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

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Speaker 1: Splash are back and it is a beautiful summer day.

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Speaker 1: All the animals are looking forward to getting outside to

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Speaker 1: play after quite a few days of rain. When Puddles

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Speaker 1: and Splash are on their way back from checking around

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Speaker 1: the stream, they see Bubbles, the young cow, coming towards them,

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Speaker 1: and they know something must be wrong. When Bubbles arrives,

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Speaker 1: he explains that there are no apples left, and Splash

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Speaker 1: and Puddles go to sea. Let's see. The cow from

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Speaker 1: of a few other apple trees that she passed on

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Speaker 1: believe what they are seeing and decide they need to

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Speaker 1: find out what happened to all the apples. Huddles and

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Speaker 1: Splash The Mystery of the Missing Apples Part two. All

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Speaker 1: the other animals that had come to see what had

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Speaker 1: Puddles stood looking at Splash, dumbfounded at what they were

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Speaker 1: just told. Isn't this highly unusual? I mean, I have

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Speaker 1: never heard of foxes and raccoons being able to be

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Speaker 1: near one another without something bad happening. Are you sure

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Speaker 1: the tracks are foxes and raccoons, Betsy asked, not quite

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Speaker 1: believing what Splash had seen, raising his eyebrows in surprise,

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Speaker 1: Splash said, I'm a dog and I know how to track.

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Speaker 1: The tracks and scent are certainly foxes and raccoons. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I didn't mean any disrespect, Betsy said, not wanting to

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Speaker 1: upset Splash. But why why were these two groups, known

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Speaker 1: for their disagreements and squabbles, suddenly working together? Puddles asked,

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Speaker 1: looking at all the tracks, I see nothing to indicate

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Speaker 1: they were doing anything other than working together. Splash replied,

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Speaker 1: why are they so selfish? It would take a lot

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Speaker 1: of effort to get all the apples? Couldn't they just

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Speaker 1: have a few and leave some for others? Puddles asked,

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Speaker 1: no answer, Splash replied, looking disappointed. What a mystery, Betsy said,

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Speaker 1: What should we do next? Puddles asked, Like I mentioned,

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Speaker 1: I think I know a grove of apple trees in

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Speaker 1: I could take you there. The only problem would be

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Speaker 1: getting the apples back to the barn area. There might

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Speaker 1: animals can have their traditional treat. Betsy said. The forest

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Speaker 1: out back is quite a journey, a journey that we

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Speaker 1: don't often take side puddles. Yes, unfortunately, it is a

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Speaker 1: for you to go out that far today. I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: get lost or injured. This is what we will do.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to check in with Farmer Vernon and make

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Speaker 1: perhaps the most prudent course of action. The apples are gone,

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Speaker 1: but perhaps when the foxes and raccoons understand the consequences

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Speaker 1: of what they did, they won't do it again, and

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Speaker 1: I will remind them of the farm rules. Splash said,

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Speaker 1: the evening feed. If you find some apples, we can

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Speaker 1: we can, Splash said, as he got ready to leave.

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Speaker 1: We could possibly use the small wagon that farmer Vernon

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Speaker 1: On a sunny day like today, it would be a

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Speaker 1: shame to not play ball in the field. The next morning,

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Speaker 1: Let's have some fun. Feathers, fluff and hoofs. A howk

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Speaker 1: time to play a game? Don't you stop? As Splash

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Speaker 1: sun came streaming in. It looked like another nice sunny day.

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Speaker 1: The happy sounds from all the animals outside the barn.

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Speaker 1: a row, and you are all excited. But let's be safe.

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Speaker 1: go in search of the apple trees. Yes, just be

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Speaker 1: Puddles asked, I'm going to follow their tracks and have

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Speaker 1: don't have to bother farmer vernon. Okay, will we meet

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Speaker 1: back here later this afternoon? Betsy asked, yes, that should

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Speaker 1: Farmer Vernon's farm was like many on Prince Edward Island,

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Speaker 1: the distance, and the sounds changed too. Instead of the

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Speaker 1: You must be tired, Puddles, as you have to work

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Speaker 1: tasty apple or three won't cure, he laughed. Do you

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Speaker 1: It was too distant and unclear to know exactly what

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Speaker 1: Walking slowly in the same direction through the woods, they

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Speaker 1: They had walked so far to fine, though not yet fall.

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Speaker 1: The ground was full of fallen, shiny, red and gold apples,

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Speaker 1: and the trees held even more. You were right, Betsy,

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Speaker 1: they heard a scuffle in the wood behind them. What

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Speaker 1: were surrounded by a group of snarling foxes and hissing

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Speaker 1: raccoons staring at them. They didn't look very happy, Betsy,

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Speaker 1: I think we have a problem and that is the

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Speaker 1: end of this part. Good Night, sleep tight. Stas still

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Speaker 1: the least