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Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. A short

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Speaker 1: message for grown ups. Bringing you sleep Tight Stories takes

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Spensee Spider. In the far forest, among the

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Speaker 1: many hawthorn bushes, lived a very small spider called Speinsee.

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Speaker 1: He is rather happy that his great great great grandfather

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Speaker 1: was the spider of the eensy ween See spider nursery rhyme.

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Speaker 1: Spensee told this to his friends, Brett the Beetle and

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Speaker 1: Brett's little brother, little Bit. Brett and little Bit did

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Speaker 1: not have anyone famous in their family. They had no

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Speaker 1: time to think about such things. The beetles were busy

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Speaker 1: from morning tonight gathering food, helping in the house, staying

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Speaker 1: out of harm's way. Spinsee was lucky. All he did

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Speaker 1: was spin webb, which was his home, and wait for

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Speaker 1: the flies to get cocked. So he had plenty of

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Speaker 1: time to think about being famous. Like his great great

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Speaker 1: great grandfather, Spinsey wanted to be famous, but he did

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Speaker 1: not know how. One day he spun a thread from

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Speaker 1: his web and went to another branch to look for famous,

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Speaker 1: then the second branch, third branch, fourth branch, till he

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Speaker 1: reached branch number ten. He did not find famous anywhere.

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Speaker 1: He asked his friends how to get famous. They also

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Speaker 1: did not know what famous was. One sunny morning, Brett

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Speaker 1: and little Bit came to visit Speencee. Between them, they

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Speaker 1: rolled a dead fly into Speensee's web as a present.

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Speaker 1: Speensee was very pleased and made his guests as comfortable

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Speaker 1: I know what famous is. Spensee was so excited that

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Speaker 1: he nearly dropped the fly he was eating. What is it? Brett, Well,

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Speaker 1: little Bit and I are friends with Peel the parrot.

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Speaker 1: We are not close friends, but sometimes he throws pieces

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Speaker 1: say we are friends. Brett liked to talk and got

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Speaker 1: carried away and forgot what he had come to say.

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Speaker 1: Spensee knew this, and so he interrupted, What did Peel

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Speaker 1: the parrot say about famous. Brett continued, Peel the parrot

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Speaker 1: stays with people. They talk about famous people. Peel thinks

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Speaker 1: that you have to do something which no one else

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Speaker 1: Speensee was no wiser than before. Little Bit try to

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Speaker 1: comfort Speenze. I think you're a famous I know your name.

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Speaker 1: Brett knows your name. Peel the parrot knows your name.

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Speaker 1: All the spiders in this bush know your name. Spensey

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Speaker 1: just shook his head than all of his eight legs.

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Speaker 1: No one has written a nursery rhyme on Speensee the spider,

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Speaker 1: he said, sadly. Bret and little Bit went away rather

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Speaker 1: sad too. They had not been able to help their

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Speaker 1: friend become famous. Spaensey sat down to think about what

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Speaker 1: he could do that no other spider had done. He

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Speaker 1: spun a perfect web. All spiders spin perfect webs. He

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Speaker 1: up and down really fast, but other spiders did the same.

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Speaker 1: There was nothing he could do that the other could not.

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Speaker 1: Many days passed and Spensee was no nearer to being famous.

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Speaker 1: One day, while he was sitting in the middle of

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Speaker 1: his web. He heard Brett shouting, spain, see little Bit

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Speaker 1: is hurt. Help help. Speensee ran as fast as he could.

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Speaker 1: He saw that a large stone had fallen on little Bit.

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Speaker 1: Little Bit had managed to crawl from under it, but

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Speaker 1: had broken his leg and hurt his sides. He was

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Speaker 1: around helplessly. Speense asked Brett to get a small Brett

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Speaker 1: got the leaf. As it was getting dark and spiders

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Speaker 1: don't see too well, Brett asked his cousins, the glowworms,

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Speaker 1: to come and light up the place. Speensee put the

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Speaker 1: leaf over it, and started spinning a spider thread around

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Speaker 1: the leg, stem and leaf together till it was nicely

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Speaker 1: bandaged in spider silk. He put a piece of leaf

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Speaker 1: on it. Little Bit was already feeling much better. The

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Speaker 1: other beetles helped little Bit into his house. Speensee sat down,

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Speaker 1: It was time to go home and rest. As Speensee

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Speaker 1: The glow worms twinkled overhead like so many stars lighting

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Speaker 1: Speensee's way. They were all singing a rhyme Peel the

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Speaker 1: parrot had made Speancie the spider is kinder than any

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Speaker 1: other spider. He can bandage your leg spinning a patch.

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Speaker 1: Spensee the spider has no match. In days to come.

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Speaker 1: Everyone from far Forest had heard of Speensee. If you

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Speaker 1: find the far forest, you too can hear this rhyme.

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Speaker 1: It is sung in the evening when the glow worms

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Speaker 1: Speencee feel, Speincey says, I don't care to be famous.

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Speaker 1: I am happy that when my friends need help they

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Speaker 1: call my name.