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Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. I would

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Speaker 1: time to fill out our survey. We are overwhelmed by

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Speaker 1: so please be patient with us. We will get to

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Speaker 1: you this episode. I'd like to say hello to Moshi

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Speaker 1: who is turning ten, Ailah and Liba, Macy, Olivia and

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Speaker 1: Alistair in the English Lake District, Abigail Katrina from the Philippines,

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Speaker 1: Aya and Jenna, Thomas and Jackson, Jodi and Kira, Naomi,

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Speaker 1: Elsie and Sophie Bloom, Lucien and Julianne Conrad from Brooklyn,

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Speaker 1: and Charlie and Thomas from Chicago. As a child, I

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Speaker 1: used to dream of having a horse of my own.

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Speaker 1: I would live on a farm and ride my horse

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Speaker 1: every day. Unfortunately I never got a horse of my own,

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Speaker 1: but I still loved to see horses playing in the

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Speaker 1: fields or to go for a horse ride. This episode

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Speaker 1: is about a pony named Tinkle. We are going to

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Speaker 1: follow him on some adventures. This is the first part

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Speaker 1: of his adventures, Tinkle the Trick Pony part one, Tinkle

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Speaker 1: stopped nibbling the sweet green grass of the meadow, blew

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Speaker 1: a long breath from his nose, raised his head and

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Speaker 1: looked around. Then he blinked his eyes slowly turned to

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Speaker 1: to himself, he said, I'm going to run away. He

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Speaker 1: other ponies or the horses would hear him. Oh, I

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Speaker 1: forgot to tell you that Tinkle was a little pony

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Speaker 1: that lived in the big green meadow, and being a pony,

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Speaker 1: of course, Tinkle ate grass and liked it too. So

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Speaker 1: as I said, Tinkle stopped eating the grass and said

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Speaker 1: to himself once more, I'm going to run away. The

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Speaker 1: reason Tinkle did not want the other ponies and the

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Speaker 1: because his mother and father were over in one corner

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Speaker 1: Of course, I know that horses sometimes run away when

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Speaker 1: said Tinkle to himself. I'm going to run away. I'm

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Speaker 1: tired of staying in this meadow all the time. Why

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Speaker 1: I've been in here over a year now, and not

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Speaker 1: more than that. I want to have some fun and

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Speaker 1: go off to a big city, such as the other

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Speaker 1: looking at an old horse who had come to the

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Speaker 1: stories about drawing a big shiny wagon that spouted fire

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Speaker 1: the kind of wagon Dapple tells about and hear the

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Speaker 1: spout out on the fire. I wonder what kind of

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Speaker 1: wagon it was. Of course, you have guessed it was

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Speaker 1: often listen to the stories Dapple, Gray, and the other

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Speaker 1: And when I get tired of running away, I can

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Speaker 1: Though Tinkle called it running away, he was really walking,

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Speaker 1: just as some children do. One reason why Tinkle did

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Speaker 1: I must go and bring him back. Then she would

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Speaker 1: Of course, the ponies and horses in the meadow often

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Speaker 1: but this was only because they felt so good and

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Speaker 1: frisky and lively that they simply could not do anything else.

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Speaker 1: But when the colts ran that way, they nearly always

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Speaker 1: of that. I'm not going to run that way, said

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Speaker 1: By this time he was quite far away from the

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Speaker 1: other horses, but as he looked back, he saw them

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Speaker 1: all standing in a circle with their noses close together.

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Speaker 1: Dapple Gray was in the center of the ring, and

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Speaker 1: Dapple is telling another story about how he drew the

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Speaker 1: funny wagon with the chimney on it, thought Tinkle, I

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Speaker 1: don't want to hear that again. Ponies and horses, you know,

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Speaker 1: mother pony tell the little pony what was good to

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Speaker 1: one another, they do speak among themselves. You have often

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Speaker 1: heard horses and ponies winnie, I suppose, and perhaps that

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Speaker 1: Tinkle was thinking to himself as he slowly wandered across

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Speaker 1: to him, adventures and travels, on and on. He wandered,

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Speaker 1: looking back now and then to make sure neither his father,

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Speaker 1: But they were listening to Dapple Gray till of once

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Speaker 1: the other horses liked the story so much that none

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Speaker 1: just listened to Dapple Gray. The other young ponies, many

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Speaker 1: of what you would perhaps call tag, though what the

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Speaker 1: ponies called it I do not know. Perhaps they had

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Speaker 1: wiggle or something like that. Anyhow, they were having so

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Speaker 1: the little pony. I'll run away where they can never

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Speaker 1: find me. Of course, Tinkle was doing this because he

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Speaker 1: and finally he came to a fence. Now, the fence

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Speaker 1: the ponies from getting out, but Tinkle had heard stories

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Speaker 1: and then he did not get over the fence. Instead

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Speaker 1: he fell against it and hurt himself. Ha, that is

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Speaker 1: no fun, thought Tinkle. I must jump higher next time.

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Speaker 1: And the next time he did jump high enough to

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Speaker 1: At last, I have really run away, thought the little pony.

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Speaker 1: He found himself in another green meadow, but it was

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Speaker 1: not nice like the one he had just left. The

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Speaker 1: But I don't have to eat it, said the little pony.

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Speaker 1: better grass. I'm not very hungry. So he walked on

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Speaker 1: stopped to look back, he found that he could no

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Speaker 1: They won't know where I've gone, so they can't find me.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to have a good time all by myself,

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Speaker 1: and there will be nobody to say don't do this,

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Speaker 1: don't do that, as they always do when I'm in

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Speaker 1: the green meadow. On and on when Tinkle and soon

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Speaker 1: he was quite a long distance from what had been

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Speaker 1: a little way. He saw, too, that when he lifted

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Speaker 1: water in the holes they made. This is strange, thought Tinkle.

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Speaker 1: I must be getting near the lake I have heard

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Speaker 1: Tinkle looked about, and just ahead he saw puddle of water.

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Speaker 1: It was too small for a lake, but there was

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Speaker 1: And then a strange thing happened. Just before Tinkle reached

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Speaker 1: Cried poor Tinkle. I can't move, and really he could not.

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Speaker 1: Tinkle was caught in the sticky mud of a big swamp.

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Speaker 1: That's the end of today's adventure here with Tinkle. I

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Speaker 1: hope you enjoyed it and that you'll listen to the

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Speaker 1: next episode to see what happens to Tinkle. Watching good Night,

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Speaker 1: sleep tight.

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Speaker 2: Right beside me. It's one of the few things I

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Speaker 2: can come on, one of the few things I can trot.

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Speaker 2: It's one of the few things I can come on,

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Speaker 2: one of the few things I can trot.

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Speaker 1: D