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Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. I'd like

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Speaker 1: to say hello to some friends. Hello to Eve from

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Speaker 1: New Jersey, Hello to Haley and Mummy Pie from the Philippines.

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Speaker 1: And Hello to Daniel and Gabriella Flitt in Richmond, BC.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your support. It means so

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Speaker 1: much to us. I'd like to say a great, big

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Speaker 1: happy birthday to Ava from the Philippines and also to

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Speaker 1: Ava McGary from Texas, who are both turning eight on

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Speaker 1: September thirtieth. Also a big happy birthday to Mollie Davies

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Speaker 1: who is turning four on October first. A very happy

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Speaker 1: birthday to you all. I hope your day is very special.

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Speaker 1: This episode is about three kittens who live with their

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Speaker 1: mother in a barn. Their mother has some new little

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Speaker 1: kittens and these three are feeling a bit neglected. The

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Speaker 1: three kittens know how to look after themselves and don't

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Speaker 1: need anything, but one by one they decide to run

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Speaker 1: away and live in the forest. The brown kitten goes first,

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Speaker 1: but meets some things he's unsure about, and at the

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Speaker 1: end they all scamper home. The kittens come to the

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Speaker 1: forest one day. The three big kittens who lived with

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Speaker 1: their mother in the farmer's barn had an awful fight.

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Speaker 1: If their mother had been with them, she would probably

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Speaker 1: have cuffed each of them and scolded them soundly. She

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Speaker 1: was not with them because she had four little new

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Speaker 1: You would think that the older kittens must have been

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Speaker 1: very proud of their baby brothers and sisters. Yet they

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Speaker 1: were not. They might have done kind little things for

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Speaker 1: their mother, but they didn't. They just hunted food for

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Speaker 1: themselves and never took a mouthful of it to her.

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Speaker 1: This does not prove that they were bad kittens. It

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Speaker 1: just showed said they were young and thoughtless. The brown kitten,

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Speaker 1: the one whose fur was black and yellow mixed so

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Speaker 1: to see them. When he reached their corner, he sat

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Speaker 1: down and growled at them. His mother said nothing at first,

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Speaker 1: but when he went so far as to switch his

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Speaker 1: towards him, and told him not to show his whiskers

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Speaker 1: upstairs again until he could behave properly. His sisters, the

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Speaker 1: yellow kitten and the white kitten stayed downstairs. They didn't

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Speaker 1: care anything about them. Cats never care much about kittens,

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Speaker 1: you know, unless they are their own, and big brothers

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Speaker 1: always say that they can't stand them. Now, these three

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Speaker 1: older kittens were perfectly able to care for themselves. It

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Speaker 1: and they were already excellent hunters. They had practiced crouching, crawling,

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Speaker 1: and springing before they left the hay loft. Sometimes they

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Speaker 1: and sometimes they hunted the grasshoppers who got brought in

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Speaker 1: with the hay. It was when they were doing this

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Speaker 1: once that the they got so badly scared, but that

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Speaker 1: was no reason why they should feel neglected or worry

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Speaker 1: he carried the great pails full of foamy milk. Then

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Speaker 1: if the kittens acted hungry, meowed very loudly, and rubbed

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Speaker 1: get a good dishful of warm milk. You can see

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Speaker 1: how unreasonable they were. They had plenty to eat, and

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Speaker 1: each other quite rudely, and would not run after a

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Speaker 1: string which the farmer's little girl dangled before them. They

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Speaker 1: soon as they wakened. The hens who were feeding around

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Speaker 1: The white kitten went around with her four paws, looking

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Speaker 1: really disgraceful. The brown kitten scrubbed his ears in a

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Speaker 1: plenty of room for them all to put their heads

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Speaker 1: They began to blame each other and talk so loudly

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Speaker 1: grow more and more discontented. The brown kitten had crawled

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Speaker 1: has more kittens, he said, and my sisters get my

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Speaker 1: whiskers all bent out of shape. I'll go away and

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Speaker 1: I guess they'll feel badly then and wish they'd been

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Speaker 1: said that was one thing which showed how much more

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Speaker 1: clever they were than dogs. Dogs, you know, cannot live

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Speaker 1: happily away from men. I will find a good hollow tree,

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Speaker 1: he said, for my home, and I will sleep there

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Speaker 1: all day and hunt at night. I will eat so

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Speaker 1: much that I shall grow large and strong. Then when

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Speaker 1: sh here comes the brown cat. As he thought this,

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Speaker 1: Once in a while he stopped to listen and stood

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Speaker 1: Sometimes they flew so low that a kitten might catch them.

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Speaker 1: He thought he would try, so he crawled through the

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Speaker 1: That made him turn back at once, for mud was

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Speaker 1: This is very good for a snack, but not for

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Speaker 1: was stopped by some great winged person flying down toward

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Speaker 1: The brown kitten drew back stiffly and said, ha oo hooo,

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Speaker 1: asked the person on the branch. The brown kitten answered,

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Speaker 1: That made the brown kitten remember that since his voice

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Speaker 1: brown kitten, if you please, and I have come to

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Speaker 1: good time. I didn't even tell my mother. Oooooooo to woo,

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Speaker 1: said the great horned owl, for it was he who

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Speaker 1: spoke my mother, said the brown kitten, and then he

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Speaker 1: ran away as fast as he could. He had seen

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Speaker 1: The brown kitten thought that the skunk might be related

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Speaker 1: brown kitten had been told that his relatives were not

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Speaker 1: Good evening, said the brown kitten. Would you mind telling

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Speaker 1: me if you are a cat? Cat? No, growled the skunk.

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Speaker 1: They sometimes call me a wood kitty, but they have

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Speaker 1: no right to. I am a skunk, skunk, skunk, and

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Speaker 1: I am related to the weasels. Step out of my path.

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Speaker 1: A family of young raccoons in a tree called down,

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Speaker 1: teasingly to him to come up, but after he had started,

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Speaker 1: he had to go tail first. He did not know

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Speaker 1: and he looked for a hollow tree. He found only one,

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Speaker 1: and that was a bee tree, so he couldn't use it.

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Speaker 1: All around him, the most beautiful mushrooms were pushing up

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Speaker 1: his eager, rough, little pink tongue. He was just losing

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Speaker 1: his kitten teeth, and his new cat teeth were growing,

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Speaker 1: and they made him want to bite almost everything he saw.

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Speaker 1: One kind of mushroom, which he thought the prettiest of all,

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Speaker 1: Some of them, like the water lilies, also sleep on

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Speaker 1: cloudy days. He was very fond of the clovers, but

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Speaker 1: they had their leaflets folded tightly, and only the mushrooms,

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Speaker 1: Everybody he met was a stranger, and he began to

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Speaker 1: We haven't time, aha, screamed the screech owl. Haven't time.

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