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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 Lily from Nelson, Canada.

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Speaker 1: Hello to River from York and her friend Baba. Hello

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Speaker 1: to Leela and McKenna. Hello to Dorothy Rose in Seattle, Washington.

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Speaker 1: Hello to Oliver and Noel, and Hello to Eliza and

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Speaker 1: Matthew of Logan, Utah. Thank you so much for your support.

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Speaker 1: It means so much to us. I'd also like to

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Speaker 1: say a great, big happy birthday to Bouven, whose birthday

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Speaker 1: was October third. Happy birthday to Axel Harris in Martinez, Georgia,

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Speaker 1: whose birthday is on October fifth, and Cash in Snellville, Georgia,

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Speaker 1: whose birthday is on October sixth. I'd also like to

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Speaker 1: wish a belated happy birthday to Gerard from Joliet, Illinois,

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Speaker 1: who turned six on September twenty sixth. 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 story is about a young Woodchuck who has a

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Speaker 1: bit of trouble telling his right hand from his left hand.

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Speaker 1: He is the youngest in his family, and when his

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Speaker 1: father is not feeling well, missus Woodchuck asks him to

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Speaker 1: go to the market. Mister Woodchuck doesn't think it's a

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Speaker 1: good idea, but Missus Woodchuck sends him off because everyone

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Speaker 1: else is busy. Will he be able to find his way?

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Speaker 1: Let's see how he does? The pretending woodchuck among the

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Speaker 1: wild animals I have not known was a family of

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Speaker 1: woodchucks who lived in a hollow log on the edge

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Speaker 1: of a farm in New York State. Not that they

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Speaker 1: cared much whether it was New York State or some

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Speaker 1: other state. I mentioned it only that the details of

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Speaker 1: this story may be verified, but anyone who is inclined

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Speaker 1: to doubt them it was New York State. Now Here

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Speaker 1: was the thing that distinguished this family to start with,

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Speaker 1: from all the other families of the neighborhood. They lived

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Speaker 1: in a hollow log. All their relatives and friends lived

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Speaker 1: in the ground. I don't know how this family got

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Speaker 1: started living in the rotten log, but I do happen

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Speaker 1: to know that there were a great many warm discussions

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Speaker 1: about the relative merits of a house in a log

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Speaker 1: and a house in the ground. And though many ground

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Speaker 1: houses in the best locations and with all modern improvements

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Speaker 1: were offered to this family, they stuck to the house

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Speaker 1: in the log. The house certainly did have one advantage.

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Speaker 1: It had two doors, and not only that, the log

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Speaker 1: was part of an old fence, and the fence ran

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Speaker 1: between the garden and the cornfield. So in the summer,

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Speaker 1: when the garden stuff was fine, all you had to

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Speaker 1: until you came to the left hand door, and there

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Speaker 1: you were right in the garden. But when fall came

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Speaker 1: and the garden was dried up, the corn was stacked

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Speaker 1: in shocks or husked and put into the crib, all

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Speaker 1: you had to do was to go down the hallway

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Speaker 1: to the door that turned to the right, and there

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Speaker 1: you were in the cornfield. Quite aside from these advantages,

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Speaker 1: who would live in a house with one door in

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Speaker 1: The log house family consisted of a father, a mother,

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Speaker 1: the family, was named Monachs. His mother had heard that

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Speaker 1: the scientific name for woodchuck was Actreman's Monachs, and being

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Speaker 1: and called her son Monachs. Monacs had never been out

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Speaker 1: in the world. He had been down to the two

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Speaker 1: he had been well instructed at home. He knew about

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Speaker 1: men and how they would sometimes try to catch woodchucks,

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Speaker 1: and all about dogs, and about the corn crib. And

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Speaker 1: for a long time he had known all about garden,

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Speaker 1: vegetables and corn. He was certainly a promising boy. Even

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Speaker 1: He could not learn which was his right hand and

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Speaker 1: laid up with rheumatism. He was a terribly old fellow

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Speaker 1: to groan and carry on when he was sick, and

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Speaker 1: his wife had to stand by him every minute. The

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Speaker 1: Missus Woodchuck gave him his instructions. She always gave everybody

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Speaker 1: said Missus Woodchuck to Monas, mind me at the right

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Speaker 1: had had his last lesson on the subject. If he

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Speaker 1: He hadn't the slightest idea which one it was, correct,

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Speaker 1: said his mother. Correct. Your father said it was not

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Speaker 1: She spoke, almost angrily. Then her mind seemed to be relieved,

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Speaker 1: the cornfield, but do not be afraid of them. They

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Speaker 1: right again, always to the right. Then you will see

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Speaker 1: yourself and come home. If you don't, you will have

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Speaker 1: to go a little farther. Just to the right of

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Speaker 1: the corn crib. That is where your father and I

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Speaker 1: The dog lives away over on the other side of

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Speaker 1: the fence, beyond the garage, and I know the scarecrows

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Speaker 1: He went, pondering his instructions. If missus Woodchuck had not

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Speaker 1: miss wood Chuck's rheumatic knee, she might have observed that

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Speaker 1: Monaques moved slowly, as if in deep thought. But she

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Speaker 1: He was trying to decide which was his right hand

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Speaker 1: two hands so much alike? How could anyone be sure

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Speaker 1: the other. They looked just alike. He struck one of

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Speaker 1: He couldn't stop long about it. If his mother caught

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Speaker 1: never knew how it was, but he felt perfectly confident

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Speaker 1: with which one was his right hand. It seemed perfectly simple.

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Speaker 1: Somehow it was this one. So he turned out into

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Speaker 1: was not surprised at that. His mother had said maybe

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Speaker 1: looked ahead. Yes, there was the big stone. He did

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Speaker 1: would know he was right. And there they were. They

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Speaker 1: were awfully good imitations of men. One of them was

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Speaker 1: after seeing that these two could talk, he had no

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Speaker 1: men will invent next, he said, as he moved then

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Speaker 1: leisurely by. At the big stone, he turned this way,

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Speaker 1: edge of the field. There, just as his mother had said,

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Speaker 1: was the barn. It looked more like a garage than

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Speaker 1: of itself. He said, the location is right. He went

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Speaker 1: He looked for the horses, none there. He glanced about

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Speaker 1: an automobile. Probably they have changed it over from a

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Speaker 1: leisurely out. Just a few yards to the right. Again,

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Speaker 1: as his mother had said, was the corn crib. He

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Speaker 1: But the location was right again, always to the right.

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Speaker 1: His mother said, the old wagon box wasn't there, But

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Speaker 1: That was probably one end of the scaffold that had

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Speaker 1: to haul corn at this very moment, to that very crib. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: Missus Woodchuck was growing very worried at home, for Monachs

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Speaker 1: had taken more time for his journey than his mother

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Speaker 1: whenever he had rheumatism, he was more pessimistic than usual.

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Speaker 1: I tell you, he said, that boy will never get home.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't know his right hand from his life, laughed.

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Speaker 1: I tell you he does, said Missus Woodchuck. I tried

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Speaker 1: surprised mister Woodchuck stuck to his position if he had

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Speaker 1: had gone to the garage instead of the barn. There

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Speaker 1: his mistake. Mister Woodchuck's lack of sympathy always irritated his wife.

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Speaker 1: Keep still, she said, you will give me nervous hives

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Speaker 1: again if you keep saying such things. Monax had climbed

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Speaker 1: done was just what his father said he probably would do.

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Speaker 1: He had turned to the left every time where he

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Speaker 1: dodged under the car. The dog had to run around it.

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Speaker 1: Three more feet gained. He went by the big stone

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Speaker 1: it was perfectly plain now that had never been a cornfield,

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Speaker 1: Did you turn to the right, asked his mother. I

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Speaker 1: did on the way back, said Monas. And that is

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Speaker 1: the end of our story. Good Night, sleep Tights Sporting