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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 Maggie and

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Speaker 1: Mollie Davies from Sydney, Australia. Hello to Zoe and Ellie.

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Speaker 1: Hello to Wesley, Wyatt and Quinn. And Hello to Zayden

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Speaker 1: from Wellington, New Zealand. Thank you so much for your support,

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Speaker 1: it means so much to us. I'd also like to

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Speaker 1: say a great, big happy birthday to Hazel Ridley who

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Speaker 1: is seven. Happy birthday to Sadie who is turning seven

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Speaker 1: on September twenty eighth, and happy birthday to Kiara, who

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Speaker 1: will turn eleven on September thirtieth. A very happy birthday

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Speaker 1: to you all. I hope your day is very special.

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Speaker 1: This episode is all about Peter Rabbit. Happy Jack Squirrel

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Speaker 1: has noticed that Peter cannot fold his hands and wonders why.

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Speaker 1: He scampers off to ask grandfather Frog about it. And

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Speaker 1: here's the story about why Peter Rabbit cannot fold his hands.

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Speaker 1: Why Peter Rabbit cannot fold his hands? Happy Jack Squirrel

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Speaker 1: sat with his hands folded across his white waistcoat. He

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Speaker 1: is very fond of sitting with his hands folded that way.

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Speaker 1: A little way from him sat Peter Rabbit. Peter was

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Speaker 1: sitting up very straight, but his hands dropped right down

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Speaker 1: in front. Happy Jack noticed it. Why don't you fold

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Speaker 1: your hands the way I do, Peter Rabbit, said Happy Jack.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to, stammered Peter. You mean you can't,

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Speaker 1: said Happy Jack. Peter pretended not to hear, and a

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Speaker 1: few minutes later he hopped away towards the dear old

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Speaker 1: briar patch Hippity Hippity hop. Happy Jack watched him go,

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Speaker 1: and there was a puzzled look in Happy Jack's eyes.

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Speaker 1: I really believe he can't fold his hands, said Happy

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Speaker 1: Jack to himself, but speaking aloud, he can't, and none

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Speaker 1: of his family can, said a gruff voice. Happy Jack

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Speaker 1: turned to find old mister Toad sitting in the lone

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Speaker 1: little path. Why not, asked Happy Jack. Ask Grandfather Frog.

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Speaker 1: He knows, replied old mister Toad, and started on about

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Speaker 1: his business. And this is how it happens that grandfather

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Speaker 1: Frog told this story to the little meadow and forest

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Speaker 1: people gathered around him on the bank of the smiling pool.

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Speaker 1: Ribet that old grandfather Frog, old mister Rabbit, the grandfather

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Speaker 1: a thousand times removed of Peter Rabbit was always getting

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Speaker 1: into trouble, Yes, sir, Old mister Rabbit was always getting

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Speaker 1: into trouble. Seemed like he wouldn't be happy if he

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Speaker 1: couldn't get into trouble. It was all because he was

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Speaker 1: so dreadfully curious about other people's business, just as Peter

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Speaker 1: Rabbit is now. It seemed that he was just born

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Speaker 1: to be curious, and so of course to get into trouble.

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Speaker 1: One day word came to the green forest and to

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Speaker 1: the green meadows that Old Mother Nature was coming to

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Speaker 1: see how all the little meadow and forest people were

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Speaker 1: getting along, to settle all all the little troubles and

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Speaker 1: fusses between them, and to find out who were and

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Speaker 1: who were not obeying the orders she had given them

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Speaker 1: when she had visited them last. My, my, my, such

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Speaker 1: a hurrying and scurrying and worrying as there was. You see,

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Speaker 1: everybody wanted to look their best when Old Mother Nature arrived, Yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: everybody wanted to look their best. There was the greatest

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Speaker 1: changing of clothes you ever did see. Old King Bear

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Speaker 1: put on his blackest coat. Mister Raccoon, mister Mink, and

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Speaker 1: mister Otter sat up half the night brushing their suits

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Speaker 1: and making them look as fine and handsome as they could.

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Speaker 1: Even old mister Toad put on a new suit under

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Speaker 1: his old one, and planned to pull the old one

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Speaker 1: off and throw it away as soon as old Mother

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Speaker 1: Nature should arrive. Then everybody began to fix up their

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Speaker 1: homes and make them as neat and nice as they

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Speaker 1: knew how, everybody except mister Rabbit. Now, mister Rabbit was lazy.

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Speaker 1: He didn't like to work anymore than Peter Rabbit does. Now, No, sir,

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Speaker 1: Old mister Rabbit was afraid of work. The very sight

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Speaker 1: of work scared old mister Rabbit. You see, he was

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Speaker 1: so busy minding other people's business that he didn't have

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Speaker 1: time to take care of his own. So his brown

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Speaker 1: and gray coat was always rumpled and tumbled and dirty.

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Speaker 1: His house was a tumble down affair in which no

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Speaker 1: one but mister Rabbit would ever have thought of living.

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Speaker 1: And his garden, oh, dear me, such a garden you

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Speaker 1: never did see. It was all weeds and brambles. They

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Speaker 1: heard that Old Mother Nature was coming, his heart sank

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Speaker 1: way way down, for he knew just how upset she

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Speaker 1: Wailed mister Rabbit, wringing his hands. Get busy and clean up,

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Speaker 1: advised mister Woodchuck, hurrying about his own work. Now, mister

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Speaker 1: Woodchuck was a worker and very very neat. He meant

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Speaker 1: over his doorstep. I'll help you if I get through

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Speaker 1: my own work in time, shouted mister Woodchuck over his shoulder.

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Speaker 1: That gave mister Rabbit an idea. He would ask all

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Speaker 1: his neighbors to help him, and perhaps then he could

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Speaker 1: Old Mother Nature arrived. So mister Rabbit called on mister Skunk,

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Speaker 1: mister Raccoon, mister Mink, mister Squirrel, and mister Chipmunk and

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Speaker 1: all the rest of his neighbors, telling them of his

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Speaker 1: trouble and asking them to help. Now, in spite of

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Speaker 1: by his dreadful curiosity and meddling. All his neighbors had

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Speaker 1: a warm place in their hearts for mister Rabbit, and

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Speaker 1: they all promised that they would help him as soon

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Speaker 1: as they had finished their own work. Instead of hurrying

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Speaker 1: while after each call and sat with his arms folded,

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Speaker 1: watching the one he was calling on work. Mister Rabbit

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Speaker 1: was very fond of sitting with folded arms. It was

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Speaker 1: very comfortable, but this was no time to be doing it,

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Speaker 1: and mister Skunk told him so, if you want the

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Speaker 1: started yourself, said old mister Skunk, carefully combing out his

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Speaker 1: big plumy tail. That's right, mister Skunk, that's right, said

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Speaker 1: mister Rabbit, starting along briskly, just as if he was

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Speaker 1: going to hurry right home and begin work that very instant.

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Speaker 1: But half an hour later, when mister Skunk happened to

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Speaker 1: with his arms folded, watching mister Chipmunk hurrying about as

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Speaker 1: only mister Chipmunk can. Finally, mister Rabbit had made the

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Speaker 1: round of all his friends and neighbors, and he once

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Speaker 1: more reached his tumble down house. Oh dear, sighed mister

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Speaker 1: Rabbit as he looked at the tangle of brambles which

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Speaker 1: almost hid the little old house. I can never never

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Speaker 1: clear away all this. It will be a lot easier

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Speaker 1: to work when all of my friends are here to help.

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Speaker 1: So he sighed once more and folded his arms instead

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Speaker 1: because the sun was bright and warm and he was very,

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Speaker 1: very comfortable, old mister Rabbit began to nod, and presently

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Speaker 1: he was fast asleep. Now, Old Mother Nature likes to

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Speaker 1: take people by surprise, and it happened that she chose

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Speaker 1: this very day to make her promised visit. She was

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Speaker 1: greatly pleased with all she saw as she went along

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Speaker 1: until she came to the home of mister Rabbit. Mercy me,

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Speaker 1: exclaimed Old Mother Nature, throwing up her hands as she

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Speaker 1: saw the tumble down house almost hidden by the brambles

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Speaker 1: and weeds. Can it be possible that anyone really lives here. Then,

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Speaker 1: Rabbit sitting on his broken down doorstep with his arms

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Speaker 1: very upset. Indeed, she decided that mister Rabbit should be punished,

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Speaker 1: very severely. But as she watched him sitting there, dreaming

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Speaker 1: in the warm sunshine, her anger began to melt away.

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Speaker 1: The fact is, Old Mother Nature was like all the

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Speaker 1: rest of mister Rabbit's neighbors. She just couldn't help loving, happy,

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Speaker 1: go lucky mister Rabbit in spite of all his fault.

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Speaker 1: With a long stick, she reached in and tickled the

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Speaker 1: end of his nose. Mister Rabbit sneezed, and this made

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Speaker 1: him wake up, yawned, and blinked, and then his eyes

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Speaker 1: suddenly flew open with fright. He had discovered Old Mother Nature.

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Speaker 1: Frowning at him, she pointed a long finger at him

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Speaker 1: and said, in every single blessed day, there's time for

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Speaker 1: work and time for play. Who folds his arms with

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Speaker 1: work undone doth cheat himself and spoil his fun. From

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Speaker 1: this day on, mister Rabbit, you and your children and

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Speaker 1: your children's children will never again be able to sit

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Speaker 1: with folded arms until you or they have learned to work.

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Speaker 1: And that is why Peter Rabbit cannot fold his arms

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Speaker 1: and still lives in a tumble down house among the brambles,

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Speaker 1: concluded grandfather Frog. Maybe one day he will learn how

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Speaker 1: to fold his arms, but his work must be done first,

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Speaker 1: and that is the end of this story. Good Night,

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Speaker 1: sleep tight. Thing is not as