A Dragon's Lullaby

A Dragon's Lullaby

The dragon looked after the people who lived in the village below.

Each evening, Dario stretched his golden wings and flew over the village.

When the sky grew dark, Dario began to sing his lullabies.

“Now that day has turned to night, and all the stars look so bright,

climb into bed and close your eyes, and I will sing some lullabies.”

When Dario began to sing, the children ran to their windows.

They stood on tiptoes and looked for Dario in the sky.

Dario was easy to see.

His long, golden wings sparkled in the moonlight.

Dario's lullabies made the children so sleepy that they crawled into bed and closed their eyes.

The dragon's lullabies soon put everyone in the village to sleep.

The village was so still you could hear a star shoot across the sky.

After singing his lullabies, Dario said, “Good night, everyone. Sleep tight.”

But no one ever answered.

All the villagers were fast asleep.

One night, Dario did not appear in the night sky.

The dragon's soothing lullabies were not heard in the village.

Without the lullabies, the villagers couldn't fall asleep.

The next day, the children were cranky.

The villagers got very little work done.

Everyone was tired.

A week passed.

Dario still did not sing his lullabies.

The villagers were miserable.

They couldn't sleep.

They couldn't work.

They were even too tired to eat!

Something had to be done.

At last, the mayor spoke up.

“I'll go see Dario,” she said.

“I'll ask him why he has stopped singing to us.”

The mayor climbed and climbed until she reached Dario's castle on top of the mountain.

It was daytime, but the mayor found Dario in bed.

“What's wrong, Dario?” the mayor asked.

“Are you sick? Is that why you don't sing to us anymore?”

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