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Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. I'd like

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Speaker 1: to say hello to some friends. Hello to Cameron and

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Speaker 1: Braden in Calgary, Alberta. Thank you for your support. It

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Speaker 1: means so much to us. In our last episode, Lightfoot

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Speaker 1: ran away from some boys and ended up on a

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Speaker 1: canal boat. He didn't know how to get off of

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Speaker 1: the boat, so he went for a voyage. In this episode,

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Speaker 1: Lightfoot decides that the voyage on the canal boat is

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Speaker 1: not so bad. He is hungry and asks the horses

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Speaker 1: tell him they can't there is no way to get

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Speaker 1: it the food to him. Lightfoot uses his nose and

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Speaker 1: finds some hay left behind from another horse, eats and

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Speaker 1: then has a rest. When he wakes up, Lightfoot realizes

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Speaker 1: he is homesick and decides to try and get off

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Speaker 1: the canal boat, but can't make the jump. Lucky for him,

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Speaker 1: they are stopping to put something in the hold Lightfoot.

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Speaker 1: Chapter seven, Lightfoot, down in the hold of the canal boat,

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Speaker 1: felt the craft slipping through the water easily. He was

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Speaker 1: being carried with it. Well, this is not so bad.

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Speaker 1: For a start the goat. It is much easier than

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Speaker 1: riding in a wagon, as I once did when Lightfoot

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Speaker 1: with Mike and his mother. He remembered being taken from

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Speaker 1: tossing Lightfoot from side to side. The motion of the

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Speaker 1: canal boat was much easier, for there were no waves

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Speaker 1: large enough to make the Salie Jane bob about Sally

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Speaker 1: Jane was the name of the boat on which Lightfoot

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Speaker 1: was riding. This is a nicer ride than I had

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Speaker 1: in the wagon, thought Lightfoot, Only I don't know where

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Speaker 1: I am going. But then he thought I didn't know

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Speaker 1: where I was going the other time, however, I came

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Speaker 1: to a nice place, the shanty where Mike and his

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Speaker 1: Anything is being better than chased by a sick or

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Speaker 1: some boys with lumps of coal. Then Lightfoot began to

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Speaker 1: did not know. He could smell Hay and oats. I

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Speaker 1: are that I was talking to. He said to himself,

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Speaker 1: stable was, and, tapping on the wall with his horns,

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Speaker 1: waited for an answer. What is it, Lightfoot asked one

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Speaker 1: If you please, said the goat, I am very hungry.

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Speaker 1: Could you not pass me out some of the hay

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Speaker 1: or oats that I smell? We would be glad to

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Speaker 1: do so, said a kind horse. Only we cannot. There

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Speaker 1: said Lightfoot. It is pretty high to jump, but I'll try.

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Speaker 1: Lightfoot did try to jump up, but he could not.

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Speaker 1: It is easy to jump down, but not easy even

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Speaker 1: for a goat to jump up. I can't do it,

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Speaker 1: sighed the goat. Oh, and the smell of your hay

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Speaker 1: and oats makes me very hungry. Why is it I

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Speaker 1: answered one horse, Nor do I we need another. Don't

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Speaker 1: you remember, Stamper, he said to the horse in the

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Speaker 1: was loaded with hay and grain. Some of that it

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Speaker 1: That is what Lightfoot smells so plainly, so it is,

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Speaker 1: said the first horse. Then he called Lightfoot, look and

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Speaker 1: smell all around you. Maybe you will find some wisps

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Speaker 1: Then he began to walk around in the big hollow

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Speaker 1: he called, and the horses in their stalls heard him.

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Speaker 1: That's good, one of them said, Now you will not

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Speaker 1: been unloaded a few days before. There was enough hay

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Speaker 1: He cuddled up in a corner near the horse cabin, and,

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Speaker 1: after telling his unseen friends what had happened to him,

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Speaker 1: he went to sleep. How long he slept Lightfoot did

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Speaker 1: jumping up. If it's going to rain, I had better

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Speaker 1: said a voice from the horse stable. Those who have

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Speaker 1: take their places. It is our turn now. Oh I see,

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Speaker 1: returned Lightfoot. But how do you horses get on shore?

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Speaker 1: Do you swim across the canal? No, though we could

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Speaker 1: do that, said Cruncher, a horse who was called that

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Speaker 1: because he crushed his oats so finely, you see, he

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Speaker 1: went on. When the captain wants to change the teams

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Speaker 1: or cleats nailed onto it, so we won't slip down

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Speaker 1: to our stable, and we walk up, go ashore and

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Speaker 1: take our places. At the end of the tow line,

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Speaker 1: the tired horses come in to rest and eat. Then

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Speaker 1: is the boat close to the shore now now, asked Lightfoot. Yes,

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Speaker 1: right close up against the bank, answered Cruncher, as he

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Speaker 1: made ready to go out on the towpath. Oh I

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Speaker 1: wish I could get ashore, said Lightfoot. I like you horses,

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Speaker 1: and I like this boat because it saved me from

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Speaker 1: the boys who were chasing me. But still I would

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Speaker 1: rather be out where I can see the sun. I

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Speaker 1: don't blame you, said Nibbler, who was called that because

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Speaker 1: he used to nibble the edge of his manger. Sometimes

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Speaker 1: I get tired of this dark stable. But then twice

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Speaker 1: a day we go out in the air to pull

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Speaker 1: asked Lightfoot. Well, if you could jump up out of

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Speaker 1: the hold where you are, you could, said Cruncher, his

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Speaker 1: hoofs making a noise like thunder on the planks as

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Speaker 1: he walked up. If you can do that, you can

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Speaker 1: go ashore. I'm going to try that, Lightfoot, and he

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Speaker 1: began jumping up as high as he could to get

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Speaker 1: But jump as he could, Lightfoot could not get out

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Speaker 1: deep well. If he had been a cat with sharp

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Speaker 1: or a bear like Dido the dancing chap Lightfoot might

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Speaker 1: have got out, but as he was neither of these,

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Speaker 1: he could not. Again and again he tried, but it

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Speaker 1: was of no use. Then he felt the boat moving

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Speaker 1: again and he knew it was being pulled along the

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Speaker 1: thought Lightfoot. If I did jump out now, I would

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Speaker 1: only land in the water. I must stay here until

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Speaker 1: I can find some other way to get out. Lightfoot

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Speaker 1: found more hay and a mouthful of grain in one

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Speaker 1: Pretty soon it grew dark and Lightfoot could see the

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Speaker 1: Lightfoot traveled on in the canal boat. All he could

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Speaker 1: see were the dark sides of the hole in which

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Speaker 1: he was. He could talk to the horses through the

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Speaker 1: wooden walls of their stable, but he could not see

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Speaker 1: them now. And then the boat would pull up to shore,

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Speaker 1: and the tired horses would come aboard, while the others

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Speaker 1: would take their turn at the tow rope. All this

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Speaker 1: while Lightfoot lived on the hay and grain he found

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Speaker 1: it not been for this, the goat would have starved

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Speaker 1: for neither the captain nor his wife knew Lightfoot was

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Speaker 1: not pass the goat any of their food. One day,

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Speaker 1: the boat was kept along the shore towpath for a

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Speaker 1: long while. Lightfoot tried again to jump out, but could not. Then,

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Speaker 1: all at once he heard a very loud noise. It

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Speaker 1: was louder than that made by the hoofs of the horses,

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Speaker 1: and the goat cried, surely that is thunder. He saw

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Speaker 1: farthest from him. No, it is not thunder, said cruncher.

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Speaker 1: The captain is loading the boat with coal. Don't be afraid.

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Speaker 1: I'm not afraid, said Lightfoot. Only coal is very black

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Speaker 1: and dirty stuff. Yes it is, agreed Nibbler. But it

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Speaker 1: may be a good thing for you Lightfoot, How asked

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Speaker 1: the goat, in this way, said nibbler, I have seen

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Speaker 1: this boat loaded with coal before. They fill the hole

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Speaker 1: as full as they can, and they don't put the

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Speaker 1: covers on. But if they fill it full, said Lightfoot,

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Speaker 1: they will cover me with coal, and then how can

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Speaker 1: I get out? I'll tell you, answered nibbler. They will

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Speaker 1: not fill all of the boat at once. It takes

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Speaker 1: about two days, and when half the boat is full.

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Speaker 1: The coal is in a pile in the middle like

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Speaker 1: a hill. You can climb up the side of the

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Speaker 1: coal hill, Lightfoot, and then you will be able to

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Speaker 1: get out of the hole. You can scramble up on

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Speaker 1: top of our stable cabin, and from there you can

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Speaker 1: easily jump to shore. Oh that will be fine, cried

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Speaker 1: the goat. Do you think you can walk up the

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Speaker 1: hill of coal in this boat, asked cruncher. Surely I can,

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Speaker 1: Lightfoot said, I could climb up the rocky, rocky path

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Speaker 1: back of the cabin, and surely I can climb up

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Speaker 1: the coal hill. All that day, men with wheelbarrels dumped

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Speaker 1: a black dust, and Lightfoot kept as far away from

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Speaker 1: it as he could. Oh it's a good thing. I

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Speaker 1: am going to get out, he said, for the coal

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Speaker 1: will soon cover up all my hay and grain, and

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Speaker 1: I would have nothing to eat. Lightfoot waited until after

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Speaker 1: dark so no one would see him. Then he scrambled

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Speaker 1: the others. I am sorry I can't stop to see you,

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Speaker 1: but I had better go ashore. Yes, while you have

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Speaker 1: these leaves. Lightfoot looked around. He saw no policemen or

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Speaker 1: ha ha, laughed Lightfoot to himself, How silly I am.

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Speaker 1: This made him feel hungry again, and he ate more

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Speaker 1: to think of what I'm going to do. Lightfoot was

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Speaker 1: No longer. I'll stay here tonight, I think, said the goat.

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Speaker 1: After a while. It is good to be near water

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Speaker 1: so you can drink when thirsty. I'll stay here tonight

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Speaker 1: back to Mike. Lightfoot slept well that night, for it

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Speaker 1: But a goat is not like a dog or a cat,

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Speaker 1: he said, I guess I am lost. I must have

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Speaker 1: come farther in that canal boat than I knew. Well,

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Speaker 1: I hope it is. They'll be company for me. Maybe

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Speaker 1: I am Dido the dancing bear. I am glad to

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Speaker 1: meet you. Come over and have some berries, and Lightfoot

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