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Speaker 1: Hello, friends, and welcome to sleep tight stories. Solomon Owl

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Speaker 1: thought he was being very kind letting Benjamin Bat stay

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Speaker 1: in his home, but Benjamin Bat did not trust him.

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Speaker 1: When Solomon woke up early, feeling hungry, he looked for

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Speaker 1: Benjamin but could not find him anywhere. He figured Benjamin

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Speaker 1: must have left and without even saying thank you. He

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Speaker 1: can't wait to see him again and find out why.

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Speaker 1: The Tale of Solomon Owl, Part five. It was several

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Speaker 1: nights before Solomon Owl and Benjamin Bat chanced to meet

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Speaker 1: again in the forest. Hello, said Solomon, Hello, said Benjamin Bat.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad to see you because I want to thank

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Speaker 1: you for letting me spend the day in your house

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Speaker 1: so I wouldn't have to stay out in the storm.

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Speaker 1: You must be a light sleeper, Solomon observed, you did

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Speaker 1: not tell Benjamin that he was welcome. What makes you

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Speaker 1: think that? Benjamin Bat inquired why you left my house

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Speaker 1: before noon? Solomon told him, Oh, no, said Benjamin. I

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Speaker 1: slept soundly until sunset. When I left, the crickets were chirping,

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Speaker 1: and I was surprised that you hadn't woken up yourself.

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Speaker 1: You were gone before midday, Solomon Owl insisted, and they

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Speaker 1: had so something very like a dispute. While Solomon Owl

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Speaker 1: from another. I ought to know, said Solomon. I was

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Speaker 1: awake around noon, and I looked everywhere for you. What for,

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Speaker 1: asked Benjamin Now. Naturally, Solomon didn't like to tell him

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Speaker 1: that he intended to eat him, so he looked wise

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Speaker 1: and said nothing. You didn't look on the ceiling, did you,

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Speaker 1: Benjamin Bad inquired. No. Indeed, Solomon Owl exclaimed, well, that's

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Speaker 1: where I was hanging by my feet, Benjamin Bad informed him.

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Speaker 1: Solomon Owl was certainly surprised to hear that the idea,

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Speaker 1: He cried, You're a strange one. I never once thought

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Speaker 1: of looking on the ceiling for my lunch. He was

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Speaker 1: so astonished that he spoke before he thought how oddly

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Speaker 1: his remark would sound to another. When he heard what

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Speaker 1: Solomon Owl said, Benjamin Bat knew at once that Solomon

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Speaker 1: had meant to eat him, and he was so frightened

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Speaker 1: For once in his life, he flew in a straight

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Speaker 1: line with nose zigzags at all. He was in such

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Speaker 1: all he knew, might still be very hungry. But Solomon

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Speaker 1: Owl had caught so many mice that night that he

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Speaker 1: didn't feel like chasing anybody. So he sat motionless in

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Speaker 1: the tree, merely turning his head to watch Benjamin sailing

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Speaker 1: away through the dusky woods. He noticed that Benjamin didn't

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Speaker 1: dodge at all, except when there was a tree in

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Speaker 1: he's not so crazy as I supposed, said Solomon Owl

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Speaker 1: to himself. And any time afterward, when he happened to

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Speaker 1: at the ceiling above him and wish that Benjamin Bat

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Speaker 1: was there. But Benjamin Bat never cared to have anything

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Speaker 1: more to do with Solomon Owl. He said he had

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Speaker 1: a good reason for avoiding him, and forever afterward he

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Speaker 1: passed for a very brave person among his friends. They

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Speaker 1: He doesn't know what fear is. Why once he even

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Speaker 1: spent a whole day asleep in Solomon Owl's house. And

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Speaker 1: if you don't think that was a brave thing to do,

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Speaker 1: then I guess you don't know Solomon Owl. Solomon Owl

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Speaker 1: looked so wise that many of his neighbors fell into

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Speaker 1: the habit of going to him for advice. If two

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Speaker 1: of the forest folk chanced to have a dispute which

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Speaker 1: they could not settle between them, they frequently visited Solomon

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Speaker 1: and in the course of time Solomon became known far

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Speaker 1: and wide for his ability to patch up a quarrel.

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Rabbits stopped Solomon Owl one night and suggested that

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Speaker 1: he hang a sign outside his house so that there

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Speaker 1: what to do in case he found himself in an argument.

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Speaker 1: Solomon decided on the spot that Jimmy Rabbit's idea was

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Speaker 1: he had a sign made and put out where everyone

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Speaker 1: could see it. It read like this Disputes settled within.

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Speaker 1: There was only one objection to the sign. As soon

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Speaker 1: as Jimmy Rabbit sawed, he told Solomon that he should

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Speaker 1: have written Disputes settled without without what Solomon Owl inquired, well,

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Speaker 1: without going into your house, said Jimmy Rabbit. I can't

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Speaker 1: We might have a dispute to night, and how could

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Speaker 1: you ever settle it? Oh, I will be willing to

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Speaker 1: step outside, Solomon told him, and he refused to change

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Speaker 1: was now. There was only one trouble with Solomon Owl

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Speaker 1: Solomon agreed to meet people at dusk and at dawn,

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Speaker 1: when it was neither very dark nor very light on

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Speaker 1: was just enough light at dusk and dawn to make

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Speaker 1: than ever well. The first disputing pair that came to

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Speaker 1: Solomon's tree after he hung out his new sign where

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Speaker 1: Old Mister Crow and Jasper Jay. They reached the hemlock

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Speaker 1: grove soon after sunset, and squawled loudly for Solomon. Hurry,

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Speaker 1: mister Crow cried, as soon as Solomon Owl stepped outside

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Speaker 1: and it's almost our bedtime. What's your problem, Solomon asked them.

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Speaker 1: Mister Crow looked at Jasper Jay, and then he looked

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Speaker 1: at Solomon again. Maybe you won't like to hear it,

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Speaker 1: he said, and he winked at Jasper. But you've put

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Speaker 1: out the signs, so we've come here. You've done the

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Speaker 1: right thing, exclaimed Solomon Owl. And as for my not

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Speaker 1: so I don't see how it concerns me, except to

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Speaker 1: settle it very well, mister Crow answered. The dispute, then,

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Speaker 1: is this, Jasper says that, in spite of your looking

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Speaker 1: Pleasant Valley. He does huh, cried Solomon Owl, while Jasper

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Speaker 1: Jay laughed loudly. And you, of course, do not agree

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Speaker 1: with him, Solomon continued. I do not, mister Crow, declared, Good,

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Speaker 1: said Solomon, nodding his head approvingly. No, I do not

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Speaker 1: agree with Jasper Jay. Mister Crow said, I think that

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Speaker 1: there's one other person less smart than you are, and

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Speaker 1: that's Fatty Raccoon. Well, Solomon Owl certainly was unhappy, and

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Speaker 1: it didn't make him feel any happier to hear Jasper

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Speaker 1: Jay's boisterous shouts or the horse ha of old mister Crow.

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Speaker 1: I hope you can decide which one of us is right,

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Speaker 1: mister Crow ventured. I am, of course, cried Jasper Jay.

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Speaker 1: You're not, mister Crow shouted, and to Solomon Owl, he said,

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Speaker 1: we've been arguing like this all day long. Solomon Owl

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Speaker 1: didn't know what to say. If he announced that Jasper

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Speaker 1: he was not the smartest person in the whole neighborhood.

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Speaker 1: And if he said that old mister Crow's opinion was correct,

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Speaker 1: he would not be much better off. Naturally, he didn't

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Speaker 1: I'll have to think about this, Solomon observed. At last,

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Speaker 1: we don't want to wait, said mister Crow. If we

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Speaker 1: keep on arguing like this, we're likely to have a fight. Now,

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Speaker 1: Solomon Owl hoped that they would have a fight, so

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Speaker 1: he was determined to keep them waiting. For their decision.

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Speaker 1: Come back tomorrow at this time, he said. The next evening,

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Speaker 1: just at dusk, Jasper Jay and Old Mister Crow returned

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Speaker 1: to Solomon Owl's house, looking much bedraggled. One of mister

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Speaker 1: Crow's eyes was almost closed, and Jasper Jay's crest seemed

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Speaker 1: to have been torn half off his head. What's the matter,

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Speaker 1: asked Solomon as soon as he had seen them. We've

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Speaker 1: had three fights, said Jasper Jay. Yes, and I've whipped

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Speaker 1: him every time, cried mister Crow. So I must be

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Speaker 1: in the right and you'd better decide our dispute in

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Speaker 1: my favor at once. But Solomon Owl was still in

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Speaker 1: no hurry. It's a difficult question to settle, he said.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to make any mistakes, so I will

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Speaker 1: have to ask you to come back here tomorrow. At

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Speaker 1: this time, both Jasper and mister Crow seemed disappointed. Although

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Speaker 1: for he was older than Jasper Jay. As they went off,

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Speaker 1: Solomon Owl began to feel very pleased with himself. The

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Speaker 1: following evening, at sunset, Old Mister Crow and Jasper Jay

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Speaker 1: visited Solomon Owl once more, and they looked more batter

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Speaker 1: than ever. We've had three more fights, said mister Crow. Yes,

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Speaker 1: and I won each time, Jasper Jay piped up, so

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Speaker 1: I must be in the right, and you'd better decide

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Speaker 1: in my favor without any further delay. Solomon Owl thought

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Speaker 1: deeply for some time. Maybe I ought to wait until tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: he began, but his callers both shouted no. Well, said

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Speaker 1: Solomon mister Crow has won three fights and Jasper Jay

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Speaker 1: has won three, so it is certain that each of

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Speaker 1: you must be in the wrong. But that announcement did

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Speaker 1: not satisfy Jasper and missus Crow, and they left the

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Speaker 1: Hemlock Grove disputing more loudly than ever, And the next day,

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Speaker 1: at dusk, they came back again. We've had three more

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Speaker 1: fights and I won, they both cried at the same time.

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Speaker 1: That proves my claim, said Solomon Owl. You're both wrong.

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Speaker 1: They whispered together for a few minutes. We don't like

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Speaker 1: your way of settling disputes, mister Crow remarked shortly. But

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Speaker 1: we've decided to stop quarreling. Good, said Solomon Owl. That

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Speaker 1: shows you are sensible. Yes, replied Jasper We've decided to

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Speaker 1: stop arguing and fight you. Wait a moment, said Solomon

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Speaker 1: Owl hastily as they drew nearer. I don't want my

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Speaker 1: new suit spoiled, and he ducked inside the hollow tree

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Speaker 1: before they could reach him. Jasper and Mister waited and waited,

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Speaker 1: but Solomon Owl did not reappear, and since his two

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Speaker 1: where he lived, they decided at last they would go

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Speaker 1: home and get into bed. Let's take away his sign, anyhow,

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Speaker 1: Jasper Jay suggested, so they pulled down Solomon's sign, which

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Speaker 1: said disputes settled within, and they carried it off with

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Speaker 1: them and hid it in some bushes. That same night,

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Speaker 1: Solomon Owl hunted for it for a long time, but

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Speaker 1: he never found it. He decided not to hang out

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Speaker 1: another for he saw that settling disputes was a dangerous business.

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Speaker 1: And that is the end of this part. Good night,

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