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Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. I'd like

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Speaker 1: to say hello to some friends. Hello to Kiara and

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Speaker 1: Solal from London. Hello to Scarlet Snowbello in the Philippines.

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Speaker 1: Hello to Ian who is seven and Darrah who is five.

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Speaker 1: And hello to Charles Lincoln and Winnie from Rhode Island.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your support, it means a

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Speaker 1: lot to us. I'd also like to say a great,

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Speaker 1: big happy birthday wish to Isabella who had her birthday

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Speaker 1: July eleventh. Happy Birthday, Isabella, I hope you had a

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Speaker 1: very very special day. Today's story is another Mother West

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Speaker 1: story where Peter Rabbit is learning about another animal that

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Speaker 1: lives near him. We know that Peter is always very

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Speaker 1: curious about everyone else, and this time he wonders what

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Speaker 1: can be making the leaves move? Is it a beetle?

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Speaker 1: His friend Jimmy Skunk likes beetles, so he calls him over,

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Speaker 1: and when Jimmy goes to see if it is indeed

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Speaker 1: to Peter who it is that is so small and

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Speaker 1: making the leaves move. When Teeny Weeney became grateful, did

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Speaker 1: some thing move among the dead leaves along the old log,

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Speaker 1: or was it the wind that stirred them? Peter Rabbit

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Speaker 1: stared very hard trying to find out. Not that it

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Speaker 1: If something alive had moved those leaves, That something was

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Speaker 1: too small for Peter to be afraid of. Probably it

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Speaker 1: was a worm or a bug. It might have been

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Speaker 1: a beetle. That looked like a good place for beetles.

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Speaker 1: There was Jimmy Skunk ambling down the lone little path

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Speaker 1: this very minute, and Jimmy always appeared to be looking

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Speaker 1: for beetles. Peter stared harder than ever. A leaf moved,

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Speaker 1: another turned fairly over. There wasn't any wind just then.

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Speaker 1: Dead leaves don't turn over by themselves, so there must

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Speaker 1: be something alive there. What has Peter on his mind

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Speaker 1: this morning to make him stare? So, asked Jimmy Skunk

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Speaker 1: as he ambled up. Peter grinned.

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Speaker 2: I was just.

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Speaker 1: Wondering, he said, if there are any fat beetles under

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Speaker 1: while without cause that I can see there. What did

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Speaker 1: I tell you. Sure enough, a couple of leaves had moved.

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Skunk's eyes brightened. He actually almost hurried over to

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Speaker 1: that old log and began to rake away the leaves.

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Speaker 1: Suddenly he stopped and snapped left. At the same time,

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Speaker 1: but Peter had a feeling that it wasn't. Jimmy Skunk

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Speaker 1: sniffed once more, and then deliberately turned his back on

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Speaker 1: Teeny Weeny, clever and spry disappears while you wink an eye,

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Speaker 1: said Jimmy, Oh, exclaimed Peter. Is that who it was?

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Speaker 1: I suppose he was hunting beetles himself. He's such a

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Speaker 1: little mite of a fellow that I should think a

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Speaker 1: to goodness, I don't see how any one so small

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Speaker 1: manages to live. Danny meadow Mouse and Whitefoot the wood

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Speaker 1: teeny Weeny the shrew. They have a hard enough time

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Speaker 1: Weeny very well, asked Jimmy. No, confessed Peter. I've seen

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Speaker 1: around here where you come and go every day, said Jimmy.

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Speaker 1: I know it, replied Peter. I suppose it is because

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Speaker 1: Jimmy grinned. I don't see, but what you've answered yourself,

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Speaker 1: good eating anyway, so I have heard why Because there

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Speaker 1: told that Hooty the owl looks for teeny Weeny, but

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Speaker 1: It was a reward, replied Jimmy, a reward handed down

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Speaker 1: he was. Oh, it's a story, cried Peter. It's a story,

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Speaker 1: and you've just got to tell it to me. Jimmy Skunk,

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Speaker 1: say please, grinned Jimmy, please, please, please, please please, replied Peter.

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Speaker 1: If that isn't enough, I'll say it as many times more.

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Speaker 1: so very much of a story. Returned Jimmy, scratching his

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Speaker 1: It happened way back in the beginning of things that

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Speaker 1: when Old Mother Nature had about finished making the birds

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Speaker 1: great world. That was teeny weeny, the first shrew and

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Speaker 1: the smallest of all animals. For a while, teeny Weenye

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Speaker 1: What was the good of being an animal at all?

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Speaker 1: If he wasn't big enough to be recognized as such.

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Speaker 1: That's the way he felt about it. For a while.

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Speaker 1: It hurt his feelings to have Old King Bear say

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Speaker 1: after just missing him with his great foot. I beg

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Speaker 1: your pardon. You are so tiny. I thought you were

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Speaker 1: a bug of some kind. Of course, I don't mind

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Speaker 1: the world. Why don't you grow so that we can

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Speaker 1: see you? Yes, why don't you, asked old mister wolf.

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Speaker 1: If you get stepped on, you don't blame us. Even

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Speaker 1: mister meadow mouse laughed at him because he was so small.

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Speaker 1: Teeny Weeney was quite furious at that. So for a

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Speaker 1: while he was very unhappy because he was so small.

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Speaker 1: He almost hated her. He couldn't see a single advantage

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Speaker 1: as you know. At first, teeny Weeny was in a

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Speaker 1: was that because he was so small, he had more

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Speaker 1: Because he was so small, he could slip out of

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Speaker 1: To come plain and ask for help. Teeny Weeny remembered

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Speaker 1: What did teenie Weenie do but march right straight up

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Speaker 1: She was wonderfully pleased to have these few words of

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Speaker 1: thanks amid so many complaints. Teeny weeny, she said, because

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Speaker 1: distasteful to even the hungriest of your enemies. It is

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Speaker 1: a further protection to you and your children and your

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Speaker 1: children's children forever and ever. And so it was and

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Speaker 1: so it has been, and so it is and that's all,

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Speaker 1: said Jimmy Skunk, and that's the end of the story.

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Speaker 1: Good night, and can sleep tight and oh so.

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Speaker 3: And Gonta.

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Speaker 2: And I can sing rhythm beloved part of.

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Speaker 3: Something so untameable, pas in the atmosphere, ringing astrong a

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Speaker 3: play it's so underful, and Candia saying, and we don't

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Speaker 3: about how it's been laud out of something so dun

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Speaker 3: tap a bootmat. Can the ums bee bring an astronomy

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Speaker 3: angry and hit it on? It's so wonderful, wonderful

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Speaker 2: Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful,