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Speaker 1: Welcome sleep night stories the measuring worms joke. One day

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Speaker 1: there crawled over the meadow fence a jolly young measuring worm.

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Speaker 1: He came from a bush by the roadside, and although

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Speaker 1: he was still a very young worm, he had kept

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Speaker 1: his eyes open and had a very good idea how

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Speaker 1: things go in this world. Now, thought he as he

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Speaker 1: rested on the top rail of the fence, I shall

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Speaker 1: meet some new friends. I do hope they will be pleasant.

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Speaker 1: I will look about me and see if anyone is

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Speaker 1: in sight. So he raised his head high in the air,

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Speaker 1: and sure enough there were seven caterpillars of different kinds

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Speaker 1: on a tall clump of weeds nearby. The measuring worm

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Speaker 1: hurried over to where they were, and, making his best bow,

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Speaker 1: said I have just come from the roadside, and I

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Speaker 1: think I shall live in the meadow. May I feed

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Speaker 1: with you? The caterpillars were all glad to have him,

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Speaker 1: and he joined their party. He asked many questions about

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Speaker 1: the meadow and the people who lived there, and the

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Speaker 1: best place to find food. The caterpillars said, oh, the

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Speaker 1: meadow is a good place, and the people are nice enough,

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Speaker 1: but they are not at all fashionable, not at all.

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Speaker 1: Why said the measuring worm. If you have nice people

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Speaker 1: and a pleasant place in which to live, I don't

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Speaker 1: see what more you need. That is all very well,

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Speaker 1: said a black and yellow caterpillar. But what we want

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Speaker 1: is fashionable society. The meadow people always do things in

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Speaker 1: the same way, and one gets so tired of that. Now,

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Speaker 1: can you not tell us something different, something that worms

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Speaker 1: do in the great world from which you come? Just

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Speaker 1: at this minute, the measuring worm had a funny idea,

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Speaker 1: and he wondered if the caterpillars would be foolish enough

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Speaker 1: to copy him. He thought it would be a good

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Speaker 1: joke if they did so. He'd said, very seriously, Uh,

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Speaker 1: I notice when you walk, you keep your body quite

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Speaker 1: close to the ground. I have seen many worms do

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Speaker 1: the same thing, and it's all right if they wished to,

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Speaker 1: But none of my family ever do so. Did you

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Speaker 1: notice how I walk? Yes, yes, cried the caterpillar. Show

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Speaker 1: us again. So the measuring worm walked back and forth

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Speaker 1: for them, arching his body as high as he could

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Speaker 1: and stopping every little while to raise his head and

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Speaker 1: look hotily around. What grace? Exclaimed the caterpillars. What grace?

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Speaker 1: And what style? And one black and brown one tried

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Speaker 1: to walk in the same way. The measuring worm wanted

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Speaker 1: to laugh to see how awkward the black and brown

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Speaker 1: caterpillar was, but he did not even smile. And soon

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Speaker 1: every one of the caterpillars was trying the same thing

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Speaker 1: and saying, look at me, don't I do well? Or

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Speaker 1: how was that? You can just imagine how those seven

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Speaker 1: caterpillars looked when trying to walk like the measuring worm.

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Speaker 1: Every few minutes one of them would tumble over, and

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Speaker 1: they all got warm and tired. At last, they thought

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Speaker 1: they had learned it very well and took a long rest,

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Speaker 1: in which they planned to take a long walk and

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Speaker 1: show the other meadow people the fashion they had received

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Speaker 1: from the outside world. We will walk in a line,

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Speaker 1: they said, as far as we can, and let them

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Speaker 1: all see us. Ah, it will be a great day

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Speaker 1: for the meadow when we begin to set the fashions.

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Speaker 1: The mischievous young measuring worm said not a word, and

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Speaker 1: off they started. The big black and yellow caterpillar went first,

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Speaker 1: the black and brown one next, and so on down

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Speaker 1: to the smallest one at the end of the line,

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Speaker 1: all arching their bodies as high as they could. All

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Speaker 1: the meadow people stared at them, calling each other to

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Speaker 1: come and look. And whenever the caterpillars reached a place

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Speaker 1: where there were many watching them, they would all raise

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Speaker 1: their heads and look around, exactly as the measuring worm

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Speaker 1: had done. When they got back to their clump of bushes,

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Speaker 1: they all had the most dreadful back aches, but they

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Speaker 1: said to each other, well, we have been fashionable for once.

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Speaker 1: And at the same time, out in the grass the

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Speaker 1: meadow people were saying, did you ever see anything so

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Speaker 1: ridiculous in your life? All of which goes to show

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Speaker 1: how very silly people sometimes are when they think too

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Speaker 1: much of being fashionable. Ye,