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Speaker 1: Hey friends, welcome back to kids short stories. It's Mr

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Speaker 1: Jim here. I'm pretty excited about today because today you

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Speaker 1: get to listen to a mystery episode from our other podcast,

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Speaker 1: kids animal stories. Today's stories about clover. Comes up to

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Speaker 1: you to try and solve what kind of animal, what

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Speaker 1: kind of critter, clover is. I'm gonna leave a whole

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Speaker 1: bunch of secret clues throughout the story in part one

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Speaker 1: and then in part two we will reveal what critter

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Speaker 1: it is. Well, friends, are you ready for today's mystery?

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Speaker 1: Me Too. Let's go. It was a beautiful day early

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Speaker 1: in the morning in the meadow, as clover had just

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Speaker 1: opened her eyes for the day. MMM, she peeked around

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Speaker 1: and all was quiet in her cozy grassy home. All

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Speaker 1: her brothers and sisters were still sleeping. The dirt walls

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Speaker 1: around them kept them super cozy and very safe. Is

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Speaker 1: anybody else awake? Whispered clover to no response. Everyone still sleeping.

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Speaker 1: I can't want to get up and go in. I

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Speaker 1: just got all this energy. I need to hop around

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Speaker 1: a little or something. Clover wasn't tired anymore. Even though

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Speaker 1: she wasn't just a little kit she decided to venture

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Speaker 1: off have you ever woken up like that before, maybe

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Speaker 1: a little too early, earlier than the rest of your family,

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Speaker 1: and you had a lot of energy and you felt like, Oh,

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Speaker 1: the day just needs to start. Yeah, that's how clover

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Speaker 1: felt just now. She poked her head out the door

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Speaker 1: I need to find some breakfast, she said. She hopped

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Speaker 1: out and and peered through the tall grass above her home.

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Speaker 1: She sees small droplets of dew sparkling in the sunlight,

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Speaker 1: hearing some crickets in the distance and and even a

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Speaker 1: blue bird way up in the tree next to her home.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever been outside really early in the morning,

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Speaker 1: the horizon and sometimes there's fog, like that cloudy stuff

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Speaker 1: that looks yeah, fog, or wet dew drops on the grass?

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Speaker 1: M Hmm. Sometimes, if it's cold, The dew might turn

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Speaker 1: Have you ever seen all that before? Yeah, that means

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Speaker 1: it's really early in the morning. Clover decides she wanted

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Speaker 1: some berries. She knows there's some just on the other

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Speaker 1: side of the tall grass and if she urris he

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Speaker 1: might just make it back before anyone else in her

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Speaker 1: family even knows she's out. M Hmmm, do you think

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Speaker 1: that sounds like a good idea for this little young

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Speaker 1: critter to go out all by her lonesome? And Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't think that sounds like a good idea to

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Speaker 1: She wanders and very quickly her fur gets wet rubbing

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Speaker 1: warmed up as soon as possible, she thought to herself.

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Speaker 1: As she hopped along a trail that she had hopped

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Speaker 1: with her brothers and sisters a hundred times. She came

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Speaker 1: to a muddy, mucky puddle. All right, I just gotta

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Speaker 1: jump over this thing and then I'll be on my way,

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Speaker 1: she thought to herself. One do are you? What's her

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Speaker 1: hind legs got splattered with mud. Her little white patches

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Speaker 1: of fur are more like patches of Brown. Now, Oh,

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Speaker 1: how's disgusting, said clover as she shook her big floppy ears.

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Speaker 1: But then her tummy rumbled again, reminding her of why

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Speaker 1: really need to get something to eat. Feeling very hungry,

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Speaker 1: as she hopped along, she all of a sudden heard

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Speaker 1: a sound in the grass. Clover screamed and then realized

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Speaker 1: it was just another baby. This was a baby dear.

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Speaker 1: Oh My, I'm so sorry to scare you. My name

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Speaker 1: is hi, my name is Fiona. Why are you out

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Speaker 1: aren't you? Asked Fiona the Fawn. Yeah, I was just hungry,

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Speaker 1: so I I kind of left my family to go

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Speaker 1: not exactly by myself. My Mom's right over there. She's

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Speaker 1: out getting something to eat for us, and so she

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Speaker 1: a really interesting thing about dear. So do you know

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Speaker 1: what a baby deer is? Called A fawn? Yes, that's

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Speaker 1: not the critter that clover is, but that's who Fiona is,

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Speaker 1: and baby dear. Sometimes you you might even see one

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Speaker 1: lose its family? Well, actually, dear, they often teach their

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Speaker 1: baby fawns to hide in the grass while their mother

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Speaker 1: very nearby. Yeah, it feels nice to know that my

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Speaker 1: said Fiona. Predators, I kind of forgot about predators, said clover.

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Speaker 1: Oh Yeah, they're definitely out here. You you suld probably

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Speaker 1: bit further. Uh, it should probably be okay. I'm just

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Speaker 1: that dangerous, said clover. She said goodbye to Fiona and

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Speaker 1: Along the way, she passed the bull frog next to

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Speaker 1: a tiny creek, who also has some important advice for

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Speaker 1: her about being out here alone. You know which knocks

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Speaker 1: a foul tier for little ones like you. Now, ribbit ribbon,

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Speaker 1: these parts are lurking with predators. Unfortunately, clover ignored another

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Speaker 1: critter's advice. Both the fun and the bullfrog had warned

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Speaker 1: her that there's predators around here and she should turn home,

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Speaker 1: but she chose not to listen, and I think she's

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Speaker 1: about to regret that. Oh Wow, those look like some

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Speaker 1: delicious berries over there, said clover. Just across the creek

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Speaker 1: was some delicious Blueberry Bushes, and boy did those look tasty.

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Speaker 1: I think I can make that jump. I'm a pretty

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Speaker 1: good jumper. You can totally make it, said clover. One, two, three.

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Speaker 1: She hopped right over the creek and stirried under the

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Speaker 1: blueberry bushes. Oh, these are delicious, totally worth it. Wait

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Speaker 1: a second, what was what was that sound? All of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, out of nowhere, she started hearing something walking

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Speaker 1: a Predator, and she did not know what to do.

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Speaker 1: Oh No, what in the world's gonna Happen with clover?

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Speaker 1: Is She gonna be okay, or did she make not

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Speaker 1: a good choice in heading over there by herself? And,

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Speaker 1: Oh dear, we're gonna have to wait and see what

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Speaker 1: happens on the next episode. Of Kids animal stories. Great Job,

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Speaker 1: you listened all the way to the end, so let's

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Speaker 1: recap those clues before you hop on over to episode

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Speaker 1: number two. So it sounds like she's got fur, floppy ears,

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Speaker 1: good jumper. Exactly sure what kind of critter that might be.

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Speaker 1: It gives me a couple of different options in my mind,

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Speaker 1: but I'm I'm gonna think a little bit more and

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Speaker 1: then I'm gonna Listen to chapter two. So down in

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Speaker 1: the show notes below you can click right now to

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Speaker 1: listen to chapter two and figure out who clover is. Well, friends,

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Speaker 1: I will see you over on that other episode. Let's

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