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Speaker 1: Welcome sleep tight stories. Benjamin Bat's plan, of course, Katy

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Speaker 1: Katy Did was not always to be found in his

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Speaker 1: favorite nook among the trees in Farmer Green's front yard.

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Speaker 1: Quite often he went skipping about from tree to tree

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Speaker 1: or from bush to bush, sometimes flying and sometimes leaping.

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Speaker 1: It really made little difference to him which mode of

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Speaker 1: lucky he was to be able to move so spryly

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Speaker 1: with the help of either his legs or his wings.

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Speaker 1: He took his good fortune. As a matter of course,

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Speaker 1: there was mister Frog, he was a famous jumper, but

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Speaker 1: he couldn't fly. And there was mister Nighthawk, he was

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Speaker 1: a skillful flyer, but he couldn't jump. Such thoughts, however,

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Speaker 1: never entered Kitty Katy Did's head. He went cheerfully about

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Speaker 1: his business, which was eating principally, and jumped or flew

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Speaker 1: as the mood seized him. Indeed, if it hadn't been

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Speaker 1: for that strange fellow, Benjamin Bat, probably Kitty never would

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Speaker 1: have realized just what he could or couldn't do. Since

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Speaker 1: Benjamin was another night prowler like himself, Kitty Katy Did

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Speaker 1: saw him often. It seemed to Kitty that he could

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Speaker 1: scarcely even gaze at the full moon without catching sight

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Speaker 1: of Benjamin Bat's dusky shape flitting jerkily across the great

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Speaker 1: round yellow disk. When Benjamin was astir in the neighborhood,

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Speaker 1: Kitty Katy did lay low or high in his favorite treetop.

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Speaker 1: At least, he kept very still until the night was

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Speaker 1: nearly gone to give Benja and Bat plenty of time

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Speaker 1: to satisfy his hunger. For Kitty found Benjamin Bat a

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Speaker 1: much more agreeable companion when he had eaten his fill

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Speaker 1: early in the evening, soon after he had woken up.

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Speaker 1: Benjamin was positively ferocious, but the more he ate, the

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Speaker 1: more pleasant he grew, and by the time faint streaks

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Speaker 1: of light began to show in the east, he could

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Speaker 1: smile and crack a joke as easily as anybody else. Well.

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Speaker 1: Late one night or early one morning, Kitty Katy Did

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Speaker 1: and Benjamin Bat were enjoying a chat in the treetops

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Speaker 1: when Benji put a new idea into Kitty's head. We

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Speaker 1: ought to have some sports right here in Farmer Green's yard.

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Speaker 1: He suggested, you're such a fine jumper that you should

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Speaker 1: try your skill against mister Frog, and you're such a

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Speaker 1: fine flyer that you and Freddie Firefly ought to have

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Speaker 1: a race, I'd suggest, he added, I'd suggest that the

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Speaker 1: sports take place after dark, almost any evening, But Kitty

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Speaker 1: Katy Did spoke up quickly and said that he wouldn't

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Speaker 1: care to join in the fun until the night was

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Speaker 1: almost gone. He said he was sure he could jump

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Speaker 1: and fly better at that time, and that was quite

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Speaker 1: true because he knew that if mister Bat swallowed him

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Speaker 1: early in the evening, he wouldn't be able to take

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Speaker 1: any part in the sports very well. Then, Benjamin Bat replied,

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Speaker 1: but it will be the worst possible time for me.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean, Kitty Katy did inquired, do you

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Speaker 1: expect to enter any of the contests? Oh? Yes, said Benjamin.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to hang by my heels from the limb

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Speaker 1: of a tree, and since I'm never so heavy early

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Speaker 1: in the evening, before I've had a chance to eat much,

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Speaker 1: I'd prefer to have the sports begin soon after dark.

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Speaker 1: But Kitty Katy Did said there was no doubt Benjamin

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Speaker 1: Bat would win in the sport of hanging head downward

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Speaker 1: by his heels, and he told Benjamin not to worry.

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Speaker 1: When the night of the races and other sports finally came,

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Speaker 1: a great crowd began to gather about Farmer Green's place

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Speaker 1: soon after dark. Although Benjamin Batt had told people that

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Speaker 1: the fun wasn't going to begin until almost morning, they

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Speaker 1: were all so excited that they couldn't wait for the

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Speaker 1: night to pass. They lingered around the dooryard and talked

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Speaker 1: so loudly that they actually disturbed the household. Farmer Green

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Speaker 1: was even tempted to get up and shut his door.

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Speaker 1: He found it so hard to go to sleep. The

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Speaker 1: noisiest of all the gathering was mister Frog, the tailor

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Speaker 1: who lived over by the creek. He had a great

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Speaker 1: deal to say about everything, and it soon became plain

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Speaker 1: to everyone that he was trying to manage the whole affair.

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Speaker 1: Mister Frog objected to every arrangement that Benjamin Batt had made.

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Speaker 1: When he learned that he was expected to enter a

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Speaker 1: jumping contest with Kitty, Katy did he exclaimed that he

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Speaker 1: and Kitty were such good friends that he hated the

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Speaker 1: thought of trying to beat Kitty at jumping. Kitty might

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Speaker 1: feel bad, said mister Frog. People might laugh at him

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Speaker 1: because I won. Don't you worry about me, Kitty Katy did,

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Speaker 1: called out, where are you? Asked mister frog, looking all around.

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Speaker 1: I can hear you, but I can't see you. But

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Speaker 1: Katy Katy did refused to show himself. He preferred for

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Speaker 1: where he could listen to what people said and talk

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Speaker 1: to them when he wanted to. Wouldn't you prefer some

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Speaker 1: other sort of contest? Mister Frog then asked him, No,

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Speaker 1: they're swimming. We could swim in the watering trough or

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Speaker 1: the duck pond, and if I beat you, you could

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Speaker 1: people said. Don't you think that's a good idea? Goodness, no,

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Speaker 1: cried Kitty. I drowned myself in no time, dear me,

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Speaker 1: said mister Frog. I never thought of that. And then

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Speaker 1: everybody laughed so loudly at him that he hurried off

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Speaker 1: there until he was sure that his remarks had been forgotten. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: to try the sport of hanging head downward by his heels.

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Speaker 1: He asked Kitty Katy did, and Kitty declined flatly to

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Speaker 1: do any such thing now. Since Benjamin had not yet dined,

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Speaker 1: he was very short tempered, and he grew angry at once.

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Speaker 1: What's the matter, he sneered, don't you know how to

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Speaker 1: do an easy trick like that? If I could see you,

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Speaker 1: he declared, peering among the maple leaves, If I could

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Speaker 1: see you, I'd show you how it feels to hang

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Speaker 1: beneath a limb. Kitty Katy did said no word in reply.

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Speaker 1: He knew well enough what Benjamin Bat meant. Benjamin wanted

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Speaker 1: to eat him, and he wished that Benjamin would go

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Speaker 1: away and get a good meal some where before he

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Speaker 1: Kitty Katy did saw that there was going to be trouble.

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Speaker 1: He was worried about Benjamin Bat. Early in the evening,

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Speaker 1: Benjamin had begun to tease mister Frog, and he was

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Speaker 1: to go away and snatch even a bite to eat. Naturally,

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Speaker 1: Benjamin's temper grew worse as the night lengthened, and Kitty

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Speaker 1: Katy did had to admit to himself that he would

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Speaker 1: be most unwise if he did any jumping or flying

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Speaker 1: just then, For Benjamin Bat was in so fierce a

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Speaker 1: humor that he was ready to snap at anybody who

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Speaker 1: gave him a wide berth, and it began to look

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Speaker 1: as if he were going to spoil the night's fun.

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Speaker 1: But all the while, mister Frog never once lost his temper.

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Speaker 1: Even when Benjamin Bat called him a long legged, flat headed,

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Speaker 1: paddle footed meddler, mister Frog only smiled and turned a

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Speaker 1: few somersaults backwards. What's the matter with you, Benjamin Bat

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Speaker 1: asked him at last, can't you speak certainly? Certainly, mister

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Speaker 1: Frog said, then, I've been trying to think of some

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Speaker 1: way to prevent so much quarreling. It hardly seems fair

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Speaker 1: to Kutye Katy did this uproar right in his dooryard.

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Speaker 1: And since you're the one who's making the greatest disturbance,

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Speaker 1: I suggest that you go away and leave us to

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Speaker 1: enjoy the rest of the night in peace. I'll do

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Speaker 1: nothing of the kind. Benjamin Bat screamed, this is my party.

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Speaker 1: I thought of it in the first place, and I'm

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Speaker 1: going to stay here until dawn very well. Then the

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Speaker 1: and calling good bye to all his friends, Mister Frog

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Speaker 1: flopped himself briskly away. The smaller folk too, vanished, as

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Speaker 1: if by magic. Though Benjamin Bat watched sharply, he didn't

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Speaker 1: even see Freddy fire Fly when he slipped away. That's strange,

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Speaker 1: thought Benjamin. He must have put out his light to

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Speaker 1: fool me. But I don't care, because Kitty Katy did

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Speaker 1: is hidden somewhere in this tree, and I'm going to

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Speaker 1: find him, for I am terribly hungry. So Benjamin began

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Speaker 1: flying in and out among the maple branches. Nobody but

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Speaker 1: he could have twisted and turned in such a helter

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Speaker 1: skelter fashion it made Kitty Katy did almost dizzy just

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Speaker 1: to watch him. But Kitty did not take his eyes

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Speaker 1: off Benjamin because he intended to jump and jump fast

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Speaker 1: and far in case Benjamin should see him now. Although

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Speaker 1: as well as Farmer Green's cat could, Benjamin failed to

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Speaker 1: all dressed in green, Kitty Katy Did was almost invisible,

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Speaker 1: but if he had moved the least bit, Benjamin Bat

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Speaker 1: would have found him out. Looking only for a tiny

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Speaker 1: green figure among the green leaves. Benjamin Bat paid no

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Speaker 1: really strangely careless, quite unsuspected by him. While he was

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Speaker 1: woodshed and stolen softly into that very tree, where she

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Speaker 1: lay motionless along a limb. She had come out upon

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Speaker 1: an early morning hunt for birds. She was a fierce

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Speaker 1: old cat. There was nothing almost that she wasn't ready

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Speaker 1: and willing to fight. Even old dog Spot had learned

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Speaker 1: to stay away, And now she waited patiently until Benjamin

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Speaker 1: Batt should come within reach of her quick paws. That

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Speaker 1: silly blundering fellow bumped squarely into her at last, and

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Speaker 1: how he escaped is still a mystery. The old cat

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Speaker 1: always claimed that when she found Benjamin wasn't a bird,

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Speaker 1: she was so surprised that she let him go. And

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Speaker 1: as for Benjamin himself, he never would discuss his adventure

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Speaker 1: with anybody. Kitty Katy Did was the only other one

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Speaker 1: who saw what happened, but he was so frightened at

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Speaker 1: the time that he only knew that Benjamin bat tore

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Speaker 1: following him, And people do say that for some time afterward,

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Speaker 1: Kitty Katy Did shrilled a slightly different ditty. It was

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Speaker 1: Kitty did, Kitty did? She did, she did. But when

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Speaker 1: mister Frog mentioned that news with a laugh to Benjamin

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Speaker 1: Bat over in the swamp, Benjamin Bat only said stuff

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Speaker 1: and nonsense, Yet he looked most uncomfortable. M