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Speaker 1: Hello friends, and welcome to sleep Tight Stories. A short

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Speaker 1: Thank you. This episode is for Halloween. Are you excited

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Speaker 1: about Halloween? Have you decided what you are going to

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Speaker 1: dress up as yet? I can't decide if I'm going

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Speaker 1: to be a cat or a witch. The story I'm

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Speaker 1: going to share in this episode is all about a

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Speaker 1: witch and a grub. The Witchity Grub and the grubbedy

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Speaker 1: Witch read with permission by Daniel Williamson. Winding away from

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Speaker 1: the bright city lights on a hill up high in

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Speaker 1: the clouds, spooky old castle glows in the night where

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Speaker 1: a lonely witch hides from crowds. She reads the spells

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Speaker 1: from her witchety books as she pours her witchety potions,

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Speaker 1: stirring her cauldron with a witchety look going through her

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Speaker 1: witchety motions. They don't like me, and I don't like them.

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Speaker 1: She sings as the cauldron bubbles. This spell will make

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Speaker 1: it snow again and bring them awful troubles. That's not

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Speaker 1: a good choice, said a posh little voice from behind

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Speaker 1: the big wooden door. Your spell won't last. You're doing

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Speaker 1: it wrong, said the tiny strange creature on the floor. Yak,

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Speaker 1: what are ye? Said the witch, bending down. You look

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Speaker 1: like the slime from my tub. Slimy, not me. I'm

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Speaker 1: clean as can be. A fidgety, witchety grub. A witchety grub.

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Speaker 1: There's no such bug. And what makes you think you're

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Speaker 1: so clean? You crawl around on the dirty rug where

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Speaker 1: all the animals have been. But look at my face,

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Speaker 1: no mud, muck or moss, not one bit like yours.

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Speaker 1: When was the last time you had a good wash

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Speaker 1: and cleaned all your spots and sores. The witch grabs

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Speaker 1: a mirror and shrieks at the shock. Aha, what happened?

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Speaker 1: You're right, you're showing the signs of working too hard,

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Speaker 1: making spells deep into the night. But my hands are

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Speaker 1: so crooked and my arms are all bent. I can't

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Speaker 1: even wash my own face. Don't worry, said the grub.

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Speaker 1: My hands are nimble. I'll help if I can stay

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Speaker 1: at your place. It's a heel, said the witch. But

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Speaker 1: watch out for the cat. If you're too slow, he'll

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Speaker 1: catch you and eat you. Fair enough, said the grub.

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Speaker 1: I won't forget that. Now pick me up so I

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Speaker 1: can reach you. The witchety grub crawled over her face

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Speaker 1: with hot soap and water in a bucket. Each time

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Speaker 1: he found a straggly hare, he'd pull it until he

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Speaker 1: could pluck it. He rubbed and scrubbed right round the clock,

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Speaker 1: rolling back the years. He covered up the witch's spots

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Speaker 1: and scooped the wax from her ears. Oh dear, oh dear,

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Speaker 1: said the witchity grub. Your brows are too bushy and long.

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Speaker 1: I'll simply have to trim them down. Good job, I

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Speaker 1: brought scissors along, even the warts on the Witch's face.

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Speaker 1: He'd jump on until they went flat. But he bounced

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Speaker 1: off the Witch's crookedy nose and knocked off her witchity hat.

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Speaker 1: Oh dear, oh dear, said the witchity grub. Your hair's

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Speaker 1: all greasy and smells. We'll have to pop you in

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Speaker 1: the tub and give it a wash. As well. The

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Speaker 1: witch laid back in her witchety bath, her head all

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Speaker 1: covered in SuDS. The grub picked out all the sticks

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Speaker 1: and grass and washed away the mud. Oh dear, oh dear,

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Speaker 1: said the witchity grub, Your shoulders are lumpy and hard.

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Speaker 1: I simply must give them a witchity rub. No wonder

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Speaker 1: all his hands and bounced on her witchity lumps. It

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Speaker 1: took a while, you understand, nearly ninety nine grubbity jumps

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Speaker 1: in front of the mirror. He dried her hair for

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Speaker 1: more than just a while. The witch was so happy

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Speaker 1: Oh dear, oh dear, said the witchity grub. Your teeth,

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Speaker 1: they're all green and rotten. Twice a day they need

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Speaker 1: a scrub. But clearly you've forgotten. The grub climbed into

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Speaker 1: the Witch's mouth with a toothpick and a long minty brush.

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Speaker 1: He found bits of food and picked them out, even

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Speaker 1: bits of old bread and the crust. He scrubbed every

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Speaker 1: It's a darn good job. I think you'll find that

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Speaker 1: witchity grubs are so tiny. They walked across to the

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Speaker 1: dressing room to find the witch some clothes. Oh dear,

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Speaker 1: oh dear, it can't be true. You've got holes in

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Speaker 1: all of those. The wichity grub took a needle and

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Speaker 1: I'll sow them all up, he said, though I'm starting

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Speaker 1: to feel quite tired. The witchety grub then started to yawn,

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Speaker 1: which made the witch yon too, her eyelids falling to

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Speaker 1: said the grub. Now look in the mirror and tell

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Speaker 1: me what do you see. I see the color in

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Speaker 1: my cheeks again. I feel like a whole new me.

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Speaker 1: No more nights around the cauldron casting spells upon the city.

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Speaker 1: My time I'll now spend with my new little friend

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Speaker 1: that can make an old witch looks so pretty.