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Speaker 1: Here's a short story about the Easter bunny. Mother tiny

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Speaker 1: Tail sat in her little red plush rocking chair, rocking

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Speaker 1: to and fro singing alas alack, I am old and

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Speaker 1: gray and have no eggs for Easter Day. Just then

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Speaker 1: a funny bunny came by with a hop and a

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Speaker 1: skip and a bound and said, oh, mother tiny Tail,

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Speaker 1: no eggs for Easter, No eggs for the tiny tails

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Speaker 1: that will never do so, saying he borrowed mother tiny

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Speaker 1: tails market basket and went hippity hop to the little

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Speaker 1: brown hen who lives in the lane, saying, please give

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Speaker 1: me eggs now that I ask it, enough to fill

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Speaker 1: my market basket. The little brown hen said, if you

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Speaker 1: will bring me an ear of corn, I'll fill your

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Speaker 1: basket by Easter morn. Then funny bunny went with a

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Speaker 1: hop and a skip and a jump to the little

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Speaker 1: old farmer who lived in the field, and said, please

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Speaker 1: give me a corn now that I ask it enough

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Speaker 1: to fill my market basket. The farmer replied, bring me

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Speaker 1: a sack of meal all ground. I will fill your

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Speaker 1: basket safe and sound. Funny Bunny went with a pitter patter,

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Speaker 1: pitter patter, until he came to the miller and said,

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Speaker 1: please give me a meal bag, since I asked it

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Speaker 1: enough to fill my market basket. The miller laughed until

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Speaker 1: his old fat sides shook and answered, your request sounds

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Speaker 1: rather funny. I will give you meal for money. Then

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Speaker 1: funny Bunny sat down on a stone to think. How

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Speaker 1: was he going to get some money. It was getting dark,

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Speaker 1: and the little hill men came out one by one

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Speaker 1: digging for fairy gold. When Funny Bunny saw them, he cried,

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Speaker 1: please give me money, since I ask it enough to

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Speaker 1: fill my market basket. Now the little hill men did

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Speaker 1: not want to give something for nothing, so they shouted

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Speaker 1: with a hop skip bound measure our hill and your

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Speaker 1: empty basket we soon will fill. Of course, the little

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Speaker 1: hill men never dreamed that he would do it, so

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Speaker 1: they went on digging for fairy gold. Funny Bunny was

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Speaker 1: in real earnest, for he thought of mother tiny tail

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Speaker 1: rocking sadly to and fro in her red plush rocking chair.

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Speaker 1: So from the daisies to the apple tree, skippetty hoppity

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Speaker 1: skip went he my how fast his legs could carry him.

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Speaker 1: He came back singing, your hills as long, your heels

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Speaker 1: as wide as anyone would care to ride. The little

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Speaker 1: men were so surprised he had answered their question that

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Speaker 1: they all stopped digging and crowded around Funny Bunny. Click

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Speaker 1: click click. They dropped gold into his market basket. Then

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Speaker 1: he ran with a hop, skip and jump to the

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Speaker 1: miller and bought a bag of meal. He took the

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Speaker 1: meal to the farmer and bought the corn. Then he

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Speaker 1: took the corn to the little brown hen who lived

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Speaker 1: in the lane, and she counted out one dozen, two dozen,

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Speaker 1: three dozen, four dozen, five dozen beautiful white eggs. They

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Speaker 1: filled the market basket funny Bunny was carrying. When he

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Speaker 1: got home. He set the market basket down in front

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Speaker 1: of Mother Tiny Tail, saying, I'm Funny Bunny. I cannot stay,

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Speaker 1: but I wish you a happy Easter day. Mother tiny

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Speaker 1: Tail stopped rocking to and fro, but before she could

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Speaker 1: say thank you, Funny Bunny was hippity hoppity off and away.

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Speaker 1: Mother tiny Tail painted the Easter eggs and hid them everywhere.

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Speaker 1: On Easter morning, all the tiny tails cried oh and aha,

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Speaker 1: for they found the Easter eggs in their shoes, in

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Speaker 1: their oatmeal bowls, and in the most unexpected places. Just

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Speaker 1: at that very moment, Funny Bunny peeped in the window

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Speaker 1: and cried as he held up a wonderful sugary egg.

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Speaker 1: Kindness comes back now, and then see my Easter egg

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Speaker 1: from the little hill men. Funny Bunny was always so

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Speaker 1: kind to the little tiny tales that the hill men

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Speaker 1: remembered him. Then, with a twinkle of nose and a

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Speaker 1: dancing of toes, Funny Bunny went hippodye hoppity off and away, singing,

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Speaker 1: I really would not think it funny if you should

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Speaker 1: call me an Easter bunny. And now I'd like to

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Speaker 1: share a short Easter poem, call to my chocolate Easter bunny.

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Speaker 1: Mom said not to eat you all at once, or

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Speaker 1: I would be quite sick. But I cannot resist your

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Speaker 1: chocolatey ears, so I'll eat them really quick. Those ears

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Speaker 1: were so delicious. Maybe I'll have just one more bite

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Speaker 1: and then I'll save the rest of you for later

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Speaker 1: on tonight. Guess I got a little carried away. I've

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Speaker 1: eaten you down to your tummy. It's not my fault.

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Speaker 1: I can't resist because you are so yummy. It seems

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Speaker 1: a shame to put what's left back in that festive box.

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Speaker 1: I'll just finish you. Wait. What's that? I feel my

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Speaker 1: bellies having aftershocks. I should have listened to my mom,

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Speaker 1: she warned me. What would happen if I had listened

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Speaker 1: to her. My stomach wouldn't be growling and snapping Happy Easter,

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Speaker 1: sleep tight in t