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Bit and the Little Light
One evening after the rain, Bit the little worm climbed onto the windowsill. Inside, something was glowing.
Bit wiggled to the glowing box. On its side were tiny slits, just big enough for a little worm. Squeeze, wiggle, squeeze… Bit was inside!
Inside was a whole city! Shiny roads ran everywhere between little buildings, all softly glowing. Bit wiggled to a quiet corner, where one little road went round and round in a circle.
On the circle sat a big box called a battery, and a tiny lamp. The road was full of little glowing dots, all holding hands. Grown-ups call them electricity.
But the lamp was dark, and the dots were not moving. Bit looked closely. One little bit of the road was a bridge, and the bridge was up. The circle had a gap.
Bit pushed the bridge down. Click! Now the circle was whole. The battery gave a push, and all the dots moved together, round and round. The lamp lit up straight away. ON!
Bit followed the dots: out of the battery, through the lamp, round the corner, and back into the battery. Because they all hold hands, when one moves, they all move, like friends dancing in a ring.
Bit lifted the bridge. Click! There was a gap again. The dots could not hold hands across it, so they all stopped, and the lamp went dark. OFF.
Then Bit found another circle with a lamp. Its bridge was down, but somewhere else, the road had a little crack. Will this lamp light up?
No! The dots could not hold hands across the crack, so none of them could move, and the lamp stayed dark. A lamp only lights when the whole circle is joined.
Bit looked around. Something shiny was lying nearby: a tiny lost staple. Bit pushed it across the crack. Now the dots could hold hands across the shiny metal, all the way round, and the lamp lit up!
Bit wiggled home, happy and sleepy. That night, Bit dreamed of the glowing city, and of tiny bridges that went up and down all by themselves. Tomorrow, Bit would go back.
比比和小灯
一个下过雨的傍晚，小蚯蚓比比爬上了窗台。屋子里，有个东西在发光。
比比扭到发光的盒子旁边。盒子侧面有几条小小的缝，刚好够比比钻进去。挤一挤，扭一扭，比比钻进去了！
里面是一整座小城！亮亮的小路在小房子之间到处穿来穿去，都在轻轻发光。比比扭到一个安静的角落，那里有一条小路，绕成了一个圆圈。
圆圈上有一个大盒子，叫电池，还有一盏小小的灯。小路上挤满了发光的小点点，一个牵着一个。大人们把它们叫作“电”。
可是小灯黑黑的，小点点也一动不动。比比仔细一看，原来小路上有一座小桥，小桥翘起来了，圆圈断开了一个口子。
比比把小桥按了下来。咔嗒一声，路又连成了一个圈！电池轻轻一推，小点点们全都动了起来，绕呀绕。小灯一下子就亮了。这就是“开”！
比比跟在小点点后面，从电池出来，穿过小灯，拐个弯，又回到了电池里。它们一个牵着一个，一个动，大家就一起动，就像好朋友手拉手转圈圈。
比比把小桥抬了起来。咔嗒一声，又断开了。小点点隔着口子牵不到手，大家都停了下来，小灯黑了。这就是“关”。
比比又找到一个有小灯的圆圈。它的小桥是放下来的，可是在别的地方，小路裂开了一道小缝。你猜，这盏小灯会亮吗？
不会！小点点隔着裂缝牵不到手，谁也动不了，小灯还是黑黑的。整个圆圈都连好，小灯才会亮。
比比四处看了看。旁边躺着一个亮晶晶的东西，是一枚丢在这里的小订书钉。比比把它推到裂缝上。小点点隔着亮亮的金属牵上了手，绕了一整圈，小灯亮了！
比比扭呀扭，开开心心地回到了家，眼皮都困得抬不起来了。那天晚上，比比梦见了那座发光的小城，还有自己会上上下下的小桥。明天，比比还要再去！