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Speaker 1: story is about a pair of birds who are building

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Speaker 1: their first nest. They build their nest in a place

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Speaker 1: they think is very beautiful. The father bird is always

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Speaker 1: singing about everything. He is so happy when their eggs

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Speaker 1: are laid and hatched. They are the happiest and the

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Speaker 1: busiest birds around. But when the day comes let their

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Speaker 1: babies fly away and the leaves start to fall, father

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Speaker 1: bird no longer sings, and they wonder what they should

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Speaker 1: do next. There came to our fields a pair of

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Speaker 1: birds that had never built a nest nor seen a winter.

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Speaker 1: How beautiful everything was. The fields were full of flowers,

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Speaker 1: and the grass was growing tall, and the bees were

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Speaker 1: humming everywhere. Then one of the birds began singing, and

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Speaker 1: the other birds said, who told you to sing? And

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Speaker 1: he answered, the flowers told me, and the birds told me,

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Speaker 1: and the winds and leaves told me, and the blue

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Speaker 1: sky told me, and you told me to sing. Then

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Speaker 1: his mate answered, when did I tell you to sing?

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Speaker 1: And he said every time you brought in tender grass

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Speaker 1: for the nest, and every time your soft wings fluttered

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Speaker 1: off again for hair and feathers to line the nest.

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Speaker 1: Then his mate said, what are you singing about? And

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Speaker 1: he answered, I am singing about everything and nothing. It

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Speaker 1: is because I am so happy that I sing. After

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Speaker 1: some time, five little speckled eggs were in the nest,

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Speaker 1: and his mate said, is there anything in all the

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Speaker 1: world as pretty as our eggs? Then they both looked

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Speaker 1: down on some people that were passing by and felt

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Speaker 1: sorry for them because they were not birds. In a

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Speaker 1: week or two, one day, when the father bird came home,

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Speaker 1: the mother bird said, oh, what do you think has happened? What?

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Speaker 1: One of my eggs has been peeping and moving. Pretty

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Speaker 1: soon another egg moved under her feathers, and then another

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Speaker 1: and another, till five little birds were hatched. Now the

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Speaker 1: father birds sang louder and louder than ever. The motherbird

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Speaker 1: too wanted to sing, but she had no time, and

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Speaker 1: so she turned her song into work. So hungry were

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Speaker 1: these little birds that it kept both parents busy feeding

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Speaker 1: them away. Each one flew the moment the little birds

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Speaker 1: heard their wings fluttering among the leaves. Five yellow mouths

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Speaker 1: flew open wide, so that nothing could be seen but

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Speaker 1: five yellow mouths. Any one be happier, said the father

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Speaker 1: bird to the mother bird. We will live in this

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Speaker 1: tree always, for there is no sorrow here. It is

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Speaker 1: a tree that always bears joy. Soon the little birds

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Speaker 1: were big enough to fly, and great was their parents'

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Speaker 1: joy to see them leave the nest and sit crumpled

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Speaker 1: up upon the branches. There was then a great time

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Speaker 1: the two older birds, talking and chatting to make the

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Speaker 1: young ones go alone. In a little time, they had

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Speaker 1: learned to use their wings, and they flew away and away,

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Speaker 1: and found their own food, and built their own nests

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Speaker 1: and sang their own own songs of joy. Then the

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Speaker 1: parent birds sat silent and looked at each other, until

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Speaker 1: the mother bird said, why don't you sing? And he answered,

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Speaker 1: I can't sing. I can only think and think. What

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Speaker 1: are you thinking of? I am thinking how everything changes.

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Speaker 1: The leaves are falling off from this tree, and soon

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Speaker 1: there will be no roof over our heads. The flowers

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Speaker 1: are all going. Last night there was a frost. Almost

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Speaker 1: all the birds have flown away. Something calls me and

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Speaker 1: I feel as if I would like to fly far away.

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Speaker 1: Let us fly away together. Then they rose silently, and

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Speaker 1: lifting themselves far up in the air, they looked to

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Speaker 1: the north. Far away they saw the snow coming. They

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Speaker 1: looked to the south. There they saw flowers and green leaves.

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Speaker 1: All day they flew, and all night they flew and

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Speaker 1: flew till they found a land where there was no winter,

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Speaker 1: where flowers always blossom and birds always sing good night.

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