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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Kids Short Stories. Today's story is brought

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Speaker 1: to us by one of our friends, Kira. Hey Kira,

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Speaker 1: she left a review on her Apple podcast with her

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Speaker 1: idea for a story. I'm so excited for this one.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be a good one. Are you ready

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Speaker 1: me too? Let's go. One cloudy morning, Kira was doing

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Speaker 1: all of her chores that were really important to do

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Speaker 1: on the ranch. Have you ever heard of a ranch before.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like another word for farm, but ranch

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Speaker 1: is where the cowboys live. It's out in the country.

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Speaker 1: And Kira lived on a ranch and had lots of

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Speaker 1: animals that lived there too, like horses and cows and sheep,

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Speaker 1: and got all kinds of animals that she and her

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Speaker 1: family had to help take care of. And every morning

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Speaker 1: there were lots of chores that she had to do

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Speaker 1: to help clean and help take care of everything. Well,

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Speaker 1: today's chore where she had to go into the barn

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Speaker 1: way up in the loft of the barn and clean

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Speaker 1: out all the old things that were up there. You see,

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Speaker 1: no one had been up there in a very long time,

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Speaker 1: and so there were a lot of stuff that just

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Speaker 1: need probably need to get thrown away or just cleaned up.

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Speaker 1: So her job was to go up there and make

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Speaker 1: it nice again. So while she was up there, it

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Speaker 1: was really dusty and really dirty. Kara couldn't help but

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Speaker 1: cough because it was so dusty. Oh my gosh. And

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Speaker 1: as she started digging around, she found a whole bunch

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Speaker 1: of really cool things. She found an old, rusty steering

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Speaker 1: wheel from a tractor. She found an old wooden clock,

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Speaker 1: and she wait a second, what is this? She found

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Speaker 1: a tiny envelope with a letter inside that it looks

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Speaker 1: like it it's never been opened before. It's really strange

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Speaker 1: for that to be up here, and she wanted to

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Speaker 1: see what's inside. Should she open it? Yes, So Kira

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Speaker 1: carefully opened up this letter, this envelope, and it was

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Speaker 1: very old. And as she opened it up and pulled

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Speaker 1: out what was inside, it was very old, it looked

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Speaker 1: it was brown and crinkled up. And as she started

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Speaker 1: to unfold it and open it up, she could see

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Speaker 1: that is a treasure map. Oh my gosh. Kira couldn't

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Speaker 1: believe it. She had just found a real treasure map.

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Speaker 1: Do you think there's real treasure that if we follow

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Speaker 1: the map, that will take us to a real treasure. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: me too. It looks so real because it looks super old.

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Speaker 1: And so Kira got all of her cowboy friends and

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Speaker 1: showed him the map and they were all really impressed.

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Speaker 1: They said, guys, we have got to get out on

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Speaker 1: that treasure map. We gotta figure out what's at the

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Speaker 1: end and find the treasure. And Kira said, all right, team,

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Speaker 1: let's settle up on our horses and let's go. I

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Speaker 1: zoomed off on their horses. Yeah, yeah, let's go, and

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Speaker 1: the whole cowboy team started following all the clues one

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Speaker 1: by one. It led them all the way to a

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Speaker 1: beach and it was really far away. They didn't live

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Speaker 1: by a beach, so they had to ride their horses

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Speaker 1: for hours and hours and hours, and finally when they

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Speaker 1: got to the beach, the clues on the map it

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Speaker 1: said to look for three really tall and skinny rocks,

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Speaker 1: and so they started to look around and uh, they

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Speaker 1: don't see any. Well wait, oh, there's there's two skinny

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Speaker 1: rocks and one skinny rock lying down, but it's looking

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Speaker 1: for three, right m hmm. Pacure thought, wait a second,

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Speaker 1: if this is really old, maybe one of the three

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Speaker 1: skinny rocks had fallen over. Let's go check it out.

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Speaker 1: On the map, it had the three a picture of

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Speaker 1: the three skinny rocks with some really fancy drawings that

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Speaker 1: were on the rocks, and so she wanted to see

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Speaker 1: if it would match on the map, and it would

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Speaker 1: match the rocks right there. And as they got there,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, that's it. These are the rocks on

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Speaker 1: the map. They're in the right spot. They're getting really close,

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Speaker 1: and so the clue said, stand on top of the

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Speaker 1: middle rock and look south. Whoa, that's they're pretty tall.

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Speaker 1: They're like ten ft tall. Kira wasn't that tall. But

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Speaker 1: oh wait, if she rode her horse over to the

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Speaker 1: next of it and stood on top of the horse,

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Speaker 1: maybe she could like climb on top of this rock.

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Speaker 1: So that's exactly what she did, and who Kira made

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Speaker 1: it all the way to the top. She stood up

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Speaker 1: there and looked south. Do you guys know what south is?

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Speaker 1: So there's directions like north, southeast, and west. And so

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Speaker 1: she brought a empus with her and it helps you

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Speaker 1: find which direction you're looking, and so she made sure

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Speaker 1: that she was looking south by looking at her compass,

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Speaker 1: and so she started to look really far and wait, oh,

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Speaker 1: my god, wait a second, guys, everyone be quiet. She

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Speaker 1: could see two pirates sitting on the beach. You see,

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Speaker 1: Kira didn't know that the treasure map that they had

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Speaker 1: just found it was of a lost treasure from a

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Speaker 1: very long time ago that pirates had been guarding for

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Speaker 1: hundreds of years. And so there were two pirates sitting

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Speaker 1: right next to where the treasure must be buried and

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Speaker 1: it was their job to protect it. Guys, this is

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Speaker 1: gonna be really difficult because there's two real pirates guard

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Speaker 1: the treasure. Do you guys have any ideas of like

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Speaker 1: how to get the treasure? How do we get them

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Speaker 1: away from there? One of the cowboys said, well, you'll see,

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Speaker 1: my aunt Macy always loved tricking people. She always came

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Speaker 1: up with great ideas of how to behoose old people

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Speaker 1: and and make them do sell of things, and and

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Speaker 1: trick them into go in places they didn't even know

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Speaker 1: that they were gonna go. So how about we trick

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Speaker 1: the pirates into guarding the wrong treasure? What do you mean?

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Speaker 1: Karas said, well, I tell you what if we wait

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Speaker 1: until they're falling asleep and then we set up a

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Speaker 1: fake treasure. You know, we put an X on the beach,

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Speaker 1: and we put some trick up, like a fake treasure

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Speaker 1: box in it, and maybe we'll trick the pirates into

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Speaker 1: guarding the wrong treasure. What do you what do you think?

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Speaker 1: Kara said, Well, that's actually kind of a pretty good idea.

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Speaker 1: That's worth a try. And so they waited until nighttime

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Speaker 1: when the pirates were sleeping, and they were sleeping right

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Speaker 1: on top of this big X on the beach that

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Speaker 1: must be where the real treasure is. And so all

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Speaker 1: the cowboys and Kierra they set up this fake treasure

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Speaker 1: wake up. And as the pirates woke up, they said,

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Speaker 1: who are are matey? Wait a second, oh man Landa,

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Speaker 1: we must have slipped walk. Are you see the X

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Speaker 1: over there? That is the real one we're supposed to

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Speaker 1: be guarding. All Captain's gonna be angry at us if

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Speaker 1: we let some one steal the treasure? Are? And the

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Speaker 1: pirates started walking far away because they put the X

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Speaker 1: pretty far down the beach. And then Kira and and

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Speaker 1: the cowboys all right, come here, go quick, quick, quick,

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Speaker 1: go go, go, go go, And they started digging in

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Speaker 1: the sand right where the X was and oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: there it is. Pull it out. Pull it out. Just then,

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Speaker 1: I think the pirates must have known that they had

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Speaker 1: been tricked. Are get back here, may teas are Kira

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Speaker 1: and the cowboys jumped on their horses. Go co Let's

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Speaker 1: get out of here. Kira and the cowboys. They did it.

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Speaker 1: They found the treasure from the treasure map and escaped

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Speaker 1: away from the pirates. What an adventure. The end