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Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to sleep tight stories. This story

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Speaker 1: is about the last party of the year. It was

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Speaker 1: a great summer, but now the weather is getting cooler.

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Speaker 1: The meadow people decide to have one last party before

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Speaker 1: they all settle down for the winter, and everyone has

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Speaker 1: a great time the last party of the season. Summer

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Speaker 1: had been a joyful time in the meadow. It had

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Speaker 1: been a busy time too, and from morning till night

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Speaker 1: the chirping and humming of the happy people there had

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Speaker 1: mingled with the rustle of the leaves and the soft

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Speaker 1: swish of the tall grass as the wind passed over It. True,

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Speaker 1: there had been a few quarrels and some unpleasant things

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Speaker 1: to remember, but these little people were wise enough to

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Speaker 1: throw away all the sad memories and keep only the

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Speaker 1: glad ones. And now the summer was over. The leaves

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Speaker 1: of the forest trees were turning from green to scarlet,

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Speaker 1: orange and brown. The beech and hickory nuts were only

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Speaker 1: waiting for a friendly frost to open their outer shells

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Speaker 1: and loosen their stems so that they could fall to

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Speaker 1: the earth. The wind was cold now, and the meadow

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Speaker 1: people knew that the time had come to get ready

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Speaker 1: for winter, one chilly caterpillar said to another.

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Speaker 2: Ooh, how cold it is. I must find a place

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Speaker 2: for my cocoon. Suppose we sleep side by side this winter,

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Speaker 2: swinging on the same bush, And his friend replied, we

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Speaker 2: must hurry then, or we shall be too old and

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Speaker 2: stiff to spin good ones. The garter snake felt sleepy

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Speaker 2: all the time and declared that in a few days

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Speaker 2: he would doze off until spring. The tree had chosen

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Speaker 2: his winter home already, and the bees were making the

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Speaker 2: most of their time in visiting the last fall flowers

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Speaker 2: and gathering every bit of honey they could find for

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Speaker 2: their cold weather stock. The last eggs.

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Speaker 1: Had been laid, and the food had been placed beside

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Speaker 1: many of them for the babies that would hatch out

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Speaker 1: in the spring. Nothing was left but to say goodbye

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Speaker 1: and fall asleep. So a message was sent around the

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Speaker 1: meadow for all to come to a farewell party under

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Speaker 1: the elm tree. Everybody came, and all who could sing

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Speaker 1: did so, and the crickets and mosquitoes made music for

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Speaker 1: the rest to dance by. The tree frog led off

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Speaker 1: with a black and yellow spider. The garter snake followed

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Speaker 1: with a potato bug and all the other crawling people

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Speaker 1: joined in the dance on the grass, while over their

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Speaker 1: heads the butterflies and other light winged ones fluttered to

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Speaker 1: and fro with airy grace. The snail and the old

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Speaker 1: cricket had meant to look on, and really did so

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Speaker 1: for a time from a warm corner by the tree.

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Speaker 1: But the cricket couldn't stand it to not join in

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Speaker 1: the fun. First, his eyes gleamed, his feelers waved, and

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Speaker 1: his feet kept time to the music. And when a

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Speaker 1: frisky young ant beckoned to him, he gave a great

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Speaker 1: leap and danced with the rest, balancing, jumping, and circling

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Speaker 1: around in a most surprising way. When it grew dark,

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Speaker 1: the fireflies lights shone like tiny stars, and the dancing

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Speaker 1: went on until all were tired and ready to sing

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Speaker 1: together the last song of the summer, for on the

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Speaker 1: morrow they would go to rest, And this was their song.

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Speaker 1: The autumn leaves lying so thick on the ground. The

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Speaker 1: summer birds flying the meadow around, say goodbye. The seed

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Speaker 1: babies dropping down out of our sight. The dragon flies,

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Speaker 1: stopping a moment in flight, say goodbye. The red squirrels

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Speaker 1: bearing their knots to the tree, The wild rabbits caring

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Speaker 1: for babies, So wee say goodbye. The sunbeams now showing

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Speaker 1: are hazy and pale. The warm breezes blowing have changed

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Speaker 1: to a gale, so goodbye. The season for working is

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Speaker 1: passing away. Both playing and shirking are ended today, So goodbye.

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Speaker 1: The garter snake creeping so softly to rest. The fuzzy

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Speaker 1: worms sleeping within their warm nest, say goodbye. The honey

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Speaker 1: bees crawling around the full comb. The tiny ants calling

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Speaker 1: each one to the home, say goodbye. We've ended our singing,

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Speaker 1: our dancing, and play, and nature's voice ringing now tells

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Speaker 1: us to say our goodbye, and that is the end

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Speaker 1: of our story. Good Night, sleep tight,