1 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:14,760 Speaker 1: Hello, friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. Every week 2 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:19,240 Speaker 1: we celebrate our supporters through shout outs and personal birthday messages. 3 00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:22,560 Speaker 1: We think this is also a fun way for us 4 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:26,439 Speaker 1: to hear about all the amazing places that you our 5 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 1: listeners come from. I'd like to say hello to Sloan. 6 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:37,840 Speaker 1: Congratulations on graduating kindergarten. Mommy and Daddy are so proud 7 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: of you. Happy belated birthday to Noah in Mill River, 8 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 1: Prince Edward Island from Mom, Dad and Luke. They love 9 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 1: you so much and are very proud of you. 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Solomon Owl has decided to take 46 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 1: Aunt Pollywoodchuck's advice and try to get a chick to eat. 47 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 1: But when he arrives at Farmer Green's henhouse, there is 48 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 1: a problem that he, Fatty Raccoon, and Tommy Fox cannot solve. 49 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:29,719 Speaker 1: All of them chat about the best way to get 50 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:33,159 Speaker 1: what they want and even ask Jimmy Rabbit for help. 51 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 1: The Tale of Solomon Owl, Part three, Solomon Owl and 52 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:50,679 Speaker 1: Fatty Raccoon couldn't help laughing at what Tommy Fox said 53 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:54,160 Speaker 1: to them as they sat in their tree near the farmhouse, 54 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: looking down at him in the moonlight. I'm here to 55 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:03,359 Speaker 1: watch Farmer Green's chickens for him, he said, to see 56 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 1: that no rat or anyone else runs away with a chick. 57 00:05:09,960 --> 00:05:13,320 Speaker 1: Farmer Green has someone else watching for him tonight, said 58 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 1: Solomon Owl, when he had stopped laughing. There's that strange man. 59 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:22,800 Speaker 1: You can see how he keeps his glaring eyes fixed 60 00:05:22,839 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 1: on the chicken house. And unless I'm mistaken, he's on 61 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 1: the lookout for you. No such thing, Tommy Fox snapped, 62 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: and he looked up at Solomon as if he wished 63 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:40,119 Speaker 1: that he could climb the tree. Here comes somebody else, 64 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:45,680 Speaker 1: Fatty Raccoon exclaimed. Suddenly, his keen eyes had caught sight 65 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 1: of Jimmy Rabbit hopping along on his way to the 66 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: vegetable garden to see if he couldn't find a stray 67 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:59,159 Speaker 1: cabbage or turn up. Solomon Owl called to him. Jimmy 68 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 1: Rabbit prompt he sat up and looked at the odd trio. 69 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 1: If it hadn't been for Tommy Fox, he would have 70 00:06:06,279 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 1: drawn nearer. Do you know that stranger, Solomon Owl asked him, 71 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 1: pointing out the horrible head to Jimmy. I haven't had 72 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 1: the pleasure, said Jimmy Rabbit, after he had taken a 73 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:25,320 Speaker 1: good look. Well, said Solomon. Won't you kindly speak to 74 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:30,680 Speaker 1: him and ask him to go away? Certainly, answered Jimmy Rabbit, 75 00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 1: who always tried to be helpful. I hope the stranger 76 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:39,159 Speaker 1: won't eat him, remarked Tommy Fox, because I hoped to 77 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:43,800 Speaker 1: do that some day myself. It was strange, but Jimmy 78 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 1: Rabbit was the only one of the four that wasn't 79 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 1: afraid of those glaring eyes. He hopped straight up to 80 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:54,840 Speaker 1: the big round head, which was just a bit higher 81 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:58,400 Speaker 1: than one of the fence posts against which the stranger 82 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:02,600 Speaker 1: seemed to be leaning, And after a moment or two, 83 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:06,120 Speaker 1: Jimmy Rabbit called to Solomon and Faddy and Tommy Fox. 84 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 1: He won't go away. He's going to stay right where 85 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 1: he is. Come here a minute, said Tommy. Jimmy Rabbit 86 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:22,000 Speaker 1: shook his head. You come over here, he answered, and 87 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 1: he did not stir from the side of the stranger. 88 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:28,960 Speaker 1: He knew very well that Tommy Fox was afraid of 89 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:33,200 Speaker 1: the man with the head with the glaring eyes. As 90 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 1: for Tommy Fox, he did not even reply, that is 91 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:41,239 Speaker 1: to Jimmy Rabbit, but he spoke his mind freely enough 92 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:45,520 Speaker 1: to his two friends in the tree. It seems to 93 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 1: me one of you ought to do something, he said. 94 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 1: We'll get no chicks tonight if we can't get rid 95 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 1: of this meddlesome stranger. Fatty Raccoon agreed with him. The 96 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 1: one who is here first is the one to act. 97 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 1: Fatty declared. That's you, he told Solomon Owl. So Solomon 98 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:11,400 Speaker 1: Owl felt most uncomfortable. I don't know what I can do, 99 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 1: he said. I spoke to the stranger, asked him who 100 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 1: he was, and he wouldn't answer me. Can't you frighten 101 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 1: him away? Tommy Fox inquired, wh right over his head 102 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:26,520 Speaker 1: and give him a tap with your wing as you pass. 103 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:31,720 Speaker 1: Solomon Owl coughed, he was embarrassed, to say the least, 104 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:37,719 Speaker 1: He's afraid. Fatty Raccoon cried. It was really more than 105 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 1: Solomon Owl could stand. I'm not, he replied, angrily. Watch 106 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 1: me and you'll see, And without another word, he darted 107 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 1: out of the tree and swooped down upon the stranger, 108 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:57,439 Speaker 1: just brushing the top of his head. Solomon Owl knew 109 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 1: at once that he had knocked something off the top 110 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:04,960 Speaker 1: of that dreadful head, something that fell to the ground 111 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:10,560 Speaker 1: and made Jimmy Rabbit jump nervously. Then Solomon returned to 112 00:09:10,640 --> 00:09:14,559 Speaker 1: his perch in the tree. He hasn't moved, he said, 113 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:18,560 Speaker 1: but I knocked off his hat. You took off the 114 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:23,079 Speaker 1: top of his head, cried Fatty Raccoon in great excitement. Look, 115 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:28,080 Speaker 1: the inside of his head is a fire. And peering 116 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 1: down from the tree top, Solomon Owl saw that Fatty 117 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:38,680 Speaker 1: Raccoon had told the truth. Solomon Owl was afraid of fire, 118 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:41,720 Speaker 1: and when he looked down from his perch in the 119 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 1: tree and saw through the hole in the stranger's crown 120 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 1: that all was a glow inside his big round head, 121 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:54,880 Speaker 1: Solomon couldn't help voicing his fear. He hoo hooed so 122 00:09:55,160 --> 00:09:58,320 Speaker 1: loudly that Tommy Fox, at the foot of the tree, 123 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:02,640 Speaker 1: asked him, what on on earth was the matter? His 124 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 1: head is on fire. Solomon Owl told him that's what 125 00:10:06,559 --> 00:10:09,959 Speaker 1: makes his eyes glare, and that's why the fire shines 126 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:13,560 Speaker 1: through his mouth and his nose too. It's no wonder 127 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:17,720 Speaker 1: he didn't answer my question. Then it ought to be 128 00:10:17,800 --> 00:10:22,120 Speaker 1: safe for anybody to enter the chicken house. Tommy Fox observed, 129 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:25,160 Speaker 1: what could the stranger do when he is in such 130 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:29,559 Speaker 1: a state he could set the chicken house afire if 131 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:34,520 Speaker 1: he followed you inside, replied Solomon Owl wisely. And I, 132 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:39,440 Speaker 1: for one, am not going near the chicks tonight, nor 133 00:10:39,559 --> 00:10:44,199 Speaker 1: I Fatty Raccoon echoed, I'm going straight to the cornfield. 134 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:47,680 Speaker 1: The corn is still standing there in shocks, and I 135 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:50,040 Speaker 1: ought to find enough ears to make a great meal. 136 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:55,960 Speaker 1: But Solomon Owl and Tommy Fox were not interested in corn. 137 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 1: They never ate it, and so it is not surprising 138 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:04,280 Speaker 1: that they should be greatly disappointed. After a person has 139 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 1: his mouth all made up for chicken, it is hard 140 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:10,839 Speaker 1: to think of anything that would taste even half as good. 141 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 1: It's strange he doesn't go and hold his head under 142 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:18,240 Speaker 1: the pump, said Solomon Owl. That's what I would do 143 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: if I were him. Jimmy Rabbit had better not go 144 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:26,679 Speaker 1: too near him, or he'll get singed, said Tommy Fox anxiously. 145 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 1: And I don't want anything to happen to him. Jimmy 146 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:35,040 Speaker 1: Rabbit is very careless, Solomon declared. I don't see what 147 00:11:35,200 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 1: he's thinking of going near a fire. It makes me 148 00:11:38,840 --> 00:11:42,439 Speaker 1: altogether too nervous to stay here. I'm going away at once. 149 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: Tommy Fox said that he felt the same way. And 150 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:51,360 Speaker 1: the moment Fatty Raccoon, with his sharp claws started to 151 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:54,079 Speaker 1: crawl down the tree on his way to the cornfield, 152 00:11:54,840 --> 00:11:59,800 Speaker 1: Tommy Fox hurried off without even stopping to say goodbye. 153 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:05,640 Speaker 1: Ha ha ha haho, laughed Solomon Owl. Tommy Fox is 154 00:12:05,720 --> 00:12:10,160 Speaker 1: afraid of you, he told Fatty Raccoon, but Fatty didn't 155 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:13,280 Speaker 1: seem to hear him. He was thinking only of the 156 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:17,600 Speaker 1: supper of corn that he was going to have. Better 157 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:21,480 Speaker 1: come away. Solomon Owl called to Jimmy Rabbit, turning his 158 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:24,960 Speaker 1: head toward the fence where Jimmy had been lingering near 159 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:29,959 Speaker 1: the hot headed stranger, but Jimmy Rabbit didn't answer him either. 160 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:34,840 Speaker 1: He was no longer there the moment he had seen 161 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:39,160 Speaker 1: Tommy Fox bounding off across the meadow. Jimmy had started 162 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 1: at once for Farmer Green's vegetable garden. So Solomon Owl 163 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:49,440 Speaker 1: was the last to leave, and they never realized it 164 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 1: was a jack o lantern that scared them away. There's 165 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:59,080 Speaker 1: really nothing else I can do, he remarked to himself. 166 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:03,199 Speaker 1: I don't know what Aunt Polly Woodchuck would say if 167 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:06,400 Speaker 1: she knew that I didn't follow her advice tonight and 168 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:10,160 Speaker 1: have a check for my supper. But I've tried my best, 169 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:15,840 Speaker 1: and that's all anybody can do. Solomon Owl was upset 170 00:13:15,880 --> 00:13:19,840 Speaker 1: all the rest of that night, and just before daybreak 171 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 1: he visited the farmyard again to see whether the strange 172 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 1: man with the flaring head still watched the chicken house, 173 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:33,320 Speaker 1: and Solomon found that he had vanished. So Solomon Owl 174 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:36,680 Speaker 1: landed on the fence. There was nothing there except a 175 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:40,120 Speaker 1: hollowed out pumpkin with a few holes cut in it, 176 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:45,080 Speaker 1: which someone had laughed on one of the fence posts. Good, 177 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:48,520 Speaker 1: he said, maybe I can get my chick after all. 178 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 1: He turned to fly to the chicken house, but just 179 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:58,320 Speaker 1: then the woodshed door opened again and Farmer Green stepped 180 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:02,079 Speaker 1: outside with a lantern in his hand. He was going 181 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:05,680 Speaker 1: to the barn to milk the cows, but Solomon Owl 182 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:10,120 Speaker 1: did not wait to learn anything more. He hurried away 183 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:14,439 Speaker 1: to his house among the hemlocks, and having quickly settled 184 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:18,880 Speaker 1: himself for a good nap, he was soon fast asleep. 185 00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 1: Solomon Owl had pains, sharp pains underneath his waistcoat, and 186 00:14:29,680 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 1: not knowing what else to do, he set off at 187 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 1: once for Aunt Polly Woodchuck's house under the hill in 188 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:42,440 Speaker 1: the pasture, which he had not visited since the previous fall. Luckily, 189 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:45,680 Speaker 1: he found the old lady at home, and quickly he 190 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:49,440 Speaker 1: told her of his trouble. What have you been eating, 191 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:53,920 Speaker 1: she asked, I've followed your advice. I've been eating chickens, 192 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 1: he said, very small chickens, because they were all I 193 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:03,440 Speaker 1: could get. Aunt Polly Woodchuck, who was an herb doctor 194 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 1: and a good one, regarded him through her glasses. I'm afraid, 195 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:13,600 Speaker 1: she said, you don't chew your food properly. Bolting one's 196 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:17,600 Speaker 1: food is very harmful. It's as bad as not eating 197 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:24,120 Speaker 1: anything at all. Almost Solomon Owl showed plainly that her 198 00:15:24,160 --> 00:15:30,080 Speaker 1: remark surprised him. Why, he exclaimed, I always swallow my 199 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:35,520 Speaker 1: food whole when it isn't too big. Gracious me, cried 200 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:39,320 Speaker 1: Aunt Polly, throwing up both her hands. It's no wonder 201 00:15:39,360 --> 00:15:43,520 Speaker 1: you're ill. It's no wonder you have pains. And now 202 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:47,000 Speaker 1: I know exactly what's the matter with you. You have 203 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:50,920 Speaker 1: a wishbone inside you. I can feel it, she told 204 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:55,120 Speaker 1: him as she prodded him in the waistcoat. I wish 205 00:15:55,160 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 1: you could get it out for me, said Solomon with 206 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:01,520 Speaker 1: a look of distress. All the wishing in the world 207 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 1: won't help you, she answered, unless we can find some 208 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:08,840 Speaker 1: way of removing the wishbone so you can wish on that, 209 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:13,960 Speaker 1: then I'm sure you would feel better at once. This 210 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:19,400 Speaker 1: is strange, Solomon mused. All my life, I've been swallowing 211 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:22,800 Speaker 1: my food without chewing it, and it has never given 212 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:28,560 Speaker 1: me any trouble before. What shall I do? Don't eat 213 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:32,640 Speaker 1: anything for a week, she directed, and fly against tree 214 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:35,960 Speaker 1: trunks as hard as you can, then come back here 215 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:42,960 Speaker 1: after seven days. Solomon Owl went off in a most 216 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:46,840 Speaker 1: unhappy frame of mind. It seemed to him that he 217 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:51,560 Speaker 1: had never seen so many mice and frog and chipmunks 218 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:55,680 Speaker 1: as he came across during the following week, but he 219 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:59,240 Speaker 1: didn't dare catch a single one on account of what 220 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:04,359 Speaker 1: Aunt Polly was Woodchuck had said. His pains, however, grew 221 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:07,520 Speaker 1: less from day to day, at least the pains that 222 00:17:07,560 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 1: had first troubled him. But he had others to take 223 00:17:11,280 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 1: their place. Hunger pangs these were, and they were almost 224 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 1: as bad as those that had sent him hurrying to 225 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:23,520 Speaker 1: see Aunt Polly Woodchuck. On the whole, Solomon passed a 226 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:28,280 Speaker 1: very unhappy week, lying head first into tree trunks as 227 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:31,840 Speaker 1: Aunt Polly had instructed him to do. Gave him many 228 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:35,680 Speaker 1: bumps and bruises, so he was glad when the time 229 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 1: came for him to return to her house in the pasture. 230 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 1: Solomon's neighbors had been so interested in watching him that 231 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:50,040 Speaker 1: they were all sorry when he stopped his strange actions. Indeed, 232 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:53,680 Speaker 1: there was a rumor that Solomon had become very angry 233 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:56,760 Speaker 1: with Farmer Green, and that he was trying to knock 234 00:17:56,840 --> 00:18:01,439 Speaker 1: down some of Farmer Green's trees. Before the end of 235 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:05,960 Speaker 1: that unpleasant week, Solomon had often noticed as many as 236 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:10,400 Speaker 1: twenty four of the forest folk following him around, hoping 237 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:16,560 Speaker 1: to see a tree fall, but they were all disappointed. However, 238 00:18:17,160 --> 00:18:21,600 Speaker 1: they enjoyed the sight of Solomon hurling himself against tree trunks, 239 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:30,959 Speaker 1: and the louder he groaned, the more people gathered around him. 240 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:36,560 Speaker 1: And that is the end of this part. Good Night, 241 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:55,240 Speaker 1: Sleep Tight.