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Speaker 1: Thank you. This episode is about bugs. Do you like bugs?

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Speaker 1: Is there a favorite bug that you like to watch

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Speaker 1: or one you really don't like. I do not like earwigs.

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Speaker 1: I am not sure what their purpose is and have

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Speaker 1: always felt that they look for me. I remember when

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Speaker 1: I was younger, if there were any earwigs around, they

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Speaker 1: would always be wherever I was. Yuck. Some bugs are

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Speaker 1: very useful, and we would not be very happy without them,

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Speaker 1: but I am not sure that earwigs are one of them.

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Speaker 1: The helpful tumble bugs. In the corner of the barnyard

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Speaker 1: was a pile of manure which was to be put

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Speaker 1: upon the garden and plowed in. This would make the

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Speaker 1: ground better for all the good things growing in it.

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Speaker 1: But now it was waiting behind the high board fence,

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Speaker 1: and many happy insects lived in it. There were big

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Speaker 1: bugs and little bugs, fat bugs and slim bugs, young

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Speaker 1: bugs and old bugs, good bugs, and well, one does

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Speaker 1: not like to say that there were bad bugs, but

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Speaker 1: there were certainly some not so good as others. Among

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Speaker 1: all these, however, there were none who worked harder or

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Speaker 1: thought more of each other than the tumble bugs. One

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Speaker 1: couple especially, were thrifty and devoted. They had been married

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Speaker 1: in June, when each was just one day old. June

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Speaker 1: weddings were the fashion among their people. Mister Tumblebug believed

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Speaker 1: in early marriages. I have known tumblebugs, he said, who

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Speaker 1: did not marry until they were two days old. But

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Speaker 1: I think that was a great mistake. Each becomes so

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Speaker 1: used to having his own way that it is very

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Speaker 1: hard for husband and wife to agree on anything. Now,

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Speaker 1: Missus Tumblebug and I always think alike. Then he smiled

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Speaker 1: at Missus Tumblebug, and Missus Tumblebug smiled at him. They

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Speaker 1: were nearly always together and busy. Perhaps it was because

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Speaker 1: they worked together every day that they cared so much

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Speaker 1: for each other. You know that it makes a great difference.

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Speaker 1: And if one had worked all the time while the

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Speaker 1: other was playing, they would soon have come to care

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Speaker 1: for other things. One hot summer morning, Missus Tumblebug said

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Speaker 1: to her husband, who was just finishing his breakfast, I

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Speaker 1: have found the loveliest place you ever saw for burying

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Speaker 1: an egg ball. Do hurry up. I can hardly wait

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Speaker 1: to begin work. Mister Tumblebug gulped down his last mouthful

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Speaker 1: and answered, I'm ready. Now follow me. Then she cried

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Speaker 1: and led the way over all sorts of little things

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Speaker 1: which littered up the ground of the barnyard. No horse

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Speaker 1: was there just then, and she felt safe. Mister Tumblebug

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Speaker 1: followed close behind her, and a very neat looking couple

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Speaker 1: they made. Both were flat backed and all of shining black.

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Speaker 1: We do not dress so showily as some bugs. They

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Speaker 1: were in the habit of saying, but black always looks well,

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Speaker 1: and that was true. Although they spent most of their

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Speaker 1: days working in the earth, they were ever clean and shining,

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Speaker 1: with smiling shovel shaped faces. There, said Missus Tumblebug, as

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Speaker 1: she stopped for breath and pointed with her right fore

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Speaker 1: leg to the ground just ahead of her. Did you

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Speaker 1: ever see a finer place? She could point in this way,

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Speaker 1: you know, without falling over, Because she had five other

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Speaker 1: legs on which to stand. There are some very pleasant

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Speaker 1: things about having six legs. And the only tumbling she

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Speaker 1: and her husband did was part of their work. Excellent,

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Speaker 1: exclaimed mister tumblebook. And the ground is so soft that

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Speaker 1: it will not tire you very much to dig in it.

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Speaker 1: He did not have to think whether it would tire him,

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Speaker 1: His wife always liked to do that alone. Then both

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Speaker 1: tumble bugs scurried back to the minore heap. I cannot

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Speaker 1: see why some of our neighbors are so silly, she said.

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Speaker 1: There is a beetle now laying her eggs right in

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Speaker 1: this pile. She will leave them there too, and as

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Speaker 1: likely as not, some hungry fellow will come along before

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Speaker 1: the sun goes down and eat every one of them.

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Speaker 1: She might much better take a little trouble, put her

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Speaker 1: to a safe place. When my children hatch out into

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Speaker 1: soft little grubs, I intend they shall have a chance

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Speaker 1: deserve to have children. Well, they won't have many, said

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Speaker 1: her husband. Perhaps only a small little family of twenty

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Speaker 1: or thirty. Now exclim Missus Tumblebug, we must get to work.

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Speaker 1: Help me roll this ball of manure. I have laid

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Speaker 1: an egg in it while we were talking, so that

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Speaker 1: was bigger than both of them when it started, and

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Speaker 1: the heap, and the dust of the ground stuck to

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Speaker 1: it and crusted it over. Missus Tumblebug stood on top

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Speaker 1: of the ball, and, creeping far out on it, pulled

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Speaker 1: it forward with her hind feet, while he stood on

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Speaker 1: Of course, if Missus Tumblebug had not been climbing backward

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Speaker 1: all time, the ball would have rolled right over her.

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Speaker 1: To pull forward with part of your legs and climb

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Speaker 1: backward with all of them at the same time, And that,

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Speaker 1: when your head is a good deal lower than your heels,

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Speaker 1: is pretty hard work and takes much planning. Missus Tumblebug

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Speaker 1: had very little breath for talking, but she did not

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Speaker 1: lose her temper, and that shows what an excellent bug

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Speaker 1: she was. Harder, she would call out to mister Tumblebug,

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Speaker 1: we are coming to a little hill. Then mister Tumblebug,

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Speaker 1: who you will remember had to stand on his head

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Speaker 1: all the time and really did the hardest part of

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Speaker 1: the work, would brace himself more firmly and push until

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Speaker 1: it seemed as though his legs would break. He could

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Speaker 1: never see just where they were going unless he let

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Speaker 1: go of the ball. And Missus Tumblebug did not believe

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Speaker 1: in turning out for anything. What if there is a hill,

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Speaker 1: she often said, can't we go over it? And over

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Speaker 1: it they always went, although they might much more easily

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Speaker 1: have gone around it. Missus Tumblebug did not want anybody

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Speaker 1: to think she was afraid of work, and she knew

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Speaker 1: her husband would have a chance to rest while she

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Speaker 1: was burying the ball. Once in a while, when the

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Speaker 1: ball came down suddenly on the farther side of a

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Speaker 1: twig or chip, it rolled quite on top of her,

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Speaker 1: and mister Tumblebug would be greatly alarmed. Some people thought

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Speaker 1: this served her quite right for insisting that they should

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Speaker 1: go over things instead of around them. Still, one hardly

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Speaker 1: likes to say a thing like that. If it were

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Speaker 1: much of a hill, she would climb down from the

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Speaker 1: ball and talk with him. Then they would put their

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Speaker 1: shovel shaped heads together under the backside of the ball

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Speaker 1: and pushing at the same time send it over. Two

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Speaker 1: heads are better than one, they would say, and this

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Speaker 1: needs a great deal of headwork. At last, the ball

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Speaker 1: had reached the spot where they intended to have it buried.

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Speaker 1: Both were hot and tired. Many legs mate like work,

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Speaker 1: said Missus Tumblebug, as she carefully cleaned hers before eating dinner.

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Speaker 1: And if there is anything I enjoy, it is finishing

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Speaker 1: a good job like this. Mister Tumblebug sighed heavily and

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Speaker 1: said he thought he would go for a walk with

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Speaker 1: some of his friends that afternoon. All work and no

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Speaker 1: play would make me a dull bug, he said. Then

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Speaker 1: he called out good bye to his wife and told

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Speaker 1: her not to work too hard. Missus Tumblebug looked after

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Speaker 1: him lovingly. Now, isn't he good? She said to herself.

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Speaker 1: There are not many bugs who will help their wives

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Speaker 1: at all, and most of them never look at an egg,

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Speaker 1: much less sea it gets well placed. And that is

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Speaker 1: true for the tumblebugs are the model bug fathers. Now, indeed,

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Speaker 1: Missus Tumblebug was at her best. She hurried down her dinner,

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Speaker 1: taking mouthfuls which were much too large for good manners,

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Speaker 1: and began plowing the earth around the ball as it

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Speaker 1: lay there. She plowed so deep that sometimes she was

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Speaker 1: almost buried in the loose earth. At last, she came up,

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Speaker 1: took a good look around, knocked some grains of dust

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Speaker 1: off her shining back, then dived in again upside down,

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Speaker 1: and pulled the ball in after her by holding it

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Speaker 1: tightly with her middle legs. All the time she was

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Speaker 1: kicking the earth away with her two hind legs and

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Speaker 1: her two front ones, which were stout diggers, so that

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Speaker 1: little by little she sank deeper into the ground. She

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Speaker 1: made a much larger hole for the ball than it

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Speaker 1: really needed. I might just as well while I am

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Speaker 1: about it, she said, And I should so dislike to

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Speaker 1: have anyone think I am afraid of work. At last,

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Speaker 1: she finished and crawled away, covering the place neatly over

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Speaker 1: so that nobody could see where she went in or

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Speaker 1: out there. She said, now I am ready to play.

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Speaker 1: A straight came along, and she hurried under a chip

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Speaker 1: to be safe. The chicken was lost, and calling to

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Speaker 1: his mother, mother, he cried, Mother, hen, I want to

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Speaker 1: get home and go to sleep under your wings, dear me,

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Speaker 1: exclaimed Missus Tumblebug, is it time for chickens to go

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Speaker 1: to sleep? She looked through a crack in the fence

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Speaker 1: and across the lawn to the big house. The shadows

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Speaker 1: lay long upon the short grass. It certainly is, she said,

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Speaker 1: And here I have spent all day burying that egg properly.

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Speaker 1: I think it is very strange that I cannot get

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Speaker 1: more time for rest and play. So she had to

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Speaker 1: understand then, and perhaps never will learn that if she

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Speaker 1: doing them in the easiest way, she might get a

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Speaker 1: great deal of work done in a day and still

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Speaker 1: have time to rest. If one were to tell her so,

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Speaker 1: she might think that meant laziness, but it would not.

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Speaker 1: You know, it is always worthwhile to make one's head

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Speaker 1: save one's feet, and when a single head could save

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Speaker 1: six feet, it would certainly be worthwhile. Still, although missus

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Speaker 1: Tumblebug never dreamed of such a thing, she probably enjoyed

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Speaker 1: work about as much as her name first enjoyed play.

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Speaker 1: That is the end of this episode, good Night, sleep Tight,