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Speaker 1: Welcome Sleep Night Stories. The story of Fido. Fido's master

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Speaker 1: had to go on a long journey across the country

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Speaker 1: to a certain town, and he was carrying with him

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Speaker 1: a large bag of gold to deposit at the bank there.

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Speaker 1: This bag he carried on his saddle, for he was riding,

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Speaker 1: as in those days there were no trains, and he

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Speaker 1: had to travel as quickly as as he could. Fido

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Speaker 1: scampered cheerfully along at the horses heels, and every now

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Speaker 1: and then the man would call out to her, and

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Speaker 1: Fido would wag her tail and bark back in answer.

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Speaker 1: The sun was hot and the road dusty, and poor

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Speaker 1: Fido's little legs grew more and more tired. At last

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Speaker 1: they came to a cool, shady wood, and her master stopped, dismounted,

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Speaker 1: and tied his horse to a tree, and took his

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Speaker 1: heavy saddle bags from the saddle. He laid them down

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Speaker 1: very carefully and pointed to them, said to Fido. Watched them.

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Speaker 1: Then he drew his cloak about him, lay down with

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Speaker 1: his head on the bags, and soon was fast asleep.

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Speaker 1: Little Fido curled herself up close to her master's head,

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Speaker 1: with her nose over one end of the bag and

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Speaker 1: went to sleep too, But she did not sleep very soundly,

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Speaker 1: for her master had told her to watch, and every

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Speaker 1: few moments she would open her eyes and prick up

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Speaker 1: her ears in case someone was coming. Her master was

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Speaker 1: tired and slept soundly and long, much longer than he

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Speaker 1: had intended. At last, he was awakeakened by Fido's licking

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Speaker 1: his face. The dog saw that the sun was nearly

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Speaker 1: setting and knew that it was time for her master

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Speaker 1: to go on his journey. The man patted Fido and

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Speaker 1: then jumped up, much troubled to find he had slept

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Speaker 1: so long. He snatched up his cloak, threw it over

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Speaker 1: his horse, untied the bridle, sprang into the saddle, and,

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Speaker 1: calling Fido, started off in great haste, but Fido did

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Speaker 1: not seem ready to follow him. She ran after the

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Speaker 1: horse and bit at his heels, and then ran back

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Speaker 1: into the woods again, all the time barking furiously. This

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Speaker 1: she did several times, but her master had no time

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Speaker 1: to hear her and galloped away, thinking she would follow him.

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Speaker 1: At last, the little dog sat down by the roadside

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Speaker 1: and looked sadly after her master until he had turned

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Speaker 1: a bend in the road. When he was no longer

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Speaker 1: in sight, she sprang up with a wild bark and

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Speaker 1: ran after him again. She overtook him just as he

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Speaker 1: had stopped to water his horse at a brook that

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Speaker 1: flowed across the road. She stood beside the brook and

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Speaker 1: barked so savagely that her master rode back and called

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Speaker 1: her to him, But instead of coming, she darted off

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Speaker 1: down the road, still barking. Her master did not know

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Speaker 1: what to think and began to fear that his dog

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Speaker 1: was going mad. Mad dogs are afraid of water and

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Speaker 1: act in strange ways when they see it. While the

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Speaker 1: man was thinking of this, Fido came running back again

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Speaker 1: and dashed at him furiously. She leaped at the legs

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Speaker 1: of his horse, and even jumped up and bit the

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Speaker 1: toe of her master's boot. Then she ran down the

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Speaker 1: road again, barking with all her might. Her master was

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Speaker 1: now sure that she was mad, and he turned to

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Speaker 1: ride away. He rode away quickly. He had not ridden

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Speaker 1: very far when he stopped. Suddenly he felt under his

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Speaker 1: coat for his saddle bags. They were not there. Could

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Speaker 1: he have dropped them, or had he left them behind

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Speaker 1: in the wood where he had rested. He felt sure

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Speaker 1: that they must be in the woods, for he could

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Speaker 1: not remember having picked them up or fastened them to

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Speaker 1: his saddle. He turned his horse and rode back again

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Speaker 1: as hard as he could. When he came to the

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Speaker 1: brooky side and thought Fido, But he looked about and

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Speaker 1: could see nothing of her. As he moved past the

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Speaker 1: brook and came closer, he now understood why little Fido

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Speaker 1: had acted so strangely. She knew that her master had

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Speaker 1: left behind his precious bags of gold, and so she

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Speaker 1: had tried to tell him in the only way she could.

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Speaker 1: At last he reached the wood, and there lay the

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Speaker 1: bags of gold, and beside them, with her little nose

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Speaker 1: lying over one end of them, lay faithful Fido