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Little Jack Rabbit and Mr. Wicked Wolf - David Cory · Mowgli - Stories from the Jungle Books

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  Speaker 1: Chapter one of Little Jack Rabbit and Mister Wicked Wolf.
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  Speaker 1: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please
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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Little Jackrabbit and Mister Wicked Wolf
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  Speaker 1: by David Cory. The little Fir Tree, the little fir
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  Speaker 1: tree in the wood all through the year has been
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  Speaker 1: so good that now the winter time is here, and
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  Speaker 1: Christmas days so very near, the birds have chosen it
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  Speaker 1: to be a happy little Christmas tree, Little Rabbit, said
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  Speaker 1: Professor Jim Crow as he opened his little wisdom book.
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  Speaker 1: Let me read you something for this is a season
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  Speaker 1: of good cheer and happy hearts and Christmas stockings and
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  Speaker 1: cranberry tarts. And then that wise old bird turned to
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  Speaker 1: page twenty three and began, when you hang up your
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  Speaker 1: stocking along the chimney place, and hope that Santa Claus
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  Speaker 1: will fill up every little space. Oh, don't forget the
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  Speaker 1: beggar child who wanders on the street and looks with
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  Speaker 1: longing eyes upon the windows Christmas treat Do you suppose
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  Speaker 1: he'd like some of my last year's toys, asked Little
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  Speaker 1: Jack Rabbit. Of course, he would, answered Professor Jim Crow.
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  Speaker 1: And he smiled to himself as he shut his book,
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  Speaker 1: for he knew he had sewed a good seed for
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  Speaker 1: a kindly deed in the little rabbit's heart. And then
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  Speaker 1: that old blackbird blew away, and little jack Rabbit hopped
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  Speaker 1: home to the old bramble patch and up to his
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  Speaker 1: little room, And after he had looked over all his toys,
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  Speaker 1: he packed some in a box and took them downstairs. Mother,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to the village to see the little ragged
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  Speaker 1: bunny boy. What for, asked Lady Love. And if you
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  Speaker 1: haven't guessed what, I'll tell you. He was going to
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  Speaker 1: give that little ragged rabbit boy the toys so that
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  Speaker 1: he would have a merry Christmas too, look out for
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  Speaker 1: mister wicked Wolf, said Lady Love. And then she gave
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  Speaker 1: the little bunny a lollypop and kisi good bye. And
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  Speaker 1: after that away he hopped and by and by. After
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  Speaker 1: a while he came to a shabby little house near Rabbitville.
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  Speaker 1: So he knocked on the door, and pretty soon it opened,
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  Speaker 1: and there stood the little ragged rabbit's mother. Here are
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  Speaker 1: some Christmas presents, said the little bunny. They are my
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  Speaker 1: last year's best toys. But I want your little ragged
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  Speaker 1: rabbit to have a happy Christmas. And then he hopped
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  Speaker 1: away as fast as he could, for he was afraid
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  Speaker 1: the rabbit lady was going to cry, And maybe she did,
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  Speaker 1: for sometimes people cry when they are happy, although I
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  Speaker 1: never heard of their laughing when they were sad. And
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  Speaker 1: of chapter one, chapter two of Little Jack Rabbit and
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  Speaker 1: Mister Wicked Wolf by David Cory. This LibriVox recording is
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  Speaker 1: in the public domain. Christmas Eve tomorrow will be Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Oh what a happy day for Santa Claus will and
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  Speaker 1: be all the presents from his sleigh, and every little
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  Speaker 1: girl and boy will have some candy and a toy.
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  Speaker 1: This is the song the little Canary Bird sang in
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  Speaker 1: her gold cage, while Little Jack Rabbit polished the front
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  Speaker 1: door knob, and Lady Love made the stuffing for the
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  Speaker 1: big turkey. And just then the telephone bell rang, and
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  Speaker 1: Uncle John Hare, the old gentleman rabbit, said Hello, I
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  Speaker 1: want to speak to Little Jack Rabbit. Wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: said the little black cricket, who had answered the telephone,
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  Speaker 1: Because Lady Love was busy and Little Jack Rabbit couldn't
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  Speaker 1: leave the doorknob all covered with wet polish, and she
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  Speaker 1: ran out to the front porch and said, Uncle John
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  Speaker 1: wants to speak to you on the phone. Well, by
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  Speaker 1: this time the doorknob was polished nice and dry, so
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  Speaker 1: the little rabbit hopped inside. Hello, it's me, said the
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  Speaker 1: little bunny, Although my teacher always told me to say
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  Speaker 1: it's I. But never mind, Uncle John knew what the
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  Speaker 1: little rabbit meant, just the same. What do you want
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  Speaker 1: for Christmas? Asked the dear kind, old gentleman. Rabbit. Tell
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  Speaker 1: me a thousand things, and then you can't guess what
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to get. So the little rabbit lot and thought,
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  Speaker 1: and by and by. After a while, and maybe a
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  Speaker 1: little longer, he thought of nine hundred and ninety nine,
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  Speaker 1: But oh dear me, he couldn't think of just one more.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't that too bad? Well, never mind, laughed Uncle John.
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  Speaker 1: That's enough, And now I'll go down to the three
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  Speaker 1: and one cent store and tomorrow you'll see what I bought.
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  Speaker 1: And then he hung up the receiver and went out
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  Speaker 1: to the garage, hitched up the bunny mobile, and pretty soon,
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  Speaker 1: not so very long, he reached the three and one
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  Speaker 1: cent store in Rabbitville, on the corner of Lettuce Avenue
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  Speaker 1: and Popcorn Street. I guess I'd better go over to
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  Speaker 1: the bank and get some money, first, thought the old
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  Speaker 1: gentleman Rabbit. So he hopped across the street and wrote
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  Speaker 1: a check, and then the paying teller gave him a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money for it. Let his dollar bills and
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  Speaker 1: carrot cents and a ten carrot gold piece. And after
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  Speaker 1: that he hopped back to the three and one cented
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  Speaker 1: door and went inside. And what do you suppose was
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  Speaker 1: the first thing he saw? Why, a lovely book all
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  Speaker 1: about little Jack Rabbit. I'll take that book, said the
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  Speaker 1: old gentleman Bunny, as quick as a twinkle. And then
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  Speaker 1: he bought a pair of roller skates, and a pair
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  Speaker 1: of ice skates, and a red sled, and a bag
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  Speaker 1: of candy, and a box of lead soldiers, and a
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  Speaker 1: big red apple, and a magic lantern, and a lot
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  Speaker 1: more things besides. But goodness me, I haven't got room
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  Speaker 1: enough in this story to put them in. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: have to wait and call up on Christmas morning and
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  Speaker 1: ask him. And if you don't know his telephone, it's
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  Speaker 1: o o oh ring happy bell, Old briar Patch, And
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  Speaker 1: of chapter two, Chapter three of Little Jack Rabbit and
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  Speaker 1: Mister Wicked Wolf by David Cory. This liprivox recording is
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  Speaker 1: in the public domain. Christmas Day, Merry Christmas. Hear the
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  Speaker 1: cry from every house beneath the sky, and every child
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  Speaker 1: is up so soon that he can see the silver moon.
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  Speaker 1: Who's had not time to tell the sun that Christmas
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  Speaker 1: Day has just begun. Well, the old grandfather clock in
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  Speaker 1: the hall had just struck thirteen o'clock when Little Jack
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  Speaker 1: Rabbit woke up, and before he even jumped out of bed,
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  Speaker 1: he called out, Merry Christmas, mother. And then of course
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  Speaker 1: Lady Love woke up, and the alarm clock couldn't make
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  Speaker 1: up its mind whether it would say anything or not.
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  Speaker 1: But after a little while it began to sing, Awake, Awake,
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  Speaker 1: It's Christmas morn. Don't linger in your bed. I see
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  Speaker 1: a pair of roller skates, a dandy coasting slush, a
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  Speaker 1: stocking foal as folk can be, and a lovely little
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  Speaker 1: Christmas tree. And then the little black cricket came out
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  Speaker 1: of her crack in the warm hearth and looked in
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  Speaker 1: her stocking, for she believed in Santa Claus, just the
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  Speaker 1: same as she always did when she was a little
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  Speaker 1: young cricket and played hop, skip and jump in the
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  Speaker 1: sunny meadow grass. Hurrah, hurrah, I've got everything I asked for,
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  Speaker 1: shouted little jack Rabbit. So you see, dear kind Uncle
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  Speaker 1: John Hare must have spent all his money at the
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  Speaker 1: three and one cent store well by and by. After
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  Speaker 1: a little while, they heard sleigh bells outside in the
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  Speaker 1: old bramble patch, and pretty soon Uncle John Hare jumped
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  Speaker 1: out of his bunny mobile and came into the house
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  Speaker 1: to give Lady Love a lovely gold vanity bag and
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  Speaker 1: a pair of Morgnettes, a kind of lollipop eyeglass, you know,
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  Speaker 1: And oh yes, oh yes, I forgot to say. He
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  Speaker 1: gave a little black cricket a new fur piece, and
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  Speaker 1: the canary bird a bushel of bird seed. And after
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  Speaker 1: that everyone was happy as could be. And just as
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  Speaker 1: they were all sitting down to their Christmas dinner, a
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  Speaker 1: knock came at the kitchen door. Come in, if you're
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  Speaker 1: not mister wicked wolf, said Uncle John Hare. And who
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  Speaker 1: do you suppose walked in? Why the yellow dog tramp
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  Speaker 1: with a large package in his front paws. Merry Christmas
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  Speaker 1: to you all, and many of them too, I'd love
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  Speaker 1: to stay a while and have a feast with you.
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  Speaker 1: Sit right down and make yourself at home. And a
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  Speaker 1: merry Christmas to you, mister yellow dog tramp, said the
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  Speaker 1: little rabbits. But you mustn't bark, added Lady Love, the
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  Speaker 1: little Rabbit's mother. The fairies might come and carry away
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  Speaker 1: the Christmas tree and of chapter three, chapter four of
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  Speaker 1: Little Jack Rabbit and Mister Wicked Wolf by David Kor.
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  Speaker 1: This Libreyvox recording is in the public domain. Mister Wicked Wolf, Well,
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  Speaker 1: the Christmas Tree didn't run back to the friendly forest,
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  Speaker 1: as I feared it might in the last story. It
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  Speaker 1: stayed right in the little house in the old bramble patch.
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  Speaker 1: And the night after Christmas, when the little black cricket
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  Speaker 1: came out on the hearth, that dear little Christmas tree
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  Speaker 1: began to sing. Oh, I have had my heart's delight.
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  Speaker 1: I've been a Christmas tree, all hung with candles shining
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  Speaker 1: bright and tinsel fair to see. I do not miss
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  Speaker 1: the shady wood, the music of the breeze, for I
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  Speaker 1: have found my heart's delight a little child to please.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 1: In the morning, little Jack Rabbit took his skates and
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  Speaker 1: went down to the old mill pond, and so did
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  Speaker 1: Uncle John Hare, for he could skate mighty well. Let
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  Speaker 1: me tell you, even if he did have gray whiskers
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  Speaker 1: and a pink waiscot, why he could do the grapevine
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  Speaker 1: twist and the latter s and maybe the whole alphabet
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  Speaker 1: for all I know. Well, anyway, off they went, the
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  Speaker 1: little jack rabbit and his kind Uncle John Hare. And
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  Speaker 1: when they came to the pond, they put on their skates,
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  Speaker 1: and then off they went over the ice as fast
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  Speaker 1: as the wind.
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  Speaker 3: And maybe faster.
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  Speaker 1: And by and by after a while, who should come
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  Speaker 1: out but mister Grouse. He had on his snow shoes,
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  Speaker 1: which kind mother nature had given him. Ha ha, said
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  Speaker 1: Uncle John Hare. You can't go over the snow as
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  Speaker 1: fast as I can on the ice, my man. You see,
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  Speaker 1: Uncle John Hare knew how to make up poetry, and
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  Speaker 1: had once written some in a beautiful birthday album. No,
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  Speaker 1: but I can slide over the snow just as well
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  Speaker 1: as if I were on a to bargain. And maybe
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  Speaker 1: he would have shown Uncle John Hare just what he
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  Speaker 1: could do if all of a sudden something hadn't happened.
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  Speaker 1: And isn't it too bad? That something always has to
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  Speaker 1: happen just when these two dear little rabbits are having
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  Speaker 1: such a nice time. And now I suppose you're wondering
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  Speaker 1: what did happen, so I'll tell you right away. Mister
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  Speaker 1: wicked Wolf jumped out from behind a snow drift and said, ha,
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  Speaker 1: what shall I eat first? Rabbit or grouse? Wasn't that
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  Speaker 1: a dreadful thing to hear? Well? I just guess it was.
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  Speaker 1: And then what do you think Uncle John Hare did
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  Speaker 1: while he just picked up a piece of ice and
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  Speaker 1: hit that wicked old wolf right on the end of
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  Speaker 1: his nose. And then, of course mister wicked Wolf had
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  Speaker 1: to wipe his eyes, for they were full of tears.
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  Speaker 1: And while he was doing that, the two little rabbits
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  Speaker 1: skated away, and mister grouse snow shoot away. And if
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  Speaker 1: the skates don't come off, and the snowshoes too, I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you some more in a day or two. And
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  Speaker 1: of chapter four Chapter five of Little Jack Rabbit and
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  Speaker 1: Mister Wicked Wolf by David Cory. This Slippery Box recording
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  Speaker 1: is in the public domain. The thinking cap Oh, dear me,
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  Speaker 1: I just hate to start this story, for I must
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  Speaker 1: tell you something very unpleasant. You remember, in the last one,
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  Speaker 1: little Jack Rabbit and Uncle John Hare were skating away
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  Speaker 1: as fast as they could from mister wicked Wolf. But
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  Speaker 1: oh dear me, all of a sudden, just like that,
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  Speaker 1: Uncle John Hare's skate came off, and of course that
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  Speaker 1: wasn't lucky, let me tell you, oh my no, it
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  Speaker 1: was simply dreadful. And when mister wicked Wolf saw the predicament,
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  Speaker 1: which means a dreadful fix you know which the dear
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  Speaker 1: old gentleman Rabbit was in, he kicked up his heels
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  Speaker 1: and pretty soon he was so close that even if
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  Speaker 1: Uncle John Hare could have fastened on his skate again,
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  Speaker 1: he would never have been able to get away. Ha
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  Speaker 1: ha ho ho. Now I've got you two, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: gag you both till you're black and blue, and then
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  Speaker 1: I'll take you home for us stew, for missus Wolf
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  Speaker 1: knows how to make a rabbit stew and a big pancake.
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  Speaker 1: And oh dear me again, and maybe once more, for
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what's going to happen, and maybe it
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  Speaker 1: will happen before I can write it.
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  Speaker 2: And then what will we all do?
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  Speaker 1: I should like to know. Maybe there won't be any
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  Speaker 1: more stories. Wait just a minute, mister wicked Wolf, said
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  Speaker 1: the old gentleman Rabbit, and he took out his gold
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  Speaker 1: watch and chain. It's just thirteen o'clock, and that's a
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  Speaker 1: very unlucky number. Mister wicked Wolf scratched his head, for
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  Speaker 1: he didn't know what to do, and neither would I,
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  Speaker 1: and neither would you if we had been there. I'll
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  Speaker 1: wait till five minutes past thirteen, said the wicked old wolf,
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  Speaker 1: with a grin which showed all his white teeth and
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  Speaker 1: the gold one which doctor Dentist Duck had put in
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  Speaker 1: after the railroad accident, which I'll tell you about some
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  Speaker 1: day if I don't forget it. Now, put on your
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  Speaker 1: thinking cap, said Uncle John hare. So little jack Rabbit
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  Speaker 1: opened his knapsack and took out a little pink worsted
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  Speaker 1: thinking cap and put it on his head, and pretty soon,
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  Speaker 1: not so very long before the five minutes were up.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, he said, mister Wolf, if I were you,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't eat a rabbit stew. I'd rather have a
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  Speaker 1: chicken pie. If I were you and you were I.
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  Speaker 1: I never thought of chicken pie, answered mister wicked Wolf.
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  Speaker 1: And the more he thought about it, the more he
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  Speaker 1: wanted it, so pretty soon he said, I'll let you
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  Speaker 1: off this time if you'll motor me to the farm yard.
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  Speaker 1: But oh, dear me, those two little rabbits didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to do that. No, sir ee ma'am, hurry up and decide,
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  Speaker 1: growled mister Wicked Wolf, with a dreadful grin. Wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: if you please, I'm so worried I shall sneeze, said
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  Speaker 1: Uncle John Hare. I guess he would have said most
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  Speaker 1: anything to gain time. Just then, all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: who should come al long? But the Yellow Dog Tramp
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  Speaker 1: wasn't that lucky. So the little rabbits started off in
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  Speaker 1: their bunny mobile without mister Wicked Wolf. And of chapter
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  Speaker 1: five Chapter six of Little Jack Rabbit and Mister Wicked
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  Speaker 1: Wolf by David Cory. This LibriVox recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain. Brave Yellow Dog Tramp. Now, if the Brave
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  Speaker 1: Yellow Dog Tramp had been a minute later, perhaps and
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  Speaker 1: maybe the two little rabbits would have been eaten up
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  Speaker 1: in the last story for justice he came along, Mister
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  Speaker 1: Wicked Wolf grew impatient and with a dreadful growl, jumped
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  Speaker 1: out from behind the bunny mobile. And oh, dear me,
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  Speaker 1: didn't his eyes look fierce? And didn't his mouth look
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  Speaker 1: red and his teeth white? And if you can think
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  Speaker 1: of anything worse at night than a wolf's face, please
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  Speaker 1: tell me, for I'd like to know if there is
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  Speaker 1: anything that really can scare that brave yellow dog tramp.
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  Speaker 1: Stop or I'll bite one of your rubber tires, screamed
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  Speaker 1: mister wicked wolf. And he took hold with his teeth.
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  Speaker 1: And then what do you think that brave yellow dog
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  Speaker 1: tramp did. Why he leaned out of the automobile and
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  Speaker 1: hit that wolf on the head with a monkey wrench.
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  Speaker 1: And that wolf saw three million, five hundred and ninety
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  Speaker 1: nine and a half stars, And then he rolled over
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  Speaker 1: on the snow and began to cry. And then the
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  Speaker 1: tire which he had bidden, burst and all the air
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  Speaker 1: came out. Oh, dear me, now I'm saying something which
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  Speaker 1: isn't true. For the Bunny mobile had runners in the winter,
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  Speaker 1: and not wheels, So how could air come out of
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  Speaker 1: a steel runner? No, sir, that wasn't what happened dead all.
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  Speaker 1: It was this way. The old gentleman rabbit got out
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  Speaker 1: the air pump and blew snow all over that wolf.
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  Speaker 1: Till he was covered with a drift as high as
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  Speaker 1: the old rail fence, and it took him all night
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  Speaker 1: to dig himself out. Well after that, Uncle John Harsh
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  Speaker 1: darted off for home, but just before he reached the
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  Speaker 1: corner of Lattice Avenue and Carrot Street, he came across
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  Speaker 1: the policeman dog, who, when he saw the Yellow Dog Tramp,
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  Speaker 1: shouted stop the car. And this made Uncle John Hare angry,
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  Speaker 1: for he knew that policeman dog wanted to arrest the
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  Speaker 1: yellow Dog Tramp. So Uncle John Hare made the bunny
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  Speaker 1: mobile go so fast that the policeman dog's whistle fell
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  Speaker 1: out of his mouth. That's very kind of you, said
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  Speaker 1: the yellow dog Tramp, and he began to bark. And
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  Speaker 1: just then a little deer came by. Can you tell
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  Speaker 1: me if Santa Claus is around? I have a brother
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  Speaker 1: who helps pull his sleigh and I want to see him.
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  Speaker 1: I guess you're too late, my little dear, said Uncle
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  Speaker 1: John Hare. Christmas is over and Santa Claus won't come
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  Speaker 1: again for another year. And then the little deer began
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  Speaker 1: to cry, Oh dear, it's so long to wait till
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  Speaker 1: Christmas comes around. What shall I do until the time
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  Speaker 1: when Christmas bells will sound, Jump into my bunny mobile,
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  Speaker 1: said kind uncle John Hare, you come home with us.
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  Speaker 1: I have a little barn right next to my garage
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  Speaker 1: where it's nice and warm. You shall have some hay
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  Speaker 1: to eat. So the little deer jumped into the bunny mobile,
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  Speaker 1: and the kind old gentleman Rabbit took him home. And
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  Speaker 1: on the next page you shall hear what happened after
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  Speaker 1: that and of chapter six chapter seven of Little Jack
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  Speaker 1: Rabbit and Mister Wicket Wolf by David Cory. This liprivox
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  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain. Santa's Reindeer in the
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  Speaker 1: story before this, I promised to tell you what happened
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  Speaker 1: to the little reindeer. Well, after kind uncle John Hare
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  Speaker 1: had put the bunnymobile in the garage, he led the
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  Speaker 1: little reindeer into the barn and gave him some nice
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  Speaker 1: hay to eat, And then he closed the door so
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  Speaker 1: that mister north Wind could get in. And after that
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  Speaker 1: the kind old gentleman Bunny went into the house with
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  Speaker 1: Little Jack Rabbit and the yellow dog Tramp, who was
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  Speaker 1: with him. You remember in the last story. Pretty soon
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: the old gentleman Rabbit made the graphophone play a tune,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: And this is what it was, Meet me at the fountain,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: when the syrups are in bloom, and the lollipops are
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: blushing like roses red in June, and the fizzy soda
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: water comes sparkling in the glass, and the ice cream
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: cones are dancing like fairies in the grass. Oh, dear me,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: I wish the good old summertime we're here once more.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: I do, for that's the time a yellow dog has
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: something nice to do. And the yellow dog tramp sighed
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: a girl big sigh, and lay down in front of
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  Speaker 1: the open fire and fell asleep. So Uncle John hare
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: blew out the electric lights and pulled down the shades
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: and went to bed. And then he had a dream,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: and then he had a nightmare. And then he woke
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: himself up with a dreadful yell, for he thought a
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: crocodile was just going to swallow his old wedding stovepipe.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Hat I suppose the crocodile thought it was a big
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: chocolate drop. Well after that, the old gentleman rabbit looked
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: at his gold watch and Jane, and as it was
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: nearly fourteen o'clock and mister Mary's son was just getting
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: up a Uncle John Hare dressed himself and went downstairs
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: to tell his Japanese servant to have breakfast as soon
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: as possible, And then he went out to the barn
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: to see how the little reindeer was getting along. And oh,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: dear me, wasn't he surprised to find three more reindeer
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: in the barn. Why where did you come from? Asked
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: the old gentleman rabbit. And he scratched his left ear
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: with his right hind foot, for he couldn't think how
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: they ever got into the barn. We are Santa Claus's deer,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: they answered, And if you'll hitch us up to your
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: old sleigh, we'll be glad to give you a ride.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: So the old gentleman Rabbit hitched them up to his
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: old fashioned sleigh and the and he put on his
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: fur overcoat and gloves, and told little Jack Rabbit in
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: the yellow dog tramp to get in too, And away
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: they went to the old bramble patch. And how those
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: beautiful reindeer did go. They tossed their long horns and
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: threw out their heels, and the bells on the sleigh
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: made beautiful music. Well by, and by pretty soon not
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: so very long, they drove up in front of the
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: old bramble patch. The next minute, Lady Love, the little
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Rabbit's mother hopped out of the house, and wasn't she surprised?
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: She hadn't seen Santa Claus's reindeer for a long time time,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: And neither have I not since I was a little boy,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: and stayed awake all Christmas Eve night and of chapter
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: seven Chapter eight of Little Jack Rabbit and Mister Wicked
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: Wolf by David Cory. This liprivox recording is in the
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: public domain photographer Crane Well Sir. By this time, if
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: ever a little bunny was crazy to go sleigh, writing,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: it was little Jack Rabbit as he looked at the
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: four reindeer hitched up to the old sleigh, and wouldn't
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: you love to go sleigh riding behind four of seven
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: to clause his reindeer. Well, I just guess you would,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: and so would I, and so would the Tsar of
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Russia if he hadn't lost his throne. Now hurry up
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: and get on your fur overcoat, said the old gentleman rabbit,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: while the reindeer pawed the snow and tossed their antlers,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: which are their horns. You know until the bells on
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: the harness began chiming down from the north, come the
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: rain deer, a flying silver bells. Tinkle is onward. They
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: go faster and faster. Their fleet hoofs are trying to
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: race with the north wind that blows o'er the snow.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Tinkle tink tinkle, and crinkle crink, crinkle, swift through the snowflakes.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: They dash in a row, and pretty soon out came
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: little jack rab Rabbit, with his fur overcoat, and jumping
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: into the sleigh, sat down beside dear kind Uncle John
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: hare on Dixon and blixen on bullet and arrow, cried
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: the old gentleman Rabbit, and away went the rein teer,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: while Lady Love waved her calico apron from the window
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: and smiled to see how happy was her little bunny boy. Well,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: after a while, or maybe a mile, little Jack Rabbit said,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: let's go down to the photographer and have our picture taken.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: All right, said Uncle John Hare, And the yellow dog
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: tramp said he'd never had his picture taken in his life,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: and would be tickled to death to have one to
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: send home to his old mother who lived in New Hampshire,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: And hadn't heard from him since he'd left home. Well,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: when they came to the picture placed the photographer, who
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: was a long legged crane, as I told you once
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: upon a time some fifty stories ago or maybe more,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: came out of his little picture gallery, and oh my,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: he shivered so that he almost spoiled the picture, for
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: he had to bring his camera outside because the four reindeer,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: and the sleigh, and the two little rabbits and the
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: yellow dog tramp couldn't get into his little shop. You see,
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: the crane didn't have any stockings on, and his great
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: long legs got dreadfully cold. Now look pleasant if you
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: please excuse me while I take a sneeze, And photographer
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Crane he almost sneezed his head off as he stood
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: on one leg and pulled the other one out of
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: the snow way up under his feathers. Then he sneezed again.
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: But by and bye the pictures were taken, and Uncle
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: John Hare paid for them all. And the yellow dog
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Tramp took his over to the post office and sent
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: it to his mother way up in New Hampshire. And
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: on the back he wrote, oftentimes on thinking mother, dear
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: of you someday, when I've made my pile, I'll come
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: home in grand old style. So be patient. Just awhile
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: keep for me your same old smile, mother, dear, won't you.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: I guess when that obo dog's mother received his picture,
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: she smiled or maybe she cried, for sometimes we cry
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: when a happy sadness comes into our heart. End of
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: chapter eight Chapter nine of Little Jack Rabbit and Mister
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Wicked Wolf by David Cory. This Slippery Box recording is
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: in the public domain The Milky Way. Now, let me
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: see where we left off in the last story. Sometimes
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: I get all mixed up, and perhaps I'd never get
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: things right if I hadn't made a book out of
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: these stories, so that I can look back and see
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: whether it was Uncle John Hare, or the Big Brown Bear,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: or the Yellow Dog Tramp or Aunt Columbia who had
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: to stop doing something because I didn't have any more room. Well,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: here we are. The Yellow Dog Tramp had just posted
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: his photograph to his dear old mother way up in
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: New Hampshire. And after he had thanked the post office lady,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: who was an old maid duck, he jumped into the
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: sleigh and said, hurry on, you rein deer, make the
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: snowflakes fly faster, faster, faster, don't you balk or shy?
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: And then you should have seen how those reindeer went, well, sir,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: they went so fast that pretty soon their feet hardly
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: touched the earth. And then they didn't touch it all.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: And then all me, oh my, they rose right up
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: in the air, just like a low sailing rod bucket,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: over the treetops and over the steeples, over the houses,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: and over the people's goodness, me, there goes my typewriter again,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: making up poetry and not putting it into verses. And
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: if it does it again, I'm going to change the
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: ribbon and get one that is red, white and blue.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: My typewriter must show its color as well as a man. Well,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: pretty soon the old gentleman rabbit began to get uneasy,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: for he wasn't used to sailing through the sky in
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: a sleigh drawn by reindeer. What do you think is
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: going to happen? He asked anxiously. Oh don't worry, Uncle John,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: answered the little rabbit. I've often seen pictures of Santa
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Claus riding through the air in his sleigh, and this
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: quite comforted the old gentleman bunny, you know, and he
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: began to smile, and the yellow dog tramp barked two
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: times and a half. And after that they came to
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: a snowy road right up in the sky, and the
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: hoofs of the reindeer made a lovely tinkling noise as
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: they beat on the silvery frozen path. But of course
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: the little rabbits didn't know they were sliding over the
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: milky way, no, indeed, and they didn't know it was
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: all frozen over either, And neither would I have known
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: this if a little snow bird hadn't told me. Well,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: after a while they came to a place where the
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: great bear and the little bear lived. It was way
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: up in the star country, you see, and of course
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: it was all very strange, But the reindeer seemed to
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: know the way, and so Uncle John Hare just let
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: them go. And then the great bear, who sat on
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: a piece of ice that had five sharp points, just
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: like a star, said mister John Hare, I am glad
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: to see you. And then a little bear, who elso
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: sat on a five pointed piece of ice, said I'm
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: glad to see you, little jack rabbit, and then the
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: reindeer stopped, for they had been going around and around
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: the two bears all the time, you know. And the
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: two little rabbits hopped out of the sleigh and into
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: the next story up in the sky. Ever so by
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: the snowflakes crinkle and wrinkle, and the moonman winks with
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: a couple of links, and the little star's tinkle tinkle
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: end of chapter nine, chapter ten of Little Jack Rabbit
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: and Mister Wicked Wolf by David Cory. This LibriVox recording
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: is in the public domain. Home again well. As soon
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: as the two little rabbits had hopped out of the sleigh,
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: the Great Bear stretched out his paw and shook hands
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: with Uncle John Hare, and the little bear shook paws
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: with Little Jack Rabbit.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: And while all.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: This was going on, the reindeer suddenly started off. Good
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: gracious Nebus, exclaimed the old gentleman Rabbit. There goes my
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: team of reindeer. How are we ever going to get home? Now?
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: Wasn't that a dreadful fix to be in?
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: I should say it was way up in a sky
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: country in starland, making a call on the Great Bear
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: and the little Bear, and no way to get home
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: unless you slid down a moonbeam, and that's a very
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: dangerous thing to do unless you're a fairy and know
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: all about it. But don't get worried, for I'm going
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: to tell you something. As soon as the yellow dog Tramp,
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: who hadn't jumped out of the sleigh, you remember, saw
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: what was happening, he grabbed up the reins and turned
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: those reindeer around as quick as a wink, and pretty
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: soon he drove them back to the five pointed pieces
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: of ice where the two little rabbits and the Great
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: bear and the Little bear were sitting. Come on, said
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: the yellow dog tramp. Let's get home before the dog
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: star catches us. And away went the reindeer down the
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: silver Milky Way, and pretty soon they were all safely
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: riding over the snow through the shady forest toward Uncle
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: John Hare's house. Now we'll have to go back to
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: the North Pole, said the reindeer, after they had drawn
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: the sleigh into the barn. I'm sorry to hear that,
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: said the old gentleman rabbit. I like sleigh riding, but
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: of course, if you must go, you know best. And
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: then the reindeer said good bye and went away to
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: the cold north country, where Santa Claus lives and the
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: Christmas trees grow. And then the yellow dog tramp said
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: he was going back to New Hampshire to see his
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: dear old mother. Take this ten carried gold piece to her,
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: said dear kind, generous Uncle John Hare, And that tramp
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: dog almost cried with joy, and away he went back
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: to the old homestead in the Green Mountains. Well, by
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: this time it was pretty late, and mister Mary's son
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: had disappeared over the western hills. So the two little
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: rabbits went into the house, and Uncle John Hare hung
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: up his great fur overcoat and put on his slippers
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: and sat down before the fire to warm his paws.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: And while he sat there, a little cricket came out
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: of the crack in the floor and began to sing,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: I'm the cricket on the hearth. Listen while I sing.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: Though it's golden bleak outdoors, and Jack Frost will nip
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: your paws round the hearth. It's warm and bright in
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: the fire's golden light. And when that little cricket looked up,
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: she saw Uncle John Hare fast asleep, and little Jack
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: Rabbit too, for they were tired out with their long
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: long sleigh ride. And of chapter ten chapter e eleven
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: of Little Jack Rabbit and Mister wicket Wolf by David Corey.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: This lippyvox recording is in the public domain resolutions. Now,
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: let me see. We left little Jack Rabbit in Uncle
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: John Hare's house in the last story, didn't we. And
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Uncle John had just brought out a nice apple pie,
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: and the three little grasshoppers and the tiny black cricket
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: had helped the dear old gentleman Rabbit eat it up well.
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: After a while, Little Jack Rabbit said he must be going,
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: for he wanted to get back to the old bramble
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: patch before New Year's Eve. So he said good bye
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: and hopped away, and by and by, not so very
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: far he saw Professor Jim Crow with his little wisdom book.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, little rabbit, have you thought about the
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: new year?
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: Yes, answered little Jack Rabbit. I've thought a lot about it.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: Let me read you something, said the wise old professor,
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: And then he opened his little wisdom book. But first,
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: of course, he put on his spectacles. You must make
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: a resolution, which means a promise to yourself that you
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: will be a rabbit who will drop a naughty habit
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: and due to other people what you would do for self.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: And then Professor Jim Crow closed his book with a
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: bang and flew away to read a lesson on good
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: manners to one naughty little cat who wore her mother's hat.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: Well after that, the little rabbit hopped along, and by
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: and by he came in sight of the old rail fence,
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: and through the rails he could see the old bramble
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: patch and his mother hanging out the wash.
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: For it was.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: Monday, and lady Love washed on Monday and ironed on Tuesday,
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: and sometimes on Wednesday if little jack Rabbit wore more
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: than one shirt waist a day. And just then he
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: thought of what the old crow had just read to him.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: Let me hand you the clothes pins, mother, dear, so
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: you won't have to stoop down and wrinkle your ear.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: And this made the kind lady Rabbit laugh, for she
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: didn't know that her little bunny's son could make a
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: poetry just like that all of a sudden, you know, well,
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: pretty soon there was only one clothes pin, laughed, and
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: two stockings. So he ran into the wood shed and
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: got another clothes pin for his mother. And after that
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: they both went into the kitchen, for it was almost
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: lunch time. It's half past one, and the cake is done,
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: and the prunes are stirred to a turn. So don't
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: let us wait, but filip each plate, or I'm afraid
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: the sliced carrot will burn. And good gracious me, when
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: Lady Love heard that, she looked all around to see
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: who was telling her what to do. But she didn't
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: see anybody, and neither did the little rabbit until he
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: looked up at the new clock which Uncle John Hare
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: had given his mother for Christmas. And then the little
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: bunny knew who was talking, for just inside the cuckoo
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: clock house door stood the little bird who told the
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: time of day. Pretty soon it began to storm, and
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: mister north Wind blew great clouds of snow around the
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: little house in the old bramble patch, And sometimes he
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: whistled down the chimney till the little cricket in the
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: wood box shivered and wished it were summertime again. Oh,
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: mister north Wind blows so shrill across the meadow from
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: the hill. The little rabbit's cuddle tight around the hearthstone,
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: warm and bright where now and then the cricket trills
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: of lovely spring and daffadils and of chapter eleven chapter
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: twelve of Little Jack Rabbit and Mister Wicked Wolf by
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: David Cory. This wippery Box recording is in the public domain.
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: Lonely Times the old farm pump is frozen tight. It
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: must have happened in monnight when mister north Wind, fierce
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: and chill came blowing down the big high hill. Goodness me,
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: when the kind hearted farmer got up been the morning
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: after Cocky Doodles had sung his Cockadoodle doo song and
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: went out to pump some water. He couldn't get any,
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: no sir. There was a big icicle hanging from the
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: pump spout and the water wouldn't come out. So he
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: cracked off the icicle and went back into the kitchen
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: for a pail of hot water to pour down the
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: old pump. And after that the water came out of
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: the spout, and missus Cow got a drink of water,
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: although she had to wait until the clock struck half
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: past eight. And oh dear me, it was just as
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: called over it the old bramble patch and Lady Love
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: had a dreadful time getting breakfast, for mister north Wind
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: kept blowing down the chimney and sending the ashes all
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: over the floor. And this made Lady Love dreadfully nervous,
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: for she always liked to have her kitchen spick and
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: span and cook her food on the hoover plan. Well
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: after breakfast was over, little jack Rabbit hopped outdoors, for
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: he wasn't afraid of the cold, oh my, no, His
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: little white fur overcoat kept him as warm as toast.
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: And just as he was going to pop along the
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: little path, he saw Charlie Chickdee and Jimmy Junkle flying
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: here and there in the old bread simple patch. You
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: don't mind if we eat up the old dried berries,
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: do you ask the little chickadee, For there isn't much
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: to find when the ground is covered with snow. Eat
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: all you wish, answered the little rabbit. And then these
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: two little winter birds stuffed their pockets full of dried
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: berries to take home, And when they could find no more,
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: they flew out on the sunny meadow where the fluffy
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: grass stalks stood out above the snow, and picked off
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: the little grass seeds. And after that they flew away.
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: So the little rabbit hopped along and by and by.
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: After a while, he came to the old chestnut tree.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: Chippy Chipmunk lived in the summer time in a hole
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: under the spreading roots, But Chippy was nowhere to be seen.
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: Oh my, no. All during the fall he had been
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: busy storing away nuts and grain in his little storeroom,
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: where he would be warm and safe from mister north
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: Wind and have something to eat, till miss Spring came
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: along with the whispering breezes. Oh dear, I'm very lonely.
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: My friends are all asleep in hollow trees or burrows, warm,
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: safe from the snowflakes and the storm. I cannot even
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: hear them creep, for they are snuggled up asleep, sighed
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: the little rabbit as he hopped into the next story
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: and of chapter twelve Chapter thirteen of Little Jack Rabbit
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: and Mister Wicked Wolf by David Cory. This slippery box
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain. The bunny Snowbill Well.
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: Just as Little Jack Rabbit hopped into this story, Uncle
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: John Hare, who was all alone in his little white house,
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: gave a lonely sigh, and as soon as he had
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: finished breakfast, he hopped out over the snow to his
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: garage to get his bunny Snowbill. Dear me, I forgot
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: to mention that he had fastened on runners in place
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: of the four wheels, and now had a wonderful auto
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: sleigh beal or something just as good as a bobsleot
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: going down hills. It didn't take him long to find
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: little jack Rabbit, and very soon they were gliding along
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: as nicely as you please. The bunny snow beal behaved
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: very well. You see. It was such a short time
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: after Christmas that it hadn't grown tired of looking at
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: the Christmas presents like a good many little girls and boys,
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: I know, And so it slid along over the snow
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: and didn't try to climb up any telegraph poles. And
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: this mate Uncle John hare very pleasant. So he began
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: to sing the glad new year has come, and so
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: we'll try until next year to be as good as
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: we can be and help our friends to cheer. But oh,
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: dear me, just then, all of a sudden, just like that,
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: out popped mister wicked wolf I've so often told you about.
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: And oh, dear me again, didn't he look fierce? His
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: collar was turned up, and his mouth was wide open,
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: and his long white teeth looked so cruel that Uncle
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: John Hare shut his eyes. And then, I hate to
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: tell it, the bunny snowbill ran right into a big
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: tree and turned over three times and the half and
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: it might have turned over once more if it hadn't
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: landed right up against an old hollow stump, which you'll
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: soon see was mighty lucky for the two little rabbits,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: for when mister wicked Wolf saw them sprawling over the snow,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: he jumped as quick as a wink. And maybe he
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: would have got dear kind Uncle John Hare if that
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: old gentleman rabbit hadn't hopped inside that stump. And before
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: he was inside, little jack Rabbit was too, so that
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: all mister wicked Wolf could do was to sit outside
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: and wait for them to come out. But they didn't,
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: No surrey, ma'am, and no surre, mister. They knew better
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: than that, and so would I if I didn't have
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: a gun and a pistol and maybe a big long knife. Well,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: I can sit here as long as you can, said
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: that dreadful wolf, and he licked his lips with his
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: long red tongue.
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  Speaker 4: And grinned, Oh, a dreadful kind of a grin very well,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 4: then replied Uncle John Hare.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: If you want to sit in the cold snow, do so.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: And then the old gentleman Rabbit took off his old
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: wedding stovepipe hat and blocked up the hole in the
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: hollow stump so the wolf couldn't see what was going
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: on inside, you know. And then the old gentleman Rabbit
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: looked around to see if there was any way to
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: get out well by and by. After a while, the
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: little jack Rabbit found a small hole in the back
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: of the stump, and taking his pickaxe out of his knapsack,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: set to work the dig a hole big enough to
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: squeeze through into the next story and of chapter thirteen,
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: chapter fourteen of Little Jack Rabbit and Mister Wicked Wolf
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: by David Cory. This flipperyvox recording is in the public domain.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: The old wedding stove pipe hat. You remember where we
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 1: left off in the last story, I hope, But in
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: case you don't, I'll tell you Little Jack Rabbit and
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: dear kind Uncle John Hare were hiding in a hollow stump,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: and mister wicked Wolf was sitting outside waiting to eat
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: them up. But he won't if I can help it,
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: no surre buss, not if I have to call up
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: the policeman dog to help these two little Well, after
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: a while, little jack Rabbit made a hole in the
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: back of the stump through which he and the old
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: gentleman rabbit could squeeze. But before they did, the little
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: rabbit put his pickaxe back in his knapsack, because he
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: might have to use it sometime again. And one doesn't
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: find pickaxes lying around loose, let me tell you not
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: in these days when iron costs almost as much as sugar,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: and sugar costs more than diamonds. And diamonds well, I
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: don't know what they cost, for I never wear any
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: Oh dear, I hate to leave my old wedding stove
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: by pad in that hole, said dear kind uncle John Hare,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: which you remember he had stuffed up with his old
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: silk hat to keep mister wicked Wolf from looking in.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: We'll make a snowball and put it there instead, said
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: little jack Rabbit, And when that was done, they both
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: hopped quietly out of the back door. But oh dear me,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: after they were once out, they were afraid to go
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: any further, for mister wicked Wolf would surely see them,
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: so they hopped inside and closed up the back hole
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: with the old wedding stove pipe hat. And then they
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: didn't know what to do, and neither do I, so
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: I hope somebody will help those two poor little rabbits. Well,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: after a while along came Danny Fox. So mister wicked
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: Wolf said to him, you go around to the back
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: of the stump and see if you can find out anything,
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: and I'll stay here. Then Danny Fox crept around, and
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: as soon as they saw Uncle John Hare's old wedding
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: stovepipe hat in the hall, he knew who was inside,
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: You bet he did, even if he hadn't smelt rabbit
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: or seen little rabbit footprints in the snow. And then
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: pretty soon mister wicked Wolf pushed in the snowball, and
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: then he pushed his head inside. But when he tried
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: to pull it out, his head, you know, not the snowball,
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: he couldn't, No suren ma'am. His head was stuck fast.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: But it isn't very pleasant to have a big wolf's
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: head inside a hollow stump when there's hardly room enough
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: for you, let me say. And of course the two
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: little rabbits were almost scared to death. And when Danny
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: Fox saw what was the matter, he laughed so hard
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: that he rolled over and over on the snow, and
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: the first thing he knew, he rolled right down the
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: hill quick as a minute. Uncle John Hare put on
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: his hat, and he and Little Jack Rabbit hopped away
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: as fast as they could, and even faster, and pretty
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: soon they came to the old bramble patch where Lady
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: Love the Little but Nannie's mother stood waiting for them.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: And of chapter fourteen Chapter fifteen of Little Jack Rabbit
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: and Mister Wicked Wolf by David Cory. This slipprivox recording
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: is in the public domain. The Policeman Dog. Now, I
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: hated to end my last story without telling you what
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: happened to the bunny Snowbill, which the little rabbits left
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: upside down beside the old hollow stump where mister Wicked
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: Wolf was caught fast you remember. But you see, I
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: didn't have room, And where one doesn't have room, one
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: must lead leave a lot of things to the imagination,
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 1: which means make believe you know. Well, at about fourteen
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: o'clock that very night, Uncle John Hare heard the big
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: bell on the bunny snowbill ringing like everything. So he
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: pushed up the window and stuck out his head and asked,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: is that my dear old snowbill? It certainly is, said
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: a voice, And then the lamps on the bunny snowbill
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: grew so bright that the old gentleman rabbit could see
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: who was sitting on the seat. And who do you
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: think it was? You can have three guesses, and another
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: one if you guess right, it was the policeman dog. Yes, sir,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: there he sat as fine and as she please, with
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: his club on his lap and his big silver badge
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: on his coat. It's very kind of you to bring
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: back my bunny snobile, said Uncle John Hare, And then
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: he pulled his head in and went downstairs and showed
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: the policeman dog how to put the snow car into
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: the stable without waking up the weather cock, who wasn't
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: asleep anyway, but just minded his own business like a
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: well behaved iron rooster. And then Lady Love opened the
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: kitchen door and asked the policeman dog to come in
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: and have a hot cup of carrot tea. And after
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: a while he said good bye and went home to
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: his wife and seventeen children. By and by, the little
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: rabbit said to his kind uncle, let's go out on
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: the sunny meadow and dance in the moonlight. But the
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: old gentleman rabbit said no, He had a slight touch
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: of rheumatism in his left hind toe and wasn't going
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: to take any chances, No surre, ma'am. He wasn't going
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: to have plumbago, aemmonia, or anything else just for the
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: sake of dancing. And I don't blame him either. So
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: everybody went to bed, And when mister Mary's son woke
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: up the next morning, he had a hard time waking
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: up mister John Hare, for the old gentleman Rabbit was
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: so sound asleep that if Lady Love hadn't rung the
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: breakfast bell right over his head, he might have slept
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: on until tomorrow's story. Well, after breakfast, as little Jack
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: Rabbit looked over the paper, what do you suppose he saw?
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: Innoticed that mister Wicked Wolf had been found with his
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: head caught in an old hollow stump, and that old
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: man Weasel had gone home to get his axe. But
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: when he had come back, mister wicked Wolf had already
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: pulled the stump right out of the ground, and had
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: gone home with it on his head, and it had
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: taken his wife two hours and eighty five minutes to
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: get it off. Gracious me, exclaimed Lady Love, did you
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: ever hear of such a thing? And then she opened
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: the kitchen door and peeked out. But she closed it
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: mighty quickly, for she didn't wish Uncle John Hare to
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: catch cold in his left hind toe. And of chapter
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: fifteen Chapter sixteen of Little Jack Rabbit and Mister Wicked
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: Wolf by David Cory. This sliperybox recording is in the
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: public domain. The old Hollow Stump, Oh, dear me, how
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: mister north Wind did blow? He rocked missus Oriole's nest
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: that hung from the willow tree by the old duck pond,
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: back and forth till little Jack Rabbit thought it would
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: come off and drop to the ground. But it didn't,
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: for missus Oriole knew how to knit, let me tell you,
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 1: and her stocking like nest clung to the old willow
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: tree like a thrift stamp when you try to get
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: it off to buy something you forgot to get before
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: the war began. Well, I guess I'll let it alone,
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: said mister Northwind. Maybe missus Horiole will want to use.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 3: It next spring. Perhaps she used a bowler wool making
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 3: sweaters for the boys over there. When do you go back, north,
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 3: asked the little rabbit, for he was thinking of the
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 3: dear old summer time when Granddaddy Bullfrog sat on his
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 3: log and caught flies. Then the darning needles skimmed over
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 3: the water. Oh pretty soon, not so very long, said
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 3: mister north Wind. When miss Spring and her little palmy
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 3: breezes come tripping over the sunny meadow, I'll say good bye.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 3: And then he whistled, ho bsky, old Wind, I am,
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 3: I could blow the shell off a clam, I shake
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 3: the shutters and bang the doors, and curl thy.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 1: Nails on the pussy cat's paws. And then that boisterous
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: old Wind and went into the shady forest and broke
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: a dead limb off the old chestnut tree, and nearly
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: hit squirrel Nutcracker, who had come out of his hole
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: for a few minutes to stretch his legs. Well after that,
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: the little rabbit hopped along clipperty lipperty, and by and
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: by he saw mister wicked Wolf. Oh, dear me, wasn't
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: that dreadful? For who wants to meet a wolf even
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: if his first name isn't wicked. Hello, little bunny, I
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 1: haven't seen you since the last time I wish you,
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: so you'll had your head in the hollow stump, shivered
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: little jack Rabbit, and then he wiggled his little pink
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: nose so fast that mister wicked Wolf had to shut
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 1: his eyes for fear he'd get dizzy. Stop that, he shouted.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: My head is going around and around, and I can't
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: keep my feet in one place on the ground. I
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: can't either, said the little rabbit. I'm so frightened. And
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: before that dreadful Wolf opened his eyes, little jack Rabbit
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: hopped into an old hollow stump. Well pretty soon, mister
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: wicked Wolf opened one eye just a little bit, you know,
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: and then he opened the other eye a little bit.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: But he couldn't see the little rabbit anywhere, so he
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: opened both his eyes blink, blink, just like that. Where
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: are you? He asked, and he jumped over to the
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: hollow stump, following the little rabbit's footprints in the snow,
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: you see, But when he looked down into the hollow stump,
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: there wasn't any little white shivering bunny. There no surrey, ma'am,
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: and no surre bus, and no surrey, mister prohibition man
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: and of chapter sixteen, Chapter seventeen of Little Jack Rabbit
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: and Mister Wicked Wolf by David Cory. The sliprivox recording
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: is in the public domain. Mister minor Maule. Now I
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: suppose you've been wondering what had become of little Jack
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: Rabbit after hopping into the old hollow Stump to get
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: away from mister Wicked Wolf. Well you haven't wondered nearly
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: as much as that old wicked wolf has. Let me
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: tell you why. He was so puzzled that he sat
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: down and took an almanac out of his pocket and
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: read it all through. But even then he didn't know anything.
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: Goodness me, where has that little money gone? He said?
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: And then he jumped right into the old hollow stump,
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: head first, curb plump, just like that, down down he went,
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: until all of us sudden he landed somewhere. He did
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: it just nowhere. When all of us sudden a voice said, you,
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: robber Bold, how can you dare to jump down here
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: from way up there? I beg your pardon, said mister
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: wickt wolf, and he fixed his cravat, which was all
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: loose and not tied in a nice little knot. I'm
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: sorry to trouble you, but the fact is I was
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: anxious about a little rabbit who jumped in here a
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: moment ago. Have you seen him? I can't see you,
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: but maybe you saw him. I'll let you see me
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: pretty soon, said the voice. And then mister wicked Wolf
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: began to get afraid. At first, you see, he wasn't
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: scared a bit, but when he heard the voice say that,
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: he began to tremble and wobble, and his long bushy
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: tail to droop on the ground. Let me out, please do,
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: he said, I'll never trouble you again. Very well, then
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: cross your heart and repeat after me. I never break
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 1: my promise for fear I'll break my heart. So I'll
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 1: give you my honest word, and then we'll kindly part,
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: said the voice. And when mister wicked Wolf had done that,
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: the voice said, now turn to your right and you'll
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: see a little ladder. And sure enough, there was a
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: little ladder running right up the inside of the old
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: hollow stump. And goodness me, as soon as mister Wicked
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: Wolf saw the ladder, he went up a bit faster
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: than a bricklayer, with a hot of bricks on his back,
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: and in less time than I can tell you, he
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: was out on the sunny meadow and off for his
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 1: home in the shady forest, for he lived, you remember,
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: not so very far from the big Brown Bear's cave.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: And now I suppose you are still wondering where Little
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 1: Jack Rabbit was, But I had to get rid of
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: that dreadful wolf first before I could tell you. Well,
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: as soon as mister Wicked Wolf was out of the stump,
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: which was very dark inside, you know, somebody turned on
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: an electric light way down at the bottom. And who
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: do you suppose it was, Why, mister Minor Wool. It
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: was he who had been talking to mister Wicked Wolf
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: all the time. And now on the next page you
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: shall hear about Little Jack Rabbit and of chapter seventeen.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: Chapter eighteen of Little Jack Rabbit and Mister Wicked Wolf
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: by David Cory. This LibriVox recording is in the public
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: domain Precious Stones. Well, as soon as mister Minor Mole
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: turned on the electric white in his cap, he said,
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: little Jack Rabbit, you can come out now, for mister
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: wicked Wolf has gone. At once, the little bunny hopped
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: out of a door, and now you know where he
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: had been hiding. I declare, it has taken me almost
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: three stories to tell you, but I've been busy explaining
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: what mister Wolf did, and after that what mister Minor
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  Speaker 1: Maule said. I don't know what I would have done
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  Speaker 1: if you hadn't taken care of me, said little jack Rabbit. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: don't mention it, said the kind mole. I'm glad you
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  Speaker 1: came down into my mind. I've had luck lately. I'll
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  Speaker 1: give you a couple of diamonds and three rubies. You
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: can make your con find Uncle John hare a present
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  Speaker 1: of one or two if you wish. And then the
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: generous male gave these beautiful precious stones to the little
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  Speaker 1: bunny and showed him how to climb the ladder. I
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  Speaker 1: wish I had a little cap like yours with an
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: electric candle in it, said the rabbit. I'd wear it
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: at night and have lots of fun. But the male
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: wouldn't give him his lamp. I guess he thought more
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 1: of it than he did of his diamonds and rupees. Well,
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: pretty soon, the little bunny said goodbye and climbed up
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: the ladder. And when he got to the top, he
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: just peeped over the rim of the old hollow stump,
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: for he thought perhaps mister Winn, a good wolf, might
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: be hanging around. But he wasn't. So he hopped away,
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: clipperty clapperty, and by and by he thought of something
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: gracious me. I almost forgot that I had two diamonds
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: and three rubies, so he opened his knapsack to make sure.
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: And now I suppose you are saying to yourself that
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: poor dear little rabbit has gone and lost his precious stones.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: But he hadn't. They were as safe as safe could
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 1: be in his knapsack, right alongside a piece of apple
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: pie and a lollypop. I might as well eat my
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 1: lunch now, he thought, as he sat down and pray.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: Soon the apple pie was gone, and the lollipop too,
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, a little bird began
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: to sing. It was Charley chickadee, but the little rabbit
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: didn't know it at first. A nice little rabbit went
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: down in a hole to see an old miner whose
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: name was Maul, who wore a cap with electric light,
• 1:27:31
  Speaker 1: for his mine was dark as a closet at night. Now,
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: why did that rabbit go down in that hole to
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: see the old miner, mister Mole? And then Charley Chickadee
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: flew down to the ground and picked up some apple
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: pie crumbs which the little rabbit had dropped when he
• 1:27:52
  Speaker 1: bit off the next to the last piece of crust.
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: I'll give you three guesses, said the little bunny. And
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: in the next story you shall hear whether Charlie Chickadee
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: guest write the first or the third time? And of
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: chapter eighteen chapter nineteen of Little Jack Rabbit and Mister
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: Wicked Wolf by David Corey. This LibriVox recording is in
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: the public domain. Three guesses, Now let me see. Oh, yes,
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: I remember now where we left off. It was just
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: when Little Jack Rabbit gave Charlie Chickatee three guesses. Yes, sir,
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: that's where we left off. The Little Chickidea had only
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: three guess is to find out why little Jack Rabbit
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: had gone down the hollow tree stump mine to see
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: the old miner, mister Mole. Are you ready, asked the
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: little bunny. Yes, answered the little chickadee. You went to
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: get some gold, No I didn't, answered the little rabbit.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: Then you went to get some silver, No I didn't,
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: replied the little bunny. Oh dear me, said Charlie Chickadee,
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: I've only one guess left, and I'm sure mister mole
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: hasn't got a coal mine. And then the little bird
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: cocked his head on one side and looked out of
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 1: the corner of his left eye to see if he
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: had guessed it a little bit. But little jack Rabbit
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: didn't pay any attention. He just took out the two
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 1: big diamonds and the three immense big rubies and looked
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: at them carefully. At once, Charlie Chickadee hopped up and
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: down and fluttered his wings and shouted, I know, I know,
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: ha ha ha ha. You went to get diamonds and rubies.
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: No I didn't, said little jack Rabbit, and he strapped
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: up his knapsack and started off for Uncle John Hare's house,
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: for he wanted to give his kind uncle a ruby,
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: you know, and maybe a diamond. Goodness me, why did
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: you go, then, asked Charlie chicktee. Everybody around here knows
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 1: dangerous that hollow tree. Stump mine is because mister wicked
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: Wolf was so close to me. I had nowhere to go,
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: answered little jack Rabbit. And then he told the little
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: bird all that had happened, and now I'm off to
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: see Uncle John Hare, and the little bunny shouldered his knapsack.
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: After a while he came to Carrot Square in Turnip City, USA.
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: So he went along for maybe three hundred and ninety
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: five and a half hops till he came to Cabbage Avenue,
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: where on the corner stood a little white house. Oh
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: here I am, how glad I am, sang the little rabbit,
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: And just then Uncle John himself opened the front door,
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: and when he saw his little nephew, he began to sing, Hello, Hello,
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: how glad I am. I'm as happy as a clam
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: and I tied to see you now, So come in
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  Speaker 1: and tell me how all the folks are getting on.
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: And if you love your uncle John, wait till I
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 1: show you what I've got for you. And then the
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: little bunny opened his knapsack. Well, I guess you love
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: your old uncle, said mister John Hare as he looked
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: at the precious stones. To day's my birthday? How did
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: you remember for answer, the little bunny just hugged his
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: nice old uncle and of chapter nineteen, Chapter twenty of
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: Little Jack Rabbit and Mister Wicked Wolf by David Cory.
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Poor Lady Love,
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: Parsing Girl sat on his tree early one spring morning,
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: and his voice was hoarse as he said, caw caw,
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: and he was sleepfully yawning. And just as Lady Love
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: passed by, that wise old crow opened his little wisdom
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: book and began to read A mossy stone will never roll,
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: but always stays in the same old hole. Then he
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: closed his little wisdom book and stroked his beak with
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 1: his black wings. Well, my boy's back from the army,
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: said Lady Love proudly. And she took out of her
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: pocket a little flag and waved it up and down.
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: And then she took out of another pocket a little
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: silver liberty bell and rang it three times. And then
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: she hopped away to the post office, for she wanted
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: to send a letter to Aunt Columbia about her little
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: son's discharge. Well, when she reached the post office, the postmistress,
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: the old maid Grasshopper, I told you about some million
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: stories ago, who had gone to Palm Beach for the winter,
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: looked out of her little stamp window and said, good morning,
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: Lady Love. What can I do for you? Now here's
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: a stamp already damp, and it's red, white and blue.
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  Speaker 1: What a pretty little stamp, said Lady Love as she
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: put it on the envelope before dropping her letter in
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: the little crack in the wall. Then she went down
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: to the three and one sent store to buy a
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: tea kettle. But just as she started away for the
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 1: old bramble patch, mister wicked Wolf jumped out from behind
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: a tree. And, oh, dear me, if Lady Love hadn't
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: opened her green silk parasol and held it in front
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: of her, that wicked old wolf would have eaten the
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: carrot flowers right off the little lady Rabbit's bonnet. Pulled
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: up your parasol, said mister wicked Wolf, or I'll tear
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: it into fourteen different pieces. And of course this frightened
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: Lady Love nearly to death, for she was very fond
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: of her green silk parasol. Let me tell you if
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: you do, said she, I'll tell the Bunnyvell regiment and
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: they'll hang you and when mister Wicked Wulf heard that,
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: he ran away as fast as he could. Dearing me said,
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: poor frightened Lady Love, times are dreadful, and she hurried
• 1:36:34
  Speaker 1: home as fast as she could hop to put the
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: new tea kettle on to boil for supper. And if
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: the tea caddy doesn't put golf balls in the new
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: teapot when Lady Love isn't looking, I'll tell you in
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: the next story about Timmy Meadow Mouse and of chapter
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 1: twenty Chapter twenty one of Little Jack Rabbit and Mister
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: Wicked Wolf by David Cory. This Wlippery Box recording is
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: in the public domain. Mister Mary's son, Little Timmy Meadow Mouse,
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 1: has a round ball for a house. It's made of
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 1: nicely woven grass, but it hasn't a window pane of glass. Hello,
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 1: he said, as Little Jack Rabbit stopped to look at
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: a daisy, How are you this lovely day? I'm going
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: down to the old duck pond to ask Grandaddy Bullfrog something,
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: answered the little rabbit. What are you going to ask him,
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: inquired Timmy Meadow Mouse. Never mind, replied little Jack Rabbit.
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: But maybe I'll tell you some day, And away he
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: hopped and by and by. Pretty soon, not so very long,
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: he came to the old duck pond, and there, sure
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: enough was Grandaddy Bullfrog, sitting on his log, winking and
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: blinking in the sun. Good morning, Grandaddy Bullfrog, said, little
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 1: jack rabbit. Have you had your breakfast? Had my breakfast?
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: Almost shouted the old gentleman frog. Why it's almost time
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: for a lunch. I guess you forgot to set your
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 1: watch ahead. Oh, dear me, said the little rabbit, I have.
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 1: So he pulled out his gold watch and chain, the
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: one that dear uncle John Hare had given him, Oh umpty,
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: eleven stories ago, you remember, And then he set it
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 1: on an hour fast. And after that he looked up
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: at the sky and laughed. Now, don't get mad, mister
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 1: Marry's son. Well, I won't get mad, said the jolly
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: old fellow. But I'll tell you one thing. I shan't
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: get up any earlier myself. You people can do what
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: you wish, But I've been on time since the world began,
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: and I don't propose to be hurried at my age.
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: And then he rolled behind a cloud, just to show
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 1: that he meant what he said. Do you think he's angry,
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: asked the little Rabbit. Not a bit, answered the granddaddy Bulfrog.
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: What does he care if the factory whistle blows an
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: hour earlier. He doesn't have to hurry. He gets up
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: in the Purple East every day at the same time. No,
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 1: he doesn't, said a voice. And there stood Professor Jim
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: Crow with his little wisdom book. Let me read you something.
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 1: And then the wise old bird turned to page twenty
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 1: three and began. The sun in the wintertime rises late.
• 1:40:19
  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's sixteen minutes to eight, But when the summer
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: time comes once more, he often gets up at half
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: past four. And oh, dear me, this made Granddaddy dreadfully angry.
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 1: You don't understand what I mean, he said. And in
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 1: the next story you shall hear what the old gentleman
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: Frog really meant to say. And of chapter twenty one
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 1: Chapter twenty two of Little Jack Rabbit and Mister Wicked
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: Wolf by David Cory. This Slippery Box recording is in
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: the public domain. Bobby read vest. Now let me see
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: where we left off in the last story. Oh yes,
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: now I remember. Professor Jim Crow had just corrected Granddaddy Bullfrog,
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: who was dreadfully angry to think that he had made
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 1: a mistake in saying the sun got up every morning
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: at the same time. And just as he was going
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: to say something more, a little tadpole swam up to
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: the log and called out, Granddaddy Bullfrog, please take care.
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 1: The miller's boy is just over there. He'll throw a
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 1: stone at you, I know, if you don't quickly dive below. Well, sir,
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 1: granteddy Bullfrog gave one look and then KerPlunk. He dived
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: into the water, and Professor Jim Craw flew away, and
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: so did little jack Rabbit, I mean hopped for rabbits
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: don't fly, and pretty soon he got into a dreadful scrape.
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 1: Oh dear me, I just hate to tell you about it,
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: but I must. For everything the little bunny does I
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: write down, even if I don't see him do it.
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: And do you know how I learned so much about him?
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you it's because every morning Bobby red Vest
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 1: comes to my window an says, wake up, wake up,
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 1: you lazy man, and listen to my song. I saw
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: your little rabbit friend play tag the whole day long.
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 1: And then I go to the window and ask him
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: in and give him some cracker crumbs, and as soon
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 1: as he has had his breakfast, he tells me what
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: to ride about. And if he didn't, there would be
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 1: many days I wouldn't know what little jack rabbit is doing,
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: for I can't run after him in the shady forest
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: all the time. And now I am going to tell
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 1: you about the scrape this dear little rabbit got into.
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: Oh dear me again. I hope he'll get out of
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: it all right. I told Bobby RedFest to be around tomorrow,
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 1: bright and early to let me know. Well, jack us
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: this little jack rabbit hopped away from the old duck pond.
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: He saw the tip of old Man Weaseles nose from
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 1: behind a tree, and the tip of Danny Fox's bushy
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 1: tail behind a rock, and the left ear of mister
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 1: Wicked Wolf from behind a bush. Wasn't that too dreadful
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: for anything? Here were these three enemies of the little
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 1: rabbit just waiting to catch him. Oh dear, oh dear,
• 1:44:42
  Speaker 1: said the poor little bunny. I'm a corner now, I know,
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: I know it. But he didn't give up hope, Oh
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: my no, he just said that to himself, you see,
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: not to any anybody else, and just then he heard
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: Bobby red Vest singing very softly. Under the bush by
• 1:45:10
  Speaker 1: your left hind toe is a little trap door that
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: leads below. Jump back three feet as quick as you can,
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: and you will be safe, little bunny man. End of
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: chapter twenty two Chapter twenty three of Little Jack Rabbit
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: and Mister Wicked Wolf by David Cory. This Lippybox recording
• 1:45:43
  Speaker 1: is in the public domain. Three old rascals. Don't stop
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: to ask the reason why, nor say just a minute,
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: but do the thing you're told to do, for all
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: that there is in it. Well, you remember what Little
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: Bobby red Vest told the little rabbit to do in
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: the last story, to jump back three feet and hide
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: under the trap door beneath the bush. Well, sir, in
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: less time than I can take to tell it, he
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 1: was under the door and hopping down a little stairway.
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 1: But he didn't forget to bolt the door, and it's
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: mighty lucky he did. For the next minute, Old Man Weasel,
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: Mister Wicked Wolf, and Danny Fox ran out from behind
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 1: the trees and tried to lift up the trap door.
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 1: I'll dig a hole all around it, said Danny Fox.
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 1: When they found they couldn't get in, so he set
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: to work and sew did it old man Weasel, while
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: mister wicked Wolf sat down and took out his pype
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 1: and smoked. And whenever Danny Fox stopped to wipe the
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 1: perspiration from his face, mister wicked Wolf would say, hurry up.
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 1: The little rabbit will be in China before you get started.
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: And whenever old man Weasel stopped to wipe a little
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: piece of dirt out of his eye, mister wicked Wolf
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 1: would say, hurry up, old man Weasel, Danny Fox will
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: get in first.
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 2: Well by and by.
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 1: After a while, Danny Fox came to the flight of stairs,
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: and maybe a minute or two later, old man Weasel
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: got his head inside the hallway, but there wasn't room
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: for both of them at the same time. Get out
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 1: of here, said Danny Fox. I saw the little rabbit first.
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 1: I won't, shouted old man Weasel. I saw him before
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: you did. And then they started to talk it up
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: till at last mister wicked Wolf put his pipe back
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 1: in his pocket and said, you are both wrong. I
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: saw him first, and he took hold of Danny Fox
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: by the tail and dragged him out, and old man
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 1: weaseled too. You two, talker, stay here while I go
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 1: after the little rabbit, said mister wicked Wolf, And he
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: ran down the stairs as fast as he could. But
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: goodness me, it was dark, and every once in a
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: while he'd knock his head against something, but he kept
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: on just the same, and pretty soon he saw a
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 1: little light ahead.
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 2: And then all of a.
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: Sudden a voice said, what are you doing down here underground?
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: You wicked old wolf from the hill. You haven't got
• 1:49:06
  Speaker 1: brains to go in when it rains if you wake
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 1: up a man when he's ill. I don't know who
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 1: you are, and I didn't know you were ill, answered
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: mister wicked Wolf, looking all around to see who was talking.
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 1: Who are you anyway? And of chapter twenty three Chapter
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: twenty four of Little Jack Rabbit and Mister Wicked Wolf
• 1:49:39
  Speaker 1: by David Cory. This lipreybox recording is in the public domain.
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: A prisoner well before mister Wicked Wolf found out who
• 1:49:52
  Speaker 1: was talking to him, as I meant to tell you
• 1:49:55
  Speaker 1: in the last story, he saw the tip of Little
• 1:49:59
  Speaker 1: Jack rabbit its tail, so he didn't stop to find out,
• 1:50:04
  Speaker 1: but ran down the dark tunnel as fast as he could. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: dear me, said the little rabbit to himself. I thought
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  Speaker 1: mister mole would keep him for a few minutes till
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  Speaker 1: I got away. And then the little rabbit hopped along
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  Speaker 1: faster than ever, and I guess mister wicked Wolf would
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  Speaker 1: have caught him, only the tunnel was so low and
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 1: so narrow that mister wicked Wolf had to be very
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 1: careful not to bump his head off. Well, pretty soon
• 1:50:40
  Speaker 1: the little rabbit came to a door, and when he
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: opened it, he found himself in the shady forest. And
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: just then who should come by but the big brown bear.
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  Speaker 1: Oh help me quick, said little jack rabbit. How asked
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 1: the big bear roll that rock against this door? Begged
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  Speaker 1: the little rabbit. Mister wicked wolf is after me. Then
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: the big brown bear put his shoulder against the rock
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: and rolled it up against the door. And then he
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 1: sat down and said, whew, that was a job. And
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 1: I guess it was, for he was all out of breath,
• 1:51:28
  Speaker 1: for the rock was as large as himself, and maybe bigger.
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: Let me out. Let me out, shouted mister wicked Wolf
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 1: through the keyhole, for he couldn't even open the door
• 1:51:42
  Speaker 1: a tiny crack because the bear had rolled the stone
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 1: up against it as tight as could be. You stay
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  Speaker 1: in there till the fourth of July, away from the
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 1: sun and the bright blue sky, and maybe by then
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: you will have grown wise enough to wear spectacles over
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: your eyes, shouted the big brown bear as he and
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  Speaker 1: the little rabbit hopped away. Dear me, maybe the bear
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  Speaker 1: didn't hop but I was so excited for fear little
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: jack Rabbit wouldn't get away, that my typewriter picked out
• 1:52:20
  Speaker 1: the wrong word. Gracious me, said the little rabbit. After
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 1: a while and maybe a mile, I guess I'll telephone
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 1: to Uncle John Hare and tell him what a narrow
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 1: escape I've just had. So he hopped in the hollow
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: tree telephone booth and called up one two three ring,
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: Happy Bell, Rabbitville, USA, and pretty soon he heard Uncle
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: John Hare said, Hello, who is it? It's me, little
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  Speaker 1: jack Rabbit, answered the little bunny. And then he told
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 1: the dear old gentleman rabbit what had happened. And Uncle
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 1: John Hare got so excited that he dropped the receiver
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: on his left hind toe, the one that had the
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 1: rheumatism in it, if you remember, And this made him
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: say something which I won't repeat. Come over right away,
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: he said, after rubbing his toe three times and a
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  Speaker 1: half end of chapter twenty four Chapter twenty five of
• 1:53:38
  Speaker 1: Little Jack Rabbit and Mister Wicked Wolf by David Cory.
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. The Rabbitville
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 1: Trolley Now, I think Little Jack Rabbit would have made
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 1: Uncle John Hare a call if all of a sudden
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: and he hadn't stopped to listen to Bobby Redvest sing.
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 1: Professor Jim Crow in his Little Wisdom book tells how
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 1: to catch the fishes with up pin hook. So you,
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 1: simple simon with your mother's pale listen to Professor Crow
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 1: if you'd catch a wail. Perhaps I've made a mistake,
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 1: or Professor Jim Crow has for this is not Mother
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: goose Land. Haven't you made a mistake, asked Little Jack Rabbit,
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: as the old crow started to read a lesson on fishing, Well,
• 1:54:34
  Speaker 1: I declare, he answered, maybe I'm getting old. I've turned
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: to the wrong place. And then he opened the book
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: at page twenty three and read Dingle Dingle trolley car.
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: The motorman is my papa. And while he shows the
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 1: greatest care, my mother rings up every fair ha ha,
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 1: laughed the little jack Rabbit. The Rabbitville. Trolley cars have
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 1: lady bunny conductors, and off he hopped to take a ride,
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 1: for he had five carrot cents in his knapsack. And
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 1: just as he reached Rabbitville, a trolley car came by.
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 1: So he held up his striped candy cane, and the
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: motorman put on the brakes, and then the little rabbit
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 1: hopped on board, and the lady bunny conductor rang the
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 1: bell three times and a half, and away they went
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 1: to Bunnybridge, just over Clover River. Hello, said a voices.
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: The little rabbit sat down, and there in the middle
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 1: of the car sat squirrel Nutcracker. He was reading the
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: Chestnut Times and laughing over miss hazel Nut's jokes. Come
• 1:55:50
  Speaker 1: over and sit by me, said old squire Nutcracker. Here's
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 1: something about your uncle, And then he started to read.
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: Mister John Hare has just repainted his house on the
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: corner of Carrott Avenue and Cabbage Square. He says he
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 1: must have his house nice and white so he can
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 1: see it late at night. And then squirrel Nutcracker laughed
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 1: some more, and he laughed so hard that a hickory
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 1: nut rolled out of his coat pocket and fell on
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 1: the Lady Conductor's little toe and made her dreadfully angry,
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 1: for she thought little Jack Rabbit had shot the nut
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: out of his little pop gun, you know. And just
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 1: then the trolley bell began to ring like everything maybe
• 1:56:41
  Speaker 1: there was someone on the track. End of chapter twenty
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 1: five Chapter twenty six of Little Jack Rabbit and Miss
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 1: Dirwick Get Wolf by David Cory. This LibriVox recording is
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 1: in the public domain. Farmer Daddy long Legs, Now, let
• 1:57:12
  Speaker 1: me see where we left off in the last story.
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: Oh yes, I remember now. It was just as the
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: trolley car bell rang on the way to Bunnybridge. What's
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: the matter, asked Scrorel Nutkin, for the car stopped so
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 1: suddenly that his hat came off. And then they heard
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: the motorman, who was a billy goat, say, why don't
• 1:57:37
  Speaker 1: you get out of the way with your cracky old
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 1: wagon of hay? Why don't you look back when you're
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 1: on the track and not keep me waiting all day?
• 1:57:47
  Speaker 1: And who do you suppose was driving that load of hay?
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 1: Why it was old farmer Daddy long Legs. He was
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 1: sitting on top and saying git up to a pair
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 1: of little field mice. I'm very sorry, mister motorman, answered
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 1: farmer Daddy long legs. Jest wait a minute, an I'll
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: get off the track. And then he turned the little
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 1: mice to the right, an when the trolley car went by,
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 1: it pulled off some of the hay and it fell
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 1: into the open window and covered missus Duck's new bonnet
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 1: with the yellow roses on it. I'll make a wish,
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: for every time you pass a load of hay, you
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: must make a wish, you know, And if you don't
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 1: tell anybody, it will surely come true, she said with
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 1: a quack. Well by and by. After a while they
• 1:58:39
  Speaker 1: came to Clover River, and as the trolley car couldn't swim,
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 1: it went over the bridge, and in less than five
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 1: hundred short seconds it stopped in Bunnybridge, on a corner
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 1: of Cooky Street and Cocoanut Avenue. Last stop. All out,
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 1: shouted the Billy Cook contuctor. So all the passengers left
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 1: by the front door, for there was a big sign
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 1: in the car which said, have your nickel ready when
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 1: you poured the car, get off at the front door,
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 1: no matter where you are.
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 2: But oh, dear me, just this little jack rabbit hopped
• 1:59:20
  Speaker 2: to the sidewalk, A deep, growy voice said.
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 1: What are you doing over here, so far from the
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 1: bramble patch? If I were hungry, I'd eat you up
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 1: as quick as i'd strike a match. Oh please, don't,
• 1:59:39
  Speaker 1: cried the little rabbit. Please, mister wicked Wolf. Let me
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 1: go just this once, and unless mister wicked Wolf gets
• 1:59:49
  Speaker 1: dreadfully hungry all of a sudden, you shall hear what
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 1: happened after that. Mister Wolf carries a big gunny suck
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 1: over his shoulder and down his back. Whenever he catches
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 1: a squirrel or hair, he drops them into his suck
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 1: with care, and then he says, with a terrible grin,
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 1: I'll eat you up before you get thin and of
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 1: chapter twenty six Chapter twenty seven of Little Jack Rabbit
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 1: and Mister Wicked Wolf by David Corey. This libribox recording
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 1: is in the public domain Acorn Cottage. Mister wicked Wolf
• 2:00:42
  Speaker 1: has a dreadful grin. His teeth are bright and shiny
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 1: like a piece of tin. And wouldn't you be frightened
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 1: if he should say to you, I'll eat you up
• 2:00:52
  Speaker 1: before you count one billion twenty two. Well that's what
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 1: mister wicked Wolf said just as I finished the story
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 1: before this, and I would have added a PS and
• 2:01:05
  Speaker 1: told you only I was afraid you'd stay awake all
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 1: night wondering how the little rabbit would ever get away.
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 1: But never mind, I won't let that dreadful wolf hurt him,
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 1: not if I have to get a gun and go
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 1: after him myself. Well, the little rabbit began to count
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 1: just as fast as he could, and just as he
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 1: reached nine thousand, nine hundred and maybe a little more,
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 1: the yellow dog tramp came by and gave a loud bark.
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 1: Don't hurt my bunny friend. Get out o here. I
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 1: say it's safer for you to be a million miles away.
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: And when mister wicked wolf heard that, he turned around
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 1: and ran home as fast as he could, and maybe faster.
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 1: Come with me, little rabbit, said the kind yellow dog tramp.
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 1: So they went into the wood and turned down a
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 1: little path until they came to a tiny house under
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 1: a big oak tree, And right over the front door
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 1: was a sign acorn cottage. Who lives there, asked little
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 1: jack rabbit. Wait and see, said the yellow dog tramp,
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 1: And then he knocked three times, and pretty soon a
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 1: little green snake opened the door. She had on a
• 2:02:33
  Speaker 1: little pink bonnet and a white apron, and on the
• 2:02:37
  Speaker 1: end of her tail was a pretty gold watch. What
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: do you want, she asked, for she was a very
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 1: timid little snake, let me tell you, and she was
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 1: dreadfully afraid of tramps and burglars. My little rabbit friend
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 1: would like to find his fortune, said the yellow dog tramp.
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 1: And I hear you are very wise and know how
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 1: to tell fortunes better than a gipsy. So please tell
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 1: my little bunny friend here where his fortune is. Come in,
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 1: said the little green snake. So little jack Rabbit and
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 1: the yellow dog tramp went into the little house, and
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 1: pretty soon she told little jack Rabbit to sit down.
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: You have two liberty bonds and three war saving stamps,
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 1: she said, after she had looked at the lines in
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 1: his little paw. And in three days and a half
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 1: you will find a bright penny under a stone on
• 2:03:38
  Speaker 1: the shady forest trail. That will be the beginning of
• 2:03:42
  Speaker 1: your fortune. And then she coiled herself up and began
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 1: to sway back and forth. And in the next story
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 1: you shall hear what happened after that. End of chapter
• 2:03:57
  Speaker 1: twenty seven, Chapter twenty eight of Little Jack Rabbit and
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 1: Mister Wicked Wolf by David Cory. This LibriVox recording is
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 1: in the public domain. Jenny Wren's Penny You remembering the
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 1: last story? As the little green snake coiled herself in
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 1: a ring and swayed back and forth, she began to sing.
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 1: Under a stone on the forest trail close to the
• 2:04:37
  Speaker 1: home of a little black snail is a bright new penny.
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 1: So stop to day and pick it up on your
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 1: homeward way, I will, said little Jack Rabbit. And then
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: he and the yellow dog tramp set out, and by
• 2:04:53
  Speaker 1: and by they saw a little stone just ahead of them,
• 2:04:57
  Speaker 1: and close beside it was a black snail in her
• 2:05:01
  Speaker 1: little house, which she always carries around with her rein
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 1: or shine. Hurrah, cried the little rabbit. Now I will
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 1: find my fortune. And he pushed aside the stone and
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 1: was just going to pick up the bright penny, when
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 1: a voice said, don't you touch that penny, for it
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 1: belongs to Jenny, the pretty little Jenny Wren, who lives
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 1: down in the shady glen. Oh, dear me, sighed little
• 2:05:32
  Speaker 1: Jack Rabbit. I thought I could take it. Who are you,
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 1: asked the yellow dog tramp looking all around to see
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: who had spoken, but there was no one in sight.
• 2:05:44
  Speaker 1: And just then, all of a sudden, out jumped Chippy
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 1: Chipmunk in his little striped jacket. That penny belongs to
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 1: Jenny Wren. She lost it this morning. Then why don't
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 1: you take it to her, asked the yellow dog tramp.
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 1: I'm keeping watch till she comes back, answered Chippy Chipmunk.
• 2:06:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know where she went. And then the little
• 2:06:09
  Speaker 1: chipmunk laughed and picked up a nut and stuffed it
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 1: into the little pocket in his left cheek. Well there's
• 2:06:17
  Speaker 1: no use waiting here, said the little jack rabbit. I
• 2:06:21
  Speaker 1: must get back to the old bramble patch before sundown
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 1: or mother will worry. And off he started, flipperty lip,
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 1: clipperty clip. But just then who should come by? But
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 1: little Jennie ran herself. She wasn't flying, oh my no,
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 1: she was walking slowly over the ground and looked here
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 1: and there and everywhere. Did you see a bright penny?
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 1: She asked. It's by that stone, said little jack Rabbit,
• 2:06:55
  Speaker 1: close by the snail in her little shell house. So
• 2:06:59
  Speaker 1: Jennie ran hopped over to the stone and picked up
• 2:07:02
  Speaker 1: her lost penny. And if she doesn't spend it for
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 1: a lemon lollipop, I'll tell you what happened after that.
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 1: A lollypop's a lovely thing, just like a flower in
• 2:07:16
  Speaker 1: the spring. It grows upon the lolly tree beside the
• 2:07:21
  Speaker 1: winding river. Dee and of chapter twenty eight Chapter twenty
• 2:07:35
  Speaker 1: nine of Little Jack Rabbit and Mister Wicked Wolf by
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 1: David Cory. This slipper box recording is in the public domain.
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 1: Hungry Hawk, I must leave now, said the yellow dog tramp,
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 1: who you remember in the last story had found the
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 1: lost penny for little Jenny Wren. Come and see me
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 1: soon again, if it doesn't chance to rain, said Little
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 1: Jack Rabbit. Busy watched his good friend run away. Well
• 2:08:10
  Speaker 1: after that, the little bunny hopped along, and by and
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 1: by he saw Timmy meadow Mouse near his little house
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 1: in the sunny meadow. And if you've forgotten what Timmy
• 2:08:22
  Speaker 1: Meadow Mouse's house looks like, I'll tell you. It's like
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 1: a little ball made out of grass woven together on
• 2:08:31
  Speaker 1: the top of two or three stiff stalks of meadow grass. Hullo,
• 2:08:36
  Speaker 1: Timmy meadow mouse, what are you doing keeping a lookout
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 1: for hungry hawk, He answered, it was only a few
• 2:08:45
  Speaker 1: minutes ago. He flew by, way up in the sky, oh,
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 1: ever so high. But I don't want to be caught
• 2:08:53
  Speaker 1: in his cruel claws. And the little yellow meadow mouse
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 1: shivered at the flot. Neither do, I said, little jack rabbit.
• 2:09:04
  Speaker 1: I won't wait, but hurry home to the old bramble patch.
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 1: And it was a good thing he did, for just
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 1: then hungry hawk came sailing by, and if he had
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 1: seen the little rabbit, maybe he would have stooped down
• 2:09:21
  Speaker 1: and caught him then and there, and maybe some other place.
• 2:09:25
  Speaker 1: What has kept you so late? Asked Lady Love as
• 2:09:30
  Speaker 1: her little bunny son hopped up the garden walked to
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 1: the kitchen door, where the good Lady Bunny stood, shading
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 1: her eyes with her left hind paw. She said nothing
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 1: when she learned how he had almost been caught by
• 2:09:45
  Speaker 1: mister wicked Wolf, and that the yellow dog tramp had
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 1: come by just in time. But when he said he
• 2:09:53
  Speaker 1: had found a penny, she exclaimed, where is it, oh, dear,
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 1: answered the little rabbit. It belonged to Jenny Wren. She
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 1: lost it this morning, so I had to give it
• 2:10:06
  Speaker 1: to her, and just then the telephone rang Hello, said
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 1: Little Jack Rabbit, is it you? It surely is, said
• 2:10:17
  Speaker 1: the old gentleman Rabbit. What do you suppose is the matter?
• 2:10:21
  Speaker 1: But Little Jack Rabbit couldn't guess, and I don't believe
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 1: you can, so I'll tell you right away. My Sonora
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 1: won't stop singing, said the old gentleman Rabbit. And the
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 1: three grasshoppers in the black cricket on the hearth can't sleep.
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 1: So what shall I do? Callin the old red Rooster.
• 2:10:42
  Speaker 1: He used to work in a talking machine factory before
• 2:10:46
  Speaker 1: he came to you. And that's just what Uncle John
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 1: Hare did. And the next day he came over in
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 1: his bunny mobile and took Little jack Rabbit out for
• 2:10:57
  Speaker 1: a long drive. And of chapter twenty nine, Chapter thirty
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 1: of Little Jack Rabbit and Mister Wicked Wolf by David Cory.
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 1: This lippyvox recording is in the public domain. Candy Cats
• 2:11:22
  Speaker 1: and Chocolate Mice. After the Old Red Rooster had repaired
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 1: the Sonora, he went back to the barn to dust
• 2:11:32
  Speaker 1: off the cobwebs. But oh dear me, all of us
• 2:11:36
  Speaker 1: sudden he brushed down a little black spider who had
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 1: her web in the northeast corner. You're a very mean
• 2:11:45
  Speaker 1: rooster to pull down my web. For now, I must
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 1: spin me another. If things must be clean, you've no
• 2:11:53
  Speaker 1: right to be mean. I've a notion to tell your
• 2:11:56
  Speaker 1: good mother. Please don't beg the old red rooster. She's
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 1: a very old hen and it might worry her, so
• 2:12:04
  Speaker 1: she couldn't lay an egg. Just then, Little Jack Rabbit
• 2:12:09
  Speaker 1: and Uncle John Hare drove up in the bunny mobile.
• 2:12:12
  Speaker 1: So the little black Spider began to spin a new web,
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 1: and the old red rooster commenced to dust off the
• 2:12:20
  Speaker 1: top of a bucky. Well, here we are home again,
• 2:12:25
  Speaker 1: said the old gentleman rabbit, And he took off his
• 2:12:28
  Speaker 1: old wedding stovepipe hat and wiped his forehead with his
• 2:12:32
  Speaker 1: blue silk bolka dot handkerchief. And after that he looked
• 2:12:36
  Speaker 1: at his gold watch and chain and fixed the diamond
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  Speaker 1: for shoe pin in his red necktie. You see, there
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  Speaker 1: was a little old broken mirror which he kept in
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  Speaker 1: the barn so that in case the stovepipe hat wasn't
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  Speaker 1: on straight, he could fix it before going out automobiling.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as the bunny mobile was safe in the
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  Speaker 1: gold raj key and Little jack Rabbit went into the
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  Speaker 1: house and wound up the graphophone. And this is the
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  Speaker 1: song it sang. The candy catted a chocoal lit mouse. Oh, dearie, dearie.
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  Speaker 1: Me and the little toy dog chased the little toy
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  Speaker 1: cat till she climbed up a cinnamon tree. Dear dear me,
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  Speaker 1: Here we are at the end of the book. I
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  Speaker 1: wonder why the pages turned over so quickly. Perhaps it
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  Speaker 1: is because little jack Rabbit hops so fast. But never mind,
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  Speaker 1: dear little reader, I am going to tell you some
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  Speaker 1: more about this little bunny boy in another book entitled
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  Speaker 1: Little Jack Rabbit and Hungry Hawk. Yours for a story
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  Speaker 1: David Cory, The Jack Rabbit Man end of chapter thirty
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  Speaker 1: and of Little Jack Rabbit and Mister Wicket Wolf by
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  Speaker 1: David Cory