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Speaker 1: We are getting close to the end of our story

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Speaker 1: about Tinkle the trick Pony. There are only two episodes left. Remember,

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Speaker 1: Tinkle has just arrived at the circus and he is

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Speaker 1: wondering if he will see Tom Tum the elephant or

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Speaker 1: Mappo the Monkey. He is brought into a tent with

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Speaker 1: the other ponies and is cleaned up and fed. Tinkle

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Speaker 1: is feeling pretty happy and looking forward to learning some

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Speaker 1: new tricks. When the parade begins and he hears the

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Speaker 1: elephants coming, Will Tom Tom be there? Tinkle the Trick Pony,

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Speaker 1: Part nine. Well, come along, now, pony, I'll see how

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Speaker 1: many tricks you know, and how many I can teach you.

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Speaker 1: It was the circus man who had bought Tinkle who

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Speaker 1: was speaking. But Tinkle was so taken up with looking

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Speaker 1: did not at first listen. Come along, called the man again,

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Speaker 1: And then Tinkle heard a whistle. This time he turned

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Speaker 1: around quickly. For a moment he thought his dear little

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Speaker 1: master George had come for him, but he saw only

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Speaker 1: It must have been the man who whistled to me,

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Speaker 1: said Tinkle to himself. I guess though, he wants me

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Speaker 1: to come with him, as George used to do when

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Speaker 1: he wanted me to go with him when he whistled,

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Speaker 1: I'll go, so Tinkle followed the man, which was just

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Speaker 1: what the man wanted. He led Tinkle along by the rope,

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Speaker 1: made fast to his halter. Well you know something to

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Speaker 1: start with, said the circus man, smiling at Tinkle. The pony,

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Speaker 1: and not sharp and cross, as had the moving men sometimes. Besides,

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Speaker 1: man was kind, and he followed him to a little

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Speaker 1: Next door were big horses, and they were all either

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Speaker 1: Here's a new pony I've bought, Tom, said the first

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Speaker 1: He can do a few tricks, and I'm going to

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Speaker 1: teach him more, look after him and clean him off.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't seem to have been well taken care of. That's right,

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Speaker 1: mister Drake, he doesn't, answered Tom. I'll take good care

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Speaker 1: of him. Though poor Tinkle's hairy coat was in a

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Speaker 1: sad state. It was dirty and bits of hay and

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Speaker 1: Tinkle had been kept very clean by Patrick and George,

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Speaker 1: They had stolen first to clean you up, said Tom,

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Speaker 1: Then we'll see about your tricks. Mister Drake is a

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Speaker 1: good pony teacher. Though Tinkle could understand very little of

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Speaker 1: this talk, yet somehow he felt happier than he had

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Speaker 1: taken away from George. With a brush, a curry comb,

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Speaker 1: for a while, said Tom. Now I'll get you something

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Speaker 1: George used to do. Tinkle liked to hear a clear,

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Speaker 1: other ponies. His stall was just a place between two

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Speaker 1: It was almost as good as being home again. Well

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Speaker 1: where in the world did you come from, asked a

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Speaker 1: came today, said Tinkle, after he had swallowed some of

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Speaker 1: Is it nice? Oh, it's lots of fun, said the

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Speaker 1: We have great times doing tricks, said the pony on

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Speaker 1: Tinkle's right, and his name was Prancer. We do lots

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Speaker 1: pony had told his name. I can make a bow,

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Speaker 1: Those are all good tricks, said Tiny Tim. But you

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Speaker 1: will have to learn many more if you are to

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Speaker 1: they call mister Drake will teach Tinkle tricks, remarked Prancer.

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Speaker 1: He taught me all I know. Why would you believe?

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Speaker 1: He went on? When first I joined the circus, I

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Speaker 1: asked Tinkle, I should say he could, cried tiny Tim

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Speaker 1: with a laughing whinny. He is the best trick pony

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Speaker 1: I can do a few tricks, it is true. But

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Speaker 1: now you let me tell, interrupted tiny Tim, laughing. You

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Speaker 1: can do those things, said Prancer. My what a lot

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Speaker 1: of tricks, cried Tinkle. I wonder if I shall ever

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Speaker 1: be able to do even half that many. Of course

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Speaker 1: you will, said Prancer. Kindly, you wait, mister Drake will

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Speaker 1: teach you as he taught me. All this while many

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Speaker 1: things were going on about the circus grounds. The big

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Speaker 1: tents had been put up, the animal cages wheeled in,

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Speaker 1: The clowns were painting their faces in such funny ways

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Speaker 1: golden wagons were being made ready for the parade. The

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Speaker 1: band was playing, the pretty flags were blowing in the wind,

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Speaker 1: and all together the circus was such a nice place

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Speaker 1: that for the first time in a long time, Tinkle

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Speaker 1: felt happy. But when he thought of George and the

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Speaker 1: nice home he had been taken from, he felt sad. Still,

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Speaker 1: this is much better than being kept in the dirty stable,

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Speaker 1: thought the trick pony. Maybe I'll see George someday. Tom,

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Speaker 1: the man who had cleaned and fed Tinkle, came running

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Speaker 1: into the pony's tent. Not everybody lively, everybody all at once.

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Speaker 1: Some other men began taking down off pegs in the tent, poles,

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Speaker 1: What is going on, asked Tinkle. Oh they are going

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Speaker 1: to dress us up and hitch us to a little

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Speaker 1: golden wagon to go in the parade, said prancer. Do

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Speaker 1: you think I am to go? Asked Tinkle. I think

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Speaker 1: not this time, answered Tiny Tim. You see, you don't

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Speaker 1: know much about the circus yet, and you might be

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Speaker 1: frightened by the big crowds and the noise. Then too,

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Speaker 1: you wouldn't know how to pull the golden chariot in

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Speaker 1: Oh that must be fine, cried Tinkle, it is, but

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Speaker 1: you'll be in it soon, so don't worry. Put in prancer.

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Speaker 1: We'll be back by noon. The men hitched up the

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Speaker 1: ponies and led them out of the tent to where

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Speaker 1: the golden chariot stood. This new pony is a very

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Speaker 1: pretty one, said the man Tom to one of his helpers.

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Speaker 1: When he is trained, he'll go in the parade too.

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Speaker 1: Tinkle felt a little sad when his pony friends left

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Speaker 1: him alone in the big tent, but still he had

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Speaker 1: he knew they would come back soon. Tinkle saw a

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Speaker 1: boy coming toward him with a pail of water, and

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Speaker 1: for a moment the pony thought the boy might be George,

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Speaker 1: but he was not. I wonder if I shall ever

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Speaker 1: see George Mabel and nice Patrick again, thought Tinkle. I

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Speaker 1: would just love to be in my nice home once more,

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Speaker 1: even though I like the circus. Suddenly Tinkle heard someone

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Speaker 1: call look out, here come the elephants, and the ground

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Speaker 1: seemed to rumble and shake, as it did when there

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Speaker 1: was a heavy thunderstorm. Elephants elephants, said Tinkle to himself,

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Speaker 1: where have I heard that word before? Then he remembered. Oh,

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Speaker 1: now I know, he said, Dido the Dancing Bear told

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Speaker 1: me about them. Tinkle looked from his tent. Near him,

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Speaker 1: just outside were ten big elephants with bright silk blankets

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Speaker 1: on their backs, and as Tinkle looked, he saw one

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Speaker 1: funny elephant slyly reach out his trunk and pull the

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Speaker 1: hunting on the ground for a peanut. All at once,

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Speaker 1: it flashed into Tinkle's head. That must be Tom Tum,

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Speaker 1: the jolly elephant Dido was telling me about. I'll ask him, so,

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Speaker 1: he called, in animal talk, how do you do? Tom Tom? Huh?

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Speaker 1: What's that? Someone must know me, answered tom Tum, for

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Speaker 1: it was he. Oh, he went on, it's a little pony.

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Speaker 1: But though I know most of the ponies in this circus,

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Speaker 1: I don't know you. And Tom Tum walked a little

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Speaker 1: closer to Tinkle's tent. I heard about you from Dido

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Speaker 1: the Dancing Bear, said Tinkle, as he told his own name.

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Speaker 1: I never thought I should meet you in this circus, though,

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Speaker 1: why how stray, cried Tum Tum Fancy meeting Didough. You

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Speaker 1: very good friends. I was sorry when he went away

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Speaker 1: I have to go in the parade now, and tum Tum,

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Speaker 1: with a jolly laugh and a wink of his eye

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Speaker 1: his big head. Now, Tinkle, we can have a nice talk,

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Speaker 1: said tum Tum a little later, when he came back

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Speaker 1: to join the circus, And most of all, I want

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Speaker 1: to hear about my old friend Di Dough. So Tinkle

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Speaker 1: told all he could remember, telling first of the beautiful

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Speaker 1: who had taught him a few tricks, and of having

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Speaker 1: been taken away by two men and a big moving van.

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Speaker 1: Then Tinkle told of having met Dido, of what the

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Speaker 1: Tinkle about Tom Tom and Mappo the merry monkey. Is

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Speaker 1: Mappo in this circus, asked Tinkle as he finished his

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Speaker 1: little story. Yes, and you'll probably see him in a

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Speaker 1: day or so, answered tom tom That afternoon, when the

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Speaker 1: performance was over, mister Drake, the man who had bought

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Speaker 1: Tinkle from the man who had stolen him, came to

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Speaker 1: where the pony was lying down in the tent and said,

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Speaker 1: now we'll see what you know and how much I

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Speaker 1: have to teach you. We will begin with some easy tricks.

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Speaker 1: Then began a busy time for Tinkle, not only that day,

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