In tonight's Premium Bedtime story for kids, it's leap year - leap day, in fact - which means something incredibly exciting for the Good Luck Gnomes. It's their day off! And they always spend it in Sleepy Forest, floating in the river and playing the silliest of games. Relax, get sleepy, and let’s begin!
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Speaker 1: the supercast link in the show notes. Anyway, here's a
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Speaker 1: preview of this very special episode. Some things happen every
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Speaker 1: single day. You probably wake up and yawn and stretch
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Speaker 1: and head downstairs for breakfast. Many of those days, you'll
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Speaker 1: go to school, not every day, but most days, And
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Speaker 1: then every few months you'll get to have a break
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Speaker 1: from school. That's when you can sleep in late, spending
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Speaker 1: extra time snuggled under the blacks, and you can go
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Speaker 1: to the park whenever you want and pass an entire
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Speaker 1: afternoon doing absolutely nothing at all. And once a year
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Speaker 1: it's your birthday, just one day every year. It can
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Speaker 1: sometimes feel like an awfully long time between birthdays, and
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Speaker 1: then suddenly there you are blowing out one more candle
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Speaker 1: on a cake and unwrapping presents and listening to people say, my,
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Speaker 1: haven't you grown? And then it goes right back to
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Speaker 1: how it always is. The very next day, So imagine
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Speaker 1: if you had to wait four years, four whole years
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Speaker 1: before anything different happened in your days. That is how
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Speaker 1: long the good luck gnomes who live in mister Featherman's
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Speaker 1: garden in village of Lower Starry Skies have to wait.
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Speaker 1: Come to that, That is how long all nomes everywhere
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Speaker 1: around the world have to wait too. Perhaps you've heard
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Speaker 1: of leap years, those strange times that only happen once
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Speaker 1: every four years, when suddenly an extra day magically appears
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Speaker 1: at the end of February. Scientists can tell you all
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Speaker 1: sorts of complicated reasons for this extra day, but the
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Speaker 1: gnomes will tell you a very different story. They created it,
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Speaker 1: you see, so they could have a special day off.
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Speaker 1: The good luck gnomes love their jobs. They love disappearing
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Speaker 1: into due soaked fields to hunt for four leaf clovers
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Speaker 1: and add a little dab of good luck. They love
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Speaker 1: finding horseshoes and putting them the right way up, pouring
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Speaker 1: a dose of good luck into the smooth curve. Good
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Speaker 1: Luck can be poured into anything, really, from poppies to
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Speaker 1: pennies to pajamas. As soon as the gnomes hear that
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Speaker 1: someone has been given a lucky pen to help them
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Speaker 1: with exams. They dash off in the middle of the
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Speaker 1: night to find the pen and make sure it really
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Speaker 1: does have a little dab of good luck added to it.
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Speaker 1: And sometimes people will find something like a particularly beautiful feather,
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Speaker 1: and they'll feel so lucky to have found it that
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Speaker 1: they decide it must be a good luck charm, which
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Speaker 1: keeps those gnomes on their toes as they need to
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Speaker 1: go and find that too. One of the gnomes favorite
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Speaker 1: pastimes is sharing the strangest things they've had to add
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Speaker 1: a dab of good luck too. A gnome who lives
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Speaker 1: beneath the oak tree in mister Featherman's garden once had
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Speaker 1: to add some good luck to a rabbit, who, upon
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Speaker 1: seeing the gnome coming towards him, took fright and shot
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Speaker 1: into the back of his hutch. So the gnome had
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Speaker 1: to spend half the night coaxing him out of the
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Speaker 1: corner with promises of carrots and cabbage before he could
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Speaker 1: lean over, and there pop some good luck onto the
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Speaker 1: rabbit's ears. But much as the good luck gnomes love
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Speaker 1: their jobs, they also love their day off every four years.
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Speaker 1: It's the only time they ever used some of their
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Speaker 1: magic on themselves. Although it may seem on February twenty ninth,
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Speaker 1: when you look into a garden that the gnomes are
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Speaker 1: all there in their rightful places, they're really quite far
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