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Speaker 1: Thank you. It is Thanksgiving this week in the United States,

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Speaker 1: so I have chosen to read another Thanksgiving story for

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Speaker 1: all of our listeners. There the visit early one morning,

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Speaker 1: Grandmother Gray got up, opened the windows and doors of

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Speaker 1: the farmhouse, and soon everybody in the place was stirring.

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Speaker 1: The cook hurried breakfast, and no sooner was it over

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Speaker 1: than Grandfather Gray went out to the barn and hitched

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Speaker 1: the two horses to the wagon. Get up, Robin and Dobbin,

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Speaker 1: he said, as he drove through the big gate. If

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Speaker 1: you knew who was coming back in this wagon, you

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Speaker 1: would not be stepping so slowly. The old horses picked

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Speaker 1: up their ears when they heard this, and trotted away

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Speaker 1: as fast as they could down the country road until

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Speaker 1: they came to town. Just as they got to the

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Speaker 1: railway station, the train came whizzing in. All Off, cried

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Speaker 1: the conductor as the train stopped, and out came a

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Speaker 1: group of children who were every one of them grandfather

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Speaker 1: and Grandmother Gray's grandchildren. They had come to spend Thanksgiving

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Speaker 1: Day on the farm. There was John, who was named

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Speaker 1: for grandfather and just like him, and the twins Teddy

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Speaker 1: and Pat who looked like nobody but each other. There

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Speaker 1: Papa was grandfather's oldest son. Then there was Louisa, who

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Speaker 1: had a baby sister at home, and then Mary Virginia Martin,

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Speaker 1: who was her mama's only child. I tell you, said grandfather,

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Speaker 1: as he helped them into the wagon. Your grandmother will

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Speaker 1: be happy to see you, and so she was. She

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Speaker 1: was watching at the window for them when they drove up,

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Speaker 1: and when the children spied her, they could scarcely wait

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Speaker 1: for grandfather to stopped the wagon before they scrambled out.

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Speaker 1: Dear me, dear me, said grandmother, as they all tried

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Speaker 1: to hug her at the same time. How you have grown.

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Speaker 1: I am in the first grade, said John, hugging her

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Speaker 1: with all his might. So am I cried Louisa, we

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Speaker 1: are going to be chimed in the twins. And then

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Speaker 1: they all talked at once till Grandmother could not hear

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Speaker 1: herself speak. Then, after they had told her all about

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Speaker 1: their mamas and papas and homes and cats and dogs,

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Speaker 1: they wanted to go and say how do you do

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Speaker 1: to everything on the place. Take care of yourselves, called grandmother,

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Speaker 1: for I don't want to send any broken bones home

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Speaker 1: to your mother's. I can take care of myself, said John,

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Speaker 1: So can, we said the rest, and off they ran.

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Speaker 1: First they went to the kitchen where the cook was

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Speaker 1: getting ready for Thanksgiving dinner. Then out to the barnyard,

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Speaker 1: where there were two new red calves and five little

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Speaker 1: puppies belonging to Juno the dog for them to see.

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Speaker 1: Then they climbed the barnyard fence and made haste to

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Speaker 1: the pasture where grandfather kept his wooly sheep, Bah, said

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Speaker 1: the sheep when they saw the children. But then they

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Speaker 1: always said that no matter what happened, there were cows

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Speaker 1: in this pasture too, And Mary Virginia was afraid of them,

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Speaker 1: even though she knew that they were the mothers of

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Speaker 1: the calves she had seen in the barnyard. Silly marry, Virginia,

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Speaker 1: said John, and Mary Virginia began to cry. Don't cry,

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Speaker 1: said Louisa. Let's go to the hickory nut tree. This

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Speaker 1: pleased them all and they hurried off. But on the

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Speaker 1: way they came to the big shed where grandfather kept

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Speaker 1: his plows and reaper and threshing machine and all his

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Speaker 1: garden tools. The shed had a long, wide roof, and

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Speaker 1: there was a ladder leaning against it. When John saw that,

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Speaker 1: he thought he must go up on the roof, and then,

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Speaker 1: of course the twins went too. Then Louisa and Mary

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Speaker 1: Virginia wanted to go, and although John insisted they could

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Speaker 1: not climb, they managed to scramble up the ladder to

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Speaker 1: where the boys were, and there they all sat in

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Speaker 1: a row on the roof. Grandmother doesn't know how well

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Speaker 1: we can take care of ourselves, John, But I am

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Speaker 1: said Louisa. We can ride on the trolley, cried the twins.

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Speaker 1: Mama and I go anywhere by ourselves, said Mary Virginia.

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Speaker 1: No said something down below, and when they looked, there

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Speaker 1: Don't be afraid, Mary Virginia, said Louisa. Cows cannot climb ladders.

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Speaker 1: Don't be afraid, Mary Virginia said John, I will drive

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Speaker 1: her away. So he kicked his feet against the shed

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Speaker 1: somebody I don't know who kicked the ladder, and it

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Speaker 1: fell down and lay in the dry grass, and the

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Speaker 1: exclaimed Louisa. How shall we ever get down? Oh that's nothing,

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Speaker 1: said John. All I have to do is stand up

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Speaker 1: So he stood up and called grandfather, grandfather, grand father

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Speaker 1: twins called grandfather grandmother, bath said the sheep, as if

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Speaker 1: beginning to think that somebody ought to answer all that calling.

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Speaker 1: Then they all called together grandfather, grandfather, grandfather, And when

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Speaker 1: I want to go home to my mother. I wish

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Speaker 1: I hadn't come, wailed Mary. Virginia. It's Thanksgiving dinner time, too,

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Speaker 1: said John. And there's turkey for dinner. I saw it

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Speaker 1: in the oven pie too, said Louisa. Dear, dear, said

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Speaker 1: the twins, And then they all called together once more,

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Speaker 1: but this time with such a weak little cry that

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Speaker 1: not even the sheep hurt it. The sun grew warmer

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Speaker 1: and the shadow straighter as they sat there, and grandmother's

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Speaker 1: house seemed miles away when John stood up to look

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Speaker 1: at it. They've eaten dinner by this time, I know,

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Speaker 1: he said, as he sat down again, and grandfather and

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Speaker 1: grandmother have forgotten all about us. But grandfather and grandmother

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Speaker 1: had not forgotten them. For just about then, Grandmother was

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Speaker 1: saying to Grandfather, you had better see where the children

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Speaker 1: are for Thanksgiving dinner will soon be ready, and I

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Speaker 1: know that they are hungry. So Grandfather went out to

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Speaker 1: kitchen nor the barnyard, so he called Johnny, Johnny, and

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Speaker 1: when nobody answered, he made haste to the pasture. The

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Speaker 1: children saw him coming, and long before he had reached

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Speaker 1: This time Grandfather answered, I'm coming, and I cannot tell

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Speaker 1: you how glad they were. In another minute, he had

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Speaker 1: set the ladder up again, and they all came down.

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Speaker 1: Mary Virginia came first because she was the youngest girl,

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Speaker 1: and John came last because he was the biggest boy.

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Speaker 1: Grandfather put his arms around each one as he helped

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Speaker 1: When they got to the house, dinner was just ready.

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Speaker 1: The turkey was brown, the potatoes were sweet, the sauce

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Speaker 1: was so spicy, the biscuits were beat the great pumpkin

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Speaker 1: pie was as yellow as gold, and the apples were

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Speaker 1: red as roses. I'm told it was such a good

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Speaker 1: dinner that I had to tell you about it in rhyme.

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Speaker 1: And I'm sure you'll agree with the children and me

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Speaker 1: that there's never a visit so pleasant to pay as

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Speaker 1: a visit to Grandma on Thanksgiving Day. And that's the

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Speaker 1: end of our story. Good Night, sleep Tight had been