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Welcome to Send Me To Sleep, the world's sleepiest podcast.

I'm your host, Andrew. I'm here to help calm your mind and send you into a peaceful night's sleep.

Tonight, I'll be reading chapter three on the pasture and chapter four in the grandmother's hut from Heidi by Joanna Speary.

So let your eyes fall heavy and your breath soften.

As we settle in for a peaceful night's sleep.

Chapter three on the pasture.

Heidi was awakened early next morning by a loud whistle.

Opening her eyes, she saw her little bed and the hay beside her bathed in golden light.

For a short while, she did not know where she was, but when she heard her grandfather's deep voice outside, she recollected everything.

She remembered how she had come up the mountain the day before and left old Ursula, who was always shivering with cold and sat near the stove all day.

While Heidi lived with Ursula, she had always been obliged to keep in the house where the old woman could see her.

Being deaf, Ursula was afraid to let Heidi go outdoors and the child had often fretted in the narrow room and had longed to run outside.

She was there for delighted to find herself in her new home and hardly could wait to see the goats again.

Jumping out of bed, she put on her few things and in a short time went down the ladder and ran outside.

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