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Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. Today, I'd

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Speaker 1: like to give a shout out to Everly and Quentin Ryan.

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Speaker 1: the podcast can be found in our show notes. As

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Speaker 1: a little girl, I used to have the nickname Squirrel.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it was from my chattering or

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Speaker 1: the way I used to put food into my cheeks.

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Speaker 1: My children were always fascinated with squirrel rolls and chipmunks

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Speaker 1: try to catch them. They spent a lot of time

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Speaker 1: looking up into trees making strange noises. This story brought

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Speaker 1: up a lot of wonderful memories. Happy Jack drops a nut.

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Speaker 1: Happy Jack squirrel sat on the tip of one of

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Speaker 1: the highest branches of a big hickory tree. Happy Jack

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Speaker 1: was up very early that morning. In fact, Jolly round

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Speaker 1: He washed himself thoroughly and was ready for business by

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Speaker 1: blue blue sky. You see, Happy Jack had found that

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Speaker 1: big hickory tree just loaded with nuts, all ripe and

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Speaker 1: else had found that special tree, and he wanted to

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Speaker 1: So he was already and off he raced to the

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Speaker 1: They're all for me, They're all for me. Happy Jack

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Speaker 1: and wondered if his storehouse would hold all these big

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Speaker 1: cousin's voice, the voice of Chatterer, the red squirrel. Happy

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Speaker 1: Jack frowned. I hope he won't come over this way,

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Speaker 1: muttered Happy Jack. There was the big tree full of

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Speaker 1: am afraid that Happy Jack was selfish. There were more

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Speaker 1: and a great scold. Someone or something had upset him

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Speaker 1: It looked very much as if he would, for he

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Speaker 1: Of course, he dropped it. Where do you think it went? Well,

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Speaker 1: was such a sad, sad sight, for you know they

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Speaker 1: When Happy Jack had dropped that nut from the tiptop

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Speaker 1: All the time, Happy Jack had been sitting as still

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Speaker 1: No such thing. You don't own the tree, and I've

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Speaker 1: Happy Jack, so angry that every time he spoke he

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Speaker 1: But he didn't have time to pick even one, for

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Speaker 1: with him, the very thing. But though he dearly loves

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Speaker 1: so said striped Chipmunk, as he sat in the hollow

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Speaker 1: What was all that noise over in the green forest,

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Speaker 1: Striped Chipmunk peeped out of the hollow log. Over in

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Speaker 1: Dear me, dear me, how those two do quarrel? I

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Speaker 1: thought striped Chipmunk, So with a flirt of his funny

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Speaker 1: what do you think was happening? Why? Those big fat

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Speaker 1: The big fat nuts were rattling down just on account

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Speaker 1: Happy Jack and Chatterer. It was all because Happy Jack

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Speaker 1: And both were so angry that they didn't once notice

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Speaker 1: and Chatterer were out of breath. Happy Jack was puffing

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Speaker 1: is not so easy for him to race about in

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Speaker 1: you ever came near my hickory tree, snapped Happy Jack.

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Speaker 1: it's mine, replied Chatterer, and made a face at Happy Jack.

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Speaker 1: Happy Jack hopped up as if he meant to begin

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Speaker 1: Jack knew that Chatterer was right, that the tree didn't

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Speaker 1: chased out all thoughts of right, and he said to

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Speaker 1: And then what do you think Happy Jack did? Why?

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Speaker 1: He gave such a jump of surprise that he nearly

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Speaker 1: Happy Jack blinked, Then he rubbed his eyes and looked again.

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Speaker 1: He couldn't see a nut anywhere. There were the husks

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Speaker 1: saw the strange look on Happy Jack's face, and he

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Speaker 1: like a little red flash. Chatterer started down the tree.

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Speaker 1: Then Happy Jack guessed too, and downy started as fast

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Speaker 1: as he could go, crying stop thief all the way.

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Speaker 1: When he reached the ground, there was Chatterer scurrying around

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Speaker 1: and poking under the fallen leaves, but he hadn't found

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Speaker 1: a single nut. Happy Jack couldn't stop to quarrel anymore,

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Speaker 1: because you see, he was afraid that Chatterer would find

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Speaker 1: the biggest and fattest nuts, so he began to scurry

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Speaker 1: around and hunt too. It was strange, very strange, how

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Speaker 1: those nuts could have hidden. So they hunted and hunted,

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Speaker 1: but no nuts were to be found. Then they stopped

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Speaker 1: and stared up at the top of the tall hickory tree.

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Speaker 1: Not a nut could they see. Then they stared at

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Speaker 1: each other, and gradually a silly, very silly look crept

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Speaker 1: over each face. Well where do you suppose they have gone?

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Speaker 1: Asked Happy Jack in a funny sounding voice. Just then

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Speaker 1: they heard someone laughing and laughing. It was Peter Rabbit.

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Speaker 1: Did you take our hickory nuts? They both shouted angrily. No,

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Speaker 1: replied Peter. No, I didn't take them, though they were

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Speaker 1: not yours anyway, and went off into another fit of laughter.

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Speaker 1: Or Peter had seen striped chipmunk very hard at work

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Speaker 1: taking away those very nuts, while his two big cousins

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Speaker 1: had been so busy quarreling in the treetops. Good night,

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Speaker 1: sleep tight,