Hi,
This is Stefania and we've got another audio story for you.
This one is for children and adults with a sense of fun.
This is the story of Buster Bumblebee.
This is part 2 of 11,
Season 1.
Just as a heads up,
Season 2 will start next year,
Which will be parts 12 to 23.
The Tale of Buster Bumblebee by Arthur Scott Bailey.
Read by Stefania Linton-Bahn.
This one's called Chirpy Cricket's Advice.
Chirpy Cricket's Advice.
If the summers in Pleasant Valley had been longer,
Perhaps the honeymakers in Buster Bumblebee's home would have taken a holiday now and then.
But they knew that every day that passed brought cold weather that much the nearer,
So they never once stopped working,
Except to sleep at night.
And like Farmer Green himself,
They felt that they must not waste any of the precious daylight by lying in bed late in the morning.
They wanted to be up and in the clover field as soon as it was light.
Now with Rusty Wren living right beneath his bedroom window to wake him up at dawn,
Farmer Green had no trouble in getting up in good season.
But the Bumblebee family were in no such luck.
Even if Rusty Wren had lived near them in the meadow,
They could scarcely have heard his dawn song because their home was beneath the surface of the ground in the old house that had once belonged to Mrs.
Fieldmouse.
If they could have found an alarm clock somewhere,
It would have been easy for them to rise as early in the morning as they wished.
But lacking a clock of that kind or any other,
They had to find a different way of waking themselves.
That was why the workers chose one of their number to be a trumpeter.
And it was her duty to get up bright and early at three or four o'clock and trumpet loudly to rouse all the other workers.
How the trumpeter herself managed to wake up is something that never bothered anyone else.
It was her business not to oversleep,
And she knew that it would be very unpleasant for her if she failed even once to do her duty.
Now it was all well enough for the workers to have the morning silence broken by the blare of trumpeting.
They were eager to get up and begin their day's work.
But Buster Bumblebee did not like that arrangement in the least.
He preferred a good long night's sleep,
And since he never did any work,
He thought it was a shame that he should be rudely awakened in such a fashion.
At home,
However,
He did not mention his grievance to anyone.
But he talked the matter over with a number of his friends outside the family,
And one and all agreed that something ought to be done to put a stop to the trumpeter's noise.
Why don't you have a pleasant talk with her?
Chirpy Cricket suggested.
Perhaps she'd be willing to trumpet a little more softly if she knew that she was disturbing you.
That plan did not quite suit Buster Bumblebee.
It would be hard to have a pleasant talk with the trumpeter,
He said.
She's quite likely to lose her temper,
And she might sting me if she became angry enough.
Then you must first put her in a good humor.
Chirpy Cricket told him cheerfully.
Begin by saying what a good trumpeter she is,
And tell her that her hat is very becoming.
Still,
Buster Bumblebee was a bit doubtful of the outcome of the scheme.
But at last he agreed to give it a trial,
Though I must say I feel quite nervous,
He added.
And all Chirpy Cricket's sprightly jokes failed to make Buster smile.
And that's it for this week's episode of Buster Bumblebee.
Until next time.
