00:00The Very Quiet Cricket.
00:25One warm day,
00:27from a tiny egg, a little cricket was born.
00:37Welcome, chirped a big cricket, rubbing his wings together.
00:43The little cricket wanted to answer,
00:46so he rubbed his wings together,
00:48but nothing happened.
00:50Not a sound.
00:58Good morning, whizzed a locust, spinning through the air.
01:04The little cricket wanted to answer,
01:07so he rubbed his wings together,
01:10but nothing happened.
01:12Not a sound.
01:27Not a sound.
01:45Hello, whispered a praying mantis,
01:49scraping its huge front legs together.
01:52The little cricket wanted to answer,
01:55so he rubbed his wings together,
01:58but nothing happened.
02:00Not a sound.
02:25Good day, crunched a worm, munching its way out of an apple.
02:43The little cricket wanted to answer,
02:46so he rubbed his wings together,
02:48but nothing happened.
02:50Not a sound.
02:55Not a sound.
03:13Hi, bubbled a spittlebug, slurping in a sea of froth.
03:19The little cricket wanted to answer,
03:22so he rubbed his wings together,
03:25but nothing happened.
03:27Not a sound.
03:49Good afternoon, screeched a cicada,
03:54clinging to a branch of a tree.
03:57The little cricket wanted to answer,
04:00so he rubbed his wings together,
04:02but nothing happened.
04:04Not a sound.
04:18Not a sound.
04:42How are you, hummed a bumblebee,
04:45flying from flower to flower?
04:48The little cricket wanted to answer,
04:50so he rubbed his wings together,
04:53but nothing happened.
04:55Not a sound.
05:16Good evening, whirred a dragonfly,
05:20gliding above the water.
05:23The little cricket wanted to answer,
05:26so he rubbed his wings together,
05:29but nothing happened.
05:31Not a sound.
05:45Good night, buzzed the mosquitoes,
06:02dancing among the stars.
06:04The little cricket wanted to answer,
06:07so he rubbed his wings together,
06:10but nothing happened.
06:12Not a sound.
06:17A lunar moth sailed quietly through the night,
06:21and the cricket enjoyed the stillness.
06:26As the lunar moth disappeared silently into the distance,
06:30the cricket saw another cricket.
06:33She too was a very quiet cricket.
06:36Then he rubbed his wings together one more time.
06:40And this time, he chirped the most beautiful sound
06:45that she had ever heard.
