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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Kids Short Stories. Today's story is brought

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Speaker 1: to us by one of our friends, Asher. Hey, Asher,

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Speaker 1: he sent us an idea on our Instagram page, which

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Speaker 1: us your idea and maybe I will turn it into

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Speaker 1: an adventure. Are you ready for this one? Me too?

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Speaker 1: Let's go Today? Asher was at the beach. Who else

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Speaker 1: likes going to the beach? Me? Me, me, me too.

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Speaker 1: Asher loved going to the beach and building sand castles

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Speaker 1: and playing in the sand and splashing in the water

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Speaker 1: and watching crabs run around. It was a super fun place.

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Speaker 1: And this morning, before they all went to the beach,

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Speaker 1: his dad was painting, and all of a sudden he

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Speaker 1: looked and said, Asher, have you seen my paint brush?

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Speaker 1: I think it's missing. M All right, let me look.

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Speaker 1: Asher began to look all over, but the painting brush

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Speaker 1: was gone. What that was our best one? What in

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Speaker 1: the world? Ah? Then Asher saw something that he knew

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Speaker 1: exactly what it was. He saw little footprints. These were

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Speaker 1: not footprints from people, Nope, these footprints were from crabs. Crab,

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, there was a crab here. Do you

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Speaker 1: think he took the paint brush. No, I don't think

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Speaker 1: a grab would do that. Crabs, No, that wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: Asher's dad said, as she said, no, I pretty sure.

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Speaker 1: I bet that is where the paint brushes. I bet

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Speaker 1: a crab walked in here and saw the paint brush

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Speaker 1: and he said, I want to go painting, and so

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Speaker 1: I will take up this paint to brush. Yeah. I

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Speaker 1: bet that's exactly what happened with the crab. I bet

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Speaker 1: he wanted to paint and so he stole our paint brush.

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Speaker 1: That can't let that happen. I just said, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go rescue the paint brush from whoever those mystery crab is.

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Speaker 1: Let's go. Asher jumped onto his monster truck that he

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Speaker 1: rode all the way to the beach. It was a

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Speaker 1: pretty bumpy ride because there were a lot of sand dunes.

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Speaker 1: Sand dunes are those big hills of sand that you

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Speaker 1: see by the beach, and so he went up and

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Speaker 1: down and up bin, down and up whoa. Finally he

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Speaker 1: got to the beach. He started to look for clues.

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Speaker 1: Mm hmmm, where if I was a crab and I

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Speaker 1: wanted to go paint. Where would I go? He checked

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Speaker 1: over by the water. There are lots of crabs there,

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Speaker 1: but none of them had a paintbrush. M hmm, let's check. Oh,

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Speaker 1: let's check where we go crabbing. Asher was really good

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Speaker 1: at crabbing. Do you know what that is? Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: where you tie a piece of meat to some string

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Speaker 1: and it's kind of like fishing, but instead of fishing

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Speaker 1: for fish or fishing for crabs. So he would lower

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Speaker 1: the string with the meat on it until a crab

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Speaker 1: would grab onto it and then you pull them up.

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Speaker 1: And so he wanted to check their favorite spot. Maybe

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Speaker 1: the crab was there, and so he got back in

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Speaker 1: his monster truck and drove to their favorite crabbing spot.

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Speaker 1: M hm m m nothing there. Mmm. Where is another

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Speaker 1: place that I've seen crabs? Oh, when the tide goes

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Speaker 1: out and there's this one muddy spot in the marsh

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Speaker 1: where crabs like to hang out, Let's definitely check there.

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Speaker 1: And that was a long walk down the boardwalk and

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Speaker 1: good thing the tide was out. Do you know what

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Speaker 1: that means? When the tide is out, that means the

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Speaker 1: water in the ocean kind of went way far out,

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Speaker 1: and so the water is more shallow, and so then

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Speaker 1: you can see mud or you can see things that

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Speaker 1: are normally underwater. And so the tide was out. That

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Speaker 1: meant it was pretty muddy in the marsh, and the

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Speaker 1: crabs like to run around and look for things to eat.

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Speaker 1: So Asher went to go check it out. Mm hm, oh,

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Speaker 1: my gosh, what in the world. What is that? He

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Speaker 1: saw something in the mud that looked like someone had

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Speaker 1: taken a paint brush and brushed it through the mud.

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Speaker 1: What that better not be that crab that took my

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Speaker 1: dad's paint brush. If it got all money, that would

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Speaker 1: be terrible, Asher said. So he started to look around,

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Speaker 1: and he grabbed his binoculars and started to look in

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Speaker 1: the marsh. M hm, m hm, oh, my gosh. He

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Speaker 1: couldn't believe his eyes. There was a crab holding a

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Speaker 1: paint brush painting a mud picture. Hey, mr crab, what

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Speaker 1: are you doing? Get over here. The crab, with his

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Speaker 1: silly little eyes, looked at him. Oh, hello, the crab said,

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Speaker 1: I'm just painting a nice a pig show for my birthday.

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Speaker 1: Asher said, wait a second, it's your birthday. It's my birthday.

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Speaker 1: I'm turning five. But you cannot just like take our paintbrush.

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Speaker 1: That's not nice. And the crab said, oh, well, you

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Speaker 1: can have it back when I'm done. And the crab

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Speaker 1: ran off, Hey that's your crab, like get oh man,

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Speaker 1: what is Asher gonna do? How is he going to

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Speaker 1: get that paint brush back? And then he thought, maybe

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Speaker 1: I can make a trade. Do you know what a

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Speaker 1: trade is? Yeah, it's when you switch something with someone else.

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Speaker 1: So let's pretend. What if What if Asher was able

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Speaker 1: to make a paintbrush out of like a stick and

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Speaker 1: some leaves or maybe some grass and bring it to

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Speaker 1: the crab and say, hey, I will trade you this

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Speaker 1: for that paintbrush that you have. That is a trade.

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Speaker 1: And so Asher walked over to where the crab was

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Speaker 1: in his big mud boots. He had really cool mud boots,

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Speaker 1: and he said, all right, mr crab, I have a

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Speaker 1: de goal. How about you take this paintbrush and then

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Speaker 1: you give me mine back. That's we'll call it an

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Speaker 1: even trade, and you can keep painting on your birthday

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Speaker 1: because I need to bring this paintbrush back to my

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Speaker 1: house because it's my birthday. Okay, tu, well, I guess.

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Speaker 1: So the crab said, his pinchers holding the paint brush,

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Speaker 1: reached up towards Asher to grab this new paintbrush that

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Speaker 1: Asher had made, and he gave Asher back the paintbrush.

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Speaker 1: Oh thank you, Mr Crab. What's your name? I don't

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Speaker 1: like to tell strangers my name, but you can call

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Speaker 1: me Mr Chops. Oh, thank you, Mr Chops. And please

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Speaker 1: don't take our things again. If you want to use

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Speaker 1: our paint brush, you can just ask. But don't come

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Speaker 1: into our house and just take our paint brush, because

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Speaker 1: that's not nice. Okay, okay, I'll remember that. And that

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Speaker 1: was it. The crab ran off into the mud and

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Speaker 1: Asher got his paint brush back. He was so excited

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Speaker 1: he got back in his monster truck and rode back home.

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Speaker 1: And as he got home, surprise, his whole family was

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Speaker 1: waiting for him for a birthday surprise the end. Happy birthday, Asher.

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Speaker 1: That is so cool that you're turning five. That's amazing

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Speaker 1: and super old. You're getting so smart. All right, friends,

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Speaker 1: we will see you next time. Have a great day.

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