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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Kids Short Stories. Today's story is brought

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Speaker 1: to us by one of our friends, Lucille. Hi. Lucille,

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Speaker 1: she sent us a really cool idea for a story,

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Speaker 1: and you can too. Either head over to our website

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Speaker 1: page for Kids Short Stories. Send us your idea and

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Speaker 1: maybe we'll turn it into an awesome adventure. Are you

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Speaker 1: ready for this one? Me too? Let's go. One day,

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Speaker 1: Lucille was at one of her favorite places to be

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Speaker 1: with her family. Do you know where? That was? The zoo? Yes,

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Speaker 1: Lucy loved going to the zoo, but today was kind

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Speaker 1: of a rainy day, so she brought her bright yellow

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Speaker 1: rain jacket. Who likes to color yellow? Me too. Lucille's

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Speaker 1: rain jacket was so cool. It had a nice big

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Speaker 1: hood to keep her head dry, and it buttoned up

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Speaker 1: and it was very bright. So as her and her

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Speaker 1: family were walking around the zoo looking at all their

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Speaker 1: favorite animals, they learned that, oh, animals like to play

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Speaker 1: in the rain too, just like us. Have you ever

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Speaker 1: jumped in a puddle before? Yeah? Me too. Kind of

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Speaker 1: messy and you should definitely ask your mom or dad.

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Speaker 1: But having rain boots on and a rain jacket. Jumping

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Speaker 1: in the puddles is a really fun thing to do,

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Speaker 1: and so Lucile and her family were watching all the

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Speaker 1: animals jump in puddles. It was so fun. And one

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Speaker 1: of their favorite animals was a hippopotamus. And you know

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Speaker 1: that hippos love the rain, Yes, they love it. Hippo

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Speaker 1: spend most of their time in the water, swimming around

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Speaker 1: and just uh being hippos, sleeping and napping and eating

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Speaker 1: and just floating. But they really like when it's raining

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Speaker 1: because it gives them a bath on the top of

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Speaker 1: their head. And so Lucille made friends with one of

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Speaker 1: the hippos whose name she named him Henry the Hippo,

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Speaker 1: and so she liked to hang out with him as

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Speaker 1: much as she could when they went to the zoo.

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Speaker 1: And today when she was over with Henry, Henry said, oh, Lucille,

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Speaker 1: something terrible happened last night. Did you hear about the

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Speaker 1: baby monkey? Lucille couldn't believe it. No, Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: what happened? Is he? Okay? Whoa No, it's bad. You see,

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Speaker 1: there were two bad guys that snuck into the zoo

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Speaker 1: last night. And it looks like they broke into the

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Speaker 1: monkey cage and stole the baby monkey. I know it horrible,

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Speaker 1: and we're not sure what to do because I don't

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Speaker 1: think the zoo knows about it. But all of us

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Speaker 1: animals we saw the bad guys, and no one's asked

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Speaker 1: us for any clues. But Lucille, could you please help us?

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that's awful, Lucille said, and she said absolutely,

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Speaker 1: all right, tell me everything you know, and I will

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Speaker 1: find that baby monkey save it from those bad guys.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, the bad guys came in a big

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Speaker 1: white and red truck and pulled up very late last night,

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Speaker 1: and they were wearing black hats and they even wore sunglasses.

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Speaker 1: But it was the nighttime, so that was kind of strange.

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Speaker 1: And as they were walking around, they had a special

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Speaker 1: badge that let them in the zoo. It's like, I

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Speaker 1: don't know, they must have stolen someone's badge that opens

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Speaker 1: all the doors. Anyway, I bet if you asked the

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Speaker 1: security guards who came to the zoo last night, I

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Speaker 1: bet that would be a really good clue. Okay, Lucille said,

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Speaker 1: and off she ran. She had to check with the

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Speaker 1: security guards first because they could check the cameras and

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Speaker 1: check to see who used their badge late that night.

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Speaker 1: And as she asked the security guards, hey, guys, could

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Speaker 1: you pull up um last night's log for me? You see,

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Speaker 1: they came to the zoo so much that they had

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Speaker 1: become friends with pretty much everybody, even the security guards.

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Speaker 1: And so the the guards pulled up the log from

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Speaker 1: last night. All right, Lucille, take a look at this.

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Speaker 1: And Lucille saw that at two o'clock in the morning. Whoa,

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Speaker 1: that's very late or very early anyway, we're all usually

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Speaker 1: sleeping at two am. But at two a m. It

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Speaker 1: says Dr Sarah Johnson. What it says she came into

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Speaker 1: the zoo last night. That's very strange. Mm hmm. What

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Speaker 1: is she? Okay, let's check the cameras, Lucille side. And

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Speaker 1: when they checked the cameras, wait a second, that is

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Speaker 1: not Dr Sarah. Dr Sarah is a very small lady

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Speaker 1: with blonde hair, and in the camera it looked, Oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, those are two really big guys. Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 1: Did they steal her badge so that they can get

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Speaker 1: in the zoo? Oh my gosh. Lucille thought, oh this

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Speaker 1: so on the camera it showed that these two guys

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Speaker 1: were parked in the back parking lot, and so Lucille

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Speaker 1: and her family decided, all right, well, let's go back

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Speaker 1: They looked everywhere. What's that? Lucille picked up what is this?

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Speaker 1: It was a piece of paper with an address, and

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Speaker 1: Lucille's dad looked it up and said, guys, that address

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Speaker 1: is the airport. I bet whoever those guys were, I

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Speaker 1: bet they stole that monkey and are headed to the

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Speaker 1: airport to fly away and never be caught. Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: we gotta get there fast. Let's go. So they all

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Speaker 1: got in the car and drove as fast as they

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Speaker 1: could to the airport. When they were rolling up to

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Speaker 1: the airport, they were looking around. You were remember what

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Speaker 1: color van the bad guys were in? Yeah, white and red.

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Speaker 1: Mm hmm. They looked everywhere and wait, look over there,

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Speaker 1: there's two guys getting out of a white and red

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Speaker 1: van and they have a really big box let's go.

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Speaker 1: And they ran over to the guys and said, hey,

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Speaker 1: excuse me, but what are you guys having that box there?

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Speaker 1: And the guy said, a man, what are you talking about.

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Speaker 1: I just don't understand why you would just come up

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Speaker 1: to somebody like that. These are our boxes. And then

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Gary run and the two guys

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Speaker 1: took off running and dropped the box. Oh my gosh. Security.

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Speaker 1: Lucille called out for the security guards, who grabbed those

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Speaker 1: two bad guys. Yes, and hurry, let's open the box

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Speaker 1: and make sure the monkey's okay. They opened up the

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Speaker 1: box and sure enough, there was one of the baby

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Speaker 1: monkeys from the zoo. It was a spider monkey. Those

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Speaker 1: to its mom. Let's go. So Lucille and her family

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Speaker 1: all jumped back in the car and drove back to

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Speaker 1: the zoo to bring this baby monkey back to its mom.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I can't believe it. Lucille saved the day. Wow,

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Speaker 1: that is amazing that she saved that monkey from those

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Speaker 1: two bad guys who I'm so glad. Lucille was great

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Speaker 1: friends with Henry the Hippo. What a great team. The

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Speaker 1: end