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Speaker 1: found in our show notes, Thank you. Why Jimmy Skunk

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Speaker 1: Never hurries. The merry little breezes of old Mother west

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Speaker 1: Wind had just been released from the big bag in

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Speaker 1: which she carries them every night to their home behind

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Speaker 1: the Purple Hills, and every morning brings them back into

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Speaker 1: the green meadows to romp and play all day. They

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Speaker 1: romped and raced and danced away, some one way, some

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Speaker 1: another to see who they could find to play with.

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Speaker 1: Some of them spied Jimmy Skunk slowly ambling down the

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Speaker 1: crooked little path, stopping every few steps to pull over

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Speaker 1: a loose stone or stick. They knew what he was

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Speaker 1: doing that for. They knew that he was looking for

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Speaker 1: fat beetles for his breakfast. They danced over to him

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Speaker 1: and formed a ring around him while they sang who

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Speaker 1: is it? Never never hurries? Who is it? Never never worries?

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Speaker 1: Who as it does? Just what he pleases, just like us,

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Speaker 1: Merry little Breezes, Jimmy Skunk, Jimmy's kunk, now not so

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Speaker 1: far away, but that he could hear them, sat Peter Rabbit,

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Speaker 1: just finishing his breakfast in a sweet clover patch. He

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Speaker 1: sat up very straight so he could hear better. Of course,

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Speaker 1: some of the little mary Breezes saw him right away.

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Speaker 1: They left Jimmy to come over and dance in a

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Speaker 1: circle around Peter, for Peter is a great favorite of theirs,

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Speaker 1: And as they danced they sang who is it? Hops

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Speaker 1: and skips and jumps? Who is it? Sometimes loudly thumps

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Speaker 1: who as it? Dearly loves to play? But when there's danger,

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Speaker 1: runs away? Peter Rabbit, Peter Rabbit. Peter grinned good naturedly.

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Speaker 1: He is quite used to being laughed at for always

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Speaker 1: who runs away? We'll live to run another day, replied

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Speaker 1: Peter promptly. And then he began the maddest kind of

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Speaker 1: a frolic with the Merry Little Breezes until they were

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Speaker 1: I wish, said Peter, as he stretched himself out in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the patch of sweet clover, that you

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Speaker 1: would tell me why it is that Jimmy Skunk never hurries,

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Speaker 1: And we wish that you would tell us the same thing,

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Speaker 1: cried one of the Merry Little Breezes. But I can't,

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Speaker 1: protested Peter. Everyone else seems to hurry at times, anyways,

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Speaker 1: but Jimmy never does. He says it's a waste of energy.

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Speaker 1: Whatever that means. I tell you what. Let's go over

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Speaker 1: to the Smiling Pool and ask Grandfather Frog about it.

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Speaker 1: He'll be sure to know. Spoke up one of the

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Speaker 1: Merry Little Breezes, all right, replied Peter, hopping to his feet.

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Speaker 1: But you'll have to ask him. I've asked him for

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Speaker 1: so many stories that I don't dare ask for another

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Speaker 1: right away, for fear that he will say I am

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Speaker 1: a nuisance. So it was agreed that the Mary Little

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Speaker 1: Breezes should ask Grandfather Frog why it is that Jimmy

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Speaker 1: Skunk never hurries, and that Peter should keep out of

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Speaker 1: sight until Grandfather Frog had started the story, for they

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Speaker 1: were sure that there would be a story away, they

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Speaker 1: all hurried to the Smiling Pool. The merry little Breezes

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Speaker 1: raced so hard that they were quite out of breath

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Speaker 1: when they burst through the ball rushes and surrounded Grandfather

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Speaker 1: Frog as he sat on his big green lily pad. Oh,

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Speaker 1: Grandfather Frog, why is it that Jimmy Skunk never hurries?

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Speaker 1: They panted? Ribbit, replied grandfather Frog in his deepest, gruffest voice. Ribbit,

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Speaker 1: probably because he has learned better, Oh, said one of

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Speaker 1: the merry little breezes in a rather faint, disappointed sort

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Speaker 1: of voice. Just then he spied a fat, foolish green

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Speaker 1: fly and blew it right over to Grandfather Frog, who

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Speaker 1: snapped it up in a flash right away. All the

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Speaker 1: merry little Breezes began to hunt for foolish green flies

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Speaker 1: and blow them over to Grandfather Frog until he didn't

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Speaker 1: yellow waistcoat. Indeed, the legs of the last one he

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Speaker 1: big mouth, Ribbit, said Grandfather Frog, trying very hard to

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Speaker 1: get those legs out of sight. Ribbit, I always like

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Speaker 1: And I suppose now that I ought to tell you

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Speaker 1: if Peter Rabbit were her ear. If I tell you

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Speaker 1: and then he will give me no peace until I

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Speaker 1: But he is here, cried one of the little breezes.

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Speaker 1: He's right over there, that behind that little clump of grass.

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Speaker 1: H I thought he wasn't very far away, grunted Grandfather

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Speaker 1: Frog with a twinkle in his great googly eyes. Peter

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Speaker 1: crept out of his hiding place, looking rather silly. Then

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Speaker 1: in a big circle around Grandfather Frog, and Peter sat

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Speaker 1: down as close to the edge of the bank of

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Speaker 1: the smiling pool as he dared to get. After what

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Speaker 1: seemed to them a very long time, Grandfather Frog swallowed

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Speaker 1: long ago, when the world was young, things were very

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Speaker 1: different from what they are now, very different Indeed, the

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Speaker 1: great great, ever so great grandfather of Jimmy Skunk was

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Speaker 1: slimmer and trimmer than Jimmy is. He was more like

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Speaker 1: his cousins mister Weasel and mister Mink. He was just

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Speaker 1: as quick moving as they were. Yes, Sir, mister Skunk

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Speaker 1: was very lively on his feet. He had to be

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Speaker 1: protecting himself. As Jimmy has now, he was dressed all

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Speaker 1: found out that he was taking advantage of that black

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Speaker 1: gave him white stripes, so that the darker the night,

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Speaker 1: the harder it would be for him to keep from

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Speaker 1: being seen. Now, mister Skunk was very smart and sly,

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Speaker 1: oh very When the hard times came, which made so

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Speaker 1: many changes in the lives of the people who lived

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Speaker 1: in the green forest and on the green meadows, mister

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Speaker 1: Skunk was very quick to see that unless he could

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Speaker 1: think of some way to protect himself, it was only

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Speaker 1: a matter of time before he would be dinner for

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Speaker 1: one of his fierce big neighbors, and of course mister

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Speaker 1: Skunk had no desire to do that. It was then

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Speaker 1: that he asked old Mother Nature to give him a

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Speaker 1: bag of perfume so strong that it would make everybody

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Speaker 1: ill but himself. Mother Nature thought it all over, and

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Speaker 1: then she did, but she made him promise that he

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Speaker 1: would never use it unless he was in great danger.

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Speaker 1: Mister Skunk had to try his new defense only once

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Speaker 1: or twice before his enemies took the greatest care to

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Speaker 1: leave him alone. He found that he no longer had

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Speaker 1: to run for a safe hiding place. When he met

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Speaker 1: mister Fox, or mister Linx or mister Panther, they just

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Speaker 1: snarled at him and passed without offering to touch him.

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Speaker 1: So mister Skunk grew very independent and went where he

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Speaker 1: pleased when he pleased. And because he had no longer

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Speaker 1: habit of running. Then he made a discovery. He watched

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Speaker 1: those of his neighbors who were forever hurrying about looking

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Speaker 1: for food, hurrying because each was fearful that his neighbor

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Speaker 1: would get more than he. It wasn't long before mister

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Speaker 1: Skunk saw that in their hurry, they overlooked a great deal.

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Speaker 1: In fact, just by following after them slowly, he found

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Speaker 1: all he wanted to eat. So mister Skunk began to

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Speaker 1: to make a living, grew jealous and said unkind things

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Speaker 1: about him, and hinted that he must be stealing, or

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Speaker 1: how could he have so much to eat. But mister

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Speaker 1: skunk didn't mind. He went right on about his business.

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Speaker 1: He never worried, because you know, he feared nobody, and

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Speaker 1: of the good things that his hurrying, worrying neighbors did.

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Speaker 1: So he grew fatter and fatter, while others grew thinner.

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Speaker 1: After a while, he almost forgot how to run. Being

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Speaker 1: He kept right on minding his own business and never

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Speaker 1: day when the world was young. That little bag of

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Speaker 1: perfume has been handed down in the Skunk family, and

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Speaker 1: none of them has ever been afraid. Now you know

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Speaker 1: why Jimmy Skunk, whom you all know is so independent,

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Speaker 1: never hurries. Thank you, thank you, Grandfather Frog, cried the

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Speaker 1: merry little breezes. When you once some more silly green fly,

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Speaker 1: just let us know and we'll get them for you. Ribbit,

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Speaker 1: what are you looking so thoughtful for, Peter Rabbit, demanded

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Speaker 1: grandfather Frog. I I was just wishing that I had

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Speaker 1: a began Peter, And then suddenly he made a face.

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Speaker 1: No I don't, he declared. I guess I'd better be

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Speaker 1: getting home to the dear old briar patch. Missus Peter

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Speaker 1: probably thinks something has happened to me, And away he went, hippoty,

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Speaker 1: hippoty hop