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Speaker 1: Welcome sleep Tight Stories, Chapter three, Blackie in Trouble.

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Speaker 2: Blackie soon grew tired of running and slowed down into

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Speaker 2: a walk. It doesn't really matter much what I do,

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Speaker 2: as long as I keep on going away, thought the

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Speaker 2: black cat. I can walk or run, so Speckle said,

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Speaker 2: and he ought to know, for he has run away

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Speaker 2: a number of times. Blackie walked on and on down

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Speaker 2: the city street. Soon she came to a corner, and

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Speaker 2: she stood there a moment, looking up and down, wondering

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Speaker 2: which way she had better go. She had come past

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Speaker 2: many houses and had passed many persons in the street,

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Speaker 2: mostly women and men. For all the children were at school.

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Speaker 2: No one did more than look at Blackie, for they

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Speaker 2: were all too busy. I suppose. As Blackie stood on

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Speaker 2: the corner, she saw a cat on the porch of

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Speaker 2: a house nearby. Blackie knew this cat a little, for

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Speaker 2: once the cat, whose name was Muffins, had come walking

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Speaker 2: in Blackie's yard, and once or twice Blackie had been

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Speaker 2: as far as this corner herself, so she knew Muffins

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Speaker 2: a little. Hello, backy meelled Muffins. You're quite a stranger.

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Speaker 2: I haven't seen you in some time. Where are you going,

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Speaker 2: I'm running away, answered Blackie. Running away, you surprise me,

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Speaker 2: cried the other cat. What is the matter? Did they

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Speaker 2: treat you badly at your home? Didn't they give you

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Speaker 2: enough to eat? Oh? Yes, plenty, said the black cat.

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Speaker 2: And they treated me very kindly too. Then why in

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Speaker 2: the world are you running away? Muffins wanted to know.

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Speaker 2: I want to have some adventures, as Speckle did. What

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Speaker 2: are adventures and who is Speckle, asked Muffins. Adventures are

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Speaker 2: things that happen to you, replied Blackie, and you never

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Speaker 2: can have them happen as long as you are around

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Speaker 2: the house. You have to run away to get That's

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Speaker 2: why I'm running away. And Speckle is the cat who

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Speaker 2: lives next door to me. I don't know him, spoke Muffins.

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Speaker 2: He just moved in, went on Blackie, and he was

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Speaker 2: only just let up out of the cellar. Hmm, said Muffins. Well,

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Speaker 2: run away if you like, But as for me, I

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Speaker 2: can find plenty of adventures around the house. Why. Only

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Speaker 2: a little while ago, the cook dropped a bottle of

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Speaker 2: there and I licked up all the cream. Oh, it

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Speaker 2: Only it's all gone. Now. That was an adventure, I

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Speaker 2: can tell you. Yes, cream is good, said Blackie. But

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Speaker 2: I don't call that an adventure, no, asked Muffins. Then

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Speaker 2: tell me what is an adventure? Oh? When a dog

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Speaker 2: chases you and makes you jump a higher fence than

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Speaker 2: you ever before leaped over, said Blackie, that is an adventure. Yes,

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Speaker 2: I should say so, agreed Muffins. It's kind of I

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Speaker 2: shouldn't like to have. I'd rather have our cook drop

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Speaker 2: another bottle of cream. Oh well, of course, all adventures

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Speaker 2: that come to you when you have run away aren't

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Speaker 2: dog chasing ones, said Blackie. I only spoke of that

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Speaker 2: adventures myself, so I can't tell you about them. But anyway,

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Speaker 2: I am running away. Would you like to come along,

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Speaker 2: asked Blackie politely of Muffins. No, thank you. I'm going

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Speaker 2: to stay here. Home is good enough for me. But

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Speaker 2: where are you going to run to? If I may ask? Oh,

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Speaker 2: not any special place, answered the black cat. I am

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Speaker 2: where you're going? That's strange. I should think if you

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Speaker 2: ran away, you'd have to have a place to run too.

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Speaker 2: Not at all, said Blackie. Speckel ran away many times,

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Speaker 2: and he never said anything about going to a special place.

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Speaker 2: Muffin shook her head. Doesn't seem right, he said. I'd

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Speaker 2: want to know where I was going even if I

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Speaker 2: ran away. That's part of the adventure, not knowing where

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Speaker 2: you're going, said Blackie. Now I can go up the

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Speaker 2: I had picked out a place to run to, i'd

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Speaker 2: have to go there, whether I wanted to or not. No,

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Speaker 2: it's best to run away, just as Speckel did and

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Speaker 2: then see what happens. So you won't come with me,

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Speaker 2: thank you? No, then I must go alone, I suppose. Well,

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Speaker 2: my adventures, Blackie promised. Yes, do invited muffins. I should

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Speaker 2: Then the two cats said goodbye in Kattok, and Blackie

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Speaker 2: Now my adventures will begin, thought the black cat. She

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Speaker 2: that on which Blackie lived. There were trolley cars on

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Speaker 2: as Arthur often did. But when the butcher boy saw

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Speaker 2: the cat, he cried scat and looked around for a

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Speaker 2: stone to throw. My you're awfully stingy with your meat,

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Speaker 2: thought Blackie, as she ran behind a tree so the

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Speaker 2: wouldn't give me a bit. But of course the meat

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Speaker 2: and the boy could not give any away. If Blackie

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Speaker 2: have given her a bit of liver. Scat scooted, cried

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Speaker 2: he made a hissing noise through his teeth. Blackie was

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Speaker 2: to do that with her sharp claws. Ha, go up

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Speaker 2: a tree, will you, cried the boy. If I had time,

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Speaker 2: I'd make you come down trying to get my meat

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Speaker 2: his meat, thought Blackie, for she heard what the butcher

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Speaker 2: boy said. But you might have given me a little. However,

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Speaker 2: Blackie was now safely up the tree and stayed there

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Speaker 2: until the boy went off whistling down the street. Blackie

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Speaker 2: was about to come down when she happened to see

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Speaker 2: a dog on the ground below. The dog did not

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Speaker 2: I'll just stay up here until he is gone, Blackie

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Speaker 2: said to herself. Safety first. The dog sniffed around the

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Speaker 2: and down she came, running along close to the fence

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Speaker 2: as she had done before. Well that was two little adventures,

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Speaker 2: the black cat said, after a while. Being chased by

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Speaker 2: the butcher boy up a tree and seeing a dog

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Speaker 2: under me. Oh, I suppose Speckle would not think much

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Speaker 2: of them. Still, I may have other things happen to me.

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Speaker 2: I must keep on. By this time, Blackie was getting

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Speaker 2: hungry and thirsty, so she looked around for something to eat.

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Speaker 2: She saw no nice saucer of milk, as she would

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Speaker 2: have seen had she been at home. For one can't

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Speaker 2: find saucers of milk in the street, nor was there

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Speaker 2: any nice liver or bit of fish lying around. Still,

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Speaker 2: one can't have everything one wants when one runs away,

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Speaker 2: Blackie said. The cat came to a fountain in a

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Speaker 2: Blackie ran into the bushes. Oh dear, she thought, her

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Speaker 2: heart beating very fast. Running away. Isn't as nice as

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Speaker 2: later on, farther on down the street walked Blackie looking

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Speaker 2: did for food when he ran away, thought Blackie. I

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Speaker 2: forgot about it. I may find something soon. A little later,

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Speaker 2: Blackie passed a house that had the door open. That

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Speaker 2: looks inviting, thought the black cat. I am sure kind

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Speaker 2: people must live there, or they would not leave the

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Speaker 2: Blackie looked all around to make sure there were no

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Speaker 2: and there she saw something that surprised her. There was

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Speaker 2: Nobody lives here, said Blackie. But perhaps they are just

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Speaker 2: going to move in as Speckles folks did. I'll wait

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Speaker 2: a bit, that's what must be going to happen. They

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Speaker 2: Blackie walked through the open rooms of the house. She

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Speaker 2: Then she went up to the second floor. No one

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Speaker 2: that's the folks moving in. She me out, I'll run

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Speaker 2: down and see down the stairs, scampered the black cat,

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Speaker 2: but there was no one in the house. The front

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Speaker 2: I wonder what happened, thought Blackie. Perhaps the wind blew

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Speaker 2: the door shut. She jumped up on a window sill

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Speaker 2: thought Blackie. And the man hat he owned the house,

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Speaker 2: and he had come that day to see if it

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Speaker 2: had been cleaned when the people moved out. He had

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Speaker 2: opened the door, gone in and looked about. When he

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Speaker 2: Then the man, not seeing the cat in his house,

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Speaker 2: shut the door, locking Blackie in, and went away. Well,

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Speaker 2: if I can't get out the front door, I'll go

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Speaker 2: out back, said Blackie. She ran to the back door

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Speaker 2: that was locked too, and all the windows were closed.

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Speaker 2: Oh dear, thought Blackie, I guess I'm in trouble. I'm

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Speaker 2: locked in an empty house.