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Speaker 1: Hi, missus Cheryl, and welcome to this special episode. This

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Speaker 1: episode is all about a hungry little kitten who's looking

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Speaker 1: for a home. Silver Tip, a very small, wet and

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Speaker 1: hungry kitten pattered up and down a boardwalk one cold

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Speaker 1: and rainy night. His fur was so soaked that it

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Speaker 1: dripped water when he moved, and his poor little pink

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Speaker 1: cushioned paws splashed more water up from the puddly boards

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Speaker 1: every time he stepped. His tail looked like a wet

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Speaker 1: wisp of fur, and his little round face was very sad. Wow,

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Speaker 1: said he. Wow. Wow. He heard somebody coming up the street.

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Speaker 1: I will follow that gentleman, he thought, and I will

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Speaker 1: cry so that he will be sorry for me and

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Speaker 1: give me a home. When this person came nearer, he

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Speaker 1: saw that it was not a gentleman at all, but

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Speaker 1: a lady who could hardly keep from being blown away.

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Speaker 1: He could not have seen her except that cat's eyes

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Speaker 1: can see in dark. Wow, said the kitten. Wow Wow,

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Speaker 1: poor little kitty, said a voice above him. Poor little kitty,

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Speaker 1: but you must not come with me. Wow, he answered,

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Speaker 1: and trotted right along after her. He was not a

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Speaker 1: kitten who was easily discouraged. He rubbed up against her

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Speaker 1: foot and made her stop for fear of stepping on him.

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Speaker 1: Then he felt himself gently lifted up and put aside.

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Speaker 1: He scrambled back and rubbed against her other foot, And

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Speaker 1: so it was for more than two blocks. The lady,

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Speaker 1: as he always called her afterward, kept pushing him gently

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Speaker 1: to one side, and he kept scrambling back. Sometimes she

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Speaker 1: even had to stand quite still for fear of stepping

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Speaker 1: on him. Wow, said the kitten, and he made up

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Speaker 1: his mind that anybody who spoke so kindly to strange

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Speaker 1: he said to himself. I don't care how many times

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Speaker 1: she pushes me away. I will scramble back. When they

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Speaker 1: turned in at a gate, he saw a big house

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Speaker 1: ahead of him with many windows brightly lit, and another

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Speaker 1: light on the porch. I like that home, he said

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Speaker 1: to himself. I will slip through the door when she

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Speaker 1: opens it. But after she had turned the key in

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Speaker 1: the door, she pushed him back and closed the screen

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Speaker 1: between them. Then he heard her say, poor little kitty,

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Speaker 1: I want to take you in, but we have agreed

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Speaker 1: not to adopt another cat. And then she closed the door.

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Speaker 1: He wanted to explain that he was not really a cat,

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Speaker 1: only a little kitten, but he had no chance to

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Speaker 1: say anything, so he waited outside and thought and cried.

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Speaker 1: He did not know that the lady and her husband

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Speaker 1: feared that cats would eat the many birds who nested

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Speaker 1: in the trees on the lawn. He thought it very

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Speaker 1: hard luck for a tiny kitten to be left out

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Speaker 1: in the cold rain while the lady was reading by

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Speaker 1: a blazing great fire. He did not know that as

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Speaker 1: she sat by the fire she thought about him instead

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Speaker 1: of her book, for she loved little kittens and found

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Speaker 1: it hard to leave any out in the street alone.

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Speaker 1: While he was thinking and crying, a tall gentleman with

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Speaker 1: a black beard and twins tinkling brown eyes came striding

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Speaker 1: up to the brightly lit porch. Well, kitty kat, said

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Speaker 1: the gentleman, and took a bunch of shining, jingling things

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Speaker 1: out of his pocket and stuck one of them into

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Speaker 1: the little hole in the door and turned it. Then

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Speaker 1: the door swung open, and the gentleman, who was trying

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Speaker 1: to close his umbrella and shake off the rein, called

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Speaker 1: first to the lady and then to the kitten, Oh Clara.

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Speaker 1: He cried, come to see this poor little kitten here, kitty,

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Speaker 1: kitty kitty. I know you want to see him here, kitty,

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Speaker 1: kitty kitty. I should have thought you would have heard

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Speaker 1: him crying here, kitty kitty. The lady came running out

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Speaker 1: and was laughing. Yes, John, she said, I have had

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Speaker 1: the pleasure of meeting him before. He was under my

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Speaker 1: feet most of the way home to night, and I

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Speaker 1: could hardly bear to leave him outside. But you know what,

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Speaker 1: we promised each other that we could not adopt another

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Speaker 1: cat on account of the birds. The gentleman sat down

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Speaker 1: upon the stairs and wiped the kitten off with his handkerchief. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I know, he said weakly, But Clara, look at this

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Speaker 1: poor little fellow. He couldn't catch a shipping sparrow. Not now,

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Speaker 1: answered the lady. Yet he will grow if he is

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Speaker 1: like most kittens. And you know what we said. If

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Speaker 1: we don't stick to it, we will soon have as

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Speaker 1: many cats as we did a few years ago. The

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Speaker 1: kitten saw that if he wanted to stay in this home,

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Speaker 1: he must insist upon it and be very firm indeed

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Speaker 1: with these people. So he kept on crying and stuck

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Speaker 1: his sharp claws into the gentleman's sleeve. The gentleman sat

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Speaker 1: ouch and lifted him onto his coat lapel. There he

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Speaker 1: clung and shook and cried. Well, I suppose we mustn't

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Speaker 1: keep him them, he said, But we will give him

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Speaker 1: a warm supper anyway. So they got some milk and

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Speaker 1: heated it and set it in a shallow dish before

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Speaker 1: the grate. Oh, how that kitten did eat. The lady

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Speaker 1: sat on the floor beside him, and the gentleman drew

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Speaker 1: his chair up close, and they said that it seemed

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Speaker 1: hard to turn him out, but that they would have

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Speaker 1: to do it because they had promised each other. The

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Speaker 1: kitten lapped up his milk with a soft click clicking

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Speaker 1: of his little pink tongue, and then turned his head

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Speaker 1: this way and that until he had licked all the

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Speaker 1: corners clean. He was so full of warm milk that

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Speaker 1: his sides bulged out, and his fur had begun to

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Speaker 1: dry and stick up, and pointed wisps all over him.

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Speaker 1: He pretended to lap milk long after it was gone.

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Speaker 1: This was partly to show them how well he could

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Speaker 1: wash dishes, and partly to put off the time when

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Speaker 1: he should be thrust out of doors. When he really

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Speaker 1: could not make believe any longer, his tongue being so tired,

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Speaker 1: he began to cry and rub against these two people.

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Speaker 1: The gentleman was the first to speak. I cannot stand this,

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Speaker 1: he said. If he has to go, I want to

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Speaker 1: get it over. He picked up the kitten and took

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Speaker 1: him to the door. As fast as he loosened one

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Speaker 1: of the kitten's claws from his coat, he stuck another

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Speaker 1: one in, and at last the lady had to help

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Speaker 1: him get free. He's a regular rough rider, said the gentleman.

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Speaker 1: There's no shaking him off. The kitten didn't understand what

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Speaker 1: finding a home, so he cried some more. Then the

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Speaker 1: door was shut behind him and he was alone in

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Speaker 1: the porch. Well, he said, I like that house and

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Speaker 1: those people. Even if they did put me out, I

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Speaker 1: think I will make them adopt me. So he cuddled

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Speaker 1: down in a sheltered, dry corner, put his four feet

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Speaker 1: all close together, and curled his tail as far as

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Speaker 1: it would go around them, and there he stayed all night.

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Speaker 1: In the morning, when the rain had stopped and the

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Speaker 1: sun was shining brightly, he trotted around the house and cried.

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Speaker 1: He went up onto another porch, rubbed against the door

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Speaker 1: and cried. The maid opened the door and put out

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Speaker 1: some milk for him. He could see into the warm

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Speaker 1: kitchen and smell the breakfast cooking on the range. When

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Speaker 1: she came out to get the empty dish, wsh He

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Speaker 1: slipped in through the open door. She said whushsh and

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Speaker 1: scat and shoo shoo, and tried to drive him out,

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Speaker 1: but he pretended not to understand and cuddled quietly down

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Speaker 1: Just then, some food began to burn on the range,

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Speaker 1: and the maid left him alone. The kitten did not cry.

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Speaker 1: Now he had other work to do, and began licking

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Speaker 1: himself all over and scratching his ears with his hind feet.

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Speaker 1: When he heard the gentleman and the lady talking in

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Speaker 1: the dining room, he watched for his chance and slipped in.

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Speaker 1: He decided to pay the most attention to the gentleman,

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Speaker 1: for he had been the first to take him up.

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Speaker 1: They were laughing and talking and saying how glad they

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Speaker 1: were that the rain had stopped falling, I believe John.

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Speaker 1: The lady said that if it had not been for me,

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Speaker 1: you would really have kept that kitten last night. Oh no,

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Speaker 1: answered the gentleman. We ought not to keep cats. I

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Speaker 1: think that if had not been for me, you would

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Speaker 1: have kept him. Just at that minute, the kitten began

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Speaker 1: climbing up his trouser leg and crying. Oh, poor little kitten,

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Speaker 1: said the gentleman, Clara, can't we spare him some of

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Speaker 1: this cream? He reached for the picture. The kitten began

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Speaker 1: to feel more sure of a home. Oh, John, not

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Speaker 1: here began the lady, and the maid came in to

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Speaker 1: explain how it at all happened. The kitten stuck his

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Speaker 1: claws into the gentleman's and would not let go. Then

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Speaker 1: he cried some more and waved his tail. He had

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Speaker 1: a very beautiful tail, marked just like that of a raccoon,

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Speaker 1: and he turned it toward the lady. He had heard

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Speaker 1: somewhere about putting the best foot forward, and thought that

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Speaker 1: a tail might do just as well. While he was

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Speaker 1: waving his tail at the lady, he rubbed his head

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Speaker 1: against the gentleman's black beard. If we should keep him, John,

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Speaker 1: said the lady. We ought to call him silver Tip,

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Speaker 1: because he has such a pretty white tip to his tail.

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Speaker 1: The kitten waved it again and began to purr. If

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Speaker 1: you knew what a strong and fearless fellow he is,

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Speaker 1: you would call him Teddy, answered the gentleman, turning over

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Speaker 1: a paper which said, in big black letters, our Teddy

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Speaker 1: wins call him Teddy' silver tip, then said the lady,

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Speaker 1: as she reached for the bell. When the maid came

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Speaker 1: in to answer her ring, she said, bell, please take

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Speaker 1: our kitten into the kitchen and feed him. Then the

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Speaker 1: kitten let go and was carried away, happy for he

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Speaker 1: had found a home. He had also learned how to

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Speaker 1: manage the lady and the gentleman, and he was always

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Speaker 1: very firm with them. After that good night sleep tight.

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Speaker 1: So to depend on the sop to be somet