,319 Speaker 1: if he agreed. What is the matter with your eyes, 133 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:26,640 Speaker 1: demanded Old Mother Nature. Don't you see that Jumper's foot 134 00:11:26,679 --> 00:11:30,720 Speaker 1: is a great deal broader than yours, Peter, and that 135 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:34,560 Speaker 1: his toes are spread apart while yours are close together. 136 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:38,319 Speaker 2: Peter and Jumper looked. 137 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:42,120 Speaker 1: Sheepish, for it was just as Old Mother Nature had said. 138 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:47,000 Speaker 1: Jumper's foot really was quite different from that of Peter. 139 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:55,840 Speaker 1: Peter's was narrow and slim. That is a very important difference, 140 00:11:55,920 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 1: declared Old Mother Nature. Can you guess why I gave 141 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:06,360 Speaker 1: gave you those big feet, jumper? Jumper slowly shook his head. 142 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 1: Not unless it was to make me different, he said. 143 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 1: I'm surprised, said Old Mother Nature. Yes, indeed, I am surprised. 144 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:21,680 Speaker 1: You ought to know by this time that I never 145 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:27,200 Speaker 1: give anybody anything without a purpose. What happens to those 146 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 1: big feet of yours in the winter, Jumper? Nothing that 147 00:12:33,640 --> 00:12:37,880 Speaker 1: I know of, except that the hair grows out long 148 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 1: between my toes, Jumper replied exactly, said Old Mother Nature. 149 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:48,600 Speaker 1: And when the hair does this, you can travel over 150 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 1: light snow without sinking in. It is just as if 151 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:58,600 Speaker 1: you had on snowshoes. That is why you are often 152 00:12:58,679 --> 00:13:03,560 Speaker 1: called a snowshoe rabbit. I gave you those big feet 153 00:13:03,880 --> 00:13:07,679 Speaker 1: and make the hair grow out every winter because I 154 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:11,400 Speaker 1: know that you depend on your legs to get away 155 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:15,920 Speaker 1: from your enemies. You can run over the deep snow 156 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:18,280 Speaker 1: where your enemies break through. 157 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:21,000 Speaker 2: Peter, though he is. 158 00:13:21,000 --> 00:13:25,360 Speaker 1: Small and lighter than you are, cannot go where you can. 159 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:30,000 Speaker 1: But Peter doesn't need to always depend on his legs 160 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:35,440 Speaker 1: to save his life. There is one thing more that 161 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:39,199 Speaker 1: I want you both to notice, and that is that 162 00:13:39,280 --> 00:13:42,640 Speaker 1: you both have quite a lot of short hairs on 163 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 1: the soles of your feet. 164 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:47,679 Speaker 2: That is where you differ. 165 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:50,439 Speaker 1: From that cousin of yours down in the sunny south. 166 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:54,840 Speaker 1: He has only a very few hairs on his feet. 167 00:13:55,880 --> 00:14:02,200 Speaker 1: That is so he can swim better, if you please, 168 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:05,520 Speaker 1: Mother Nature. Why is it that a cousin of ours 169 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:10,920 Speaker 1: is so fond of the water piped up Peter, Because, 170 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 1: replied old Mother Nature, he lives in marshy country, where 171 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 1: there is a great deal of water. He is very 172 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:25,480 Speaker 1: nearly the same size as you, Peter, and looks very 173 00:14:25,600 --> 00:14:29,920 Speaker 1: much like you, But his legs are not quite so long, 174 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: his ears are a little smaller, and his tail is 175 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 1: brownish instead of white. He is a poor runner, and 176 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:44,440 Speaker 1: so in times of danger he takes to the water. 177 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:51,760 Speaker 1: For that matter, he goes swimming for pleasure. The water 178 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:55,560 Speaker 1: is warm down there, and he dearly loves to paddle 179 00:14:55,600 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 1: about in it. If a fox chases him, he simply 180 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:04,680 Speaker 1: plunges into the water and hides among the water plants 181 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:08,800 Speaker 1: with only his eyes and his nose out of the water. 182 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 1: Does he make his home in the water like Jerry Muskrat, 183 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 1: asked Peter innocently. Mother Nature smiled and shook her head. 184 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 1: Certainly not, she replied. His home is on the ground. 185 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: His babies are born in a nest made just as 186 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:35,760 Speaker 1: missus Peter makes her nest for your babies, and missus 187 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:38,760 Speaker 1: Jumper makes a nest for jumpers babies. 188 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 2: It is made of grass and. 189 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 1: Lined with soft fur, which Missus Rabbit pulls from her 190 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 1: own chest, and. 191 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:52,680 Speaker 2: It is very carefully hidden by the way. 192 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:56,680 Speaker 1: Peter, how do your babies differ from the babies of 193 00:15:56,720 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 1: your cousin? 194 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:02,760 Speaker 2: Jumper shook his head. I don't know, he said. 195 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 1: My babies don't have their eyes open when they are born, 196 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:12,680 Speaker 1: and they don't have any hair. Jumper pricked up his 197 00:16:12,760 --> 00:16:17,480 Speaker 1: long ears. What's that, he said? Why my babies have 198 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:22,479 Speaker 1: their eyes open and have the dearest little fur coats. 199 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:27,760 Speaker 1: Old Mother Nature chuckled. That is the difference, she said. 200 00:16:28,440 --> 00:16:33,320 Speaker 1: I guess both of you have learned something you said 201 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:37,000 Speaker 1: a little while ago that Jumper isn't the biggest of 202 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:39,960 Speaker 1: our family, said Peter, if you. 203 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:41,320 Speaker 2: Please, who is. 204 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:47,000 Speaker 1: There are several bigger than Jumper, replied Old Mother Nature 205 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 1: and smiled as she saw the funny look of surprise 206 00:16:51,360 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: on the faces of Peter and Jumper. There is one 207 00:16:57,120 --> 00:17:00,240 Speaker 1: way up in the frozen North, and there there are 208 00:17:00,280 --> 00:17:04,080 Speaker 1: two cousins way out in the great West. They are 209 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 1: as much bigger than Jumper as Jumper is bigger than you, Peter. 210 00:17:09,359 --> 00:17:12,800 Speaker 1: But I haven't time to tell you about them now. 211 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:16,440 Speaker 1: If you really want to learn about them, be here 212 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:22,840 Speaker 1: promptly at sun up tomorrow morning. Hello, here comes reddy Fox, 213 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:26,560 Speaker 1: and he looks to me as if a good breakfast 214 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:30,359 Speaker 1: would not be refused. Let me see what you have 215 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:36,200 Speaker 1: learned about taking care of yourselves. Peter and Jumper gave 216 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:40,440 Speaker 1: one startled look in the direction Mother Nature was pointing. 217 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 1: Sure enough, there was reddy Fox not far away. Was 218 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:51,119 Speaker 1: a hollow log, and Peter wasted no time in getting 219 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 1: to it. In fact, he left in such a hurry 220 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:59,960 Speaker 1: that he forgot to say goodbye to old mother Nature. 221 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:05,400 Speaker 1: But she didn't mind, for she quite understood Peter's feelings, 222 00:18:05,920 --> 00:18:09,080 Speaker 1: and she laughed when she saw his funny little white 223 00:18:09,119 --> 00:18:16,480 Speaker 1: tail disappear inside the hollow log. As for Jumper, he 224 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:21,720 Speaker 1: promptly took to his long legs and disappeared with great bounds, 225 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:32,400 Speaker 1: Reddy Fox racing after him, and that is the end 226 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 1: of our story. Good Night, sleep tight.