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Speaker 1: com slash sleep Tight Stories. Do you like bees. I'm

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Speaker 1: a little afraid of bees, but I do love to

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Speaker 1: see them flying around the flowers and doing what they

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Speaker 1: need to do. This episode is called the Tale of

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Speaker 1: Buster Bumblebee. When Missus field Mouse moved from her home

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Speaker 1: in Farmer Green's Meadow to the more fashionable neighborhood near

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Speaker 1: the gristmill, she had no idea that anyone would care

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Speaker 1: to live in the little old house that she had left,

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Speaker 1: so she was much the following summer when she heard

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Speaker 1: that a new family was occupying her former home. If

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Speaker 1: it's a small family, they'll get along well enough, she

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Speaker 1: remarked to Aunt Polly Woodchuck, who had told her the news.

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Speaker 1: Small Aunt Polly exclaimed, lifting both her hands with the

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Speaker 1: black mits on them high in the air. They say

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Speaker 1: it's a dreadful big family, at least two hundred of them,

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Speaker 1: so I've been told. Well, for a moment, Missus field

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Speaker 1: Mouse couldn't say a word, she was so astonished. Then

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Speaker 1: she managed to gasp. What's their name? I declare, I

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Speaker 1: just can't remember, said Aunt Polly Woodchuck. But it's a

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Speaker 1: name that rhymes with apple tree, though that's not quite it.

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Speaker 1: They're a very musical family. I understand. My nephew Billy

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Speaker 1: Woodchuck passed right by their door only yesterday, and he

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Speaker 1: says he heard music and the sound of dancing from

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Speaker 1: inside the house. Two hundred of them dancing in that

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Speaker 1: little house, cried Missus field Mouse. Why it's positively dangerous.

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Speaker 1: I should think they'd trample one another. And Aunt Polly

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Speaker 1: Woodchuck agreed, before she went off toward her new home

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Speaker 1: under the hill, that there were strange going ons over

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Speaker 1: there in the meadow. Later, she sent her nephew Billy

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Speaker 1: to tell Missus field Mouse that on her way home

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Speaker 1: she had remembered the name of the big family. It

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Speaker 1: was Bumblebee. They must be an odd lot, Missus field,

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Speaker 1: most remarked to her husband, Farmer Green's Meadow is becoming

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Speaker 1: more unfashionable than ever, and I shall never regret having

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Speaker 1: moved away from there. So that was Buster Bumblebee's first home,

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Speaker 1: the old house in the Meadow. It was true that

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Speaker 1: the Bumblebee family numbered at least two hundred souls. Nobody

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Speaker 1: knew what the exact count might have been, for in

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Speaker 1: the daytime, all the members of the family were bustling about,

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Speaker 1: and at night they were all too drowsy to bother

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Speaker 1: their heads over anything but sleep. It was true too

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Speaker 1: that the Bumblebee family filled their house almost to overflowing,

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Speaker 1: especially when they began to store away great quantities of

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Speaker 1: honey in it. But they never seemed to mind being crowded,

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Speaker 1: and if any of them wanted more room, he had

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Speaker 1: only to go out of doors and get it. Bumblebee's

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Speaker 1: mother was the head of the whole family. Everybody always

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Speaker 1: spoke of her as the queen, and she never had

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Speaker 1: to lift her hand because there were other members of

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Speaker 1: the family that were both ready and eager to do

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Speaker 1: And it was generally understood that her son Buster favored

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Speaker 1: his mother. Certainly he was like her, very handsome in

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Speaker 1: his suit of black and yellow velvet. Like his mother too,

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Speaker 1: he never did a stroke of work, and although everybody

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Speaker 1: said that Buster Bumblebee was a drone, he never seemed

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Speaker 1: Valley had been longer, perhaps the honeymakers in Buster Bumblebee's

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Speaker 1: they knew that every day that passed brought cold weather

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Speaker 1: that much the nearer. Though they never once stopped working

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Speaker 1: felt that they must not waste any of the precious

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Speaker 1: it was light. Now, with Rusty Wren living right beneath

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Speaker 1: the Bumblebee family were in no such luck. Even if

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Speaker 1: they could have found an alarm clock somewheres, it would

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Speaker 1: that kind or any other, they had to find a

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Speaker 1: chose one of their number to be a trumpeter, and

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Speaker 1: at three or four o'clock and trumpet loudly to wake

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Speaker 1: all the other workers. How the trumpeter herself managed to

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Speaker 1: would be very unpleasant for her if she failed even

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Speaker 1: once to do her duty. Now it was all well

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Speaker 1: enough for the workers to have the morning silence broken

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Speaker 1: by the blare of trumpeting. They were eager to get

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Speaker 1: not like the arrangement in the least. He preferred a good,

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Speaker 1: long night's sleep, and since he never did any work,

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Speaker 1: he thought it was a shame that he should be

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Speaker 1: rudely awakened in such a fashion. At home, however, he

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Speaker 1: did not mention his grievance to anyone, but he talked

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Speaker 1: the matter over with a number of his friends outside

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Speaker 1: the family, and one and all agreed that something ought

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Speaker 1: to be done to put a stop to the trumpeter's noise.

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Speaker 1: Why don't you have a pleasant talk with her, Chirpy

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Speaker 1: Cricket suggested, perhaps she would be willing to trumpet a

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Speaker 1: little more softly if she knew that she was disturbing you.

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Speaker 1: That plan did not quite suit Buster Bumblebee. It would

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Speaker 1: be hard to have a pleasant talk with the trumpeter,

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Speaker 1: he said. She's quite likely to lose her temper, and

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Speaker 1: she might sting me if she became angry enough. Then

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Speaker 1: you must first put her in a good humor, Chirpy

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Speaker 1: Cricket told him, cheerfully, begin by saying what a good

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Speaker 1: trumpeter she is, and tell her that her hat is

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Speaker 1: very becoming. Still, Buster Bumblebee was a bit doubtful of

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Speaker 1: the outcome of the scheme, but at last he agreed

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Speaker 1: feel quite nervous, he added, And all Chirpy Cricket's sprightly

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Speaker 1: jokes failed to make Buster smile. Yes. At last, Buster

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Speaker 1: Bumblebee was worried. Every time he looked at the trumpeter.

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Speaker 1: She seemed in a more peppery temper than before. Beside her,

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Speaker 1: some of the other workers appeared positively pleasant, but the

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Speaker 1: trumpeter wore a frown, and what was still worse, she

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Speaker 1: wore no hat. How then was Buster to follow Chirpy

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Speaker 1: Cricket's advice and tell her what a becoming hat she

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Speaker 1: way of making her feel happy, since she's bareheaded, said Buster, now,

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Speaker 1: without thinking what he was doing. He had spoken his

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Speaker 1: wonder that she heard what he said. Don't be impertinent,

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Speaker 1: young man, the trumpeter snapped, growing somewhat red in the face.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it's no affair of yours whether I wear

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Speaker 1: a hat or whether I don't. And if you want

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Speaker 1: to make me happy, I'll tell you the best way

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Speaker 1: in the world. Oh will you, cried Buster b hopefully,

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Speaker 1: and in his eagerness he drew even nearer to the trumpeter,

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Speaker 1: who actually smiled at him. But there was something in

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Speaker 1: her smile that sent a shiver up and down Buster's back.

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Speaker 1: It was not at all a pleasant smile. If you

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Speaker 1: want to make me happy, all you need to do

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Speaker 1: is keep out of my sight, said the trumpeter rudely.

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Speaker 1: You're a lazy, good for nothing drone, and for my part,

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Speaker 1: I don't see why you're allowed to stay in our house.

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Speaker 1: If I had my way, you would be driven out

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Speaker 1: into the world to fend for yourself, and I know

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Speaker 1: others who say the same. Upon hearing that disagreeable speech,

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Speaker 1: Buster Bumblebee jumped back quickly. He was not angry, but

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Speaker 1: merely disappointed, for he had expected something quite different. You

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Speaker 1: uh uh, you trumpet beautifully, he stammered, remembering that that

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Speaker 1: was another remark which Chirpy Cricket had suggested as being

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Speaker 1: At that, the rude creature laughed most scornfully. I'd like

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Speaker 1: to know how you can say that, she sneered. You're

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Speaker 1: don't believe you would ever wake up enough to crawl

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Speaker 1: out of bed if you didn't get hungry, and goodness

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Speaker 1: knows you do love to eat. No such thing, cried

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Speaker 1: Buster Bumblebee, and, happening just at that moment, to spy

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Speaker 1: an unusually tempting clover top close beside him, He upon

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Speaker 1: it and began to suck up its sweet juices. The

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Speaker 1: at him. There you go, she cried. You have to

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Speaker 1: stop and eat even while you're talking with a lady.

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Speaker 1: Why you eat and sleep so much that you don't

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Speaker 1: might naturally think that such a remark would have angered Buster,

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Speaker 1: and he merely looked at the trumpeter sadly and said,

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Speaker 1: I'm a gentleman. Buster Bumblebee's announcement that he was a

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Speaker 1: queen's son and a gentleman seemed to amuse the trumpeter hugely.

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Speaker 1: She held her sides and laughed uproariously. That's nothing, she

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Speaker 1: said at last. I'm one myself one, what Buster asked

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Speaker 1: neither can you be any one's son. I should think

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a queen's daughter, though maybe you did

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Speaker 1: not know it, the trumpeter replied, and Buster Bumblebee answered

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Speaker 1: in a dazed fashion that he had no idea she

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Speaker 1: was of royal blood like himself. It's true, the trumpeter

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Speaker 1: assured him. You'd have never guessed it, but I am

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Speaker 1: your own sister. Well, Buster Bumblebee was so surprised that

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Speaker 1: he almost fell off off the clover head on which

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Speaker 1: be told that that disagreeable, vixenish trumpeter who awakened the

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Speaker 1: it was no more than he might have expected, living

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Speaker 1: as he did in a family of more than two

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Speaker 1: hundred souls. It's hard to believe, he gasped, shaking his

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Speaker 1: head slowly. It certainly is, said the trumpeter. I don't

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Speaker 1: understand how my own brother can be so lazy as

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Speaker 1: you are. It's not that I'm lazy, it's the way

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Speaker 1: my mother brought me up. Buster protested, our mother, you mean,

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Speaker 1: the trumpeter corrected him. Maybe you're right. After all, you'd

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Speaker 1: only be in everybody's way if you tried to work

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Speaker 1: for you to play the gentleman, though you must find

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Speaker 1: it a dull life. It suits me, said Buster. But

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Speaker 1: I do wish you could manage to rouse the workers

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Speaker 1: in the morning without disturbing me. He was bolder now

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Speaker 1: that he knew he was talking to his own sister.

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Speaker 1: The trumpeter pondered for a little time before replying, it's

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Speaker 1: my duty to trumpet loudly. She said at last, the

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Speaker 1: of stuffing your ears with cotton? She inquired? Why no,

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Speaker 1: said Buster, bumblebee. That's a fine plan, I'm sure, and

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Speaker 1: That's just what I'll do, and I'm certainly much obliged

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