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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Kit Short Stories Today. Stories brought to

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Speaker 1: us by one of our friends, Crosby. Hey, Crosby sent

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Speaker 1: Dawson an awesome idea for a story, and you can too.

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Speaker 1: Just head over to our website Kit short stories dot Org.

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Speaker 1: Send us your idea and maybe we'll turn into a

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Speaker 1: Nawsom adventure. And while you're there, you can get your

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Speaker 1: name on our kids shout out list. And I want

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Speaker 1: to give a special shout out today to at least

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Speaker 1: and Conrad from Connecticut and Felix from San Diego. You

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Speaker 1: guys are super cool and I'm so glad that you

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Speaker 1: are on the Spy Kid team. And this has been

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Speaker 1: super fun sharing this with you. Well, if you want

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Speaker 1: your name in the list, go to the website, add

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Speaker 1: your name to the list, tell me where you're from,

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Speaker 1: and I would love to say hey to you. Are

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Speaker 1: you guys ready for today's adventure? Me too. Let's go

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Speaker 1: all right, Mom, I'm gonna get this done and I'll

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Speaker 1: be back in in a little bit. Cross he was

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Speaker 1: on the farm today. You see him and his family

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Speaker 1: love to go to his grandma and grandpa's house because

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Speaker 1: they had a big farm. Do you guys know what

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Speaker 1: kind of animals live on a farm. Yeah, cows and

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Speaker 1: horses and chickens. So many different animals, so many things

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Speaker 1: to learn on the farm, and so many jobs to

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Speaker 1: do on the farm. You see, farmers, they're always working.

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Speaker 1: They almost never have time to stop. The jobs of

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Speaker 1: taking care of all these animals is big, and they

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Speaker 1: need a lot of help. And Crosby was very smart

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Speaker 1: and brave and loved to help. So today's job was

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Speaker 1: he needed to feed all the chickens and the horses.

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Speaker 1: That is a big job because Crosby's three, but he's

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Speaker 1: definitely capable for this job. Another cool part about this

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Speaker 1: farm is that there's a creek that runs through the property.

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Speaker 1: Do you guys like to explore in the creeks and

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Speaker 1: rivers by you, Yeah, finding creatures and looking at the

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Speaker 1: fish or the bugs or the little critters. That is

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Speaker 1: such a fun time to explore. I love to do

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Speaker 1: that too. But this story is about Crosby. Let's get

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Speaker 1: back to Crosby. And so, as Crosby was starting his job,

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Speaker 1: he noticed that wait a second, one, two, three, four, five,

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Speaker 1: six her six horses, but there should be seven mm hmm.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, I'm gonna have to keep out and

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Speaker 1: keep an eye out for that horse, because I hope

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Speaker 1: he didn't get away. You see, the horses, they were

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Speaker 1: in one big field, and sometimes the horses would hide

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Speaker 1: in different parts of the field because they would be

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Speaker 1: eating some special grass. But this one horse that was

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Speaker 1: not normal, this horse named Vanilla. Mm hmm, he would

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Speaker 1: always come when we had food. That's very strange. But

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Speaker 1: let's go feed the chickens. Crosby went to go feed

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Speaker 1: the chickens, and they were very hungry. Do you know

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Speaker 1: what chickens like to eat everything? They like all kinds

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Speaker 1: of food. And so Crosby had a bucket full of

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Speaker 1: their favorites and threw it onto the ground and the

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Speaker 1: chickens came running and gobbled it all up. All right,

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Speaker 1: Now that that job is done, I've got to figure

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Speaker 1: out where Vanilla the horse went, because this is not normal.

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Speaker 1: Crosby started to walk through the field and look for

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Speaker 1: clues of where this missing horse could be. As he

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Speaker 1: walked around, Oh no, you see a tree had fallen

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Speaker 1: down on the fence on the far side of the field.

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Speaker 1: Do you think Vanilla the horse might have gotten out

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Speaker 1: of this? Oh no, that's not good. Uh Okay, we

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Speaker 1: gotta figure this out. Let's make sure. On the other

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Speaker 1: side of the fence there was some mud, and so

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Speaker 1: Crosby needed to check and see if there were any

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Speaker 1: horse footprints. Do you know what a horse footprint looks like? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: You see they have those metal shoes on the bottom

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Speaker 1: of their feet, and so it looks kind of like

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Speaker 1: a big end or a big u uh oh. Oh no,

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Speaker 1: there's horse footprints right here. Uh. I bet he got out, Vanilla.

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Speaker 1: Where are you? Crosby had no idea where Vanilla the

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Speaker 1: horse might have rent to, but he needed to find

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Speaker 1: him because it was starting to get dark. Ah. As

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Speaker 1: Crosby started to explore the property, he had to jump

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Speaker 1: very fast and sneaky horse, and he could have gotten anywhere.

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Speaker 1: Um wait, what's that sound. Crosby heard a sound that

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Speaker 1: sounded like this. I bet that's Vanilla. Vanilla, I'm coming.

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Speaker 1: As Crosby ran to where the sound was coming from,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be okay, Crosby said, as he very carefully

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Speaker 1: untied the bushes from her saddle. And carefully lead her

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Speaker 1: but now they needed to ride back to the property.

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Speaker 1: Crosby hopped on the back of Vanilla and they zoomed

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Speaker 1: That's not safe. Something terrible could happen, like you could

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Speaker 1: the next day. Don't ever do that again. As Crosby

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Speaker 1: and Vanilla got back to the pasture, they jumped over

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Speaker 1: the broken fence. Now Crosby had to figure out how

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Speaker 1: to fix this fence so it wouldn't happen again. He

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Speaker 1: pulled and pulled and pulled until that tree came off

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Speaker 1: of the fence, and thankfully, none of the wood on

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Speaker 1: the fence was broken. It was just knocked over, so

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Speaker 1: he was able to set it back up so that

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Speaker 1: Vanilla would not sneak out again. As Crosby finished up

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Speaker 1: all his chores, he ran back to the house. His

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Speaker 1: grandparents were waiting inside and said, Crosby, you've been gone

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Speaker 1: Or were you playing? Crosby laughed, no, I was not playing.

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Speaker 1: Some crazy stuff happened, but don't worry. It's all better now.

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Speaker 1: What happened out there, Crosby, A lot, a lot happened,

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Speaker 1: you see. There was a tree that fell down on

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Speaker 1: the fence and broke the fence, and then Vanilla horse escaped,

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Speaker 1: and then I rescued her. But then I fixed the fence,

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Speaker 1: and I fed the chickens and the horses and everyone,

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Speaker 1: are you kidding me? They almost didn't believe Crosby, but

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Speaker 1: then they did, and they thanked him very much for

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Speaker 1: the job well done. Crosby is going to be a

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Speaker 1: great farmer one day. The end