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Speaker 1: found in our show notes. Thank you. Today, I am

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Speaker 1: going to share a story about mister and Missus Thumbkins.

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Speaker 1: Mister and Missus Thumbkins live in the forest. Mister Thumpkins

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Speaker 1: is looking for Missus Thumpkins, but he can't find her anywhere,

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Speaker 1: so he asks his neighbors for help. None of them

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Speaker 1: have seen her, but Billy Bumblebee offers to take him

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Speaker 1: up into the air to find her. Together they will

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Speaker 1: find her and bring her home. Mister and Missus Thumpkins.

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Speaker 1: Thumbkins ran beneath the bushes and down the tiny path

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Speaker 1: until he came to where Tommy Grasshopper sat upon a

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Speaker 1: blade of grass in the breeze. Have you seen Missus Thumpkins,

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Speaker 1: Tommy Grasshopper, Thumbkins asked, I have been asleep, replied Tommy Grasshopper,

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Speaker 1: and I haven't seen her. Oh, dear, Oh dear, cried Thumpkins.

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Speaker 1: She has not been home all day. Perhaps she went

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Speaker 1: over to see Grandpa to baccy Worm, suggested Tommy Grasshopper

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Speaker 1: as he flicked his wings and made the blade of

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Speaker 1: grass swing up and down. So Thumbkins thanked Tommy Grasshopper

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Speaker 1: and ran over to Grandpa. To baccy Worm's house, Grandpa,

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Speaker 1: to baccy Worm, was sitting upon a blade of grass,

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Speaker 1: swinging in the breeze and smoking his old clay pipe. Oh, Grandpa,

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Speaker 1: to backy Worm, have you seen missus Thumpkins. She has

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Speaker 1: not been at home all day and I cannot find her,

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Speaker 1: cried Thumbkins. Yes, I saw her early this morning, going

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Speaker 1: down the path with her acorn basket, said Grandpa to

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Speaker 1: baccy Worm, as he blew a few rings of smoke

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Speaker 1: in the air. Perhaps she has gone to the Katie

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Speaker 1: Did grocery store to buy something, Grandpa to baccy Worm added,

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Speaker 1: as he bounced up and down on his blade of grass.

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Speaker 1: So Thumbkins thanked Grandpa to baccy Worm, and went on

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Speaker 1: down the tiny path. Hello, Thumkins, cried a cheery voice

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Speaker 1: as Thumbkins ran under a bunch of flowers. Where are

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Speaker 1: you going in such a hurry? Thumbkins saw Billy Bumblebee

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Speaker 1: sitting upon one of the flowers, swinging in the breeze.

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Speaker 1: Missus Thumpkins has not been home all day, said Thumpkins.

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Speaker 1: And I cannot find her anywhere, m replied Billy Bumblebee.

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Speaker 1: Let me think, m This was his way of thinking

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Speaker 1: very hard. Perhaps she has gone over to see Grandpa

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Speaker 1: to backing worms, mister Thumbkins, No, replied Thumbkins. I went

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Speaker 1: there and also over to the Katie Did store, but

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Speaker 1: she was not there. Suppose you climb upon my back, Thumpkins,

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Speaker 1: and let me help you find her, said Billy Bumblebee,

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Speaker 1: as he buzzed his wings, making the flower sway up

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Speaker 1: and down. So Thumbkins climbed up the flower stock and

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Speaker 1: took a seat upon Billy Bumblebee's back. Let us fly

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Speaker 1: way up in the air, so that we they looked

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Speaker 1: down over all the country, said Billy Bumblebee, as he

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Speaker 1: made his wings were and climbed high in the air.

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Speaker 1: Billy Bumblebee and Thumbkins looked over the country carefully, but

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Speaker 1: they could not see Missus Thumbkins anywhere. Finally, Billy's sharp

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Speaker 1: eyes discovered something shiny down by the side of the pond,

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Speaker 1: so they flew down towards it. It was a new

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Speaker 1: tin can house. The door was closed. Thumbkins alighted from

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Speaker 1: Billy Bumblebee's back and knocked on the door. Tinky Tink

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Speaker 1: tink ver, said a deep voice from inside the tin

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Speaker 1: can house. Billy Bumblebee peeped through a chink in a

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Speaker 1: window and saw Hoppy Toad with his mouth full of pancakes.

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Speaker 1: So Thumbkins picked up a pebble and knocked louder tonky

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Speaker 1: tonk tonk. Old Man hoppy Toad came to the door

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Speaker 1: with a pancake in each hand and another large one

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Speaker 1: in his mouth. Ahh, he said, where is missus Thumpkins,

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Speaker 1: Billy be demanded as he buzzed around old mister hoppy

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Speaker 1: Toad's head. I don't know, said old Man hoppy Toad

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Speaker 1: when he had swallowed the pancake. Yes you do, Thumpkins

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Speaker 1: cried as he caught old Man hoppy Toad's hand. Who

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Speaker 1: made those pancakes for you? Billy Bumblebee buzzed closer to

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Speaker 1: Old Man hoppy Toad's head, and old Man hoppy Toad

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Speaker 1: blinked his big round eyes and finally said, she is

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Speaker 1: locked up in the kitchen. So Thumbkins ran to the

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Speaker 1: kitchen and came out with Missus Thumpkins. Old Man hoppy

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Speaker 1: Toad had locked her in the kitchen so she would

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Speaker 1: bake lots and lots of pancakes for him. Thumbkins was

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Speaker 1: so glad to see Missus Thumpkins he came very near crying,

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Speaker 1: and Billy Bumblebee said to old man hoppy Toad, now

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Speaker 1: you must leave our neighborhood, for we do not permit

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Speaker 1: anyone to bother anyone else in the town of Tiny Things.

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Speaker 1: So old man hoppy Toad had to pack up all

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Speaker 1: And Billy bumble Be buzzed right around his head as

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Speaker 1: hoppity hop and never once looked behind him. Thumbkins and

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Speaker 1: Missus Thumbkins went back home, and when Billy Bumblebee returned

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Speaker 1: and told them he had made old man Hoppy Toad

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Speaker 1: go way down to the river, they knew they would

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Speaker 1: never be troubled with him again. Missus Thumpkins said she

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Speaker 1: had fried pancakes all day, but she was not too

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Speaker 1: tired to fry more so, she made a lot of

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Speaker 1: pancakes while Billy Bumblebee flew home and returned with a

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Speaker 1: bucket of honey. And they had so many pancakes, Missus

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Speaker 1: Thumpkins asked Billy Bumblebee if he would fly around and

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Speaker 1: invite all the neighbors in to help eat them. Tommy Grasshopper,

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Speaker 1: grandpa to Bacci Worm, and all the other friends of

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Speaker 1: the Thumpkins came and ate the lovely pancakes covered with

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Speaker 1: the delicious honey. And after eating as much as they could,

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Speaker 1: everybody caught hold of hands and danced until late in

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Speaker 1: the night, for the Katie Did Orchestra was there to

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Speaker 1: play the music. Good night, Sleep Tight n