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Speaker 1: Hey Friends, it's Mr Jim and welcome back to kids

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Speaker 1: short stories. Did you know that every day we make

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Speaker 1: some awesome activities for you to do at home? Yep,

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Speaker 1: summer is coming up and that means we're gonna all

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Speaker 1: animal stories podcast we create an activity just for you.

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Speaker 1: So down in the show notes below, your parents can

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Speaker 1: click on that link and check out some awesome things

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Speaker 1: to learn about animals and also do a fun activity

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Speaker 1: about them. Well, friends, are you ready for today's adventure?

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Speaker 1: Me Too. Let's go. Hey, Silas, do you want to

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Speaker 1: take a turn, as the engineer asked? Felix, yeah, I'm ready.

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Speaker 1: Why don't you grab the binoculars and head up top

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Speaker 1: and keep a lookout? Felix grab the binoculars and ran

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Speaker 1: up top to the top of the train. Yeah, Felix

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Speaker 1: and Silas were engineers on a train. That meant they

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Speaker 1: were responsible for driving and operating the train and making

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Speaker 1: sure that everything went according to plan. They had just

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Speaker 1: finished dropping off a whole bunch of packages that were

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Speaker 1: in that train. They were now on their way home

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Speaker 1: after a long day of work. They were taking turns.

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Speaker 1: One would drive the train, and the other would go

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Speaker 1: up to the roof of the train with binoculars, you know,

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Speaker 1: looking out for any animals that might be running over

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Speaker 1: the tracks or something else, and then he would blow

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Speaker 1: the horn on the train to scare off that animal

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Speaker 1: so that they wouldn't get hurt. It was a very

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Speaker 1: important job to make sure that everyone was safe while

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Speaker 1: operating that train. As Silas was operating the train and

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Speaker 1: driving it forward, they gave the train horn a big

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Speaker 1: pole to alert the whole down that they were coming

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Speaker 1: through row. It didn't want any cars on the road

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Speaker 1: in their way. Hey, Felix, are we all clear up there?

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Speaker 1: Yelled Silas from down below. Felix was on the roof

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Speaker 1: of the train with his binoculars keeping an eye out

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Speaker 1: far up ahead on the tracks. Yep, everything looks good

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Speaker 1: so far. Wait, wait, hold on a second, said Felix. Uh,

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Speaker 1: there's something up there. It's way up there, but I

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Speaker 1: think you should hit the brakes now. Silas pulled on

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Speaker 1: But it does take a long way in a long

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Speaker 1: time to stop a big train from moving. When a

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Speaker 1: train is super big and super heavy, you gotta start

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Speaker 1: those brakes early, because as the train breaks pull it's,

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Speaker 1: it keeps moving. It takes a long way for that

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Speaker 1: train to come to a stop. Felix came down from

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Speaker 1: up above and told Silas there's a ginormous tree that

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Speaker 1: has fallen on the tracks where. We gotta be able

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Speaker 1: to stop this in time, said Felix, as the train's

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Speaker 1: breaks were screeching. It was too little, too late. Boom crash.

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Speaker 1: The train crashed right into that ginormous tree that was

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Speaker 1: laying over the tracks. WHOA, Silas, are you okay? Said Felix. Ouch, yeah,

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Speaker 1: said Silas, as he rubbed his head with his left hand.

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Speaker 1: Let's go outside and take a look and see what

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Speaker 1: Oh No, that tree knocked the train off the tracks.

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Speaker 1: What are we gonna do, cried Felix. We're still nowhere

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Speaker 1: what do we do? Silas looked around for a second.

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Speaker 1: He knew that they were running out of daylight it

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Speaker 1: was almost getting nighttime, so they were running out of time. Um,

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Speaker 1: first we've got to get our bearing straight. We gotta

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Speaker 1: Come on, what do you mean, said Felix as he

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Speaker 1: chased behind silex. Come on, we gotta take a look

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Speaker 1: at these trees and find the moss. That's gonna be

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Speaker 1: the easiest way to figure out what's north. What are

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Speaker 1: Just come here. Silas was looking from tree to tree

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Speaker 1: looking for moss growing on the tree. Do you know

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Speaker 1: why he would be doing that? It's an old trick

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Speaker 1: that on a Tree Green Moss only grows on the

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Speaker 1: Silas was pointing to where the Moss was and said, see,

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Speaker 1: said Felix. Felix and Silas then started marching through the forest.

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Speaker 1: It was a very challenging hike, as they had to

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Speaker 1: there's our neighborhood, said Felix with great relief. All right,

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Speaker 1: once we get home, we gotta call the train station

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Speaker 1: and then tomorrow we can get a tow truck out

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Speaker 1: it is time for bed, said Silas. Good Work Today, Felix.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad we made it home. I couldn't have done

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Speaker 1: it without you, Silas. See You tomorrow. As Felix and

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Speaker 1: Silas went back to their houses to get ready for

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Speaker 1: big day tomorrow. Tomorrow was gonna be a day of

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Speaker 1: a train rescue. Well, more like flipping the train back

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Speaker 1: of the way so they wouldn't bump into it again. Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm glad we have Felix and Silas as train engineers,

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Speaker 1: because without them all of our packages wouldn't make it

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Speaker 1: I bet Felix is grateful that Silas knew how to

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Speaker 1: north the end. Great Job, you listened all the way

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Speaker 1: time for kid shout out. I want to say hey,

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Speaker 1: did James, grays and Ethan from Salt Lake City, bixby,

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Speaker 1: Griffin and Piper from Tennessee, Carter and dean from Toronto,

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Speaker 1: from Washington, Hillary from California and Noah from British Columbia.

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you're all in the kids short stories.

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Speaker 1: Family and on the spy team. We could not stop

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Speaker 1: doctors thinky breath and his crew without you, my friends,

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Speaker 1: will you have a super duper day and I will

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Speaker 1: see you on our next adventure. Bye, M M H