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In this episode, I'll be reading five more bedtime stories from The Sandman's Hour by Abby Phillips-Walker.

So let your eyes fall heavy and your breath soften as we settle in for a peaceful night's sleep.

Story one, The Pink and Blue Eggs.

I tell you I saw them with my own eyes, said old white hen, standing on one foot with her neck outstretched and her bill wide open.

One pink and the other blue. They were just like any other egg as far as size, but colour, think of it, pink and blue eggs.

Whoever could have laid them, old white hen looked from one to the other of the group of hens and chickens as they stood around her.

Well, I know that I didn't, said speckled hen.

You needn't look at me, said brown hen. I lay large white eggs, and you know it.

Every one of you, they are the best eggs in the yard if I do say it.

Oh, I would not say that, said white hen. You seem to forget that the largest egg ever seen in this yard was laid by me, and it was a little on the brown colour.

White eggs are all well enough, but give me a brown tone for quality.

You never laid such a large egg as that, but once replied brown hen.

And everybody thought it was a freak egg, so the least said about it the better it seems to me.

It is plain to understand how you feel about that egg, said white hen, but it does not help us to find out to lay the blue and pink eggs.

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