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

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Speaker 1: to run away, but after a cold, wet night with

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Speaker 1: into Bob's house and spends some time sleeping in the attic.

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Speaker 1: When Slicko wakes up, she is thirsty and heads downstairs,

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Speaker 1: where she knows there will be a bowl of water.

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Speaker 1: When she gets to the kitchen, she sees someone there.

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Speaker 1: Who can it be? Slicko the jumpings squirrel Chapter twelve.

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Speaker 1: Scampering softly over the oil cloth of the kitchen floor,

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Speaker 1: Slicko came close to the man. Slicko thought it was

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Speaker 1: for me, thought Slicko. For sometimes Bob's Papa would play

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Speaker 1: tricks and games with the little squirrel and do, just

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Speaker 1: as Bob did, hide things in his pocket. Slicko was

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Speaker 1: almost at the man's leg. Her little claws made a

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Speaker 1: like rats. The idea of calling me a rat, thought

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Speaker 1: The next moment, Slicko scrambled up the man's leg, sticking

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Speaker 1: her claws in the soft cloth of his pants. Get

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Speaker 1: away for me, Get away for me. The man cried,

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Speaker 1: very much excited as he swung at Slicko get off me,

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Speaker 1: and the man was fairly screaming, now get away. I

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Speaker 1: than Tom Tom the elephant, said Slicko to herself. But

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Speaker 1: to eat. Quickly, Slicko scrambled up to the man's shoulder.

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Speaker 1: She put her soft, cold nose on his neck. Oh oh,

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Speaker 1: He leaped aside and with his hand brushed Slicko away.

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Speaker 1: She fell onto the kitchen table, and then all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, the whole house was filled with light. Slicko

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Speaker 1: man jump through the window, while from his pocket fell

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Speaker 1: man was a burglar a thief, and he had come

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Speaker 1: Slicko could see him very well, for the lights were

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Speaker 1: turned on. Now upstairs, Bob's papa had heard the burglar

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Speaker 1: cry out, and he had switched on the lights. What

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Speaker 1: a funny man, thought Slicko to jump out of the

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Speaker 1: window as I did. I wonder why he is running away.

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Speaker 1: Slicko saw a pan of water on the floor. She

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Speaker 1: quite thirsty, but she was not at all afraid. I

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Speaker 1: she said to herself. He might have given me a

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Speaker 1: Slicko sat up on the table again and waited. She

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Speaker 1: heard voices talking and people coming downstairs. Bob and his

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Speaker 1: Chatter chatter, chat, chat, chatter, chirp, slickle. Of course, I'm

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Speaker 1: your little pet squirrel. Come back again. I'm sorry I

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Speaker 1: What has happened, asked the voice of Bob's mother. Slicko

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Speaker 1: has come back, said Bob. Is that all? No? Something

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Speaker 1: else happened, said Bob's father, And I guess we have

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Speaker 1: Slicko to think that our house was not robbed, our

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Speaker 1: has been broken open, and here is some of our

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Speaker 1: silver scattered around, said Bob's father. I heard a man

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Speaker 1: He must have been the burglar, but he got away.

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Speaker 1: What frightened him?

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Speaker 2: Asked Bob.

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Speaker 1: By this time, Slicko was sitting on Bob's shoulder, eating

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Speaker 1: the boy's father. That must have been it. The burglar

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Speaker 1: came in here to rob us in the night. Slicko

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Speaker 1: For see the man dropped most of the things he took.

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Speaker 1: Your squirrel is very smart, Bob. She scared away the thief.

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Speaker 1: She is a good little squirrel, said Bob. I am

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Speaker 1: glad she came back to me. Slicko was put back

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Speaker 1: Slicko was not allowed to be out of her cage.

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Speaker 1: I don't want her to run away again, said Bob.

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Speaker 1: Por Slicko was now very sad as the warm days came.

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Speaker 1: She wanted to be free to run in the shady woods.

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Speaker 1: She would rather have sat swinging on the branch of

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Speaker 2: Of her cage.

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Speaker 1: Bob said the boy's father to him one day, don't

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Speaker 1: you think your squirrel would be happier if you let

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Speaker 1: it go out in the woods to live? What let

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Speaker 1: my pet squirrel go, asked Bob in surprise, Yes, answered

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Speaker 1: his father, Slicko is not happy in her cage now.

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Speaker 1: She might have been in the winter, but now it

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Speaker 1: I think she wants to go. Oh how much Slicko

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Speaker 1: hoped she could go. Her little heart beat very fast

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Speaker 1: Slicko go, said Bob softly. Oh, I can't do that.

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Speaker 1: Slicko did us a very great favor, said Bob's father.

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Speaker 1: She frightened away the burglar. I think as a reward

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Speaker 1: you ought to let her go, Bob. Bob said nothing

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Speaker 1: for a long while, and then he spoke very softly,

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Speaker 1: very well, father, he said, I will let slick go

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Speaker 1: wire door. You may go, Slicko, said Bob. Go off

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Speaker 1: but I hope you will come and see me sometimes.

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Speaker 1: I'm chatter chatter, chatter, chirped Slickle. She sprang out of

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Speaker 1: Then she scrambled up on Bob's shoulder and put her cold,

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Speaker 1: kissing him. Goodbye. Down scrambled Slickle, and off to the

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Speaker 1: woods she ran. Goodbye, Slicko, my little jumping squirrel, called

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Speaker 1: Bob as he went back to the house with the

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Speaker 1: A little farther up was a broken limb, and close

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Speaker 1: to that limb was a hole. Why that's the nest

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Speaker 1: where I used to live, said Slicko. I wonder if

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Speaker 1: Papa and Mamma and Chatter and Fluffy and Nuto have

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Speaker 1: scrambled Slicko. She looked into her old nest. Something inside

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Speaker 1: it moved, Hello, said Slicko. Wa Woa Why it's Slicko

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Speaker 1: come back, cried chatter Papa, Mamma, not oh, Fluffy, come here.

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Speaker 1: Slicko has come back out of the nest, rushed all

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Speaker 1: at Slicko. My how she has grown, cried her mother,

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Speaker 1: patting Slicko with her paws. How long have you been here,

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Speaker 1: asked Slicko. That time you sent me to Aunt Whitey's

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Speaker 1: I couldn't find or she wasn't home. No, Slicko, said

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Speaker 1: We didn't know it when we sent you there, And

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Speaker 1: not long ago we all came back here, for it

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Speaker 1: is safe now. The man and his dog have gone

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Speaker 1: said Fluffy. I'm glad, so am, I exclaimed Slicko. But

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Speaker 1: where have you been and what happened to you? Asked

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Speaker 1: the mama squirrel. Oh, I have had so many adventures,

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Speaker 1: cried Slicko. I can jump through paper hoops, I can

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Speaker 1: a a burglar. My you did have some adventures, said

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Speaker 1: missus Squirrel. But come in now and have some dinner.

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Speaker 1: And so that was the end of Slicko's adventures for

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Speaker 1: a while. She got safely back to her nest, and

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Speaker 1: and brothers for many years. Are you going to run

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Speaker 1: away again, Slicko asked Natto one day, about a week

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Speaker 1: after his sister had come back. No, I am only

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Speaker 1: and down again, said the little squirrel. And she did,

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

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Speaker 1: sleep tight, And.

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Speaker 2: It goes side, m and emty chair time stood still.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't a bro game the carding good time. And

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