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

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Speaker 1: been caught in a trap. She should have known that

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Speaker 1: a pile of nuts was too good to be true.

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Speaker 1: The boy has picked her up, and she is worried

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Speaker 1: about what is going to happen. She gets put into

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Speaker 1: a soft bag, but after looking all around, she cannot

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Speaker 1: he puts her into a box with some food, water,

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Speaker 1: Slicko the Jumping Squirrel Chap eight. Slicko the Jumping Squirrel

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Speaker 1: found herself all huddled up in a heap in the soft,

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Speaker 1: dark place. She did not feel much like jumping just then. Indeed,

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Speaker 1: she could not have jumped if she had wished, for

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Speaker 1: there was no room besides. Her legs still hurt a lot,

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Speaker 1: though not as much as it had at first. I

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Speaker 1: wonder where I am, thought Slicko. As she tried to

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Speaker 1: look around. Soon she could see better than at first,

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Speaker 1: And as a squirrel's eyes are made to see in

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Speaker 1: the dark much as the eyes of the owl, Slicko

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Speaker 1: could soon make out where she was. She was down

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Speaker 1: inside a sort of bag, very soft and cozy. But

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Speaker 1: even though it was so soft, Slicko could not get out.

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Speaker 1: She tried, but there was no hole. Even the top

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Speaker 1: through which she had been put in was tightly closed.

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Speaker 1: Slicko tried her teeth on some of the soft stuff,

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Speaker 1: but it tickled her little red tongue, so she stopped.

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Speaker 1: I wonder where I am, thought Slicko again, And though

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Speaker 1: she did not know it, she was in the boy's

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Speaker 1: coat pocket, and he had pinned the flap down over it,

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Speaker 1: so the little squirrel could not get out. Later on,

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Speaker 1: Slicko took many trips in that same pocket and was

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Speaker 1: for she did not know what was going to happen

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Speaker 1: to her. Well, I don't think I'll try to catch

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Speaker 1: any more squirrels, said the boy, So I'll take this

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Speaker 1: trap home with me. Ah, that's good, thought Slicko. If

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Speaker 1: he takes the trap away, no more squirrels will be caught,

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Speaker 1: And that's very good. And I guess I'll take some

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Speaker 1: of these nuts home to feed my new squirrel, went

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Speaker 1: on the boy, speaking out loud the way boys do sometimes,

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Speaker 1: especially if they have their dogs with them. Wolf Wolf

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Speaker 1: barked Rover the dog wolf Wolf. That was his way

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Speaker 1: of saying that he too, thought it would be a

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Speaker 1: good thing to take home some of the nuts. Slicko

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Speaker 1: heard the nuts rattling into the other pocket of the

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Speaker 1: boy who had caught her, and then she felt him

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Speaker 1: walking off with her through the woods. He went, as

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Speaker 1: Slicko could tell, for she heard the rattle and crack

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Speaker 1: of the bushes as the boy pushed his way through them.

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Speaker 1: After what seemed to slickle a long time, she fell

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Speaker 1: asleep in the boy's pocket, and when she awoke, she

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Speaker 1: was in such a bright light that it made her

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Speaker 1: eyes blink very fast. The boy had opened his pocket

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Speaker 1: and had taken Slicko out in his hands. Oh what

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Speaker 1: have you got, Bob, asked a small girl, one of

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Speaker 1: the boy's sisters. A little squirrel, He answered, where did

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Speaker 1: you get it? Another girl asked, I caught it in

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Speaker 1: a trap in the woods, Sally. The boy answered, Oh,

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Speaker 1: that's awful to catch a poor little squirrel in a trap,

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Speaker 1: said the first little girl. I didn't hurt it, said Bob.

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Speaker 1: And when it gets tame, I'm going to teach it

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Speaker 1: some tricks. Are you going to put the squirrel in

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Speaker 1: a cage with a wheel, asked the girl, whose name

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Speaker 1: was Mollie. Yes, as soon as Papa gets me that

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Speaker 1: kind of cage, the boy said. But until then, I'll

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Speaker 1: let it stay in a box. I hope it doesn't

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Speaker 1: get away like Squinty did, spoke Sally. Oh no, I

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Speaker 1: won't let the squirrel get away, said the boy. Huh,

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Speaker 1: thought Slicko, Squinty the pig. I wonder if this is

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Speaker 1: the boy who made Squinty a pet. If it is

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Speaker 1: to me. Where do you suppose Squinty is now, asked Sally.

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Speaker 1: Back in the pen with the other pigs, The boy replied,

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Speaker 1: after he got away, he grew too big to be

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry for that, thought Slicko. Or if I grew

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Speaker 1: big enough, I too might be allowed to go back

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Speaker 1: Cried one of the little girls as she put her

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Speaker 1: finger on the soft fur of Slicko's back. Look out

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Speaker 1: she might bite, exclaimed the other little girl. Indeed, I

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Speaker 1: will not chattered Slicko. I wouldn't be as impolite as that.

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Speaker 1: That is what Slicko said. But of course the boy

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Speaker 1: and his sisters could not understand. But they could see

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Speaker 1: that Slicko was very gentle, And as she lay there

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Speaker 1: her and loved slickle Now I will put her in

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Speaker 1: a box, the boy said, and give her some nuts

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Speaker 1: to eat and some water to drink. That will be fine,

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Speaker 1: thought Slicko, for she was very thirsty and hungry. A

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Speaker 1: little later she found herself in a small wooden box.

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Speaker 1: In one corner were some nuts, in another a dish

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Speaker 1: of water, and in a third corner some nice soft cotton,

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Speaker 1: of the pods of the milkweed plant. Well this isn't

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Speaker 1: like my home nest in the tree, or like Aunt

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Speaker 1: Whitey's nest, thought Slicko. But as long as I have

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Speaker 1: to stay here, I might as well make the best

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Speaker 1: of it. I can eat and drink anyhow, I will

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Speaker 1: not be hungry or thirsty, Slicko took up a hickory

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Speaker 1: nut in her paws that were like little hands, and

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Speaker 1: sitting up on her hind legs with her tails spread

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Speaker 1: out over her like an umbrella, she began to eat

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Speaker 1: the meat of the nut. Oh, look, cried one of

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Speaker 1: the girls who was watching. Come and see the squirrel eat. Sally. Huh,

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Speaker 1: isn't it so wonderful just to eat? Thought slick I

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Speaker 1: wonder how those girls would like it if I came

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Speaker 1: to look at them every time they ate. Slickle could

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Speaker 1: for she was beginning to like her new home, and

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Speaker 1: she felt sure that she would be in no danger

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Speaker 1: from dogs or other animals. And if she got enough

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Speaker 1: to eat, water to drink, and had a nice warm

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Speaker 1: place to sleep in, what more could a squirrel ask for.

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Speaker 1: Slicko's leg hurt her a little bit, but it was

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Speaker 1: getting better all the time, and she was feeling happier

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Speaker 1: and happier every minute. True, she would have been very

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Speaker 1: glad if her papa and mama, and her sister and

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Speaker 1: brothers had been with her. But then she knew she

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Speaker 1: could not have everything she wanted. And it's just wonderful

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Speaker 1: that the same boy who has me had Squinty for

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Speaker 1: his pet, thought Slicko. Squinty said, the boy was good

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Speaker 1: and kind, and I'm sure he'll teach me some nice tricks.

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Speaker 1: I would love to learn tricks. For two or three days,

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Speaker 1: Slicko stayed in the box where the boy had first

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Speaker 1: put her. Every day she was given fresh water, and

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Speaker 1: this was what she needed, almost more than she did

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Speaker 1: nuts to eat. All animals need water, especially in hot weather.

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Speaker 1: So if you ever have a squirrel or any other pet,

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Speaker 1: see to it that they have all the cool, clean

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Speaker 1: water they wished to drink. I wonder when my new

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Speaker 1: after she had been in the box for about a week.

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Speaker 1: I am anxious to see it, and I wonder what

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Speaker 1: the wheel is that the boy spoke about. Slicko was

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Speaker 1: soon to know. However, one day, when Slicko was eating

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Speaker 1: Slicko saw the boy's big dog staring in. Woof woof

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Speaker 1: barked the dog. Chatter chatter, chitcha, chitcha, chatter, chatter, went Slicko.

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Speaker 1: That was her way of saying, how do you do.

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Speaker 1: She did not feel afraid, for she knew the dog

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Speaker 1: could not get at her in the box. Oh, Bob,

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Speaker 1: the dog is after your squirrel suddenly called Molly. Yes,

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Speaker 1: come quickly shouted Sally. Woof whoa barked the dog, and

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Speaker 1: he seemed to say, don't worry. I wouldn't hurt that

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Speaker 1: who had given his new pet the same name as

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Speaker 1: the squirrel's mama. In fact, Slickle was so smooth and

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Speaker 1: slick and so clean that it would have been hard

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Speaker 1: as Slicko did. See the dog and squirrel will be

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Speaker 1: good friends, said the boy. With that he reached in

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Speaker 1: and lifted Slicko out of the box, holding her close

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Speaker 1: to Rover. Rover put out his red tongue and touched

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Speaker 1: Slicko with it, and Slicko put out her tiny paw

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Speaker 1: and touched Rover. That was her way of shaking hands.

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Speaker 1: See they are friends, said the boy. Soon when gets

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Speaker 1: a little tamer, I'm going to let her run out

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Speaker 1: may run away like Squinty did, said Mollie. Oh I

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Speaker 1: don't believe she will, answered the boy. Just then someone

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Speaker 1: called out, Bob, Bob, where are you come here? The

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Speaker 1: new cage for your squirrel has come. Oh, it's my

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Speaker 1: new home, thoughts Lickle. I wonder what it is like.

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Speaker 1: And that's the end of this chapter. Good night, sleep tight,

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Speaker 1: Broo Barding. Good time moves so word and it goessids

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Speaker 1: and it goes side and it goes sick me