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Short Stories for Kids: Bedtime ~ Car Time ~ Downtime

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Education For Kids, Stories For Kids, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 18 December 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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0:00.0	Hey everyone and welcome back to short stories for kids, the magical podcast of story adventures.
0:09.0	Gerald was a gnome. He lived at the larkin house on the lawn, where he sat on a plastic toad stall while dangling his fishing rod into the pond.
0:33.6	Gerald had done this all year, through sunshine and rain, hail and fog. He saw it as a very,
0:42.7	very important job, being a lawn gnome, and he did it well. He would ignore the birds that came
0:48.8	pecking around his toadstool, or that landed on his hat, and he'd take no notice at the prowling cats or occasional
0:56.2	raccoon that came to the pond to investigate the fish. Day and night he did what he was put there
1:03.5	for. He fished, in the pond, never catching anything. One night, for the first time, since Gerald had found himself beside the
1:13.6	pond, something strange happened. Tiny flecks of white began to tumble from the sky,
1:20.9	laying upon the ground like a blanket. The temperature had fallen too, and his little fishing
1:26.8	rod had become frozen in an icy covering across the top of the pond.
1:32.4	But despite all the shivering, Gerald didn't abandon his toadstool or his frozen fishing rod.
1:39.4	He carried on doing what he'd been put there for.
1:42.9	The following day, once the sun had risen, the winter
1:46.7	wonderland of white was revealed in all its glory. The rooftops, gardens, and cars of the neighborhood
1:54.3	all look so pretty, and Gerald thought that the street had never looked so good, even though
2:00.7	it was cold.
2:01.9	He was a very, very happy gnome.
2:05.8	Until the Larkin family woke up, Mr. Larkin came outside first, throwing open the garage door.
2:13.6	He pulled out box after box, removing long strings of something that he began to fix to
2:19.8	the side of the house using a ladder. Then Mrs. Larkin came out and retrieved another box
2:26.8	that she carried inside. She began to do something similar to the inside of the windows,
2:33.3	arranging similar strings and setting out
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