# The Corner Kids Dig for Treasure 💰 Family Friendly Bedtime Story

An episode of [Snuggle: Kids bedtime stories](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1714672018), 17 Nov 2024, 38 min.

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The Corner Kids — Ben, Sofi, and Tala — work together to go digging for treasure one summer day and find something unexpected. Narrated by: Heather Foster Written by: Laila Weir Welcome to Snuggle! The best kid's story-telling podcast. Enter a cozy world of imagination perfect for bedtime, quiet time, or any time you want to embark on an enchanting adventure. Learn more at slumberstudios.com/snuggle To enjoy ad-free listening and exclusive bonus episodes, start your 7-day free trial of Snuggle Premium: https://snuggle.supercast.com/ November only: try Premium free for 90 days. Ad-free listening and more at slumber.supercast.com

## Transcript

[0:03] Speaker 1: Welcome to Snuggle, Cozy stories for kids. This episode is
[0:10] Speaker 1: called The Corner Kids Dig for Treasure. Snuggle is a
[0:15] Speaker 1: production of Slumber Studios. To listen ad free and support
[0:19] Speaker 1: the show, sign up for our premium feed. Hey friend,
[0:27] Speaker 1: my name's Tom. It's awesome to have your company here
[0:31] Speaker 1: on Snuggle as we prepare to enjoy the best part
[0:35] Speaker 1: of the day, story time. In just a moment, Heather
[0:41] Speaker 1: is going to tell you a special story about a
[0:44] Speaker 1: special day when three good friends make a wonderful discovery.
[0:50] Speaker 1: Who knows when and where you might come across your
[0:53] Speaker 1: own treasure. You never know what's around the corner, or perhaps,
[0:59] Speaker 1: in this case, what's just below your feet. We'll start
[1:05] Speaker 1: our story in just a moment, but first let's play
[1:10] Speaker 1: a little game of follow the Leader. To join in,
[1:16] Speaker 1: just listen to what I'm doing, and you do the same. Ready. First,
[1:24] Speaker 1: I'm closing my eyes. Now it's your turn to close
[1:28] Speaker 1: your eyes. See it's that easy. Next, I'm breathing in
[1:37] Speaker 1: a big breath and then blowing it out through my mouth.
[1:49] Speaker 1: Now I'm wiggling my fingers and my toes, and I'm stretching,
[1:58] Speaker 1: stretching as far as I can and now I'm relaxing
[2:06] Speaker 1: all my muscles, so I'm as cozy as can be.
[2:14] Speaker 1: And finally it's time to open our ears and listen up,
[2:20] Speaker 1: because I'm about to hand over to Heather for our
[2:25] Speaker 1: relaxing story.
[2:38] Speaker 2: This is a story about a time when the world
[2:43] Speaker 2: was warm and flowers were springing forth from the earth,
[2:51] Speaker 2: a time when butterflies frolicked and children's laughter drifted in
[2:58] Speaker 2: sun soaked air. In other words, it is a tale
[3:04] Speaker 2: of summertime. It is also a story about digging for
[3:11] Speaker 2: hidden treasure. But most of all, it is a story
[3:18] Speaker 2: of happiness, the kind of happiness that comes from inside you,
[3:26] Speaker 2: that you can hide away from all the world and
[3:30] Speaker 2: store up to use when you need it most. It was,
[3:37] Speaker 2: as I have mentioned, a day when the sun shone
[3:41] Speaker 2: brightly in the summertime sky. It was morning, but not
[3:49] Speaker 2: so early in the morning that the household was only
[3:53] Speaker 2: beginning to stir. No, it was the middle part of
[3:59] Speaker 2: the morning, sometime a while after breakfast, but not so
[4:05] Speaker 2: very close to lunchtime. It was the time when children
[4:12] Speaker 2: might just get to do what they wanted, And so
[4:18] Speaker 2: that was just what the corner kids were doing. Oh
[4:25] Speaker 2: their name wasn't corner. That wasn't why they called themselves
[4:30] Speaker 2: the corner kids. Their names were Ben and Sophie and Tala.
[4:40] Speaker 2: But you see, they lived on the corner of their street.
[4:46] Speaker 2: Ben and Sophie were brother and sister, and they lived
[4:51] Speaker 2: in the apartment upstairs. And Tala was an only child
[4:58] Speaker 2: and she lived in the apartment downstairs. And their building
[5:04] Speaker 2: was on the corner of Pine Street, so you can
[5:09] Speaker 2: understand why they thought of themselves as the corner kits. Now,
[5:18] Speaker 2: their building had a yard, a small triangle shaped yard
[5:25] Speaker 2: that sat right at the corner where Pine Street met
[5:30] Speaker 2: Oak Avenue. There was a wooden fence around the small
[5:37] Speaker 2: triangle shaped yard, and big bushes had grown up and
[5:45] Speaker 2: over the fence. The bushes dripped with flowers that smelt
[5:52] Speaker 2: sweetly when they were in bloom, and they were in
[5:58] Speaker 2: bloom today. For remember, this was that kind of day
[6:07] Speaker 2: when the flowers are in bloom and smell sweetly and
[6:12] Speaker 2: there are children around to notice. And because the wooden
[6:19] Speaker 2: fence closed in the yard, the children were allowed to
[6:25] Speaker 2: play there.
[6:28] Speaker 3: And so it was today.
[6:33] Speaker 2: First then and Sophie had gone into the yard wearing
[6:40] Speaker 2: shorts and t shirts and generally feeling good. About the
[6:46] Speaker 2: warmness and summerness of the summer day. Then Tala had
[6:55] Speaker 2: looked out the window and seen them there, and she
[7:00] Speaker 2: had asked her mother if she could go out to
[7:04] Speaker 2: play with them, and her mother had said yes, as
[7:11] Speaker 2: long as she didn't leave the yard, and as long
[7:16] Speaker 2: as she asked her mother if they wanted to do
[7:20] Speaker 2: anything she wasn't allowed to do. Of course, Tala had promised,
[7:29] Speaker 2: and she had hurried out to join her friends in
[7:34] Speaker 2: the summer warm yard that smelt sweetly of the flowers
[7:40] Speaker 2: blooming along the fence. That is how they all found
[7:47] Speaker 2: themselves there together some time, a while after breakfast, but
[7:55] Speaker 2: not so close to lunch time that summer day. More so, naturally,
[8:04] Speaker 2: they started the conversation of playmates everywhere about what exactly
[8:12] Speaker 2: they should do. Sophie wanted to gather the flowers and
[8:19] Speaker 2: make a bouquet to stick in a vase on the table,
[8:26] Speaker 2: but truth be told, they didn't actually have a vase.
[8:33] Speaker 2: Ben wanted to climb the fence and have a jumping
[8:37] Speaker 2: contest to see who could jump the farthest. But Ben
[8:45] Speaker 2: was the tallest among them, so it really wouldn't be fair.
[8:52] Speaker 2: It was Tella who had the idea. Then let's dig
[8:59] Speaker 2: for treasure, she suggested. Now, digging for treasure is the
[9:06] Speaker 2: sort of idea that has to come at just the
[9:11] Speaker 2: very right moment. It has to be a time and
[9:16] Speaker 2: a place where you're allowed to dig for starters, And
[9:24] Speaker 2: many yards there is grass or garden plants, and children
[9:30] Speaker 2: must not take them up. But this yard was just
[9:36] Speaker 2: hard baked dirt with some scattered grass and weeds that
[9:42] Speaker 2: poked out.
[9:43] Speaker 3: When it rained.
[9:46] Speaker 2: So the children were allowed to dig in it if
[9:50] Speaker 2: they liked, which usually they did not, since the dirt
[9:56] Speaker 2: was hard and it was difficult to dig in. But
[10:02] Speaker 2: as I have said, this was a special kind of morning.
[10:09] Speaker 2: Digging for treasure also has to be done where you
[10:14] Speaker 2: can dig. It isn't any good to go suggesting that activity.
[10:22] Speaker 2: If you're out at a playground with that springy black floor,
[10:29] Speaker 2: or at a school yard full of pavement, you can't
[10:33] Speaker 2: dig there. But most of all, the idea of digging
[10:40] Speaker 2: for treasure is only a good one if the time
[10:46] Speaker 2: is right. It has to be a special kind of
[10:51] Speaker 2: moment when the world is full of possibility and all
[10:58] Speaker 2: the children can feel it. It could be a warm
[11:05] Speaker 2: evening just before bedtime, when by some fortunate luck, grown
[11:12] Speaker 2: ups hadn't yet called the children to get ready for bed,
[11:18] Speaker 2: even though it must surely be time for now. It
[11:25] Speaker 2: could be a day when daycare or school has been
[11:29] Speaker 2: canceled and all the children find themselves with a wide
[11:36] Speaker 2: open day and a chance to do whatever they like.
[11:44] Speaker 2: Or it could be a summertime morning when all the
[11:49] Speaker 2: world feels right and ripe and ready for something wonderful
[11:56] Speaker 2: to happen, like the morning I've been telling you about.
[12:05] Speaker 2: And so, even though the dirt was hard and difficult
[12:10] Speaker 2: to dig, and even though the children didn't know of
[12:16] Speaker 2: any pirates or treasure seekers who had ever lived in
[12:21] Speaker 2: their building, when Talas suggested digging for treasure, both Ben
[12:29] Speaker 2: and Sophie smiled. Ben nodded as he considered that this
[12:37] Speaker 2: was it, really, maybe truly was a treasure seeking kind
[12:44] Speaker 2: of day, and Sophie's eyes grew wider as she thought
[12:51] Speaker 2: of treasure and saw that even Ben thought it was
[12:56] Speaker 2: a good idea. Besides, and Tala saw them both and
[13:03] Speaker 2: knew that her idea was the right one. So they
[13:10] Speaker 2: all agreed at once that digging for treasure was what
[13:16] Speaker 2: they would do, and they all smiled at each other,
[13:24] Speaker 2: their eyes bright with the knowledge of the fun they
[13:28] Speaker 2: were going to have just for them, the three of
[13:33] Speaker 2: them together. So Ben ran and got the shovels. And
[13:42] Speaker 2: that's when Tala had her second idea. Because the dirt
[13:49] Speaker 2: was hard and difficult to dig, maybe they should pour
[13:55] Speaker 2: water on it. She suggested, all mud was softer and
[14:03] Speaker 2: easier to push a shovel into. Without even speaking, Ben
[14:11] Speaker 2: and Sophie hurried off towards the garden hose, which was
[14:17] Speaker 2: hardly ever used, except maybe to spray the bushes.
[14:22] Speaker 3: Along the fence once in a while.
[14:27] Speaker 2: Ben turned the facet, which was a little bit hard
[14:32] Speaker 2: to turn, and Sophie carried the hose over.
[14:36] Speaker 3: To the middle of the yard.
[14:40] Speaker 2: Water gurgled, then spurred it from the hose in a
[14:45] Speaker 2: little burst of spray. Then it started to flow in
[14:50] Speaker 2: a steady stream. Sophie pointed it at the ground where
[14:58] Speaker 2: it hit the dirt and splattered up in a shower
[15:02] Speaker 2: of droplets all around. And because it was a summery,
[15:10] Speaker 2: warm summer morning, and they were all dressed in shorts
[15:16] Speaker 2: and t shirts and had nowhere they had to be,
[15:22] Speaker 2: they all let the water droplets spray over them and
[15:27] Speaker 2: cool their skin. After a little while, a mud puddle
[15:35] Speaker 2: began to form, and.
[15:37] Speaker 3: It grew and grew.
[15:41] Speaker 2: As Sophie continued to point the hose at the hard
[15:46] Speaker 2: baked dirt. The mud puddle grew wider and deeper and muddier,
[15:57] Speaker 2: until Ben said that was enough. He thought, and went
[16:02] Speaker 2: to turn off the water. Then Tala and Sophie and
[16:09] Speaker 2: Ben each took up a shovel and began to dig.
[16:17] Speaker 2: And Tala was exactly right. It was easier to push
[16:23] Speaker 2: a shovel into mud and scoop some out. It wasn't
[16:29] Speaker 2: exactly easy to slop the mud off the shovel once
[16:34] Speaker 2: they had scooped it, but Ben and Sophie were too
[16:39] Speaker 2: nice to mention anything about that. It was great fun
[16:46] Speaker 2: to stick in the shovel and hear it squelch satisfyingly
[16:52] Speaker 2: into the mud. It was fun to scoop the mud
[16:58] Speaker 2: and hear it come away with a sucking sound.
[17:04] Speaker 3: And it was fun to.
[17:06] Speaker 2: Shape the shovel to get the mud off of it
[17:10] Speaker 2: into a pile in another part of the yard. MUDs
[17:17] Speaker 2: blattered as they dug like the water had done, and
[17:22] Speaker 2: they laughed as it splattered across them. The tiny droplets
[17:30] Speaker 2: of mud looked like freckles that scattered across their legs
[17:37] Speaker 2: and arms and faces that forgot to stop there, so
[17:42] Speaker 2: they had freckles on their clothes too. Freckled clothes giggled
[17:49] Speaker 2: Sophie and Tala laughed. Even Ben smiled wide like he
[17:57] Speaker 2: might laugh too. The mud was cool and the sun
[18:03] Speaker 2: was warm, and it was a charmed kind of day
[18:09] Speaker 2: that meant magical. They could all feel it, and so
[18:17] Speaker 2: it was not so much of a surprise to the
[18:21] Speaker 2: children as you might think when one of their shovels
[18:25] Speaker 2: hit something and rang out with a metal kind of sound.
[18:33] Speaker 2: In fact, they had been waiting for something to happen.
[18:40] Speaker 2: They had been expecting it. They could all feel it
[18:45] Speaker 2: hanging there in the summer warm morning, ready to happen,
[18:54] Speaker 2: just as sure as you could sometimes feel rain in
[18:57] Speaker 2: the air to fall, or lightning waiting to light up
[19:03] Speaker 2: a storm. Anyway, hearing the metal kind of sound ringing out,
[19:12] Speaker 2: the children dug faster scooping the squelching mud and flinging
[19:20] Speaker 2: it aside, and soon a box type shape came into view.
[19:30] Speaker 2: It really did sound like metal when their shovels scraped
[19:35] Speaker 2: across its top, but they couldn't see for sure what
[19:41] Speaker 2: it was made of, covered as it was with mud.
[19:49] Speaker 2: The top of the box shape was about the size
[19:53] Speaker 2: of a piece of paper, more or less, and it
[19:57] Speaker 2: was buried right there in the middle of the triangular yard.
[20:05] Speaker 2: They dug around its sides a bit, and then as
[20:09] Speaker 2: soon as it was partly freed from the earth, Ben
[20:14] Speaker 2: knelt down and pulled at it with his fingers. It
[20:21] Speaker 2: moved a little, but it was still stuck firmly in
[20:25] Speaker 2: the hard dirt, so they dug a bit more around it.
[20:32] Speaker 2: Then Ben stuck the tip of his shovel down beside
[20:37] Speaker 2: the box, and he worked and worked it until the
[20:42] Speaker 2: box began to come free. Then he slid his shovel slowly,
[20:52] Speaker 2: carefully under the edge of the box, and slowly, slowly
[21:02] Speaker 2: it began to lift. He looked at Tallah. Sophie looked
[21:10] Speaker 2: at Tallah. After all, it had been her idea. She
[21:18] Speaker 2: was the one who had felt the promise hanging in
[21:21] Speaker 2: the summer warm day and figured out what to do
[21:27] Speaker 2: with it, so she would be the one to do
[21:32] Speaker 2: the honors. Tllah felt proud and solemn, which means serious,
[21:42] Speaker 2: like something is important, and she took in a big
[21:47] Speaker 2: deep breath before getting down on her hands and knees.
[21:54] Speaker 2: Her hands were warm from holding the wooden handle of
[21:58] Speaker 2: her shovel and working so hard at the digging. The
[22:06] Speaker 2: mud felt cool and smooth on her warm hands, and
[22:13] Speaker 2: just for a moment, she was tempted to simply play
[22:18] Speaker 2: with the mud, running her hands all through it, letting
[22:24] Speaker 2: it squish through her fingers. But of course she had
[22:32] Speaker 2: something important to do right then. She had a special
[22:38] Speaker 2: responsibility on behalf of all three corner kits. So she
[22:47] Speaker 2: reached down and curved her fingers around the smooth, mud
[22:52] Speaker 2: coated sides of the metal like box. Then she tugged
[22:59] Speaker 2: care fully and lifted it up out of the mud.
[23:06] Speaker 2: It made a sucking sound, like their shovels had done
[23:10] Speaker 2: when they were digging. It also rattled a little bit
[23:16] Speaker 2: in a very exciting and inviting way. It was a
[23:23] Speaker 2: little bit heavy, the way a metal type box should be,
[23:30] Speaker 2: and not only like a metal type box alone, but
[23:34] Speaker 2: like one with something in it, which this one most
[23:40] Speaker 2: certainly had. The excitement was enough now that the children
[23:48] Speaker 2: all realized at once that they were holding their breath.
[23:56] Speaker 2: So they all led out a big eye together, and
[24:02] Speaker 2: each one drew in another big breath and blew that
[24:08] Speaker 2: out too, then breathing normally again, the three children went
[24:17] Speaker 2: over together to the faucet and turned on the hose
[24:22] Speaker 2: once more, but just to a trickle this time. Then
[24:29] Speaker 2: they trickled just a tiny bit of water onto the
[24:35] Speaker 2: metal like box and carefully, carefully wiped it clean. They
[24:45] Speaker 2: used just a little bit of water because they didn't
[24:50] Speaker 2: want to get whatever was inside wet.
[24:56] Speaker 3: And maybe ruin it.
[25:00] Speaker 2: Then they cleaned their own hands under the trickle of
[25:05] Speaker 2: water as best they could, and wiped their clean hands
[25:13] Speaker 2: dry on the backs of their mud speckled shorts. And
[25:20] Speaker 2: then only then, with hands as clean and dry as
[25:27] Speaker 2: they could make them, did they turn their attention back
[25:32] Speaker 2: to the box. It was metal, just as they had thought,
[25:41] Speaker 2: a dark metal, turned almost black from untold time, buried
[25:49] Speaker 2: under the dirt.
[25:52] Speaker 3: Again.
[25:53] Speaker 2: Ben and Sophie allowed Tala to take the lead, and
[26:00] Speaker 2: she felt herself proud and solemn once more. She pulled
[26:08] Speaker 2: at the lid. It resisted, and for a second she
[26:14] Speaker 2: thought it might be stuck. She heard a small disappointed
[26:21] Speaker 2: sound from Sophie peering over her shoulder, but then it
[26:28] Speaker 2: moved a little. She continued to pull and wiggle the
[26:35] Speaker 2: lid back and forth, and soon.
[26:40] Speaker 3: It began to lift.
[26:44] Speaker 2: The hinges that attached the metal lid to the metal
[26:48] Speaker 2: box creaked, and the lid lifted open under her eager
[26:55] Speaker 2: just cleaned fingers. The three corner kids leaned forward together
[27:04] Speaker 2: then looked eagerly into the open box.
[27:10] Speaker 3: Inside they saw.
[27:12] Speaker 2: A velvety fabric, deep purple in color, folded over neatly.
[27:20] Speaker 2: On top of it was a piece of paper, also folded.
[27:27] Speaker 2: Tala picked up the paper, but she handed it to Ben.
[27:33] Speaker 2: He read out aloud, to whoever finds this, I leave
[27:39] Speaker 2: you my treasure to use as you will, sincerely, a
[27:45] Speaker 2: child of the past. Well after that, the children could
[27:54] Speaker 2: hardly pull back the velvety, deep purple fabric quickly enough,
[28:03] Speaker 2: although of course they were still very careful, and Ben
[28:09] Speaker 2: remembered to stow the note safely in his short pocket.
[28:16] Speaker 2: Six hands, two for each of the three children, you know,
[28:22] Speaker 2: pulled back the fabric, hardly, taking note of its velvety softness.
[28:31] Speaker 2: Six eyes, also, two for each of the children. Naturally enough,
[28:38] Speaker 2: peered down underneath the pulled back fabric, and three mouths
[28:47] Speaker 2: gasped in unison at the sight of a mound of
[28:51] Speaker 2: coins of all sizes and shapes of tarnished silver, time
[29:00] Speaker 2: darkened copper, and bronze. They looked at one another, open
[29:09] Speaker 2: mouthed for a moment, and then Ben picked up the
[29:14] Speaker 2: box and carried it to the lip of the triangle
[29:19] Speaker 2: shaped yard. There they could sit together under the shade
[29:27] Speaker 2: of the flowering bushes they grew over the wooden fence
[29:33] Speaker 2: surrounding the yard. They sat down and leaned their head
[29:40] Speaker 2: close together to examine their treasure. There were big silver
[29:48] Speaker 2: dollars and fifty cent pieces. There were foreign coins with
[29:56] Speaker 2: unfamiliar writing, and even a whole in.
[30:00] Speaker 3: The middle of some of them.
[30:04] Speaker 2: Then knew to check the dates and the coins to
[30:08] Speaker 2: see how old they were. That was because he and
[30:14] Speaker 2: Sophie's grandfather liked to collect coins, and Grandpa had shown
[30:21] Speaker 2: them how to read the year printed in tiny numbers.
[30:28] Speaker 2: They looked at the dates on the silver dollars and
[30:32] Speaker 2: fifty cent pieces and foreign coins, and they were from
[30:38] Speaker 2: a long time ago, a very long time ago. The
[30:49] Speaker 2: children gazed at the coins for a good while, turning
[30:54] Speaker 2: them over and examining each one in turn. Then a
[31:01] Speaker 2: grown up called from inside the building that it was
[31:06] Speaker 2: time for lunch. The children all talked among themselves and
[31:13] Speaker 2: they agreed that they should ask to have lunch together.
[31:20] Speaker 2: As they ate, they could arrange their treasure into piles,
[31:26] Speaker 2: and Ben could write a list of what was there.
[31:32] Speaker 2: Tala picked up the box and the children walked together
[31:38] Speaker 2: to the door up Tali's apartment, where her mother agreed
[31:44] Speaker 2: she could go upstairs for lunch if it was okay
[31:48] Speaker 2: with Ben and Sophie's family. It was so they all
[31:56] Speaker 2: trooped up the stairs to the upper apartment, Tala carefully
[32:01] Speaker 2: cradling the lightly rattling box in her arms. When they
[32:09] Speaker 2: walked into the upstairs kitchen, Tala set the box down
[32:14] Speaker 2: on the table, and the children all went to the
[32:18] Speaker 2: sink to wash their hands for lunch. Ben and Sophie's
[32:26] Speaker 2: grandfather was there, taking out a jug of lemonade. He
[32:33] Speaker 2: looked at the box on the table, and then he
[32:37] Speaker 2: looked at the three children. Grandpa stared at the box
[32:43] Speaker 2: for a long time with a far away look in
[32:48] Speaker 2: his eyes. Then at last he spoke, what do you
[32:57] Speaker 2: have there? He wanted to know, but his voice sounded
[33:04] Speaker 2: twinkly like maybe, just maybe he thought he already knew
[33:12] Speaker 2: what they had treasure, he asked, and that three children
[33:22] Speaker 2: stared back at him with wide eyes, wondering how he knew.
[33:31] Speaker 2: Grandpa just looked at them with knowing eyes that sparkled happily.
[33:39] Speaker 2: It is a treasure finding kind of day, he said.
[33:47] Speaker 2: And that is the story of how three children living
[33:52] Speaker 2: in the corner apartment took a day full of promise
[33:57] Speaker 2: and knew just how to work work together to shape
[34:02] Speaker 2: it into a memory of pure happiness. Maybe you know
[34:09] Speaker 2: how to do that too. All it really takes is
[34:16] Speaker 2: yourself and the readiness to do something when the time
[34:22] Speaker 2: is right, to see the day and let something wonderful happen.
[34:33] Speaker 2: It also helps to be a good friend too, if
[34:38] Speaker 2: the chance presents itself, although sometimes we can be a
[34:47] Speaker 2: good friend just to our own selves too. But that
[34:54] Speaker 2: story is for another day, because now it is very
[35:04] Speaker 2: much time to sleep, to rest, and maybe to dream
[35:13] Speaker 2: of a warm summertime day and all the very wonderful
[35:21] Speaker 2: secrets it can hold.
[35:24] Speaker 3: And wait, sweet.
[35:29] Speaker 4: Dreams, us must h

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