- Mr. Rogers: Did you ever see the sky at nighttime? Did you ever see the stars in the sky, or the moon? And if you did, did you look at that same sky in the daytime and wonder where those stars and that moon were hiding? Well, the stars and the moon are still in the sky in the daytime, even if we can't see them. Isn't that interesting to think about? Things that you can't see, but they're still there.
- Daniel Striped Tiger: It's certainly puzzling, isn't it?
- Lady Aberlin: What, Daniel?
- Daniel Striped Tiger: That we can see the stars only at night.
- Lady Aberlin: But they are still up there in the day, even though we can't see them.
- Daniel Striped Tiger: But what if it were daytime all the time?
- Lady Aberlin: What do you think that would be like?
- Daniel Striped Tiger: Well, we'd be able to play and never have to go to bed, but I guess we'd never see the stars.
- Lady Aberlin: No, we wouldn't. And if we stayed up all the time, we'd be so tired after a while that we wouldn't feel like playing.
- Daniel Striped Tiger: You mean, everybody needs to sleep?
- Lady Aberlin: Yes. Some of the time, everybody needs to sleep.
- Daniel Striped Tiger: Oh, I see. There are so many things to wonder about.
- [Mr. Aber hangs a star on a string from a pole]
- Lady Elaine Fairchilde: So that's how you do it.
- Charles R. Aber: Yes, but why would you want to fish stars in the sky?
- Lady Elaine Fairchilde: Because nobody ever believes me.
- Charles R. Aber: What don't they believe?
- Lady Elaine Fairchilde: That stars fly and fall.
- Charles R. Aber: Well, sure they fly and fall, but not all over people's houses and clocks. It would be very frightening, you know.