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Speaker 1: I'd like to say hello to some friends. Hello to

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Speaker 1: from Lusk in Dublin, Ireland. In our last chapter, Lightfoot

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Speaker 1: When the people started arriving, they first thought maybe Lightfoot

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Speaker 2: Lightfoot is a hero.

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Speaker 1: Mike had also decided to get a wagon and harness

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Speaker 1: like to go for a ride. Lightfoot Chapter four. Lightfoot,

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Speaker 1: the leaping goat, who was cropping the sweet grass on

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Speaker 1: You are very kind, said Blackie, and she followed down

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Speaker 1: as good as new, mother, cried the boy. Look at

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Speaker 1: Lightfoot will act when I put it on him, thought Mike.

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Speaker 2: He's never been harnessed.

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Speaker 1: While the goat was chewing some sweet chopped carrots, which

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Speaker 1: At first, Lightfoot jumped a little to one side, but

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Speaker 1: I guess it's just a new game that boy Mike

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Speaker 1: Oh, some game that boy is playing, answered the goat.

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Speaker 1: It won't hurt us, for Mike is always kind, and

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Speaker 1: so good, said Mike to himself, when he had most

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Speaker 1: Now to get the bit in his mouth, that's going

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Speaker 1: and help you, said missus Maloney. He's used to keeping

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Speaker 1: don't know if he's ever harnessed him to a cart.

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Speaker 1: But mister Murphy had, as it happened, and being a

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Speaker 1: When Mike had hold of the reins and the bit

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Speaker 1: But it was firmly held by straps, and Lightfoot could

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Speaker 1: hitching him to the wagon, said Mike, for as yet

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Speaker 1: advised mister Murphy. Sure he might run away and break it.

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Speaker 1: Just drive him around the yard by the reins and

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Speaker 1: run after him. He may run away with me, laughed Mike.

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Speaker 1: Well that can't be helped. Maybe he will, but he'll

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Speaker 1: was no different in this way from others, though. He

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Speaker 1: was such a good jumper. When Mike took hold of

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Speaker 1: who was now big and strong, started off with such

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Speaker 1: called mister Murphy, run with him, and along after him.

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Speaker 2: Mike.

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Speaker 1: Try to turn him to the right and the left

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Speaker 1: to the rains, ran and the goat ran too, and

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Speaker 1: being a good runner, Lightfoot easily kept ahead of Mike.

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Speaker 1: It was all Mike could do not to let go

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Speaker 1: of the rains. Run, called mister Murphy, Run faster, Mike.

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Speaker 1: Mike tried, but he stumbled over a stone and fell. However,

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Speaker 1: the yard. Bless us and save us, cried Missus Maloney,

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Speaker 2: What's happening.

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Speaker 1: He's teaching Lightfoot to pull to a harness, said mister Murphy. Hm,

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Speaker 1: it looks more like Lightfoot was teaching Mike, said the widow.

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Speaker 2: Won't Mike get hurt? Not a bit.

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Speaker 1: Many a time in the old country, I've been dragged

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Speaker 1: by a goat. It's good for one. Around and around

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Speaker 1: the yard, Lightfoot dragged Mike, the chickens and ducks scattering

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Speaker 1: I guess I'm tired. I seem to be held fast.

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Speaker 1: No matter what I do, I'll quit. And that is

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Speaker 1: just what Mike wanted, or he was tired of being

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Speaker 1: pulled about in this fashion. Well, I guess he's learned

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Speaker 1: that part anyhow, said mister Murphy. Now we'll hitch him

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Speaker 1: to the wagon. While mister Murphy was bringing up the

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Speaker 1: wagon and Mike was holding Lightfoot, Blackie came up and

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Speaker 1: asked what was all that for? Lightfoot oh, I guess

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Speaker 1: it was a new kind of I can't say I

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Speaker 1: like it, though, I would rather jump on the rocks,

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Speaker 1: answered Lightfoot. No, it was not a game, said Grandpa Bumper,

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Speaker 2: Just then.

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Speaker 1: You are being taught to let yourself be harnessed up

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Speaker 1: to draw a cart, Lightfoot, And here they come with

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Speaker 1: the cart. Now what does that mean, asked the leaping goat.

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Speaker 2: Will it hurt?

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Speaker 1: No, not if you behave yourself once. I was a

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you about it so.

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Speaker 2: You'll know what to do.

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Speaker 1: And when the cart was brought up and the shafts,

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Speaker 1: one on each side of Lightfoot, were being fastened with straps,

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Speaker 1: the younger goat stood very still, listening to Grandpa Bumper

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Speaker 1: tell in goat language, just what it all meant. Why

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Speaker 1: he seems to like it, said, my guess he fastened

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Speaker 1: Mister Murphy, I guess he's getting used to it, said

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Speaker 1: the kind man. But if he and Mike had known,

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Speaker 1: it was what Grandpa Bumper had said to Lightfoot that

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Speaker 1: to be hitched to the cart well, said Lightfoot to

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Speaker 1: Will you give me a ride? Young boy, he called

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Speaker 1: said Mike. And he is perfectly safe. Yes, ma'am. I

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Speaker 1: but be careful, won't you be cautioned Mike. Oh yes, ma'am,

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Speaker 1: cried Marie. Well I am, he said. It's ever so

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Speaker 1: smile on his freckled face. I'll soon be rich. Look

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Speaker 1: at that mother, he cried as he poured the money

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Speaker 1: that he did not make a dollar or a little more.

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Speaker 2: What is it, Mike?

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Speaker 1: I'm to drive him and the goat wagon in the park,

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Speaker 1: and the man is to give me ten dollars a week.

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Speaker 1: That'll be better than going about the streets. I'll get

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Speaker 1: When Mike had quieted his joy and happiness down a bit,

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Speaker 1: It seemed that as he was driving Lightfoot about hitched

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Speaker 1: to Mike. I have a goat stand in the park,

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Speaker 1: to sell me your goat and wagon? I need another?

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Speaker 1: But I told him I wouldn't sell Lightfoot, Mike explained.

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Speaker 1: Then he wanted me to rent my outfit to him

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Speaker 1: for a week. But I wouldn't do that, or I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't let anybody but myself drive my goat. That's right,

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Speaker 1: agreed missus Maloney, who was almost as fond of Lightfoot

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Speaker 1: more than that working for myself. Then he raised it

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Speaker 1: But how does he make any money out of it?

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Speaker 1: Asked miss Maloney. Oh, he keeps all I take in

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Speaker 1: than that. Lots of times for big crowds of children

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Speaker 1: go to the park these summer days. Then too, we

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Speaker 1: don't give such long rides as I've been giving. They

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Speaker 1: I charge ten sometimes, but then I go all around

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Speaker 1: a big block. But I think it'll be a good

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Speaker 1: thing for us. Mother, ten dollars a week is a

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Speaker 1: lot of money. Of course, I'll have to buy the

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Speaker 1: feed for Lightfoot out of that, and a bit of

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Speaker 1: lunch for myself. Sure I can put that up for

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Speaker 1: It's great, Mike, my boy. Sure, we've had good luck

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Speaker 1: ever since we got Lightfoot. Good Night, sleep tight

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