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Speaker 1: Welcome to sleep Tight Stories, chapter ten.

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Speaker 2: Now we can talk nicely, said Don as he walked

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Speaker 2: alongside Blackie when she had jumped from the tree. Come

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Speaker 2: over here in the shade, and I'll tell you about

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Speaker 2: my adventures. I've had some adventures, too, spoke the cat.

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Speaker 2: Not as wonderful as yours, perhaps, but still they were

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Speaker 2: quite some for me. I never thought when I started

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Speaker 2: out that I would meet a dancing bear and Tom

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Speaker 2: Tum the jolly elephant. And I'm very glad I met you, too, Don,

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Speaker 2: especially since you are so good to me. Oh, don't

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Speaker 2: mention it, went on Don, I'm sorry for what I

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Speaker 2: did first. Now i'll begin. So Don told Blackie of

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Speaker 2: his many adventures. But as I have written a book

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Speaker 2: especially about them, where you may read them for yourself,

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Speaker 2: I won't put any of them down here. My you

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Speaker 2: had a perfectly wonderful time, exclaimed Blackie when Don was finished.

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Speaker 2: Tell me about yourself, now, invited the big dog, and

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Speaker 2: Blackie did. She told how she had gone wandering off

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Speaker 2: so that she might learn to become a fine fence jumper,

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Speaker 2: how good missus Thompson had taken care of her and

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Speaker 2: brought her to the country, and how finally she had

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Speaker 2: gotten lost, and I am lost yet, went on the

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Speaker 2: black cat. I don't know where to go or what

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Speaker 2: to do. Don. I thought I would find a place

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Speaker 2: don't like cats. They don't, Don said, at least they

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Speaker 2: never kept a cat where I live now, and I

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Speaker 2: am sure that shows they do not like them. For

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Speaker 2: now I'm not going to chase cats. I never knew

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Speaker 2: before how nice they could be. I thought they always

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Speaker 2: scratched and bit, And many a time I've had cats

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Speaker 2: crook up their backs at me, make their tails big,

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Speaker 2: scaring dogs, said Blackie. You see, most dogs are bigger

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Speaker 2: and stronger than we, and the only way we can

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Speaker 2: scare them is to fluff out our fur and make

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Speaker 2: we hiss like a snake, or steam like a steam pipe,

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Speaker 2: and that scarce this dog more. But I was so

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Speaker 2: tired and frightened that I didn't try to scare you.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad you didn't. Now we'll be friends. But of course,

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Speaker 2: if you see some other dog running at you, why

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Speaker 2: you'll scare him, I suppose, Blackie. Yes, I guess I will,

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Speaker 2: answered the black cat, sort of smiling. The two new

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Speaker 2: Don said, oh, Blackie, I forgot. You said you were hungry,

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Speaker 2: didn't you. Yes, Don, I am hungry. But you say

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Speaker 2: Oh don't you worry about that, he said Don, with

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Speaker 2: it to me. Now, I'll tell you what you'll do.

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Speaker 2: They feed me plenty well at this house where they

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Speaker 2: like me. They bring out nice bones and bits of meat,

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Speaker 2: spoke Blackie quickly. It makes me hungry to hear about

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Speaker 2: all those good things. Well you'll be having some soon,

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Speaker 2: said the dog, for they'll be bringing out my dinner directly.

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Speaker 2: I think it will be chicken today. Oh my chicken,

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Speaker 2: meowed Blackie, putting out her red tongue. How good that

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Speaker 2: sounds it will taste good too, said Don. How do

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Speaker 2: you know you will have chicken, asked the black cat. Well,

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Speaker 2: But now I'll tell you what to do, so you

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Speaker 2: will have a good dinner. And will you have one too,

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Speaker 2: Asked Blackie. Oh, yes, they bring me plenty of dinner.

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Speaker 2: because you wouldn't let a cat stay in your yard,

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Speaker 2: And when she had set down the dish of chicken,

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Speaker 2: I think you can guess how good the chicken dinner

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Speaker 2: about that, said the dog kindly when Blackie spoke about it.

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Speaker 2: You eat all you want. I'll have plenty, and anyhow

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Speaker 2: I can get more later. So Blackie had the first

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Speaker 2: really good meal she had eaten since she left Missus Thompson,

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Speaker 2: and when she had taken a good drink of water,

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Speaker 2: she felt much better. Now, you go sleep in my house,

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Speaker 2: said Don, and no one will disturb you. I always

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Speaker 2: like to sleep after a good meal, so do I

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Speaker 2: said Blackie. For several days, Blackie lived with Don in

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Speaker 2: Only they had gotten out of the habit of keeping

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: I think I'll be traveling on, said Blackie one day.

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Speaker 2: Traveling on, asked Don, where are you going back to

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Speaker 2: the circus? Oh? No, answered Blackie. I don't belong there.

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Speaker 2: I am going back to the home where I lived

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Speaker 2: with the little boy and girl, Arthur and Mabel. I

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Speaker 2: am lonesome for them, and I'm sure where they miss me.

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Speaker 2: Do you know how to find your way back to them,

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Speaker 2: asked Don. Well no, not exactly, replied Blackie. But I

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Speaker 2: I suppose not, Don said, So I am going to

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Speaker 2: Then perhaps I can find their house. All right. I

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Speaker 2: am sorry to have you go, Don said, for I

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Speaker 2: Blackie spoke politely. I never knew how nice cats were

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Speaker 2: before went on the dog. And if you meet Tom

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Speaker 2: give them my love, I shall, said the cat. Then

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Speaker 2: She had so many adventures that I cannot get them

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Speaker 2: finally found her home again. Once, as she was sleeping

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Speaker 2: hen's nest. Are you going to bite a chicken, asked Blackie. No,

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Speaker 2: an egg, thought Blackie. Another time Blackie had a nice adventure.

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Speaker 2: She was walking along a country road, and she was

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Speaker 2: Blackie was hungry too. All at once she heard a

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Speaker 2: can be Dido the dancing Bear, thought Blackie. He told

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Speaker 2: at first. But Blackie soon saw that it was not

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Speaker 2: how hungry I am, thought Blackie. How I wish I

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Speaker 2: it stopped, toot his horn and said, hello, kitty, would

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Speaker 2: you like a nice fish head? Wow? Answered Blackie, which

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Speaker 2: blowing his horn. Tou tou tuto doo doot. That meant

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Speaker 2: he had fish to sell. For several days, Blackie traveled on,

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