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Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. I would

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Speaker 1: Norah Olin and Everett. And a special happy birthday to

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Speaker 1: Ginger and Teddy just celebrated their six birthdays. I am

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Speaker 1: in the show notes. Thank you. It is fall here

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Speaker 1: and that is my favorite season of the year, and

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Speaker 1: apple picking is happening all around. I remember our family

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Speaker 1: going to pick apples when I was a child, and

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Speaker 1: how delicious those apples tasted when you had picked them yourself.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever gone picking apples? John in this episode

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Speaker 1: is going to see what happens when the apples are picked.

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Speaker 1: The apple story. Once upon a time there was a farmhouse,

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Speaker 1: and it was painted white and had green blinds, and

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Speaker 1: it stood not far from the road. In the fence

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Speaker 1: was a wide gate to let the wagons through to

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Speaker 1: the barn, and the wagons going through had made a

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Speaker 1: track that went up past the kitchen door and passed

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Speaker 1: the shed and past the barn, and passed the orchard

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Speaker 1: to the wheat field. In the orchard grew many apple trees.

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Speaker 1: Some had yellow apples, and some had green apples, and

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Speaker 1: some had red apples, and some had brown apples. And

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Speaker 1: the yellow apples got ripe before the summer was over,

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Speaker 1: but the green apples and the red apples and the

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Speaker 1: brown apples were not ripe until the summer was over,

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Speaker 1: and it was beginning to get cold. So one day,

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Speaker 1: after the summer was over and it was beginning to

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Speaker 1: get cold, Uncle John saw that the apples on one

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Speaker 1: of the trees were ready to be picked, and they

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Speaker 1: were red apples. So he got out the old oxen,

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Speaker 1: and they put their heads down, and he put the

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Speaker 1: yoke over and the bows under, and hooked the tongue

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Speaker 1: of the ox cart to the yoke. Then he said,

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Speaker 1: get up there, buck, get up their star. And the

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Speaker 1: old oxen began walking slowly along past the barn to

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Speaker 1: the orchard, and they turned in through the wide gate

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Speaker 1: into the orchard and went along until they came to

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Speaker 1: the right tree, uncle John gathered all the apples. Then

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Speaker 1: they stopped, and Uncle John took a basket and climbed

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Speaker 1: up into the tree, and he picked the apples very

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Speaker 1: carefully and put them into the basket. And when the

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Speaker 1: basket was full, he climbed down from the tree and

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Speaker 1: emptied the basket carefully into the cart. Then he climbed

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Speaker 1: up again and filled the basket again. And so he

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Speaker 1: did until the cart was full. Then Uncle John said,

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Speaker 1: get up there, And the old oxen started and turned

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Speaker 1: around and walked slowly back to the barn and in

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Speaker 1: at the big door. Then uncle John took all the

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Speaker 1: apples out of the cart and put them in a

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Speaker 1: kind of pen. And the old oxen started again and

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Speaker 1: walked slowly back to the orchard. So uncle John gathered

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Speaker 1: all the apples from that tree and put them in

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Speaker 1: the pen in the barn. Then he unhooked the tongue

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Speaker 1: The next morning, Uncle Solomon and Uncle John and little

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Speaker 1: John all went out to the barn and they took

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Speaker 1: little three legged stools that had one end higher than

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Speaker 1: the other, the kind they used when they milked the cows.

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Speaker 1: And they sat on these stools and looked over all

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Speaker 1: the apples one by one. The apples that were very nice, indeed,

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Speaker 1: they put in some barrels that were there. And the

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Speaker 1: they were putting a pile on the floor. And the

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Speaker 1: apples that had specks on them, or holes in them,

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Speaker 1: or that were twisted, they put in another pile. And

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Speaker 1: this last pile they gave to the horses and cows,

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Speaker 1: and oxen and pigs, and the apples in the barrels

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Speaker 1: were to go to market or for the people to eat.

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Speaker 1: Then Uncle John got out the old oxen, and they

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Speaker 1: put their heads down low, and he put the yoke

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Speaker 1: Then the old oxen started walking slowly along out of

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Speaker 1: of the little house and they went in, and inside

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Speaker 1: there was nothing but a log against the wall to

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Speaker 1: kind of a thing they called a cider press. It

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Speaker 1: had a place to put the apples in, and a

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Speaker 1: flat cover that came down on top, and a screw

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Speaker 1: and a long handle. Above besides the cider press there

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Speaker 1: was a chopper to chop the apples into little pieces.

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Speaker 1: Then little John sat down on the log, and Uncle

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Speaker 1: John put the apples in the chopper and chopped them

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Speaker 1: up fine. Then he put some chopped apples with some

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Speaker 1: And then he took hold of the long handle and

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Speaker 1: the cover squeezed down on the apples. So that the

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Speaker 1: juice ran out below into the keg that was put there.

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Speaker 1: And when the juice was all squeezed out of those apples,

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Speaker 1: he walked around the other way holding the handle, and

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Speaker 1: that made the cover lift up. Then he took out

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Speaker 1: squeezed them the same way. And when all the apples

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Speaker 1: of juice, and they called the juice cider. So Uncle

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Speaker 1: John put the great stoppers that they called bungs into

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Speaker 1: the bungholes in the kegs so that the cider would

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Speaker 1: not run out. Then he put the kegs in the cart,

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Speaker 1: and little John came out of the little house, and

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Speaker 1: Uncle John shut the door, and the old oxen turned

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Speaker 1: around and walked slowly along until they came to the gate,

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Speaker 1: and there they stopped. Then Uncle John and Uncle Solomon

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Speaker 1: took the kegs down into the cellar, and they took

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Speaker 1: out the little bung near the bottom of one of

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Speaker 1: the kegs and put in a wooden spigot, a kind

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Speaker 1: of a faucet. Then they set that keg on a

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Speaker 1: shelf so that a pitcher or a mug could go

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Speaker 1: under the spigot. Then Uncle John took the yoke off

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Speaker 1: the oxen and they went into the barn and went

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Speaker 1: to sleep. After supper that evening, uncle Solomon and Uncle

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Speaker 1: John were sitting in the sitting room, and Uncle John

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Speaker 1: spoke to Little John and said, John, I think I

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Speaker 1: would like a drink of cider. So Little John took

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Speaker 1: a picture and went down into the cellar, and his

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Speaker 1: mother held a light while he put the picture under

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Speaker 1: the spigot and turned the spigot, and the sider ran

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Speaker 1: into the picture, And when enough had run in, he

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Speaker 1: turned the spigot the other way and the sider stopped running.

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Speaker 1: Then he carried the sider up to his father, and

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Speaker 1: his father drank it. And when Uncle John had drunk

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Speaker 1: the sider, he said to Uncle Solomon, father, that's pretty

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Speaker 1: good cider. You'd better have some, And Uncle Solomon said,

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Speaker 1: don't care if I do, so Little John had to

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Speaker 1: go down cellar again and get another picture of cider.

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Speaker 1: Those two kegs of cider lasted for a while, and

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Speaker 1: then more apples were ripe and they made enough cider

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Speaker 1: to last all winter, and some to send to market.

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