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Speaker 1: in our show notes. Thank you. The Little red Hen.

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Speaker 1: A little red hen lived in a barnyard. She spent

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Speaker 1: almost all of her time walking about the barnyard in

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Speaker 1: her pickady pecketty fashion, scratching everywhere or worms. She dearly

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Speaker 1: loved fat, delicious worms and felt they were absolutely necessary

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Speaker 1: to the health of her children. As often as she

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Speaker 1: found a worm, she would call chuck, chuck chuck. To

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Speaker 1: her chickies. When they were gathered about her, she would

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Speaker 1: distribute choice morsels of her tidbit. A busy little body was.

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Speaker 1: She A cat usually napped lazily in the barn door,

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Speaker 1: not even bothering herself to scare the rat who ran

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Speaker 1: here and there as he pleased. And as for the

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Speaker 1: pig who lived in the sty, he did not care

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Speaker 1: what happened so long as he could eat and grow fat.

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Speaker 1: One day, the little red hen found a seed. It

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Speaker 1: was a wheat seed. But the little red hen was

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Speaker 1: so accustomed to bugs and worms that she supposed this

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Speaker 1: would be some new and perhaps very delicious kind of meat.

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Speaker 1: She bit it gently and found that it resembled a

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Speaker 1: worm in no way whatsoever as to taste, although because

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Speaker 1: it was long and slender, a little red hen might

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Speaker 1: easily be fooled by its appearance. Carrying it about, she

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Speaker 1: made many inquiries as to what it might be. She

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Speaker 1: found it was a wheat seed, and that if planted,

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Speaker 1: it would grow up, and when ripe, it could be

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Speaker 1: made into flour and then into bread. When she discovered

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Speaker 1: that she knew it ought to be planted, she was

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Speaker 1: so busy hunting food for herself and her family that

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Speaker 1: naturally she thought she ought not to take time to

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Speaker 1: plant it. So she thought of the pig, upon whom

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Speaker 1: time must hang heavily, and of the cat, who had

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Speaker 1: nothing to do, and of the great fat rat with

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Speaker 1: his idle hours. And she called loudly, who will plant

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Speaker 1: the seed? But the pig said not I, and the

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Speaker 1: cat said not I, and the rat said not I. Well,

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Speaker 1: then said the little red hen, I will, and she did.

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Speaker 1: Then she went on with her daily duties through the

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Speaker 1: long summer days, scratching for worms and feeding her chicks,

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Speaker 1: while the pig grew fat, and the cat grew fat,

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Speaker 1: and the rat grew fat, and the wheat grew tall

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Speaker 1: and ready for harvest. So one day the little red

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Speaker 1: hen chanced to notice how large the wheat was, and

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Speaker 1: that the grain was ripe. So she ran about, calling briskly,

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Speaker 1: who will cut the wheat? The pig said not I,

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Speaker 1: and the cat said not I, and the rat said

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Speaker 1: not I. Well, then said the little red hen, I will,

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Speaker 1: and she did. She got the sickle from among the

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Speaker 1: farmer's tools in the barn, and proceeded to cut off

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Speaker 1: all of the big plant of wheat. On the ground

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Speaker 1: lay the nicely cut wheat, ready to be gathered and threshed.

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Speaker 1: But the newest and yellowest and downiest of missus Hen's

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Speaker 1: chicks set up a peep peep, peeping in their most

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Speaker 1: vigorous fashion, proclaiming to the world at large, but most

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Speaker 1: particularly to their mother, that she was neglecting them. Poor

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Speaker 1: little red hen. She felt quite bewildered and hardly knew

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Speaker 1: where to turn. Her attention was sorely divided between her

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Speaker 1: duty to her children and her duty to the wheat

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Speaker 1: for which she felt responsible. So again, in a very

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Speaker 1: hopeful tone, she called out, who will thresh the wheat?

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Speaker 1: But the pig with a grunt, said not I, and

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Speaker 1: the cat with a meow, said not I. And the

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Speaker 1: rat with a squeak said not I. So the little

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Speaker 1: red hen, looking it must be admitted, rather discouraged, said

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Speaker 1: well I will then, and she did. Of course, she

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Speaker 1: had to feed her babies first, though, and when she

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Speaker 1: had gotten them all to sleep for their afternoon nap,

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Speaker 1: she went out and threshed the wheat. Then she called out,

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Speaker 1: Turning their backs with a snippy glee, that pig said

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Speaker 1: not I, and that cat said not I, and that

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Speaker 1: rat said not I. So the good little red hen

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Speaker 1: could do nothing but say I will then, and she did.

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Speaker 1: Carrying the sack of wheat, she trudged off to the

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Speaker 1: white flower. When the miller brought her the flower, she

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Speaker 1: walked slowly back all the way to her own barnyard

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Speaker 1: in her own picketty pecketty fashion. She even managed, in

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Speaker 1: spite of her load, to catch a nice juicy worm

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Speaker 1: now and then, and had one left for the babies.

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Speaker 1: When she reached them, those cunning little fluffballs were so

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Speaker 1: glad to see their mother for the first time. They

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Speaker 1: really appreciated her. After this really strenuous day, missus Hen

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Speaker 1: retired to her slumbers earlier than usual, indeed before the

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Speaker 1: colors came into the sky to harold the setting of

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Speaker 1: the sun, her usual bedtime hour. She would have liked

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Speaker 1: to sleep late in the morning, but her chicks joining

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Speaker 1: in the morning chorus of the hen yard drove away

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Speaker 1: all hopes of such a luxury. Even as she sleepily

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Speaker 1: half opened one eye, the thought came to her that

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Speaker 1: to day that wheat must somehow be made into bread.

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Speaker 1: She was not in the habit of making bread, although

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Speaker 1: of course any one can make it if he or

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Speaker 1: she follows the recipe with care, and she knew perfectly

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Speaker 1: well that she could do it if necessary. So after

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Speaker 1: her children were fed and made sweet and fresh for

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Speaker 1: the day, she hunted up the pig, the cat, and

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Speaker 1: the rat, still confident that they would surely help her some.

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Speaker 1: That day she sang out, who will make the bread?

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Speaker 1: Alas for the little red hen, Once more her hopes

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Speaker 1: were dashed, for the pig said not I. The cat

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Speaker 1: said not I, and the rat said not I. So

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Speaker 1: and she did, feeling as she might have known all

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Speaker 1: the time, that she would have to do it all herself.

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Speaker 1: She went and put on a fresh apron and spotless

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Speaker 1: cook's cap. First of all, she set the dough as

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Speaker 1: was proper. When it was time, she brought out the

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Speaker 1: molding board and the baking tins, molded the bread, divided

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Speaker 1: it into loaves, and put them into the oven to bake.

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Speaker 1: All the while the cat sat lazily by giggling and chuckling,

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Speaker 1: and close at hand, the vein rat powdered his nose

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Speaker 1: and admired himself in a mirror. In the distance could

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Speaker 1: be heard the long drawn snores of the dozing pig.

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Speaker 1: At last, the great moment arrived. A delicious odor was

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Speaker 1: wafted upon the autumn breeze. Everywhere the barnyard citizens sniffed

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Speaker 1: the air with delight. The red hen ambled in her

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Speaker 1: picketty pecketty way toward the source of all this excitement.

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Speaker 1: Although she appeared to be perfectly calm, in reality she

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Speaker 1: could only with difficulty restrain an impulse to dance and sing.

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Speaker 1: For had she not done all the work on this

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Speaker 1: wonderful bread, small wonder that she was the most excited

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Speaker 1: person in the barnyard. She did not know whether the

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Speaker 1: bread would be fit to eat, but joy of joys,

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Speaker 1: when the lovely brown loaves came out of the oven,

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Speaker 1: they were done to perfection. Then, probably because she had

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Speaker 1: acquired the habit, the red hen called, who will eat

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Speaker 1: the bread? All the animals in the barnyard were watching

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Speaker 1: hungrily and smacking their lips in anticipation. And the pig

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Speaker 1: said I will, and the cat said I will, and

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Speaker 1: the rat said I will. But the little red hen said, no,

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Speaker 1: you won't. I will. And she did Hippi pass simply

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