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Speaker 1: Hello, friends, and welcome to sleep tight stories. Today's story

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Speaker 1: is about a little bat who thinks he knows better

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Speaker 1: than his parents and is very determined to do something

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Speaker 1: that they have told him he should not. Little Bat

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Speaker 1: has decided that he does not want to sleep all day.

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Speaker 1: He wants to go out and see what happens when

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Speaker 1: he is sleeping. Let's see what he discovers. The little

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Speaker 1: bat who wouldn't go to bed, Come, said Mama Bat,

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Speaker 1: lying toward her home in the cave. It is time

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Speaker 1: that you children went to bed. The eastern sky is

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Speaker 1: growing bright, and I can see the fleecy clouds blush

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Speaker 1: rosy red as the sun looks at them. The little

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Speaker 1: bats flitted along after her, and Papa Bat came behind them.

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Speaker 1: They had been flying through the starlit forest all night,

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Speaker 1: chasing the many small insects that came out after the

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Speaker 1: sun has gone down, and passing in and out of

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Speaker 1: the tangled branches is without ever touching one. Indeed, Mama

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Speaker 1: Bat would have been embarrassed if children of hers flew

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Speaker 1: against anything in the dark. There might be some excuse

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Speaker 1: for such a mistake in the daytime, or bat's eyes

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Speaker 1: do not see well. Then but in the nighttime she

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Speaker 1: would have scolded them well, and they would have deserved it.

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Speaker 1: Or bats have the most wonderful way of feeling things

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Speaker 1: before they touched them, and there are no other people

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Speaker 1: in the forest who can do that. There are no

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Speaker 1: other people who can tell by the feeling of the

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Speaker 1: air when something is near. And the bats had a

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Speaker 1: great laugh with their friend the screech owl once when

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Speaker 1: he flew against a tree and fell to the ground.

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Speaker 1: And now the night was over and their mother had

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Speaker 1: called them to go home. One of the little bats

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Speaker 1: hung back with a very angry look on his face,

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Speaker 1: and twice his father had to tell him to fly faster.

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Speaker 1: He was thinking how he would like to see the

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Speaker 1: forest in the daytime. He had never seen the sun rise,

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Speaker 1: and he wanted to do that. He had never seen

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Speaker 1: any of the day birds or the animals that wake

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Speaker 1: in the morning. He thought it was pretty mean to

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Speaker 1: the stars began to fade. He didn't believe what his

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Speaker 1: father and mother said that he wouldn't have a good

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Speaker 1: time if he stayed up. He had coaxed and coaxed,

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Speaker 1: and teased and teased, but it hadn't made a bit

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Speaker 1: of difference. Every morning he had to fold his wings

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Speaker 1: and go to sleep in a dark crack in the

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Speaker 1: rock of the cave, hanging head downward, close to the

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Speaker 1: rest of the family. Their father said that there never

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Speaker 1: was a better place to sleep than in this same crack,

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Speaker 1: and it certainly was easy to catch on with the

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Speaker 1: hooks at the lower ends of their wings when they

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Speaker 1: hung themselves up for the day. But now he just

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Speaker 1: wouldn't go to bed. So there it is your turn, next,

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Speaker 1: said Mama Bat to him, when the rest of the

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Speaker 1: children had hung themselves up. I'm not going to bed,

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Speaker 1: the little bat answered. Not going to bed, said his father.

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Speaker 1: Are you crazy? No, said the little bat, I'm not.

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Speaker 1: I don't believe the child is well, said Mamma Bat.

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Speaker 1: He never acted like this before. I'm afraid he has overeaten,

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Speaker 1: and she looked very anxious. I am well, and I

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Speaker 1: haven't eaten too much, said the little bat. I think

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Speaker 1: you might let a fellow have some fun once in

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Speaker 1: a while. I've never seen the sun in my life,

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Speaker 1: and there are a whole lot of birds and animals

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Speaker 1: in the forest that I've only heard about. Papa and

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Speaker 1: Mamma Bat looked at each other without speaking. I won't

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Speaker 1: go to bed, said the little bat. Very well, said

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Speaker 1: his father, I shall not try to make you fly

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Speaker 1: away at once, and let us go to sleep. After

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Speaker 1: he had gone, Mama Bat said, I suppose you did

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Speaker 1: right to let him go, But it seems too bad

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Speaker 1: that comes from not listening. The little bat flew away,

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Speaker 1: feeling very brave. He guessed he knew how to take

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Speaker 1: care of himself even in the daylight. He felt sorry

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Speaker 1: for his brothers who were in the cave, but he

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Speaker 1: made up his mind that he would tell them all

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Speaker 1: about it. The next night, the eastern sky I grew

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Speaker 1: and he blinked and turned away. Then the song birds

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Speaker 1: awakened and began to sing. It was very interesting, but

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Speaker 1: he thought they sang too loudly. The forest at night

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Speaker 1: is a quiet place, and he didn't see the sense

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Speaker 1: the night birds never made such a fuss over the moon,

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Speaker 1: and he guessed the moon was as good as the sun.

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Speaker 1: Somebody went scampering over the grass, kicking up his heels

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Speaker 1: as he ran. That must be a rabbit, thought the

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Speaker 1: little back. The screech owl told me that rabbits run

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Speaker 1: in that way. I wish I could see him more plainly.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what is the matter with my eyes.

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Speaker 1: Just then a sunbeam came slanting through the forest and

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Speaker 1: fell on his furry coat. As he clung to a

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Speaker 1: branch ow, he cried, oh, how warm it is. I

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Speaker 1: don't like it. The moonbeams do not feel so ah.

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Speaker 1: I must fly to a shady corner. He started to fly.

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Speaker 1: Just what was the matter? He never knew. It may

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Speaker 1: have been because he couldn't see well. It may have

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Speaker 1: been because he was getting very tired. Or it may

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Speaker 1: have been because the strangeness of it all was beginning

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Speaker 1: to frighten him. But at all events, he went down, down, down,

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Speaker 1: until he found himself pitching and tumbling around in the grass.

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Speaker 1: A crow had seen him fall and cried loudly, come, come,

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Speaker 1: come to his friends. The rabbits who were feeding nearby

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Speaker 1: came scampering along, making great leaps in their haste to

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Speaker 1: see what was the matter. The goldfinches, the robins, the orioles,

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Speaker 1: the woodpeckers and many other birds came fluttering up. Even

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Speaker 1: a blue jay sat on a branch above the bat

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Speaker 1: and shrieked ja ja jay to add to the excitement.

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Speaker 1: And last of all, the groundhog appeared, coming slowly and

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Speaker 1: with dignity as a person who can remember his grandfather

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Speaker 1: should do. What is the cause of all this commotion?

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Speaker 1: He asked. He might have said what is the matter,

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Speaker 1: and then they would have understood him at once, but

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Speaker 1: he was too hoty for that. He thought he had

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Speaker 1: to use big words once in a while to show

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Speaker 1: that he could if people didn't understand them. He was

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Speaker 1: willing to explain what he meant. We found such a

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Speaker 1: strange bird, sir, that the biggest little rabbit, without waiting

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Speaker 1: to find out what a commotion was. Just see him

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Speaker 1: tumble around. Bird. That is no bird, said a woodpecker.

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Speaker 1: Look at his ears and his nose. He doesn't even

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Speaker 1: have a bill. Well he flies, said the biggest little rabbit,

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Speaker 1: Because I saw him, so he must be a bird, hm,

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Speaker 1: said a chipmunk. So does my cousin, the flying squirrel.

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Speaker 1: In a way, yet he is no more bird than

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Speaker 1: I am. And this fellow hasn't a feather to his skin,

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Speaker 1: cried an oriole. I don't say that, my son is right,

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Speaker 1: said Papa Rabbit. But this creature has wings, and he

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Speaker 1: gave the bat a poke that made him flutter wildly

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Speaker 1: for a minute. Yes, but what kind of wings, asked

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Speaker 1: the goldfinch. A pair of skinny things that grow onto

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Speaker 1: his legs and have hooks on both ends. He must

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Speaker 1: be a very silly fellow at all events, said the groundhog.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't talk, or walk, or eat or even fly. Well,

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Speaker 1: he must come from a very common family. For my part,

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Speaker 1: I am not interested in people of that kind. And

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Speaker 1: he walked away with his nose in the air. Now,

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Speaker 1: the other forest people would have liked to watch the

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Speaker 1: bat longer, but after the groundhog had gone off in

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Speaker 1: this way, they thought it would show too much curiosity

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Speaker 1: if they stayed, so one after another they went away,

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Speaker 1: and the little bat was left alone. He fluttered around

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Speaker 1: until he reached the branch where the blue jay had been,

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Speaker 1: and there he hung himself up to wait until night.

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Speaker 1: Oh dear, he said, I wonder how long a day is.

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Speaker 1: I am hot and can't see, and sleepy, and if

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Speaker 1: any more of the forest people come and talk about me.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what I shall do. They don't think

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Speaker 1: I'm good looking because my wings grow to my legs.

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Speaker 1: I only wish I could see what they look like.

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Speaker 1: I believe they are just as homely. And then, because

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Speaker 1: he was a very tired little bat and angry, as

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Speaker 1: people always are when they have done wrong, he began

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Speaker 1: to blame somebody else for all his troubles. If my

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Speaker 1: father and mother had cared very much about me, he said,

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Speaker 1: they would never have let me stay up all day.

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Speaker 1: Guess if I were a big bat and had little

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Speaker 1: bats of my own, I'd take better care of them.

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Speaker 1: But that is always the way. And when long afterward

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Speaker 1: he was a big bat with little bats of his own,

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Speaker 1: he was a much wiser person. And that's the end

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Speaker 1: of our story. Good Night, sleep tight, and the instantan