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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 the Elliott children,

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Speaker 1: Hello to Sam O'Grady, and hello to Laura from Mount Pleasant.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for supporting us on Patreon. Do

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Speaker 1: you have a favorite animal? For as long as I

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Speaker 1: can remember, my favorite animals have been giraffes and skunks.

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Speaker 1: Kind of strange, I know, but they are really cute

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Speaker 1: if you think about it. This story is one I

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Speaker 1: wrote about three giraffes. The three Giraffes. Once upon a time,

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Speaker 1: there were three giraffes who lived with their mother in

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Speaker 1: the savannahs of Africa. One hot summer day, their mother

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Speaker 1: told them it was time for them to go and

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Speaker 1: find another place to eat and live. There was not

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Speaker 1: enough food in their forest anymore, and she was too

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Speaker 1: old to travel to find new food. The three giraffes

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Speaker 1: packed their bags and got ready to go and find

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Speaker 1: a new home. The first and youngest giraffe was very lazy.

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Speaker 1: He did not like to walk in the hot sun

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Speaker 1: to find food. He liked to stay in the shade

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Speaker 1: and eat from the low trees so he didn't have

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Speaker 1: to stretch very far to get his food. When the

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Speaker 1: three giraffes left their mother's house, they decided to walk

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Speaker 1: in a new direction. But the first giraffe didn't want

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Speaker 1: to walk very far to look for food, so he

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Speaker 1: walked over the nearest hill, found a small group of

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Speaker 1: low trees with lots of shape, and decided to make

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Speaker 1: his house there. He invited his brothers to eat with

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Speaker 1: him before they continued walking to find their new homes.

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Speaker 1: They ate and ate and ate until it was nighttime,

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Speaker 1: and then they went to sleep. The second and middle

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Speaker 1: giraffe was the shortest of the three giraffes, and he

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Speaker 1: knew that he would need to find an area where

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Speaker 1: the trees were not too tall. He and his brother

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Speaker 1: walked for a few hours looking for the perfect spot.

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Speaker 1: The second giraffe walked over a hill and found the

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Speaker 1: perfect spot for his home. There were a lot of small,

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Speaker 1: beautiful trees that were the perfect height for him, so

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Speaker 1: he built his house in the middle of the trees

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Speaker 1: and asked his brother to stay and have dinner with him.

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Speaker 1: The two brothers ate and ate and ate until it

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Speaker 1: was nighttime, and they went to sleep. The next day,

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Speaker 1: the third and oldest giraffe started walking by himself to

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Speaker 1: find a place for his home. The third brother was kind, smart,

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Speaker 1: and loved to read. He had done a lot of

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Speaker 1: reading about the perfect place to make a home, and

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Speaker 1: he knew what he would need to make a great home.

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Speaker 1: After reading all those books, he knew he would need

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Speaker 1: to find a place for his home that had lots

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Speaker 1: of big trees and was close to water. He searched

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Speaker 1: all day long for the perfect place to make his home.

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Speaker 1: It was getting late when he finally saw the perfect place.

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Speaker 1: He stopped to eat so he could think about where

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Speaker 1: to build his house. He looked around and decided after

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Speaker 1: to make his home. This tree was very large, and

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Speaker 1: he knew that he could make a home inside the tree.

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Speaker 1: It was hidden, had lots of shade, and it was

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Speaker 1: flat and soft for sleeping. There was also lots of

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Speaker 1: water and other animals living there. He decided to wait

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Speaker 1: until morning to start building his home, so he laid

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Speaker 1: down under the trees to sleep. One day. A while later,

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Speaker 1: a young lazy lion was walking through the savannah looking

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Speaker 1: for some food. This lion was used to having someone

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Speaker 1: find his food for him, but his mother told him

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Speaker 1: it's time for you to learn how to look after yourself.

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Speaker 1: He had been looking for something to eat for over

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Speaker 1: an hour now, and he thought he would never find

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Speaker 1: anything to eat. Just then, the lion saw the first

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Speaker 1: raft's house. The lion thought maybe the person who lives

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Speaker 1: lion walked up to the door and rang the doorbell.

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Speaker 1: He said, hello, is anyone home? The first giraffe looked

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Speaker 1: out the window and saw the lion at his door,

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Speaker 1: and he was afraid. The lion looked very hungry. How

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Speaker 1: could he get away from the lion. The first giraffe

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Speaker 1: remembered what his mom had said about lions being their enemy.

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Speaker 1: He thought and thought and thought of a way to escape.

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Speaker 1: Then he had an idea. He changed his voice and

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Speaker 1: quietly said, sorry, no one is home now. The lion

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Speaker 1: was not very smart and so he said, oh, ok,

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Speaker 1: thank you, and he sadly walked away. The first giraffe

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Speaker 1: then he ran to his second brother's house to tell

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Speaker 1: he kept walking and came to another group of trees

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Speaker 1: and called out, HULLO, is any one home. I'm very

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Speaker 1: hungry and would like to have something to eat. The

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Speaker 1: two giraffes were inside whisper to each other about what

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Speaker 1: they were going to do. They didn't want to be

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Speaker 1: eaten by the lion, so they decided to put some

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Speaker 1: The second giraffe grabbed a leaf cake he had just

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Speaker 1: made and pushed it out through the door and said,

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Speaker 1: in an old giraffe voice, hello, I am sorry, but

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Speaker 1: You are welcome to eat it. The lion looked carefully

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Speaker 1: at the leaf cake and thought maybe he would try

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Speaker 1: it because he was so hungry. He sat down and

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Speaker 1: smelled the cake first. He thought it smelled okay, so

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Speaker 1: he put a small piece in his mouth. The cake

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Speaker 1: tasted okay, but it was very hot, so he had

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Speaker 1: to wait before he could take the second bite. His

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Speaker 1: stomach was growling so loudly that he didn't hear The

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Speaker 1: to find their brother's house. The lion finished the leaf cake,

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Speaker 1: but he was still hungry, so he decided to go

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Speaker 1: looking for more food. The two brothers ran to the

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Speaker 1: group of trees where their third and oldest brother had

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Speaker 1: The third brother had built his house in a tree

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Speaker 1: and the door was a little hard to find. The

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Speaker 1: two brothers called out to their oldest brother, brother, there

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Speaker 1: is a lion chase seeing us. Help us please. The

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Speaker 1: two brothers to his house. The two giraffes told their

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Speaker 1: lion will never find us here. Let's have dinner together

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Speaker 1: and wait to see what happens. The three giraffes went

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Speaker 1: outside and started eating, talking and laughing, and soon they

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Speaker 1: forgot about the lion that was coming. The lion was

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Speaker 1: still very hungry and was getting tired of walking and

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Speaker 1: looking for food. When he heard the giraffes laughing. He

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Speaker 1: could smell the giraffes and thought they would make a

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Speaker 1: great meal. The lion could see a large group of

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Speaker 1: those giraffes would taste. The lion's mouth started to water

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Speaker 1: and his stomach started to growl. The third giraffe heard

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Speaker 1: the lion's stomach growling and very quietly told his brothers

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Speaker 1: He padded quietly around the trees, but he could not

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Speaker 1: find them anywhere. He walked through the trees as quietly

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Speaker 1: getting very close to a large log near the edge

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Speaker 1: of the water. Just as the lion saw the door

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Speaker 1: through the giraffe's house, his stomach made a big growl

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Speaker 1: and he bumped into the large log. He turned around

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Speaker 1: to see what he had bumped into, but all he

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Speaker 1: saw was a large open mouth coming towards him. The

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Speaker 1: lion tried to move quickly, but he was so hungry

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Speaker 1: and lazy that he couldn't get away quickly. Enough, and

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Speaker 1: the log, which turned out to be a crocodile, had

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Speaker 1: a nice lion for dinner. Snap After an hour or so,

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Speaker 1: the three giraffes went out of the third giraffe's house

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Speaker 1: to see where the lion had gone, but all they

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Speaker 1: could see was a crocodile smiling and sitting by the water.

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Speaker 1: The three giraffes decided that they enjoyed living together, and

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Speaker 1: so they made a bigger house for the three of

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Speaker 1: them to share, and they all lived happily ever after

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Speaker 1: good night, sleep tight