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Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite animal at the zoo? I

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Speaker 1: always like to go and see the giraffes. This story

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Speaker 1: is about a hippo family and how the children got

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Speaker 1: their names. Chunky the Happy Hippo is the hippo we

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Speaker 1: are going to learn about in this episode. He is

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Speaker 1: going to have some fun and also find a bit

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Speaker 1: of trouble. Chunky the Happy Hippo once upon a time,

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Speaker 1: some years ago, but not so long that you could

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Speaker 1: not easily remember if you tried. There lived in a

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Speaker 1: muddy river off a far off country called Africa, a great,

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Speaker 1: big animal baby named Chunky. He was not a fish,

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Speaker 1: though he could stay underwater not breathing at all or

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Speaker 1: the muddy river so much. He did not mind the

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Speaker 1: he sank away down under the dark brown water. No

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Speaker 1: one could see him, and Chunky did not want any

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Speaker 1: of the lions or tigers, or perhaps the African hunters

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Speaker 1: to see him, for they might have hurt him. But

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Speaker 1: for all that, Chunky was a happy, jolly little animal

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Speaker 1: baby and would soon grow up to be a big

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Speaker 1: rich green grass that grew on the bottom and banks

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Speaker 1: of the African River. Now I suppose you are wondering

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Speaker 1: what sort of animal baby Chunky was. In the first place.

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Speaker 1: He was quite large, as large as the largest pig

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Speaker 1: on your grandfather's farm. And Chunky really looked a little

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Speaker 1: like a pig, except that his nose was broad and

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Speaker 1: square instead of pointed. Chunky was a hippopotamus, as perhaps

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Speaker 1: you have guessed. But as hippopotamus is quite a long

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Speaker 1: and hard word for little boys and girls to remember,

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Speaker 1: I will first tell you what it means, and then

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Speaker 1: and I will make it short for you, so you

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Speaker 1: will have no hard work at all to remember it

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Speaker 1: or say it. Hippopotamus means river horse, and a great

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Speaker 1: many years ago, when people first saw the strange animals

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Speaker 1: So that is how the hippopotamus got its name of

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Speaker 1: river horse. But we'll call them hippos for short, and

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Speaker 1: it will do just as well. Chunky was called the

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Speaker 1: happy hippo, and he was very happy. In fact, when

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Speaker 1: weeds might have thought he was laughing. Chunky lived with

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Speaker 1: mister and Missus Hippo, who were his father and mother,

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Speaker 1: other hippos, some large and some small, but Chunky liked

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Speaker 1: Funny names, aren't they, And I'll tell you how the

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Speaker 1: little hippos happened to get them. One day, when Chunky

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Speaker 1: a great, big, fat hippo mother came over to see

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Speaker 1: they are rather nice, said Missus Hippo as she looked

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Speaker 1: and other biting bugs. Have you named them yet, asked

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Speaker 1: Missus Dippo. Not yet, answered Missus Hippo. I've been waiting

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Speaker 1: She had only her ears to point with. I'd call

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Speaker 1: him chunky, said Missus Dippo. Why, asked Missus Hippo. Oh,

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Speaker 1: fat chunk of warm mud, answered Missus Dippo. Call him chunky.

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Speaker 1: I will, said Missus Hippo, and that is how Chunky

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Speaker 1: good name for her, said Missus Hippo, and so Chunky's

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Speaker 1: Oh look out, you bumpy boy, cried Missus Hippo, speaking

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Speaker 1: of course, in animal talk. Huh, that's his name, cried

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Speaker 1: Missus Dippo with a laugh. What is asked Missus Hippo. Bumpy,

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Speaker 1: said Missus Dippo. Don't you see he bumped into Chunky,

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Speaker 1: so you can call him Bumpy. That's a fine name,

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Speaker 1: said Missus Hippo, and Bumpy liked it himself. So that

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Speaker 1: is how the three little hippos were named. And after

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Speaker 1: eating until they were quite large. One day, mister and

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Speaker 1: Missus Hippo and most of their animal friends were quite

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Speaker 1: and Bumpy were all on the bank, lying in the

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Speaker 1: sun to get dry, for they had been swimming about

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Speaker 1: near shore. Are you going in again, asked Mumpy to

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Speaker 1: her brothers, talking, of course, in the way hippos do. No,

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Speaker 1: I've been in swimming enough to day, said Bumpy. I'm

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Speaker 1: going back into the jungle and sleep. For the river

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Speaker 1: where the hippos lived was near a jungle in which

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Speaker 1: there were elephants, monkeys, and other wild animals. I'm going

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Speaker 1: in the water once more, said Mumpy. I haven't had

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Speaker 1: with you, Mumpy. So the two young hippos walked slowly

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Speaker 1: And as they went slowly along, Chunky and mum be

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Speaker 1: looked about on all sides of them and sniffed the

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Speaker 1: air very hard. They were trying to see danger and

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Speaker 1: also to smell it. In the jungle, wild animals can

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Speaker 1: by looking for The tangled vines do not let them

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Speaker 1: Is everything all right, Chunky asked Mumpy to her brother,

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Speaker 1: for it, the danger of lions, or of tigers, or

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Speaker 1: We'll have another nice swim and we'll get some more

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Speaker 1: Chunky and his sister. They saw some other young hippos,

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Speaker 1: Just as Chunky and Mumpy were going to wade in,

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Speaker 1: not far away, a fat hipple boy who was called

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Speaker 1: Bigfoot by the jungle animals, as one of his feet

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Speaker 1: the river, called Bigfoot. Then, when they were all looking,

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Speaker 1: do something smart. He gave a jump and splashed into

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Speaker 1: he jumped, and instead of making a nice dive, he

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Speaker 1: laughed Chunky, waving his stubby tail. I can jump better

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Speaker 1: Ha ha ha, Chunky laughed again. That was It's a

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Speaker 1: he looked at him and Mumpy. Someone laughing at me,

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Speaker 1: growled Bigfoot in his deep voice. Huh, I'll show you.

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Speaker 1: Why are you laughing at me? He asked, and he

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Speaker 1: went so close to Mumpy that he bumped into her

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Speaker 1: my sister alone, cried Chunky, bravely stepping closer to Bigfoot.

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Speaker 1: Well what did she want to laugh about when I

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Speaker 1: splashed in the water, asked Bigfoot. I didn't laugh, answered Mumpy,

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Speaker 1: said Chunky, and his sister thought he was very brave

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Speaker 1: said Chunky. You looked so funny when you fell into

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Speaker 1: voice was more angry. We'll I'll fix you, and with

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Speaker 1: straight at Chunky. Oh Chunky, cried Mumpy as she saw

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Speaker 1: Bigfoot rushing at her brother. Oh, Chunky, come on home. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm not afraid of him, said Chunky as he stood

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Speaker 1: you can't laugh at me, grunted Bigfoot, who came on

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Speaker 1: as fast as he could. I'll bite you and push

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Speaker 1: you into the river and see how you like that. Trah.

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Speaker 1: I'm not afraid said Chunky again. But really he was

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Speaker 1: a little bit. Of course, if you had been in

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Speaker 1: Chunky and Bigfoot said. In fact, you would not even

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Speaker 1: have guessed that they were talking. But they were all

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Speaker 1: said Bigfoot again. I'm not afraid, answered Chunky once more,

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Speaker 1: I told you I'd fix you for laughing at me,

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Speaker 1: will you, exclaimed a voice behind Bigfoot. Well you just

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Speaker 1: who had quickly swam to shore. When Mumpy told her

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Speaker 1: Bigfoot was very angry because missus Hippo had pushed him in,

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Speaker 1: I saw my mother push you in. She's awfully strong,

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Speaker 1: mean to if she did. Here are some nice sweet

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Speaker 1: though he still felt a little angry, he took them

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Speaker 1: And that is the end of this episode. Good night,

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Speaker 1: sleep tight, more many tow