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10.31.26 - Part 1 · Children's Hour

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Radio Eye's Children's Story Hour. As
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  Speaker 1: a reminder, Radio Eye is a reading service intended for
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  Speaker 1: people who are blind or have other disabilities that make
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  Speaker 1: it difficult to read printed material. Today, we will be
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  Speaker 1: reading from a book called Roscoe Riley Rules, number seven,
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  Speaker 1: Never Race a Runaway Pumpkin. Your reader today is Patty,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to read Roscoe Rules No. 7, Never
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  Speaker 1: Race a Runaway Pumpkin, and it's written by Catherine Applegate,
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  Speaker 1: illustrated by Brian Biggs. Okay, welcome to Time Out. First,
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  Speaker 1: there is an illustration on this page of a young boy,
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  Speaker 1: Roscoe Riley, sitting in the chair facing the corner. And
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  Speaker 1: above him hanging on the wall is a clock. And
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  Speaker 1: here we go with the story. Welcome to Time Out.
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  Speaker 1: Hey friend, over here in the Time Out corner, it's me, Roscoe.
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure I only have to stay in time
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  Speaker 1: out for about three more minutes. That should be plenty
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  Speaker 1: of time for me to tell you how I ended
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  Speaker 1: up here. Oops. Mom just checked the clock. Turns out
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  Speaker 1: I have seven more minutes. I thought seven was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be a lucky number. My teacher says, when you
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  Speaker 1: think a number is lucky, that's called a superstition. She
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  Speaker 1: says there's no such thing as a lucky number. And
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  Speaker 1: that 7 is just like 8 and 47 and a gazillion.
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  Speaker 1: A plain, old, everyday number. I used to think lots
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  Speaker 1: of things were lucky. Things like numbers and four-leaf clovers
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  Speaker 1: and horseshoes. I used to think lots of things were unlucky, too.
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  Speaker 1: That's sort of how I ended up in Time Out.
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  Speaker 1: One thing led to another, and before I knew it,
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  Speaker 1: I was being chased down the street by a humongous pumpkin.
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  Speaker 1: And let me tell you, those guys can move. You've
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  Speaker 1: been chased by a giant piece of food before, haven't you? No?
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  Speaker 1: How about normal-sized food? Not even a little bitty grape? Oh.
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  Speaker 1: I guess being chased by food doesn't come up all
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  Speaker 1: that often. But I can explain everything. Have you got
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  Speaker 1: seven minutes to spare? Something you should know before we
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  Speaker 1: get started. When a kitty rubs her face on your leg,
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  Speaker 1: she is just saying hello. It does not mean she
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  Speaker 1: is wondering how you will taste for dinner. The illustration
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  Speaker 1: here on this one page Shows a black cat. Something
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  Speaker 1: else you should know before we get started. A pumpkin
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  Speaker 1: is a fruit, not a vegetable. It's a true fact.
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  Speaker 1: I learned it at school. But take it from me.
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  Speaker 1: When the biggest pumpkin in town is about to smush
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  Speaker 1: you into a pumpkin boy pie, you don't really care
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  Speaker 1: if it's a fruit or a vegetable. You just want
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  Speaker 1: to get out of the way. Bazillions, katrillions, and other
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  Speaker 1: cool numbers. Sometimes I wish I hadn't gone to the
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  Speaker 1: school library last week. Then I never would have seen
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  Speaker 1: the giant pumpkin that got me into so much trouble. Now,
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  Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. I love our school library. It's
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  Speaker 1: the most fun place in my school. Well, except for
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  Speaker 1: maybe the playground. Our library has maps and DVDs and
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  Speaker 1: CDs and computers, and most of all, it has tons
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  Speaker 1: of books. My class goes there twice a week for
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  Speaker 1: story time. Our story time area is shaped like a
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  Speaker 1: little pirate ship. On the deck are lots of squishy pillows. Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Page is the library helper who reads to us. He
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  Speaker 1: has the best name for a library guy, I think.
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  Speaker 1: Although Mr. Sh would be good, too. When Mr. Page reads,
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  Speaker 1: he wears a black eyepatch, like a real pirate. Also,
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  Speaker 1: he says, argh, me hearties, which is pirate for hello, kids.
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  Speaker 1: This time, Mr. Page was wearing an orange eyepatch, though.
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  Speaker 1: On account of the book he was going to read
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  Speaker 1: to us was about pumpkins. Okay, folks, said Mr. Page.
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  Speaker 1: Today's book is called Pumpkin Power. It's full of fun
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  Speaker 1: facts about pumpkins. He held up the book. The cover
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  Speaker 1: had a picture of a giant pumpkin on it. Before
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  Speaker 1: we start reading, said Mr. Page, I want to tell
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  Speaker 1: you about an even bigger pumpkin. He unrolled a poster.
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  Speaker 1: There was a photo of a boy and a girl
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  Speaker 1: on it. They were each holding a book and smiling.
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  Speaker 1: And next to them was the most gigantic pumpkin I
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  Speaker 1: had ever seen. It looked huge. So the illustration here
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  Speaker 1: shows a group of young boys and girls sitting on
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  Speaker 1: this platform that looks a little bit like a pirate ship.
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  Speaker 1: And Mr. Page, the library helper, is standing there in
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  Speaker 1: front of them. He's holding the poster contest and a
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  Speaker 1: picture of the poster contest. And on the poster, it
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  Speaker 1: shows a boy and a girl and a giant pumpkin.
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  Speaker 1: The pumpkin was as tall as my dad. Almost. And
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  Speaker 1: as big as our cat. No, as big as our car. Almost.
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  Speaker 1: That's got to be the world's biggest pumpkin, I cried. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: giant pumpkins can reach over 1,600 pounds, said Mr. Page.
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  Speaker 1: This one is gigantic. All right, but it's not that big.
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  Speaker 1: Any kind of gigantic. good if you ask me i
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  Speaker 1: said this poster is from hilltop bookstore mr page said
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  Speaker 1: they're having a contest if you guess the weight of
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  Speaker 1: the giant pumpkin in their window you win books for
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  Speaker 1: the school library enough to fill that giant pumpkin that's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of books said emma You're right, Emma, and
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  Speaker 1: we sure could use them, said Mr. Page. You can
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  Speaker 1: make a guess when you visit the bookstore. The winner
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  Speaker 1: will be announced at the Fall Festival on Saturday. I'll
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  Speaker 1: bet that pumpkin weighs 200 bazillion pounds, Hassan said. Nuh-uh,
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  Speaker 1: said Gus, 7,000 katrillion pounds at least, Emma said. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure bazillion and katrillion are real numbers, but Google
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  Speaker 1: is a real number, right, Mr. Diz? Miss Diz is
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  Speaker 1: our first grade teacher. She knows lots of math and
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  Speaker 1: spelling and also how to wiggle her ears. Google is
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  Speaker 1: a number, Emma, Miss Diz said, a very big number.
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  Speaker 1: It has 100 zeros in it. That pumpkin is for
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  Speaker 1: sure a Google. Pounds, then, I said. Children, said Ms. Diz,
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  Speaker 1: maybe we should work on estimating how much things weigh.
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  Speaker 1: It would be a wonderful learning opportunity. When Ms. Diz
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  Speaker 1: says learning opportunity, she gets very excited. She is a
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  Speaker 1: brand new teacher, so she likes to try out new
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  Speaker 1: ideas on us. Mostly, that is a good thing. But
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  Speaker 1: once she let us make marshmallow crispies so we could
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  Speaker 1: learn about measuring. After that learning opportunity, she had to
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  Speaker 1: send home a letter to all the parents about how
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  Speaker 1: to wash marshmallow goo out of your child's hair. Kids,
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  Speaker 1: I forgot to mention that the contest winner also gets
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  Speaker 1: a prize, added Mr. Page. Candy, lots of it, enough
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  Speaker 1: to fill the pumpkin. A goo-goo pounds of candy, said Gus.
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  Speaker 1: He had a goo smile on his face i probably
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  Speaker 1: did too arg me hearties said mr page in his
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  Speaker 1: pirate voice it's time to read he held up the
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  Speaker 1: book so we could see the first page you may
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  Speaker 1: think that a pumpkin is a vegetable he read, but
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  Speaker 1: it's really a fruit because it has seeds inside of it. Hmm,
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  Speaker 1: I thought, that was a very interesting fact, but not
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  Speaker 1: nearly as interesting as the news about the contest. Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Page kept on reading about pumpkins. He talked about giant pumpkins,
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  Speaker 1: tiny pumpkins, pumpkin seeds and pumpkin pie. My ears tried
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  Speaker 1: to pay attention, but my brain kept thinking how nice
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  Speaker 1: it would be to win books for the library and
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  Speaker 1: candy for me. The illustration here shows four or five
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  Speaker 1: pieces of wrapped candy. Ladders and luck. When we walked
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  Speaker 1: into our classroom the next morning, there were pumpkins on Ms.
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  Speaker 1: Diz's desk, a little one and a medium one. Also,
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  Speaker 1: there was an apple, a grape, a rock, and a quarter.
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  Speaker 1: Not only that, Mr. McGeeley, the janitor, was high up
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  Speaker 1: on a ladder in the corner of the room. He
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  Speaker 1: was changing the long lightbulbs Pumpkins and light bulbs. It
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  Speaker 1: was going to be an amazing morning. Class, I know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of you were interested in the giant pumpkin Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Page told us about yesterday, said Ms. Diz. That's why
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  Speaker 1: we're going to learn about how to guess weight today.
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  Speaker 1: We will call it estimating. Mr. McGeeley climbed down from
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  Speaker 1: the ladder. Replaced all the burned-out lights, Miss Diz, he said. Wonderful,
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  Speaker 1: said Miss Diz. It's much brighter in here. It was true.
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  Speaker 1: You could see all kinds of things. On the floor
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  Speaker 1: I saw a black crayon and a ball of dust,
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  Speaker 1: shaped like a kangaroo. And then I saw a penny,
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  Speaker 1: right under Mr. McGeeley's ladder. Gus saw it, too. He
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  Speaker 1: made a dive for it. Gus was halfway under the
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  Speaker 1: ladder before I could grab his shirt. Gus, no, I cried.
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  Speaker 1: You can't go under a ladder. It's seven years of
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  Speaker 1: bad luck. No, that's if you break a mirror, Hassan said.
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  Speaker 1: I think seven years of bad luck is when you
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  Speaker 1: step on a crack, Coco said. No, that's for breaking
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  Speaker 1: your mom's back, Maya said. Everybody knows that. Excuse me.
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  Speaker 1: Gus interrupted. We're talking about a free penny here. He
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  Speaker 1: grabbed for the penny, but I held on tight and
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  Speaker 1: slid him back. Maybe it's a lucky penny, Roscoe, Gus said,
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  Speaker 1: but going under the ladder would erase the lucky and
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  Speaker 1: turn it into unlucky, I said. Hmm, said Ms. Diz.
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  Speaker 1: I see a wonderful learning opportunity. Two learning opportunities in
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  Speaker 1: two days. No wonder Ms. Diz had such a gigantic
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  Speaker 1: smile on her face. Children, said Ms. Diz, Roscoe was
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  Speaker 1: worried that if Gus went under a ladder, it would
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  Speaker 1: be unlucky. But believing that something can cause good luck
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  Speaker 1: or bad luck is what we call a superstition. Can
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  Speaker 1: anyone think of a good reason why walking under a
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  Speaker 1: ladder would make bad luck happen? If there's a guy
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  Speaker 1: on it painting and the bucket of paint fell on
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  Speaker 1: your head, Wyatt said. Well, yes, said Ms. Diz. That
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  Speaker 1: would definitely be bad luck. But Coco raised her hand.
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  Speaker 1: I might have my room painted magenta, she said. That's
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  Speaker 1: what you get when you mix red and blue together.
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  Speaker 1: Magenta is a very interesting color, said Ms. Diz, but
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  Speaker 1: let's try to stay focused on superstitions. Roscoe, what made
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  Speaker 1: you think that going under a ladder would be bad luck?
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  Speaker 1: My Uncle Ed told me he knows lots of good superstitions,
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  Speaker 1: and he gave me my lucky four-leaf clover. After I
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  Speaker 1: got it, the same day I found an old sucker
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  Speaker 1: in my pocket. and it was only just a little
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  Speaker 1: bit fuzzy. So how lucky was that? Pretty lucky, Miss
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  Speaker 1: Diz agreed, but I had a feeling she was not
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  Speaker 1: a big fan of fuzzy suckers. Miss Diz drew a
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  Speaker 1: picture of a four-leaf clover and an umbrella on the blackboard.
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  Speaker 1: Some people believe things bring good luck, she said, And
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  Speaker 1: some people believe doing certain things will bring bad luck,
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  Speaker 1: like opening an umbrella in the house or breaking a mirror.
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  Speaker 1: But superstitions aren't based on fact. They aren't real. My
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  Speaker 1: mom broke a mirror in her purse, Maya said, and
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  Speaker 1: then she tripped on my sister's skateboard and broke her toe.
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  Speaker 1: But that could have happened even if she hadn't broken
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  Speaker 1: a mirror, said Ms. Diz. Now, the illustration here shows
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  Speaker 1: the teacher, Ms. Diz, standing in front of the blackboard.
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  Speaker 1: And on it, she has drawn with her white chalk,
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  Speaker 1: a four-leaf clover and an opened umbrella. And underneath those
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  Speaker 1: two pictures, she has written the word lucky and put
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  Speaker 1: a question mark at the end. Lucky? continuing. But that
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  Speaker 1: could happen even if she hadn't broken a mirror, said Ms. Diz.
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  Speaker 1: Emma raised her hand. My neighbor had a black cat
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  Speaker 1: cross in front of her in the park. Then she
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  Speaker 1: went to a mini golf place and found a green
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  Speaker 1: beetle in her corn dog. She blamed the black cat.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll bet you told her that that didn't make
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  Speaker 1: any sense, said Ms. Diz. No, said Emma, I told
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  Speaker 1: her not to order the corn dog next time. The
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  Speaker 1: very next day she fell in a mud puddle, and
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  Speaker 1: after that a skunk got in her kitchen, and she
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  Speaker 1: had to move out of her house for a week
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  Speaker 1: because of the smell. Wow, I said, black cats really
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  Speaker 1: are bad luck. Roscoe, said Ms. Diz, in many countries
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  Speaker 1: black cats are considered good luck. But the truth is,
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  Speaker 1: black cats are not good luck or bad luck. Neither
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  Speaker 1: are green kangaroos or purple alligators. I know you're the
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  Speaker 1: teacher and all, I said, but I'm pretty sure alligators
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  Speaker 1: don't come in purple. Let's try this another way, Ms.
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  Speaker 1: Diz said. Emma, do you think the black cat caused
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  Speaker 1: your neighbor's problems? Emma made a not-sure look. I know
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  Speaker 1: that look. I maybe even invented it. How many of
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  Speaker 1: you think the black cat caused Emma's neighbor to eat
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  Speaker 1: a green beetle and fall in a mud puddle and
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  Speaker 1: have a skunk in her house? Ms. Diz asked. We
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  Speaker 1: all raised our hands. How many of you think Maya's
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  Speaker 1: mom tripped on a skateboard because she broke a mirror? Ms.
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  Speaker 1: Diz asked. We all raised our hands again. How many
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  Speaker 1: of you think I should paint my room magenta? Coco asked.
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  Speaker 1: Miss Diz had that I-need-a-nap look she sometimes gets, but
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  Speaker 1: usually not until the end of the day. She took
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  Speaker 1: a deep breath. Maybe we should move on to a
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  Speaker 1: different learning opportunity, she said. How big is that pumpkin
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  Speaker 1: in the window? After school, my mom picked up Max,
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  Speaker 1: my big brother, and me so we could go to
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  Speaker 1: the store to get new jeans. All my knees had
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  Speaker 1: holes again. My little sister Hazel was in her car seat.
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  Speaker 1: She was wearing fairy wings, her swimsuit, pajama bottoms, and
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  Speaker 1: yellow mittens. The usual. Hazel. Your socks don't match, Max said.
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  Speaker 1: Neither do Roscoe's, she pointed out. The red one is
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  Speaker 1: my lucky sock, I said. When I wear it on
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  Speaker 1: my right foot, something good always happens. Remind me to
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  Speaker 1: wash that one of these years, Mom said. So what
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  Speaker 1: good thing happens? today because of your red sock, Hazel asked.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing yet, I admitted. But if Mom will take us
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  Speaker 1: to the bookstore, I think something wonderful might happen. I
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  Speaker 1: gave Mom my sweetest smile. It takes all my smile muscles. Mom,
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  Speaker 1: can we go to the bookstore after we buy clothes?
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  Speaker 1: I asked. I need to weigh a giant pumpkin. Mom
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  Speaker 1: looked at me in the rearview mirror. Could you run
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  Speaker 1: that by me again? I explained all about the pumpkin
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  Speaker 1: and the bookstore and the school winning lots of books.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of forgot to mention the part about me
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  Speaker 1: winning a Google pound of candy. Mom said, yes, not even.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see, or maybe some other time, Roscoe. We drove
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  Speaker 1: to a giant store called the Clothes Closet. It has
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  Speaker 1: pants and socks and underwear and other stuff that wears out.
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  Speaker 1: It is also probably the most boring place on the planet. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: it was time for the bookstore. Hilltop Bookstore was at
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  Speaker 1: the very tip top of a big hill. Mom parked
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  Speaker 1: the car at the bottom of the hill near a
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  Speaker 1: statue of our town founder, Thomas Toad Swallow. It's a
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  Speaker 1: very big statue made of metal. He is wearing an
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  Speaker 1: old-fashioned hat and holding a porcupine. Nobody knows why. I
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  Speaker 1: guess he just liked porcupines. We walked past the statue
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  Speaker 1: and up the hill. Max and Hazel and I beat
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  Speaker 1: Mom to the bookstore. There it was at last, the
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  Speaker 1: giant pumpkin. It was beautiful and big and very orange.
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  Speaker 1: It was the size of a baby dinosaur or maybe
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  Speaker 1: a teenager elephant. We made whoa and no way sound.
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  Speaker 1: Max whistled. I tried to whistle, but my whistle has
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  Speaker 1: more spit than whistle. The illustration here shows Max and
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  Speaker 1: Roscoe standing outside the hilltop bookstore, looking into the front
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  Speaker 1: window where the giant pumpkin sits. Continuing, Then Hazel told
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  Speaker 1: Mom I was spitting on her, which was true. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't count as real spitting, though, if it's whistle spit,
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  Speaker 1: and not on purpose. When we got inside the bookstore,
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  Speaker 1: the clerk said, I saw you checking out our pumpkin.
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  Speaker 1: Would you like to guess its weight? You bet, I said.
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  Speaker 1: Just write down your guess and be sure to include
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  Speaker 1: your name and phone number, said the bookstore guy, whose
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  Speaker 1: name was Dan. It was so on his name tag.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes knowing a little about reading comes in very handy.
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  Speaker 1: I guess 15 pounds because that's how old Rachel is.
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  Speaker 1: And she is my favorite babysitter, Hazel said. Okay, Hazel,
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  Speaker 1: said Mom. 15 pounds it is. Mom wrote down Hazel's
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  Speaker 1: guess for her. Then Max wrote his. Mom read the
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  Speaker 1: contest rules. If one of you kids wins, you are
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  Speaker 1: all sharing the candy prize, she said. And you're making
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  Speaker 1: it last five years.' Mommy, can I look at the
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  Speaker 1: pop-up books?' Hazel asked.' Sure,' said Mom.' Roscoe, we'll be
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  Speaker 1: over here in the children's books. Take your best guess, sweetie.'
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  Speaker 1: I walked back and forth past the giant pumpkin. I
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  Speaker 1: looked it up and down. I knocked on it. I
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  Speaker 1: even sniffed it. Max groaned.' Just write down some numbers, Roscoe.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like you're actually going to win.' brothers should
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  Speaker 1: come with a set of earplugs it is hard to
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  Speaker 1: keep your candy and books dream alive when they are
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  Speaker 1: all around i touched my lucky red sock for good
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  Speaker 1: luck then i closed my eyes and waited to see
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  Speaker 1: if the perfect number popped into my brain but instead
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  Speaker 1: of a number i thought of a fuzzy caterpillar then
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  Speaker 1: i thought of a fuzzy panda bear then i thought
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  Speaker 1: of a fuzzy Something was clicking my hand and tickling
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  Speaker 1: my hand. Look, Roscoe, Hazel said, I found this kitty
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  Speaker 1: in the pop-up book. I opened my eyes. Hazel was
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  Speaker 1: holding a tiny kitten, a real one, a real live
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  Speaker 1: black cat. I jumped back, way back. Hazel, I cried,
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  Speaker 1: that's a black cat. Well, duh, she said. Black cats
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  Speaker 1: are bad luck. Roscoe, said Mom, that's silly. Uncle Ed says,
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  Speaker 1: if a black cat walks in front of you, it's
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  Speaker 1: bad luck forever, I said. Sweetie, Uncle Ed is my brother,
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  Speaker 1: and I love him dearly, Mom said, but he can
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  Speaker 1: be a little nutty sometimes. He's the only person I
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  Speaker 1: know who owns a pair of lucky underwear. We call
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  Speaker 1: this kitty No Name, said Dan. He scratched the kitten
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  Speaker 1: behind her ears. You could hear her purring. It was
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  Speaker 1: an awfully nice sound to be coming from such an
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  Speaker 1: unlucky animal. We found her outside the front door yesterday morning,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Dan said. We're hoping someone will want to give her
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: a good home. Hazel held out the kitty. No Name
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: rubbed her head on my arm. Somebody stop that thing,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I yelled. I hid behind my mom. That's what moms
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: are for, after all. Please calm down, Mom said. I
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: peeked around Mom. Why was she rubbing on me, I asked.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: She wanted to see what you taste like, said Max.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: She was putting her scent on you, Mom explained. I
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: sniffed my hand. I don't smell anything except my peanut
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: butter and banana sandwich from lunch. You can smell, you
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: can't smell anything, but she can, said Mom, and so
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: can other cats. She's trying to say, Roscoe belongs to me. Mom,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: can we take her home, please? Hazel begged. Please, please, please, please.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if Goofy would like that idea, said Mom.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Goofy is our big, white, silly dog. I do not
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: actually know what his opinion is on cats. But Mom,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: she's so fuzzy and cute, Hazel cried. I'll think about it,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Mom said. Hazel kissed the kitty's face. Hazel, I warned.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: You're going to have bad luck germs all over you.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: It's time for us to go, Roscoe said, Mom. Did
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: you make your guess about the pumpkin's weight? The kitten
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: made a little squeaky new mew sound. What was that?
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: I demanded. She's putting a curse on you, Max said.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: But he said it too quietly for Mom to hear him.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: I grabbed Mom's arm. Mom, I really think we should
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: get out of here, I said. I didn't care about
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: the books for the school anymore or even the candy
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: for my stomach. Not with that bad luck kitty around. Well,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: in the interest of time, we'll need to end the
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: book here. But please join us next time as we
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: will continue this book. This concludes the children's story hour
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: for today. Please join us next time and we'll finish
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: this book called Never Race a Runaway Pumpkin. or read
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: more stories, fables, and fairy tales. Thank you for listening,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: and please stay tuned for continued programming on Radio Eye.