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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Kids Short Stories. Today's story is a

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Speaker 1: part of our father series. I'm so excited to share

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Speaker 1: these five stories with you. And this one comes from

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Speaker 1: Robin and her dad. Hey guys, they sent in an

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Speaker 1: Are you ready for this one? Me too? Let's go

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Speaker 1: one day, Robin and her dad, we're splashing in the ocean.

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Speaker 1: Who else likes to swim and play in the big

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Speaker 1: ways of the ocean? Me too. It can be a

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Speaker 1: little scary sometimes, those big waves whoa, and all those

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Speaker 1: things that might touch your leg in the water can

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Speaker 1: be a little scary sometimes, even for me. But Robin

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Speaker 1: and her dad were having so much fun splashing and

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Speaker 1: jumping over the waves together and even building sand castles

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Speaker 1: and doing all kinds of fun things at the beach.

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Speaker 1: Well right now they were jumping over some of the

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Speaker 1: biggest waves they had ever seen and having so much fun,

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Speaker 1: and they were getting hungry. Oh man, Robin said, Dad,

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Speaker 1: I'm so hungry. Let's go eat our lunch. They had

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Speaker 1: brought a delicious lunch and left it over by their

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Speaker 1: umbrella and blanket on the beach, and Robin and her

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Speaker 1: dad ran out of the ocean and jogged over to

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Speaker 1: where their delicious lunch was. When they got there, wait

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Speaker 1: a second, her dad said, ah, it's gone, Robin. Did

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Speaker 1: you hide it? What are you tricking me? Robin said, no,

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Speaker 1: where the lunch is. What. They looked all over and

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Speaker 1: you know what, there weren't even any footprints around where

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Speaker 1: their blanket was. It's like, oh my gosh. Robin said,

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Speaker 1: do you think an alien came down flying over our

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Speaker 1: blanket and sucked up our lunch and flew off, and

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Speaker 1: then that's why there's not any footprints. Her dad laughed, Well, Robin,

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's any aliens around this beach, so

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Speaker 1: that's probably not it. But it is definitely strange that

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Speaker 1: our lunch is missing and there's no footprints. Gosh. They

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Speaker 1: began to think what in the world could have taken

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Speaker 1: their lunch without leaving any footprints. Robin looked up in

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Speaker 1: the sky. There were seagulls. Do you know what seagulls

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Speaker 1: like to do. Yeah, they like to eat people food.

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Speaker 1: It's one of their favorites. Acts. Oh my gosh, Dad,

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Speaker 1: Robin said, look at all those seagulls. Do you think

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Speaker 1: they might have flown down, landed in our blanket and

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Speaker 1: stolen our lunch without leaving any footprints? Do you think

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Speaker 1: that's possible? Her dad laugh and I think you're right.

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Speaker 1: I think we've been robbed by seagulls. Done, done, done,

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Speaker 1: Robbin and her dad they couldn't believe that. They were

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Speaker 1: so hungry but their food was gone. What are they

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Speaker 1: gonna do? Yeah, they've got to get their lunch back

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Speaker 1: from those sneaky seagulls. Man, sneaky seagulls, they're the worst.

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Speaker 1: They love to sneak out people food when you aren't

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Speaker 1: even looking. All right, Dad, we gotta start looking for

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Speaker 1: a clue of where the seagull Maybe it was one

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Speaker 1: or maybe it was a group of them, but one

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Speaker 1: of them took our lunch and we gotta find where

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Speaker 1: where they win. But how in the world are we

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Speaker 1: supposed to look for clues if they don't leave any footprints. Gosh,

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Speaker 1: that's a tough one. Her dad said, um, well, let's

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Speaker 1: let's try and figure out where the seagulls go after

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Speaker 1: they like take food. Maybe that will lead us in

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Speaker 1: the right direction. Oh that's a great idea, Robin said,

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Speaker 1: why don't we You see, there's a couple of chips

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Speaker 1: left in our blanket. I wonder if we throw the

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Speaker 1: chips down on the sand, and then if a seagull

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Speaker 1: comes and picks it up, if maybe we could follow

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Speaker 1: him back to their seagull home. Yeah, that's a great idea.

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Speaker 1: It's like setting a bait, watching the seagulls take it,

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Speaker 1: and then we follow him. Oh, man, that's a great idea.

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Speaker 1: Let's do it. And so Robin found some chips and

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Speaker 1: And it didn't take very long. It took about three seconds.

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Speaker 1: The seagulls were very hungry, and they swept swooped down

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Speaker 1: her dad and her watched very carefully to where those

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Speaker 1: seagulls would fly off to. There they go, let's let's

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Speaker 1: follow him. They were flying very high in the sky

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Speaker 1: a spot where they landed in a tree in a

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Speaker 1: very big nest. Oh my gosh, I don't know seagulls

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Speaker 1: had such big nests. Her dad said, yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: think that's a seagull nest. I really don't understand what's

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Speaker 1: going on. Let me go take a peek. So her

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Speaker 1: look inside this ginormous nest, and she couldn't believe it.

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Speaker 1: The nest was full of people's lunchboxes. Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: then there's ours. He grabbed the lunchbox and, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 1: sure enough it was empty. The food had been eaten.

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Speaker 1: But wait a second, why are the seagulls bringing all

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Speaker 1: this stuff up to this giant nest. He looked around

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Speaker 1: and he didn't see anything, but then he heard bah.

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Speaker 1: Robin's dad jumped out of the tree as fast as

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Speaker 1: he could. Oh, Robin, you won't believe it. There's some

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Speaker 1: kind of creature in that nest that I think all

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Speaker 1: the seagulls are feeding. That's where our food is going.

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Speaker 1: We gotta figure out what's going on because it looks

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Speaker 1: like they're stealing everybody's lunches off the beach, not of stars.

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Speaker 1: So her dad climbed back up. They're real careful, and

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Speaker 1: then he heard, hey, who's there? What the who's who's

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Speaker 1: up there? Robin's dad said, Hey, I'm hungry, bring me

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Speaker 1: more food? What is Robbin's dad peeked up over the

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Speaker 1: nest he saw the biggest, fattest squirrel he had ever seen.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, it looked like a pig, but this

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Speaker 1: squirrel could talk. Robin's dead said, hey, what in the

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Speaker 1: world are you? Well, first off, you're talking squirrel, that's

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Speaker 1: pretty strange. Second, are you making all these seagulls bring

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Speaker 1: you all this food? What's going on? That's that was

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Speaker 1: our food? Oh yeah, the seagulls. I make them do

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Speaker 1: all kinds of things for me because I'm I'm the

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Speaker 1: king of the beach, I'm the master, and they are

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Speaker 1: bringing me all the food. And if they don't and

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Speaker 1: they get in trouble, oh my gosh, that's that's terrible.

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Speaker 1: Um yeah, I think you should stop doing that because

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Speaker 1: I don't think the seagulls want to do that for

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Speaker 1: you anymore. And they're taking all of our food. Uh, well,

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Speaker 1: you see, that's just the way it is, so there's

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Speaker 1: nothing you can do about it. Then Robin's dad hopped

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Speaker 1: down from the tree and explained everything to Robin. Robin

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Speaker 1: couldn't believe it. She said, Dad, you mean that there's

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Speaker 1: a squirrel up there that's telling all the seagulls to

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Speaker 1: steal all our food just for him. He doesn't even

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Speaker 1: share with the seagulls, and he's making them steal. That

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Speaker 1: is terrible. We gotta tell the seagulls that they don't

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Speaker 1: have to do that anymore. Let's go, And so Robin

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Speaker 1: they swooped down, she and her dad said, wait, guys, wait, wait,

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Speaker 1: we need to talk. And the seagulls stopped and looked

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Speaker 1: and said, what do you want. Robin said, we know

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Speaker 1: that you're taking all the food off the beach from

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Speaker 1: all our people so that you can feed that really

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Speaker 1: fat squirrel. But you don't have to do that anymore.

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Speaker 1: Why don't you guys um not steal and why don't

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Speaker 1: you just leave that squirrel. He's just mean. He's not

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Speaker 1: doing anything good and you shouldn't be stuck feeding him.

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Speaker 1: And the seagulls said, well we're scared. Oh I see.

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Speaker 1: So Robin and her dad came up with a plan

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Speaker 1: to stop the seagulls from being afraid of the squirrel.

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Speaker 1: They climbed up to the tree and said, Mr squirrel,

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Speaker 1: you're done. The seagulls are not going to be stealing

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Speaker 1: for you anymore. And if you have a problem with that,

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Speaker 1: and you had to deal with us. Robin and her

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Speaker 1: dad flexed their big muscles on their arms, and the

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Speaker 1: squirrel got really scared. He had never seen anyone stand

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Speaker 1: up for the seagulls before. Hey you could. Ah, you'll

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Speaker 1: never see the end of this. I'll be back. I

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Speaker 1: got you, and the squirrel ran off, never to be

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Speaker 1: seen again. The seagulls were so happy they were dancing around,

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Speaker 1: thanking Robin and her dad with saving the day. Wow,

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Speaker 1: what a great adventure. Isn't that so cool that Robin

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Speaker 1: and her dad stood up for the seagulls and protected

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Speaker 1: them and helped them be free from that mean, fat squirrel. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's pretty cool. Robin and her dad they're pretty awesome.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for sending in your story. Guys. Happy Father's Day,

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