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Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. We have

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Speaker 1: moved and are experiencing lots of new things this summer.

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Speaker 1: This story is based on our own little family of

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Speaker 1: raccoons that chased Clark around the house one night. He

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Speaker 1: didn't try to scare the raccoons, and we know not

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Speaker 1: to feed wild animals. But in this story we can

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Speaker 1: use our imagination to meet Fred, who has a different reaction.

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Speaker 1: Fred and the Raccoon. Fred looked over his freshly cut

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Speaker 1: lawn with a feeling of satisfaction. He had spent the

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Speaker 1: whole day cutting grass, planting new flowering bushes, and removing

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Speaker 1: weeds from one of his many gardens. He had bought

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Speaker 1: a couple of wooden chairs, placed them in the middle

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Speaker 1: of his yard, and was now content to sit and

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Speaker 1: enjoy some cold lemonade after a day of work. Fred

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Speaker 1: had just moved to his new home a month earlier.

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Speaker 1: He had never had the opportunity to have a lawn, bushes,

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Speaker 1: or flowers, or gardens of any kind, so he was

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Speaker 1: determined that his gardens would be the most beautiful and

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Speaker 1: orderly in the whole wide world. Fred liked order, and

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Speaker 1: it had taken him months to plan all the moving

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Speaker 1: pieces to leave his life in the big city to

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Speaker 1: move outside a small town on Prince Edward Island. No

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Speaker 1: more honking horns, no more long commutes on crowded subways.

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Speaker 1: He wanted to try living somewhere quiet, and most of all,

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Speaker 1: he wanted a large space all to himself. Bread lived

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Speaker 1: in a charming, old renovated farmhouse in the heart of

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Speaker 1: Pi's countryside, just outside a small town. Its weathered and

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Speaker 1: worn exterior was painted in a soft shade of white

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Speaker 1: that contrasted with all the colors of the surrounding gardens.

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Speaker 1: There was a vegetable garden, a flower garden bursting with colors,

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Speaker 1: and even a Japanese inspired garden with a pond. He

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Speaker 1: for all to see when they drove by. To the

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Speaker 1: back of his property was a large wooded area full

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Speaker 1: of evergreen trees, and to his right and left fields

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Speaker 1: full of potatoes. To Fred, this was paradise. After he

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Speaker 1: finished his lemonade, it was time to put his tools

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Speaker 1: next day, Fred woke up to the sounds of chirping birds.

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Speaker 1: What a beautiful day, he said aloud. I think I

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Speaker 1: will have my morning coffee in the garden. Fred got

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Speaker 1: He brewed his coffee and took his cup with him

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Speaker 1: as he went out the back door towards his garden.

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Speaker 1: Usually the air was full of the smell of the

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Speaker 1: this time he noticed something stinky. I wonder what that

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Speaker 1: awful smell is, he thought, as he walked on the

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Speaker 1: path toward his garden. Then he saw something on the

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Speaker 1: ground in front of him. What is that? He thought?

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Speaker 1: It was sort of yellow and brown. He went down

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Speaker 1: rotten banana peel. Looking up, he noticed just a few

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Speaker 1: As he slowly walked, he noticed garbage all over his

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Speaker 1: his garden. Fred was upset. What is going on? He

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Speaker 1: beside his gardens was an old barn that he used

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Speaker 1: to keep his gardening tools. It was also where he

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Speaker 1: kept his garbage containers, and when he arrived there he

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Speaker 1: contents spewed all over the place. What a mess. Stomping

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Speaker 1: his feed as he went, Fred took his coffee back

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Speaker 1: the mess that was over his lawn and gardens. Finally,

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Speaker 1: after spending the rest of the morning cleaning up, everything

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Speaker 1: The following day, Fred got up, noticed the sun was

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Speaker 1: favorite spot in the garden. On the way, he saw

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Speaker 1: Oh no, not again. Fred walked to the old barn

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Speaker 1: He wasn't used to staying up so late, so he

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Speaker 1: was getting sleepier and sleepier, until just as he was

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Speaker 1: then another and another. He thought he could hear wet

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Speaker 1: smacking noises. How rude, he said, Not only is something

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Speaker 1: screech went the large animal, arching its back as it

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Speaker 1: mask like a bandit. Well, no matter that will teach it.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it won't be around here again. Fred cleaned

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Speaker 1: Fred grabbed his coffee and started walking towards his favorite spot.

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Speaker 1: On the way, he noticed some orange peels on the ground,

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Speaker 1: not again, Fred saw that, yet again, his garbage containers

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Speaker 1: His tidy and beautiful lawn and gardens were covered with garbage,

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Speaker 1: maybe I wasn't scary enough last night, he thought, I

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Speaker 1: will wait for that bandit again tonight, but this time

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Speaker 1: I will be super scary, and then I am sure

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Speaker 1: it will never return again. Fred grumbled all through dinner.

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Speaker 1: I didn't move to this place to have to clean

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Speaker 1: up garbage all the time, And how dare this bandit

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Speaker 1: and waited, until, letting out a great, big yawn, he said, well,

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Speaker 1: loud thud, and then another and another. The mask banded

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Speaker 1: his back, he thought. This time he grabbed a broom

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Speaker 1: because he thought if he had a broom, he would

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Speaker 1: He opened the door slowly, very slowly, so the old

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Speaker 1: big roar roar. This time there wasn't just one bandit

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Speaker 1: This time the largest bandit started slowly, but then very quickly,

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Speaker 1: Fred dropped his broom and started running, and the bandit

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Speaker 1: was a large raccoon, and with it were a number

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Speaker 1: of baby raccoons. Fred lived in a city all his

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Speaker 1: Maybe I can help this raccoon and its family and

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Speaker 1: be its friend instead of its adversary. I was wrong

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Speaker 1: to get so upset without knowing why there was such

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Speaker 1: I have so much space and food. That afternoon, Fred

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Speaker 1: Fred put the treats inside a little house that the

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Speaker 1: previous owner of his property had left for him, and

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Speaker 1: He thought he could create a special house just for them.

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Speaker 1: The next morning, Fred grabbed his morning coffee and walked

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Speaker 1: After he had finished his coffee, he walked towards the

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Speaker 1: He thought, maybe over time we can be friends. He

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Speaker 1: for the family he hoped would someday be his new friends.

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Speaker 2: If the moon gives a prize and the sun stops

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Speaker 2: it shine, and the long garden to hold as we

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Speaker 2: wait on the time, and together we find. And it's

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Speaker 2: small than one way to go Yeah, it's small than

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