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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 Hazel Bradley,

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Speaker 1: Hello to Page Purdom from Hamilton, New Zealand. Hello to

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Speaker 1: Ruby Grace in Graysonville, Maryland, and hello to Stella from

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Speaker 1: the UK. I'd like to say happy birthday to Scarlet

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Speaker 1: Dolly Pedal from harlow Essex in the United Kingdom, who

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Speaker 1: is turning eight on January the thirty first. Happy birthday, Scarlet,

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Speaker 1: I hope you have a wonderful day. Thank you Hazel, Page, Ruby,

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Speaker 1: Stella and Scarlet for your support. It is so nice

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Speaker 1: meeting all of you. In this chapter, our stuffed elephant

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Speaker 1: is in the attic with some other toys. He is

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden he hears make way here I come.

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Speaker 1: What could be making that noise? He wonders. The stuffed

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Speaker 1: elephant finds out it is a rat, and he has

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Speaker 1: Merry Go Round. After a while, he gets taken downstairs

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Speaker 1: Stuffed Elephant? Chapter four? Since there were no real people

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Speaker 1: going to happen. Then all at once a big brown rat,

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Speaker 1: squeaked the rat to the elephant and the other toys,

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Speaker 1: answered the brown rat. But who are you? And he

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Speaker 1: too cold, But I am glad to see you. Mister elephant.

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Speaker 1: Don't you want to ride on this merry go round?

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Speaker 1: Thank you. I'm afraid i'm too big, answered the elephant.

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Speaker 1: And I never before saw a merry go round that

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Speaker 1: merry go round, said the spinning wheel. I just pretend

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Speaker 1: I used to spin yarn for the grandmother of mister Dunn.

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Speaker 1: But now all yarn is spun in factories by machinery,

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Speaker 1: said a tin soldier, which was another toy mister Dunn

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Speaker 1: He was very proud of his trunk and his tusks.

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Speaker 1: When morning came, Archie Done came racing downstairs in his

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Speaker 1: When Archie saw all his toys, but especially the stuffed elephant.

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Speaker 1: course the elephant had to remain quiet. Look at my

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Speaker 1: he was out of shape. Yes, your dolly is nice,

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Speaker 1: but I like my elephant better, said Archie. Elephants are

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Speaker 1: replied mister Dunn. But get dressed now, children and have breakfast.

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Speaker 1: Then you may play with your toys. Don't forget later

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Speaker 1: I want to show somebody my stuffed elephant. Elsie looked again,

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Speaker 1: came Mirabel, who carried a lamb on wheels. Look at

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Speaker 1: my dolly, Elsie said, let's go play. Hi, Archie, I

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Speaker 1: said Joe, who had hurt his leg before but was

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Speaker 1: He added he was in the hospital once like I was,

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Speaker 1: flapped his big ears, but that was not allowed. I wonder,

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Speaker 1: thought the elephant, if he means the same mister Mug

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Speaker 1: of the toy store where I came from. I wish

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Speaker 1: much fun to leave the room. Mirabelle with her lamb

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Speaker 1: with a sawdust doll. The stuffed elephant was getting excited.

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Speaker 1: He had heard these other toys spoken of by his

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Speaker 1: we are alone, said the elephant. Please tell me, mister

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Speaker 1: nodding donkey, he said, were you ever in mister Mugg's store?

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Speaker 1: I came from there, was the answer, so did I, joyfully,

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Speaker 1: exclaimed the elephant. I don't remember seeing you there, the

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Speaker 1: nodding donkey said, swaying his head up and down. I

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Speaker 1: I suppose you were there last year or the year before. Yes,

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Speaker 1: said the donkey, it was some time ago, and I

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Speaker 1: a broken leg? Mercy no, exclaimed the elephant. Well I did,

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Speaker 1: This sawdust doll here, he went on, has also had

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Speaker 1: would take too long, replied Dorothy. These plaything. Let's have

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Speaker 1: All right, agreed the elephant. This is like it used

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Speaker 1: to be in mister Mugg's store after closing time. What

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Speaker 1: stuffed toy. What, asked the nodding donkey. I should like

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Speaker 1: the chance. You shall have it now, replied the kind elephant.

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Speaker 1: this toy trolley car, said the clown. One of Archie's

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Speaker 1: Oh if I had thought, I could have lifted you

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Speaker 1: But i'll lift you down again. Sit tight now, so

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Speaker 1: The sawdust doll was just making up her mind that

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Speaker 1: when all at once, the nodding donkey cried, quick, quiet, everyone,

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Speaker 1: Elsie and the other children came running into the room. Oh,

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Speaker 1: they cried as they saw the calico clown on the

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