“Here comes Bert,” 発言しました Big Bird. “I bet he will play catch with me.”
“Hi, Bert!” 発言しました Big Bird. “Let’s play catch.”
Bert kept on walking.
“Not today,” 発言しました Bert. “Ernie is waiting for me.”
Big Bird looked surprised.
“Oh,” he said.
Just then Grover ran out of his house.
He had a shiny new truck.
“Hi, Grover!” 発言しました Big Bird. “That’s a nice truck. Let’s play with it.”
Grover kept on running.
“I am sorry, Big Bird, but I am giving it to Ernie,” 発言しました Grover.
Big Bird looked sad.
“Oh,” he said.
Then Big Bird saw Cookie Monster.
He had a big box of cookies.
“Hi, Cookie! Want to play?”
Cookie shook his head.
“Me bring Ernie cookies,” 発言しました Cookie.
Big Bird looked mad.
“Nuts!” he said.
“No nuts!” 発言しました Cookie Monster. “Cookies!”
Big Bird sat on the steps.
He felt terrible.
“Nobody cares about me!” he cried. “Just Ernie, Ernie, Ernie!”
Just then Betty Lou came by.
“Why are あなた so mad?” she asked Big Bird.
“Nobody will play with me. Everybody wants to play with Ernie,” he said.
“Oh, Big Bird, didn’t あなた know? Ernie is sick!” 発言しました Betty Lou.
Big Bird looked surprised.
“Oh!” he said. “Well, I am sorry that Ernie is sick, but I bet he is having fun.”
Betty Lou took Big Bird’s hand.
“You are silly. It is not fun to be sick,” she said. “Come on. Let’s visit him.”
“Okay,” 発言しました Big Bird.
Ernie was in bed.
Bert was trying to feed Ernie some soup.
“How do あなた feel?” asked Big Bird.
“Terrible,” 発言しました Ernie. “I have a bad…a-A-ACHOO!”
“You have a bad cold,” 発言しました Betty Lou.
“I know,” 発言しました Ernie.
He blew his nose.
“Gee, Ernie,” 発言しました Big Bird. “Bert made あなた some good soup. Grover gave あなた a new truck. Even Cookie was nice to you. あなた are so lucky to be sick.”
Ernie blew his nose again.
“Lucky?” 発言しました Ernie. “I feel AWFUL! I feel too sick to eat and too sick to play. Being sick is no fun!”
But Big Bird was not so sure.
Later that 日 he sat in his nest and 発言しました to himself, “Everybody cares about あなた when あなた are sick.”
And then he got an idea.
“I will PRETEND to be sick!”
Just then Little Bird came によって to visit his friend.
“Oh, I am SO sick!” 発言しました Big Bird.
“That is too bad,” 発言しました Little Bird. “I will try to make あなた feel better.
Big Bird smiled.
And Little Bird got busy.
He filled a hot-water bottle.
He swept out Big Bird’s nest.
He told Big Bird a bedtime story.
Then he said, “Go to sleep. I will stay with you.”
Big Bird sighed happily.
The 次 morning Ernie came to Big Bird’s nest.
“Wake up, Big Bird!” he called. “I am all better. Want to play?”
Big Bird slowly opened his eyes.
“I am sorry, Ernie,” 発言しました Little Bird. “But Big Bird can’t go out today. He is sick.”
Big Bird jumped out of his nest.
“I am not sick!” he said.
“But あなた were SO sick last night,” 発言しました Little Bird.
“Well, I am not…a-A-ACHOO!…sick now,” sneezed Big Bird.
“You sound sick. How do あなた feel?” asked Ernie.
“Sort of hot and cold and funny in the tummy,” 発言しました Big Bird.
“Get into your nest,” 発言しました Ernie. “I will get Doctor Getwell.”
Soon Big Bird felt really sick.
He was glad to see Doctor Getwell.
The doctor felt Big Bird’s tummy.
He listened to Big Bird’s heart.
He looked in Big Bird’s mouth.
“You have a cold,” he said.
“I know,” 発言しました Big Bird.
The doctor told him to drink lots of ジュース and get lots of rest.
“Get well,” 発言しました Doctor Getwell.
Lots of Big Bird’s フレンズ came to visit him.
Bert made him a bowl of soup.
Grover gave him a Yo-Yo.
Cookie gave him cookies.
“Gee, thanks,” 発言しました Big Bird. “But I feel too sick to eat and too sick to play.”
Big Bird slept a lot that day.
That night, he 発言しました to Little Bird, “Ernie was right. Being sick is no fun. I feel terrible.”
Big Bird sneezed.
“You will feel better soon,” 発言しました Little Bird.
And Little Bird was right.
In a few days Big Bird felt fine.
He ran to the park.
“I am all better! Isn’t that great?” he 発言しました to his friends.
“It sure is, because it is no fun to be sick,” they said.
“Boy, あなた can say that again!” 発言しました Big Bird.
And they all 発言しました it again!
