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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 Jared Rookie

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Speaker 1: and Layelah, and hello to Delilah, who is seven years

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Speaker 1: old listening from Sydney, Australia. Thank you for your support,

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Speaker 1: it means so much to us. In today's story, Peter

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Speaker 1: Rabbit learns how the gray wolf became known as Howler

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Speaker 1: the Wolf. Peter hears the howl from the wolf and

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Speaker 1: gets shivers up his spine, hoping he never runs into

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Speaker 1: the wolf. Hease his cousin, Jumper the Hair, and they

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Speaker 1: talk about how Howler got his name, how Howler the

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Speaker 1: Wolf got his name. Peter Rabbit never had seen Howler

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Speaker 1: the Wolf, but he had heard his voice in the distance,

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Speaker 1: and the mere sound had given him cold shivers. It

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Speaker 1: just went all through him. It was very different from

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Speaker 1: the voice of old Man Coyote. The latter is bad enough, sounding,

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Speaker 1: as it does like many voices, but there is not

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Speaker 1: in it that terrible fierceness which the voice of his

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Speaker 1: big cousin contained. Peter had no desire to hear it

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Speaker 1: any closer. The first time he met his cousin, Jumper

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Speaker 1: the Hare, he asked him about Howler, for Jumper had

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Speaker 1: come down to the Green Forest from the Green Woods

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Speaker 1: where Howler lives. Did you hear him? Exclaimed Jumper. I

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Speaker 1: hope he won't get it into his mind to come

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Speaker 1: down here. I don't believe he will, because it is

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Speaker 1: too near the homes of men. If the sound of

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Speaker 1: his voice way off there gave you cold shivers, I'm

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Speaker 1: afraid you would shake all to pieces if you heard

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Speaker 1: him close by. He's just as fierce as his voice sounds.

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Speaker 1: There is one thing about him that I like, though,

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Speaker 1: and that is that he gives fair warning when he

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Speaker 1: is out and about. He doesn't come sneaking about without

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Speaker 1: a sound, like Tuffy the Lynx. He goes like Bowser

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Speaker 1: the Hound and lets you know that he is out

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Speaker 1: and around. Did you ever hear how he got his name? No?

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Speaker 1: How did he get his name, asked Peter eagerly. Well,

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Speaker 1: of course it's a family name now, and it has

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Speaker 1: been handed down for years and years, ever since the

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Speaker 1: first wolf began hunting, way back when the world was young,

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Speaker 1: explained Jumper. For a long time, the first wolf had

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Speaker 1: no name. Most of the other animals and birds had names,

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Speaker 1: but nothing seemed to just fit the big gray Wolf.

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Speaker 1: He looked a great deal like his cousin mister Dog,

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Speaker 1: and still more like his other cousin, mister Kyo, but

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Speaker 1: than either, and had a more wonderful nose than either.

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Speaker 1: With mister Wolf, as with all the other animals, life

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Speaker 1: was an easy matter. At first. There was plenty to eat,

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Speaker 1: there came a time, as you know, when food became scarce.

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Speaker 1: It was then that the big learned to hunt the small,

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Speaker 1: and fear was born into the world. Mister Wolf was

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Speaker 1: swift of leg and keen of nose. His teeth were long,

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Speaker 1: and he was so strong that there were few he

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Speaker 1: was afraid to fight with. In fact, he didn't know

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Speaker 1: him to fight. Most people like to do the things

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Speaker 1: they know they can do well. Mister Wolf early learned

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Speaker 1: the joy of hunting. I can't understand it myself, can you?

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Speaker 1: Peter shook his head. Perhaps it was because he was

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Speaker 1: so strong of wind and leg that he enjoyed running

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Speaker 1: and because he was so keen of nose that he

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Speaker 1: enjoyed following a trail anyway. He scorned to spend his

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Speaker 1: nose and speed and skill. Again there, speed and wits.

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Speaker 1: He didn't bother to chase little people like us when

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Speaker 1: there were big people like mister Deer. The longer and

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Speaker 1: harder the chase, the more mister Wolf seemed to enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: At first, he went silently, running swiftly with his nose

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Speaker 1: that he was on their trail. That always made mister

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Speaker 1: Wolf feel mean. He could never hold his head and

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Speaker 1: his tail up after that kind of chase. He felt

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Speaker 1: That was the very first wolf howl ever heard. There

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Speaker 1: was something very lonely and shivery in the sound, and

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Speaker 1: all who heard it shook with fear. Mister Wolf didn't

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Speaker 1: next day, when he went out, he threw up his

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Speaker 1: That day he had the longest chase he ever had known,

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Speaker 1: for the deer had had fair warning. Mister Wolf didn't

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Speaker 1: felt that it had been a fair chase. After that,

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Speaker 1: he always gave fair warning. As he ran, he howled

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Speaker 1: for joy. No longer did he carry his bushy tail

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Speaker 1: animals who gave chase, he was the only one who

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Speaker 1: You see, when he was out, he spoiled the luck

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Speaker 1: He wouldn't have done any if food had not been

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Speaker 1: Lynx and mister Panther would snarl angrily. Mister Coyote and

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Speaker 1: mister Fox would show their teeth and mutter about what

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Speaker 1: they would do to mister Wolf if only they were

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Speaker 1: big enough and strong enough and brave enough. Of course,

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Speaker 1: it wasn't long before mister Wolf discovered that he had

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Speaker 1: the big people didn't like him because he spoiled their chase.

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Speaker 1: But he didn't mind. In fact, he looked down on

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Speaker 1: and when he met them he lifted his tail a

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Speaker 1: little more proudly than ever. Sometimes he would howl out

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Speaker 1: So little by little he began to be spoken of

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Speaker 1: him Howler. Of course, Howler taught his children how to chase,

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Speaker 1: give those they chased fair warning. So it grew to

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Speaker 1: be a fixed habit of the Wolf family to give

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Speaker 1: those they were after. The result was that they grew strong, able,

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Speaker 1: to travel long distances, keen of nose and sharp of wit.

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Speaker 1: Because the big people didn't like them, and the little

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Speaker 1: people were afraid of them, they lived by themselves, and

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Speaker 1: has been so ever since, and the name Howler has

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Speaker 1: been handed down to this day. No sound in all

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Speaker 1: the green woods carries with it more fear than does

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Speaker 1: out so openly, boldly and honorably. Be thankful, Peter that

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Speaker 1: Howler never comes down to the green forest, but stays

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Speaker 1: far from the homes of men, I am replied Peter,

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Speaker 1: just the same. I think he deserves a better name

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Speaker 1: for the fair way in which he chases, though his

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Speaker 1: name certainly does fit him. I would a lot rather

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Speaker 1: be caught by someone who had given me fair warning

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Speaker 1: than by someone who came sneaking up after me and

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Speaker 1: gave me no warning at all. But really I don't

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Speaker 1: hurry back to the dear old briar patch. And Peter did,

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Speaker 1: And that is the end of our story. Good Night,

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Speaker 1: sleep tight. Final