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

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Speaker 1: Thank you. I'd like to say hello to some friends.

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Speaker 1: Hello to Ellington who is six years old in North Carolina.

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Speaker 1: Hello to Vaughn and Micah from Edmonton, Canada. Hello to

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Speaker 1: Lucy from Sayer, Pennsylvania. And Hello to Gabe in Jacksonville, Florida.

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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. This is our final chapter with Lightfoot.

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Speaker 1: Remember at the end of the last episode, Lightfoot met Dido,

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Speaker 1: the dancing bear. He had gotten off the canal boat

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Speaker 1: find his way home. Lightfoot was having trouble finding his

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Speaker 1: way and was walking through the woods when he met Dido.

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Speaker 1: In this chapter, Lightfoot and Dido talked for a while

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Speaker 1: and Dido teaches him how to pick raspberries. Then he

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Speaker 1: meets a rabbit and then travels on his way to

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Speaker 1: find the canal again. But can Lightfoot find his way home?

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Speaker 1: Lightfoot Chapter eight, Lightfoot and Dido stood looking at one

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Speaker 1: another for a few seconds. It was the first time

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Speaker 1: the goat had ever seen a bear. For though there

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Speaker 1: were wild animals in the park where Mike used to

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Speaker 1: drive him, Lightfoot had never been taken near the bear dens.

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Speaker 1: But it was not the first time Dido had seen

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Speaker 1: a goat. Do you like raspberries, asked Dido, pulling a

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Speaker 1: the goat. I never ate any help yourself, invited Dido.

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Speaker 1: Just reach out your paw and with your long claw nails,

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Speaker 1: any paw, said Lightfoot. That's right, you haven't, observed Dido,

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Speaker 1: That's one good thing. You'll have to pick off the

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Speaker 1: berries one by one in your lips. You can do that. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I think I can do that, answered Lightfoot, and he did.

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Speaker 1: At first, the briars on the berry bush stuck him,

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Speaker 1: Did you say you were a dancing bear, asked Lightfoot

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Speaker 1: Dido began to dance slowly about. That's fine, said Lightfoot.

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Speaker 1: I wish I could dance. Can you do any tricks,

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Speaker 1: a little cart, said the goat. And I am a

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Speaker 1: good jumper. I'll show you, and he gave a big

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Speaker 1: are a good jumper, said Dido. That is much farther

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Speaker 1: know about a circus, asked Lightfoot. I used to be

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Speaker 1: in one, answered Dido. In fact, I may go back again.

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Speaker 1: I am out now traveling around with my owner, who

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Speaker 1: And when they stand around in a circle, I do

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Speaker 1: asked Lightfoot. He is asleep not far away under a tree.

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Speaker 1: said Lightfoot. Who the dancing bear asked Tinkle A pony,

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Speaker 1: exclaimed Lightfoot in a friendly voice. I don't believe I've

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Speaker 1: seen you before. Maybe not, was the answer, but I've

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Speaker 1: his name, Mike, asked Lightfoot eagerly, And then he knew

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Speaker 1: You speak about being in a book, so did Dido

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Speaker 1: looking at Lightfoot in a funny way. Isn't he the

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Speaker 1: Tom Tom is in a book too. What's all this

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Speaker 1: exactly understand it myself, answered Flopier, But I know children

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Speaker 1: cried Flopier, raising one paw. You'll find yourself in a

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Speaker 1: I should say, I would, cried Lightfoot. I've been living

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Speaker 1: me lad. Did you hear anything of your goat, asked

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Speaker 1: missus Maloney. No, mother, was the answer. And I don't

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Speaker 1: She was not smiling at her freckle faced and red

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Speaker 1: as soon as I see it again. Leaving the jumping

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Speaker 1: set off to find the brook as Slicko had called

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Speaker 1: it's the same canal, said Lightfoot, as he saw coming

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Speaker 1: This does not look like the big city, said the goat.

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Speaker 1: said Lightfoot slowly to himself. Where I have seen that

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