Bedtime Anytime Classic Stories for Children – Uncle Wiggily’s Travels – Pt 9

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, this is Stefania and welcome back to the classic
children's story podcast, Stories of Bedtime, Play Time, anytime to
keep your little ones entertained and happy. We've been an
internectional collection of stories, stories that each stories that entertain,
and more. We're moving along this time with Uncle Wiggily,

(00:29):
Uncle Wiggily and the Black Cricket. Let's begin long ago,
as I've heard tell, They're dwelt at the temple of

(00:50):
Mauringi in the province of Kotsukee, a holy priest. Now,
there were three things about this reverend man. First, he
was wrapped up in meditations and observances and deforms and doctrines.
He was a great one for the sacred sutras and

(01:12):
knew strange and mystical things. Then he had a fine, exquisite,
very special taste of his own, and nothing pleased him
so much as the ancient tea ceremony of the chah
no U that's the Japanese word for a special Japanese

(01:37):
tea ceremony. And for the third thing about him, he
knew both sides of a coppercorn well enough, and he
loved a bargain. None so pleased as he when he
happened upon an ancient tea kettle, lying rusty and dirty

(01:58):
and half forgotten, in the corner of a poor shop
in a back street of his town. An ugly bit
of old metal, says the holy Man to the shopkeeper.
But it would do well enough to boil my humble
drop of water over an evening. I'll give you three

(02:19):
wrinn old Japanese coins, three written for it. This he did,
and took the kettle home, rejoicing, for it was a bronze,
fine work, the very thing for the tea ceremony. A
novice cleaned and scoured the tea kettle, and he came

(02:41):
out as pretty as you please. The priest turned it
this way and that and upside down, and looked into it,
tapped it with his fingers, and he said, a bargain.
He cried, a bargain, and he rubbed his hands. He

(03:05):
set the kettle upon a box covered over with a
purple cloth, and looked at it so long that first
he was inclined to rub his eyes many times, then
to close them altogether, and his head dropped forward, and

(03:27):
he slept. And then, believe me, the wonderful thing happened.
The tea kettle moved, though no hand was near it.
A hairy head with two bright eyes looked out of
the spout. The lid jumped up and down. Four brown

(03:52):
and hairy paws appeared, and a fine wishy tail. In
a minute, the kettle was down from the box and
gone round and round looking at things. A very comfortable room,
to be sure, says the tea kettle, Please enough to
find itself so well launched in such a comfortable place

(04:14):
to stay. It soon began to dance, and to caper nimbly,
and to sing at the top of his voice. Three
or four novices were studying in the next room. The
old man is lovely, they said, only hawked to him.
What can he be at? And they laughed in their sleeves.

(04:36):
Heaven's mercy. The noise that the tea kettle made, bang bang,
thot the dot. The novices soon stopped laughing. One of
them slid aside that Kara Khami curtain and peep through
uh the devil and all's in it, he cried, here's

(04:58):
the master's old tea kettle turned into a sort of badger.
The God's protect us from witchcraft, or for certain we
shall be lost and I cleaned it not an hour, sense,
said another novice, and he fell to reciting the holy
Sutras prayers on his knees. A third laughed, I'm for

(05:21):
a nearer view of the hobgoblin, he said. So the
three of them left their books in a twinkling and
gave chase to the tea kettle to catch it. What
could they catch up with the tea kettle. Not a
bit of it. It danced, and it leapt, and it
flew up into the air. The novices rushed here and there,

(05:44):
slipping on the mats. They grew hot, they grew breathless.
Ha ha. Left the tea kettle and catch me if
you can, laughed the wonderful tea kettle. Presently the priest awoke,
all rose see the holy Man. And what's the meaning
of this racket, he says, disturbing me at my holy meditations,

(06:09):
and all Master Master cried the novices, panting and mopping
their brows. Your tea kettle is bey witched. It was
a badger, no less, and the dance it has been
giving us, you'd never believe. Stuff, stuff and nonsense, says

(06:31):
the priest. Be witched. Not a bit of it. There
it rests on his box, good quiet thing, just where
I put it. Sure enough it did, looking as hard
and cold and innocent as you please. There was not
a hair of a badger near it. It was the

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novices that looked foolish. A likely story, indeed, says the priest.
I have heard of the pestle that took wings to
itself and flew away, parting company with the mortar that
is easily to be understood by any man. But a
kettle that has turned into a badger. No, no to

(07:17):
your books, my sons, and prayed to be preserved from
the perils of illusion. That very night, the holy Man
filled the kettle with water from the spring and set
on the hibachi, the little sove, to boil for his
cup of tea. When the water began to boil, ah ah,

(07:42):
the kettle cried, ah ah. The heat, the heat, and
it lost no time at all, but hopped off the
fire as quick as you please. Sorcery, cried the beast,
black magic, mercy on me, help, help, help. He was

(08:02):
frightened out of his wits. The dear good Man. All
the novices came running to see what was the matter.
The tea kettle. The tea kettle is bewitched. He guessed
it was a badger. Assuredly it was a badger. It
both speaks and leaves about the room. Nay, master, said
a novice. See where it rests upon his box. Good

(08:26):
quiet thing, And sure enough so it did most reverence, sir,
said the novice. Let us all prey to be preserved
from the barrels of illusion. The priest then sold the
tea kettle to a tanker and got for it twenty

(08:48):
copper coins. Do you remember he paid three? So he
made a bit of money there. It's a fine bit
of bronze, says the priest. Mind, I'm giving it away
to you. I'm sure I cannot tell what for. Ah.
He was the one for bargains. The tinker was a

(09:10):
happy man and carried on the kettle. He turned it
this way and that and upside down, and looked into it.
A pretty piece, says the tinker, A very good bargain.
And when he went to bed that night, he put
the kettle by him to see it first thing in

(09:31):
the morning. He awoke at midnight and fell to looking
at the kettle by the bright light of the moon.
Presently it moved, though there was no hand near it. Strange,
said the tinker, But he was a man who took
things as they came. A hairy head with two bright

(09:55):
eyes looked out of the kettle's spout. Then the lid
jumped up and down. Four brown and hairy paul's appeared,
and a fine bushy tail. It came quite close to
the tinker and laid a paw upon him. Well, says
the tinker. I am not wicked, says the tea kettle. No,

(10:20):
says the tinker. But I like to be well treated.
I am a badger tea kettle, so it seems, says
the tinker. At the temple, they called me names and
beat me and set me on fire. I can't stand that,
you know. I like your spirit, says the tinker. I

(10:42):
think I shall settle down with you. Shall I keep
you in a lacquer box, says the tinker. Not a
bit of it. Keep me with you. Let us have
a talk now and again. I am very fond of
a pipe. I like rice to eat, and beans and
three things a couple of sky sometimes, says the tinker. Well,

(11:08):
now that you mention it, I'm willing, says the tinker.
Thank you kindly, says the tea kettle. And as the beginning,
would you object to my sharing your bed? The night
has turned a little chilly. Not the least in the world,
says the tinker. The tinker and the tea kettle became

(11:32):
the best of friends. The aid and talk together. The
cattle knew a thing or two and was very good
company one day. Are you poor, says the kettle, Yes,
says the tinker, middling poor, while I have a happy
thought for a teakettle. I am out of the way,

(11:56):
really well, very accomplished, I believe you, says the tinker.
My name is Boom boo coo chagab ma. I am
the very prince of Badger tea kettles. Your servant, my lord,

(12:19):
says the tinker. If you'll take my advice, says the
tea kettle, you'll carry me round as a show. I
really am out of the way unique and it's my
opinion you make a meant of money. That would be
hard work for you, my dear bumboko, says the tinker.

(12:42):
Not at all. Let us start forthwith right away, says
the tea kettle. So they did. The tinker bought hangings
for a theater curtain an it call the show Boom
Bookoo Chahgama. How the people flocked to see the fun

(13:10):
for the wonderful and most accomplished tea kettle danced and
sang and walked the tight rope as to the manner born.
It played such tricks and had such drollways that the
people loved till their sides ached. It was a trick
to see the tea kettle bow as gracefully as a lord,

(13:33):
and thanked the people for their patience. The boom Buku
chah Gama was the talk of the countryside, and all
the gentry fancy people came to see it, as well
as the common nullity not so fancy people. As for

(13:54):
the tinker, he waved a fan and took the money.
You may believe that he grew fat and rich. He
even went to court, where the great ladies and the
royal princesses made much of the wonderful tea kettle. At last,

(14:14):
the tinker retired from business, and to him the kettle
came with tears in his bright eyes. I'm much afraid
it's time to leave you. It says, no, don't say that,

(14:34):
bum boo cooop, dear, says the tinker. We'll be so
happy together now we are rich. I've come to the
end of my time, says the tea kettle. You'll not
see oh bum booko anymore. Henceforth I shall be an
ordinary kettle, nothing more or less. Oh my dear bum

(14:57):
boo hoo. What shall I do? Cry the poor tinker
in tears. I think I should like to be given
to the Temple of Moringji as a very sacred treasure,
says the tea kettle. It never spoke or moved again,
so the tinker presented it as a very sacred treasure

(15:21):
to the temple, and half of his wealth with it
and the tea kettle. The tea kettle was held in
wondrous fame for many a year. Some persons even worshiped
it and the tea kettle. I believe he was happy,

(15:45):
and the tinker as well, because he could go to
the temple whenever he wanted to and look at the
tea kettle and think of their happy times together. And
that must have made him a lot better. And that's

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