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Speaker 2: Thank you. Do you like rain? I like rain, but

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Speaker 2: in our.

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Speaker 1: Story today there is a lot of rain, and we're

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Speaker 1: going to find out what a lion does when the

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Speaker 1: rain just won't stop. Lion on the loose. Once it

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Speaker 1: started raining, it just wouldn't stop.

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Speaker 2: The sky wept great.

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Speaker 1: Tears in an endless stream, until the clouds had entered

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Speaker 1: everyone's hearts and made them feel as gray and weepy

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Speaker 1: as the weather. But still it rained on and on.

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Speaker 1: Everyone stayed at home, gloomy and bored. I wish we

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Speaker 1: could do something, moaned Katika. Nothing exciting ever happens to us,

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Speaker 1: said Vicki. Mummy wouldn't let them go out, but she

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Speaker 1: tried to cheer them up by making hot crisp pacodas

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Speaker 1: for them. The children helped too, cutting the potatoes, onions, spinach,

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Speaker 1: and cauliflower. The pakodas were yummy. They ate them hot,

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Speaker 1: dipping them into spicy green chutney. Soon the children were

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Speaker 1: bursting full, so Mummy put the leftovers on a plate

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Speaker 1: and covered them so that they could eat them the

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Speaker 1: next day with cold lassie and leftover roties. The children

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Speaker 1: now stood at the window. I wonder what the animals

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Speaker 1: and birds do, asked Katika thoughtfully. They must be cooped

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Speaker 1: up in their cages. No silly, I mean the wild ones,

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Speaker 1: the tigers in the jungles, the birds on trees, what

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Speaker 1: do they do in all this rain? At least they're free.

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Speaker 1: Think of the animals in the zoo, How awful for them?

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Speaker 1: And it was true. The animals in the zoo were

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Speaker 1: worried and irritable. The wetness was terrible for the creatures

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Speaker 1: big and small. The more it rained, the more everything

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Speaker 1: filled up with water. Moat around the lion's enclosure filled

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Speaker 1: up with water too. The lion watched. He was an

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Speaker 1: old fellow who had never been out of the enclosure.

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Speaker 1: He had never seen anything like this before. As the

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Speaker 1: water lapped the sides of the moat temptingly. The old

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Speaker 1: fellow decided to make a go for it. He sniffed here,

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Speaker 1: and he sniffed there. He put one paw delicately into

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Speaker 1: the water, and then, with one big breath, he jumped

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Speaker 1: right in. At first, he sank, then he panicked. He

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Speaker 1: thought for one awful moment he wasn't going to make it,

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Speaker 1: but he did. His mighty head popped up and he

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Speaker 1: paddled along until he could feel the wall.

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Speaker 2: Just under his chin.

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Speaker 1: Putting his big paws onto the wall, he heaved himself up,

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Speaker 1: and then he was out, out and free, free to

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Speaker 1: walk around the world, just as he had seen hundreds

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Speaker 1: of people do. Now he the Mighty King, was going

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Speaker 1: to have the adventure of a lifetime. No one saw him,

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Speaker 1: for it was night and all the zookeepers were fast asleep.

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Speaker 1: Lion out, king of everything he saw. Softly, softly, he

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Speaker 2: Next to him.

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Speaker 1: He grinned at the bear, who awoke with a start.

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Speaker 1: He winked at him and laughed softly. He looked in

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Speaker 1: to be free. Then he had an idea. He was

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Speaker 1: going to be really truly free. What was the use

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Speaker 1: of freedom if he was still within the four walls

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Speaker 1: of the zoo? So asking for the way at every

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Speaker 1: cage he passed, Lion reached the mane gait. He could

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Speaker 1: smell a human, and he carefully peered into the ticket booth.

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Speaker 1: Lion was a clever old fellow and knew that the

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Speaker 1: guard would not let him just walk out, so he

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Speaker 1: waited and watched. The guard didn't move. He snored gently.

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Speaker 1: When Lion was sure that the man was fast asleep,

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Speaker 1: in his sleep. Lion almost roared in fright, but he didn't.

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Speaker 1: He waited quietly until he was sure that all was safe,

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Speaker 1: time in his life. He walked around, looking with wonder

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Speaker 1: at the big, black, wet roads. He stared up at

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Speaker 1: the high buildings, and he sniffed at the people huddled

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Speaker 1: He whispered, there's a lion on the loose. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: said his papa sleepily. He'll go away, now go back.

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Speaker 2: To sleep, and Lion went on.

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Speaker 1: This was the longest walk that he had ever had.

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Speaker 1: He was in the bazaar now, but of course everyone

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Speaker 1: the glittering things that shone there. He walked on and on.

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Speaker 2: On and on.

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Speaker 1: Until he was one very wet, hungry and tired lion.

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Speaker 1: He now suddenly caught the smell of yummy fried pakodas.

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Speaker 1: He had never smelled anything so invitingly warm or warmly inviting.

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Speaker 1: He found the window to Getika and Vicki's room open quickly, quietly,

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Speaker 1: he jumped right in. He saw the children asleep in

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Speaker 1: their soft, warm beds, and he felt like getting in

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Speaker 1: with them, but first to find out where that delicious

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Speaker 1: he found the pakodas, and with his sharp lion's teeth

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Speaker 1: he quickly chomped them up. They were delicious, not like

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Speaker 1: the smelly raw meat he got.

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Speaker 2: He loved the crispy pakodas.

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Speaker 1: He licked the plate clean, and now to bed. Slipping

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Speaker 1: back into the children's room, lion tried to get into

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Speaker 1: Vicky's bed, but it was too small for one big lion.

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Speaker 1: Then he tried snuggling into Katika's bed, but it was

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Speaker 2: Soon he was fast asleep.

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Speaker 1: Next morning, Mommy woke up to find the pakoda's missing. Vicky, Katika,

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Speaker 1: did you eat all the pakodas last night? No, Mummy,

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Speaker 1: not at all. The children said, it must have been

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Speaker 1: you who ate them. Tell me, children, who else could

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Speaker 1: it have been? Oh, it must have been the lion

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Speaker 1: who ate them? Mama, lion? What lion?

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Speaker 2: Katika?

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Speaker 1: Don't silly, She's not being silly, said Vicky. There's a

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Speaker 1: lion under our bed? What? Shouted Mommy as loudly as

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Speaker 1: she could, And she rushed right away to look for

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Speaker 1: the lion under her children's bed. She looked, but there was.

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Speaker 2: No lion there.

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Speaker 1: Oh, children, she said, crossly, you gave me a fright.

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Speaker 1: Of course, there's no lion there. What there was, Mummy

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Speaker 1: protested the children. Look, there are lion paw prints on

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Speaker 1: them then, But try as they might, they could not

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Speaker 2: And do you know why?

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Speaker 1: Lion had had a good snows and had decided to

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Speaker 1: get back to his cage before there was any fuss.

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Speaker 1: So he slipped away at dawn, and no one saw

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Speaker 1: him going except the same little boy in a blanket

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Speaker 1: who had seen him earlier. The little boy patted Lion's

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Speaker 1: nose and thought, grown ups never believe us children, so

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell any one that the lion

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Speaker 1: was taking a walk.

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Speaker 2: To night, the.

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Speaker 1: Old lion slipped past the guard, who still lay asleep,

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Speaker 1: and swam back into his cage. What an adventure it

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Speaker 1: soon as the rain stopped, Gaetika and Vickie went to

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Speaker 1: the zoo. They stood outside Lion's enclosure and whispered to

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Speaker 1: each other. I'm sure that our lion recognized them too,

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Speaker 1: for he let out a big rumbling roar of thanks

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Speaker 1: to his little friends. Maybe next time it rains very hard,

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Speaker 1: Lion may come to your house, So remember to have

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Speaker 1: some freshly fried Pakodahs ready for him,