1 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:07,000 Speaker 1: Hey Friends, it's Mr Jim and welcome back to kids 2 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:10,760 Speaker 1: short stories. I'm sure you've heard about our activities for kids, 3 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:12,879 Speaker 1: but have you actually checked it out? Down in the 4 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: show notes below there's a link that your parents can 5 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 1: click that have all these awesome activities that every animal 6 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:22,079 Speaker 1: story on our kids animal stories podcast we bring to 7 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 1: life through a fun activity that you can do at 8 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 1: home or maybe at school. I can't wait to see 9 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 1: what you create. Well, friends, are you ready for today's 10 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:44,400 Speaker 1: amazing adventure? Me Too. Let's go. It was a beautifully 11 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:49,240 Speaker 1: perfect day. As pattent Lewis and Hollis, we're all very 12 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:53,599 Speaker 1: excited about something. Is it time to go yet? Shouted 13 00:00:53,600 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: Patton to his parents. Almost do you guys have all 14 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: your fishing stuff ready to go? Of course we do. 15 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:05,240 Speaker 1: We've been like ready for days, shouted Louis. Patton, Louis 16 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:07,960 Speaker 1: and Hollis, we're going on a fishing trip to their 17 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:12,120 Speaker 1: Nana and Papa's pond. They love to go to this 18 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:16,479 Speaker 1: pond and had this really old rowboat that they love 19 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:20,000 Speaker 1: to row around on the pond and look for the 20 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:24,319 Speaker 1: best fishing spots to catch a big one. As they 21 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 1: loaded up the car with all their fishing gear and snacks. 22 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:31,960 Speaker 1: The car pulled out of the driveway and off they were. 23 00:01:32,959 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 1: I can't wait. Do you think we're gonna see that 24 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:39,560 Speaker 1: one crazy thing we saw last time? Said Louis. That 25 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:42,560 Speaker 1: would be insane. Do you remember what it looked like? 26 00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,200 Speaker 1: Said Patton. I really think it was some kind of 27 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:50,160 Speaker 1: scary looking fish with legs or something, said Hollis. It 28 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:54,720 Speaker 1: can't be. There's no fish with legs, said Louis. I know, 29 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 1: I saw it too, said Patton. It could have been 30 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:02,400 Speaker 1: a fish with legs be I don't know, maybe it's 31 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: like a mutant fish or something. They laughed as they 32 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 1: drove along, talking about that mythical creature that they've seen 33 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:12,919 Speaker 1: a few times in that pond. Have you ever seen 34 00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:16,440 Speaker 1: something alive in the wild that you're not sure what 35 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 1: it is like, some kind of mythical creature like a 36 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: big foot or a lognus monster? Well, pattent Lewis and Hollis, 37 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:30,720 Speaker 1: they were convinced that there was some kind of mythical 38 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:33,160 Speaker 1: creature that lived in the pond and their Nana and 39 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:39,240 Speaker 1: Papa's backyard. We're finally here. As the car turned in 40 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 1: and rode down the gravel driveway. They bumped along the 41 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:46,360 Speaker 1: way and all the dust that kicked up from the 42 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:51,360 Speaker 1: tires came right into the car because they forgot to 43 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:54,880 Speaker 1: put the windows up. Quick, put the windows up, I 44 00:02:55,040 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 1: can't breathe, shouted Hollis as they hurriedly closed the windows, 45 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,679 Speaker 1: but all that dust from the gravel road was already 46 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:06,239 Speaker 1: in the car. It was too late. Oh this is gross, 47 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 1: said Louis. Yeah, I can't wait to brush this off 48 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: once we Nana, shouted Patton. They all raced out of 49 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:19,480 Speaker 1: the car and totally forgot about all the dust that 50 00:03:19,520 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 1: was all over them. Jumped into their Nana and Papa's 51 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 1: arms and Oh, it's so good to see you all, 52 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:30,720 Speaker 1: said there Nana, come over here and give me a hug. 53 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 1: Said there, Papa, you know that creature that you told 54 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:38,200 Speaker 1: me about that lives in the pond? I'm pretty sure 55 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:41,080 Speaker 1: I saw him over there this morning. So you boys, 56 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:45,960 Speaker 1: good luck. Oh, we can't wait. Thank you, Patton. Lewis 57 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:48,600 Speaker 1: and Hollis grabbed all their gear and off they ran 58 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: through the grass, headed towards the pond. They jumped into 59 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 1: the boat, put on their life jackets and pushed the 60 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 1: boat out into the water. It was a really cool rowboat. 61 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 1: It was made of wood. It had to have been 62 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 1: like a hundred years old. It was very squeaky when 63 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 1: they would, you know, row those rows. Have you ever 64 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: been on a rowboat before? Yead has these two paddles 65 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:16,240 Speaker 1: on both sides of the boat that are kind of 66 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 1: connected to the the edge of the frame and then 67 00:04:19,839 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 1: you grab onto both handles and you lean forward and 68 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:28,080 Speaker 1: pull back, lean forward and pull back, and those paddles 69 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 1: pushed the boat through the water. It is a super 70 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:35,039 Speaker 1: cool way to move around in a pond. Have you 71 00:04:35,080 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: guys seen anything yet? Asked Patton. NOOP, nothing. Have you 72 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:47,719 Speaker 1: gotten any bites? And nope, nothing yet, said Hollis. It 73 00:04:47,839 --> 00:04:50,320 Speaker 1: had now been about two hours that they had been 74 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:53,840 Speaker 1: rowing around this pond in circles looking for a good 75 00:04:53,839 --> 00:04:58,160 Speaker 1: fishing spot. The Sun was very hot, the frogs and 76 00:04:58,200 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 1: crickets were making their noise is, but no fish were biting. 77 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:05,839 Speaker 1: That can happen sometimes, you know, when you go fishing 78 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 1: and you just don't catch anything, and it's still nice 79 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 1: to be out on the lake or on a pond 80 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:17,240 Speaker 1: and just enjoying being outside with friends. I'm getting kind 81 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: of hungry, hollice. Did you bring any of the snacks 82 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:24,480 Speaker 1: with you when we got in the boat, asked Louis. Oh, well, 83 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:27,480 Speaker 1: I got I brought some of these crackers here. Oh, 84 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:30,320 Speaker 1: give me something, I need them, said Louis, as he 85 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:35,840 Speaker 1: anxiously grabbed onto that chip bag and started chomping away. WHOA, Louis, 86 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:39,720 Speaker 1: slow down, YOU'RE gonna make a mess. I'm just so hungry. 87 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 1: Crumbs of the crackers were flying everywhere as he gobbled 88 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 1: himself with it was pretty messy. Louis seriously slowed down 89 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:53,479 Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, all those crackers that 90 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:57,360 Speaker 1: were flying out of Louis's mouth and hands splashed into 91 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:03,000 Speaker 1: the water and they saw something. Did you see that? 92 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 1: I really think I just saw it, said Hollis. All 93 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 1: three of them leaned over to the edge of the 94 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 1: boat and the boat tipped towards the water. WHOA, whoa weekend. 95 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:16,680 Speaker 1: I'll lean on one side, said Patton. But did you 96 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:20,920 Speaker 1: really see something? They scanned the water back and forth 97 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:26,520 Speaker 1: and then they saw it again. Splash. It seems to 98 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 1: like the crackers. Wait. Just throw a whole cracker in 99 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 1: there on the water and see what happens. Lewis grabbed 100 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 1: one of the crackers and tossed it into the water 101 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:38,640 Speaker 1: just a few feet out from the boat. They waited 102 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:44,000 Speaker 1: a second and then they saw it. It's real. Somebody 103 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 1: grabbing net fast. Patton grabbed a net and without even 104 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: really looking, he scooped it into the water and picked 105 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 1: it up and thankfully fit inside the net. But what 106 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 1: they pulled out of the water, they couldn't believe it. Ah, 107 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 1: it's some kind of monster. Ah, it's scared pat in 108 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:07,239 Speaker 1: a little bit and he dropped the net inside the boat. 109 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: All three boys jumped out of the boat and into 110 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:18,840 Speaker 1: the pond. Splash, splash, splash. That creature was now inside 111 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 1: of the boat. We gotta push the boat to shore hurry, Patton, 112 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:26,280 Speaker 1: Louis and Hollis thankfully had their life jackets on and 113 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 1: they swam the boat back to shore. They were too 114 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:32,120 Speaker 1: afraid to climb back inside with whatever in the world 115 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:36,240 Speaker 1: that was. Did you see that thing? Said Hollis. As 116 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:38,960 Speaker 1: they were swimming, it looked like a fish with legs 117 00:07:38,960 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 1: in a giant Dale, and that was so weird. I 118 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:45,080 Speaker 1: know I thought it was like an alligator at first, 119 00:07:45,360 --> 00:07:48,840 Speaker 1: but it definitely had a fish mouth, said Louis. They 120 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:52,120 Speaker 1: finally reached the shore of the pond and pulled themselves 121 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 1: out of the water and they looked inside the boat 122 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 1: at the creature that they had caught. Holy smokes, what 123 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 1: in the world is that thing? Said Patton. It's almost 124 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 1: even hard to describe to you what it is that 125 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 1: these three boys were looking at. It looked like a piranha, 126 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:14,960 Speaker 1: which that's crazy and enough itself, because Parana should not 127 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:17,000 Speaker 1: be in this bond. But it looked like a part 128 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 1: piranha and the other half was an alligator. It had 129 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:23,280 Speaker 1: the legs of an alligator, in the tail of an alligator, 130 00:08:23,320 --> 00:08:27,080 Speaker 1: but the face, it's definitely not an alligator. It's teeth 131 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:31,320 Speaker 1: or ginormous like a piranhas. We've got to show Nana 132 00:08:31,360 --> 00:08:36,000 Speaker 1: and Papa. Come on, shouted Louis, Patton, Lewis and Hollis 133 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 1: race back to the House as fast as they could, 134 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 1: grabbing their Nana and Papa and telling them to get 135 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:44,000 Speaker 1: back to the bond as fast as they could. As 136 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:45,959 Speaker 1: they were running and running, they were telling them all 137 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,760 Speaker 1: about what this creature was and as they arrived at 138 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:54,600 Speaker 1: the boat, it was gone. Wait a second, it's gone, 139 00:08:55,360 --> 00:09:00,560 Speaker 1: said Hollis. It must have flopped back in to the pond. 140 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:05,240 Speaker 1: Said Louis. Wow, I can't believe you boys caught it. 141 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:11,040 Speaker 1: That's so amazing, said their Papa. Well, maybe they're just pretending. 142 00:09:11,640 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 1: You know how great imaginations they have, said their Nana. 143 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:20,760 Speaker 1: Oh No, no, no, they wouldn't joke about the legendary 144 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 1: creature like this. I bet they did, said their papa. 145 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:28,920 Speaker 1: We really did, we promise, said Pat and Lewis and 146 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 1: Hollis together, and the rest of the day they spent 147 00:09:33,559 --> 00:09:38,640 Speaker 1: searching the pond for that mythical, legendary creature and they 148 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 1: didn't see it again, but one day later on they 149 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 1: actually would. And even though this is the end of 150 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:49,280 Speaker 1: the story, it's just the beginning of Patt and Lewis 151 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:54,200 Speaker 1: and Hollis's great adventure with their grandparents, their search for 152 00:09:54,280 --> 00:09:59,200 Speaker 1: the legendary creature that lives in their backyard pond. The End. 153 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:08,040 Speaker 1: Great Job, you listened all the way to the end 154 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:10,360 Speaker 1: and you know what time it is. It's time for 155 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:15,440 Speaker 1: Kard show olds. I want to say to Lucy and 156 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 1: MAC from fruit and Missouri, Ellie from Washington, D C 157 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 1: Ludo from Maine, Joel from Alabama, Devon from California, Dylan 158 00:10:23,520 --> 00:10:26,800 Speaker 1: from Atlanta, Georgia and Finn and Alden from Runswick Maine. 159 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you're all in the kids short stories, 160 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 1: family and on the spy team. We could not stop 161 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 1: doctor stinking better than his crew without you, my friends. 162 00:10:35,679 --> 00:10:38,080 Speaker 1: If you want your name on these kids shoutouts, click 163 00:10:38,160 --> 00:10:39,640 Speaker 1: the link down in the show nuts blown and have 164 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 1: your parents fill out the kids shout out for him. 165 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:50,559 Speaker 1: I will see you next time. Bye.