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Speaker 1: Hello, friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. Every week

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Speaker 1: onto our story. This is a story about Solomon Owl.

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Speaker 1: He lives in the woods and his voice can be

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Speaker 1: the others know which areas to avoid. One evening, he

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Speaker 1: meets mister Frog, and mister Frog hopes he can sneak

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Speaker 1: away The Tale of Solomon Owl, Part one. When Johnny

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Speaker 1: Green was younger, it always scared him to hear Solomon

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Speaker 1: Owl's deep toned voice calling in the woods after dark. Wooooooo.

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Speaker 1: That cry was enough to send Johnny Green hurrying into

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Speaker 1: especially if Solomon Owl happened to be laughing. His haw

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Speaker 1: When Solomon laughed, Johnny Green would laugh too. But Solomon

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Speaker 1: his feathers. If you had happened to catch Solomon Owl

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Speaker 1: he looked strangely like a human being. He had no

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Speaker 1: the different families of owls in Pleasant Valley. There were

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Speaker 1: That was unfortunate for the mice, but luckily for them,

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Speaker 1: by catching them upon his arrival as a stranger in

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Speaker 1: Pleasant Valley, Solomon Owl looked about carefully for a place

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Speaker 1: He was no busy nest builder like Rusty Wren. In

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Speaker 1: He had noticed that Solomon Owl was hanging around the neighborhood,

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Speaker 1: and several times he caught Solomon examining his nest. But

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Speaker 1: Once Fatty Raccoon thought he would drive Solomon out of

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Speaker 1: soon changed his mind, as Solomon Owl had sharp, strong

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Speaker 1: It was how do you do, mister Owl? And I

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Speaker 1: Jasper Jay, and since Jasper Jay was such a nice

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Speaker 1: to his sewing. Usually he did his work quickly, but

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Speaker 1: now after every five stitches that he put into his

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Speaker 1: mister Frog did not mind that. Indeed, he was more

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Speaker 1: Mister Frog tried to leap into the brook, but when

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Speaker 1: Solomon Owl had not seen him. It is no secret

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Speaker 1: that mister Frog was very afraid of Solomon Owl. Some

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Speaker 1: laughed more loudly than before, and then he said, what

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Speaker 1: once that he was caught, so he hopped nimbly to

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Speaker 1: a true statement, too, because mister Frog had not yet

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Speaker 1: in fact, for the tailor's comfort. Solomon looked at mister

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Speaker 1: Frog very seriously, and he thought that he shivered. What's

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Speaker 1: the matter? Are you ill, Solomon Owl inquired, You seem

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Speaker 1: replied mister Frog with an uneasy smile. You know, it's

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Speaker 1: best of health. That's a fact. Solomon Owl remarked. You

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Speaker 1: said Solomon Owl, I like all the frog family. At

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Speaker 1: It was no wonder that mister Frog swallowed rapidly sixteen

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Speaker 1: was something about Solomon Owl's big, staring eyes that made

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Speaker 1: we quickly thought of a plan to save himself. No doubt,

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Speaker 1: he began, but Solomon Owl interrupted him. There, cried Solomon,

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Speaker 1: the joke, though, to tell the truth, he felt more

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Speaker 1: No doubt, mister Frog resumed, No doubt, you've come to

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Speaker 1: Now Solomon Owl had had no such idea at all,

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Speaker 1: but when it was mentioned to him, he rather liked it.

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Speaker 1: Will you, he asked, with a highly interested air. Why certainly,

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Speaker 1: the tailor replied, and for the first time since he

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Speaker 1: if you like it, I will then make you a

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Speaker 1: waistcoat and trousers at double rates. Solomon Owl liked the

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Speaker 1: thought of getting a coat for nothing, but for all that,

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Speaker 1: he looked at mister Frog somewhat doubtfully. Will it take

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Speaker 1: you long? He asked. No. Indeed, mister Frog told him

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Speaker 1: I'll make your coat while you wait. Oh, I wasn't

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Speaker 1: going away, Solomon assured him with an odd look, which

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Speaker 1: made mister Frog shiver again. Be quick, please, because I

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Speaker 1: have some important business to attend to. Mister Frog couldn't

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Speaker 1: help wondering if it wasn't himself that Solomon Owl was

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Speaker 1: going to attend to. In spite of his fears, he

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Speaker 1: went to cut some cloth that hung just outside his door. Stop,

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Speaker 1: Solomon Owl cried, in a voice that seemed to shake

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Speaker 1: the very ground. You haven't measured me yet. It's not necessary,

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Speaker 1: mister Frog explained smoothly. I've become so skillful that one

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Speaker 1: look at an elegant figure like yours is all that

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Speaker 1: I need. Naturally, mister Frog's remark pleased Solomon Owl, and

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Speaker 1: he uttered ten rapid hoots, which served to make mister

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Speaker 1: Frog's fingers fly all the faster. Soon he was sewing

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Speaker 1: Solomon's coat with long stitches, and though his needle slipped

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Speaker 1: now and then, he did not pause to take out

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Speaker 1: a single stitch. For some reason, mister Frog was in

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Speaker 1: a great hurry. Solomon Owl did not appear to notice

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Speaker 1: that the tailor was not paying much at time to

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Speaker 1: his sewing. Perhaps mister Frog worked so fast that Solomon

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Speaker 1: could not see what he was doing. Anyhow, he was

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Speaker 1: delighted when mister Frog suddenly cried, it's finished. And then

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Speaker 1: he tossed the coat to Solomon try it on. He said,

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Speaker 1: I want to see how well it fits you. Solomon

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Speaker 1: Owl held up the garment and looked at it very carefully,

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Speaker 1: and as he examined it, a puzzled look came over

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Speaker 1: his great pale face. There was something about his new

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Speaker 1: coat that he did not understand. And that is the

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Speaker 1: end of this part. Good Night, sleep tight in buy

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Speaker 1: no thing to do.