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🟡 Adventures of the Teenie Weenies (Full Audiobook) | William Donahey · Historical Adventure Audiobooks

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  Speaker 1: CHAPTER I. THE TEENIE WEENIES. WHO THEY ARE AND WHERE
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  Speaker 1: THEY LIVE. The Teenie Weenies are a very tiny little people.
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  Speaker 1: The teeny-weeny children are about half an inch in height,
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  Speaker 1: and the older teeny-weenies are from two and a half
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  Speaker 1: to three inches tall. Paddy Pin is the tallest one,
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  Speaker 1: and he really is a teeny-weeny giant, for he stands
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  Speaker 1: four inches in his stocking feet. The little folks are
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  Speaker 1: so small that a lead pencil is to them a
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  Speaker 1: great log, and a clothespin will keep the tiny fireplace
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  Speaker 1: burning for some time. A large teacup would almost hold
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  Speaker 1: the entire family, and they could go swimming all at
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  Speaker 1: once in a wash basin. A potato will keep the
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  Speaker 1: teeny weenies supplied for several months, while one grain of
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  Speaker 1: rice will make one of the little people a square meal.
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  Speaker 1: Two baked lima beans will make a meal for the
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  Speaker 1: whole family, and a thimble full of butter will last
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  Speaker 1: a week. The teeny weenies are so small that big
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  Speaker 1: people would hardly notice them, and the little folks have
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  Speaker 1: to be careful to keep out of their way. The
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  Speaker 1: teeny-weenies live in an old shoe. They have built on
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  Speaker 1: a kitchen, and a roof covers the top of the shoe.
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  Speaker 1: An old hat is used by the little people for
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  Speaker 1: a schoolhouse, and quarters for the army. On top of
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  Speaker 1: the hat is a tiny bell, which is used for
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  Speaker 1: a school bell, and also as a fire alarm. On
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  Speaker 1: the second floor of the hat the army keeps its
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  Speaker 1: uniforms and guns, and here the little soldiers drill one
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  Speaker 1: night every week. The teeny-weenies have many tiny tools, and
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  Speaker 1: they store all these useful things in an old tin can.
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  Speaker 1: There is a workbench in the can, and here the
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  Speaker 1: men make things and mend the furniture. The shoe-house in
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  Speaker 1: which most of the teeny-weenies live is quite crowded, so
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  Speaker 1: one corner of the tool-house has been made into a
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  Speaker 1: comfortable home for Paddy Pin and Go-Go. An old teapot
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  Speaker 1: has been made into a laundry, and here the China
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  Speaker 1: Man and Zip, the teeny-weenie wild man, live and do
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  Speaker 1: the family washing each week. the little folks have made
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  Speaker 1: a cigar-box into a wonderful hospital, and there the doctor lives.
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  Speaker 2: Mr. and Mrs.
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  Speaker 1: Lover have their own home, and live, with their two children,
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  Speaker 1: who are twins, in a baby-shoe, which has been made
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  Speaker 1: into a beautiful bungalow. All of these tiny buildings are
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  Speaker 1: close to each other under a certain rose-bush, and there
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  Speaker 1: the little folks live happily together. The teeny-weenies ask that
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  Speaker 1: the place where they live shall not be told, as
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  Speaker 1: they are afraid curious folks might come around to see them.
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  Speaker 1: Not that we wouldn't like to have big people visit us,
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  Speaker 1: they say, but, you see, we are so little we
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  Speaker 1: might get tramped on, and that would be quite the
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  Speaker 1: end of us. Introducing the Teenie Weenies The General is
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  Speaker 1: the head of the Teenie Weenie family. He is very
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  Speaker 1: kind and wise, and all the little folks trust and
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  Speaker 1: love him. The doctor looks after the health of the
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  Speaker 1: teeny weenies, and he is often called to help sick birds, mice,
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  Speaker 1: and squirrels, for his skill as a doctor is known
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  Speaker 1: for quite a distance about the rosebush. He has an
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  Speaker 1: office in the teeny weenie hospital, and there he is
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  Speaker 1: able to treat the sick teeny weenies in the best
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  Speaker 1: possible way. The teeny weenie cook is boss of the kitchen,
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  Speaker 1: and he cooks the most wonderful food that any teeny
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  Speaker 1: weenie ever tasted. His stove is made out of an
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  Speaker 1: old tin tobacco can. The oven is so big that
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  Speaker 1: a whole stuffed prune can be baked in it. Gogo,
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  Speaker 1: the little colored teeny weeny, is the assistant cook, and
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  Speaker 1: he can get up almost as good a meal as
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  Speaker 1: the cook. The general says that no one can bake
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  Speaker 1: a lima bean as well as Gogo. The dunce is
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  Speaker 1: a foolish fellow who is always doing funny things. He
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  Speaker 1: is always hungry, and the cook says that he can
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  Speaker 1: eat a thimble full of pudding and then get inside
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  Speaker 1: the thimble. All the teeny-weenies love the dunce, for he
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  Speaker 1: is a kind-hearted little chap. The old soldier has only
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  Speaker 1: one leg, but he is a good carpenter, and he
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  Speaker 1: can make beautiful furniture out of a few matches. He
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  Speaker 1: is also a good tailor, and knows how to mend
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  Speaker 1: shoes wonderfully. The lady of fashion is the most beautiful
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  Speaker 1: teeny-weeny lady. She dresses in the very latest style and
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  Speaker 1: makes many things with her tiny needle. She is housekeeper
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  Speaker 1: at the shoe-house and often helps the doctor, for she
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  Speaker 1: is a good nurse. The policeman is a fat little
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  Speaker 1: fellow whose duty it is to walk about and look
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  Speaker 1: after the teeny-weeny children. He settles disputes among the teeny-weenies
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  Speaker 1: and chases away bugs that get too near to the
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  Speaker 1: teeny-weeny houses. Grandpa is the very oldest Teenie Weenie. He
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  Speaker 1: is crippled up with rheumatism, and spends most of his
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  Speaker 1: time sitting in front of the Teenie Weenie fireplace. The
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  Speaker 1: Chinaman looks after the Teenie Weenie washing. He lives in
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  Speaker 1: an old teapot, which has been made into a fine laundry.
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  Speaker 1: The spout of the teapot makes a good chimney, for
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  Speaker 1: the Chinaman must have a fire most of the time,
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  Speaker 1: as he needs hot water to wash the clothes, and
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  Speaker 1: also a place to heat his tiny irons. Zip is
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  Speaker 1: the Teenie Weenie wild man. He came from a tribe
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  Speaker 1: of tiny wild men to live with the teeny-weenies. He
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  Speaker 1: rooms with the Chinamen, and helps with the washing. The
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  Speaker 1: cowboy is a great mouse-back rider. In fact, he can
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  Speaker 1: ride most anything. He once rode a bucking grasshopper, but
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  Speaker 1: he said it was pretty hard work. He can throw
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  Speaker 1: the lasso with wonderful skill, and he is a good hunter.
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  Speaker 1: The Indian is a silent little fellow. He spends much
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  Speaker 1: of his time in the woods. and he can follow
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  Speaker 1: the trail of a caterpillar in the wildest jungle of
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  Speaker 1: tall grass. The Scotchman is quite a musical teeny-weeny. He
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  Speaker 1: plays the bagpipes, and dances many fancy steps. The Sailor
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  Speaker 1: is a great swimmer, and knows all about boats. The
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  Speaker 1: Turk is very strong.
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  Speaker 3: He can lift a.
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  Speaker 1: Thimbleful of water above his head, and he can carry
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  Speaker 1: a lead pencil on his shoulder. He knows a great
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  Speaker 1: deal about machinery, too. Rufus Rime is the teeny-weeny poet,
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  Speaker 1: who writes verse and songs for the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: teeny-weenies to sing. Paddy Pin is the tallest teeny-weeny, and
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  Speaker 1: he is a very jolly and wise man. The Clown
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  Speaker 1: is a happy-go-lucky fellow, who can walk on his hands
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  Speaker 1: and tumble as well as an acrobat. He loves to
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  Speaker 1: play jokes, and the Dunce is his great chum. Tessie
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  Speaker 1: Bone is the newest teeny-weeny. She joined the teeny-weeny family
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  Speaker 1: not long ago, and all the little people are very
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  Speaker 1: fond of her, in spite of the fact that she
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  Speaker 1: is quite a tomboy. There are several teeny-weeny women and children,
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  Speaker 1: and all these little people live very contentedly in their
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  Speaker 1: tiny houses under the rosebush. All the teeny-weenies must do
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  Speaker 1: their share of the work. If you don't work, you
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  Speaker 1: can't eat, is their motto, and the work is usually done,
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  Speaker 1: for all the little folks have good appetites. Every day
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  Speaker 1: some teeny-weenie has to help the cook and go-go wash
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  Speaker 1: up the dishes, and the next day he has to
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  Speaker 1: help the lady of fashion make the beds and sweep
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  Speaker 1: up the house, while on another day he must help
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  Speaker 1: cut wood for the stoves and the fireplaces. With all
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  Speaker 1: the teeny-weenies helping, it does not take a great while
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  Speaker 1: to do the work, so the little people have most
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  Speaker 1: of the day to spend as they like. The teeny-weenies
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  Speaker 1: are always ready to help a friend in need, and
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  Speaker 1: many times they have helped the squirrels, the birds, the
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  Speaker 1: rabbits and the mice who live near the rosebush. Every
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  Speaker 1: summer the little people plant a garden and raise many
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  Speaker 1: vegetables which they store away in a great cellar under
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  Speaker 1: a tiny hill near the shoehouse. Each fall the cook
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  Speaker 1: makes delicious jelly and apple butter and puts up many
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  Speaker 1: cans of fruit and vegetables for use during the long winter.
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  Speaker 1: The little people smoke many fish and frog hams, too.
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  Speaker 1: Four potatoes will keep the teeny-weeny family supplied all winter,
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  Speaker 1: and when the cook wants some potatoes for a meal
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  Speaker 1: he goes into the cellar and cuts off a piece.
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  Speaker 1: He then covers the place on the potato where he
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  Speaker 1: has cut out the piece with hot paraffin, and in
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  Speaker 1: this manner he keeps the potato in good shape until
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  Speaker 1: it is used up. Apples, carrots, and beets are kept
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  Speaker 1: in the same way, so you see the teeny-weenies have
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  Speaker 1: plenty to eat during the winter. In the summer they
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  Speaker 1: live on fresh fruit and vegetables from their garden, while
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  Speaker 1: once a week they buy a fresh minnow from a
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  Speaker 1: friendly kingfisher for a fish dinner. Occasionally they buy an
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  Speaker 1: egg from an old hen, which keeps them supplied with
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  Speaker 1: food for a long time, but the teeny-weenies don't have
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  Speaker 1: eggs very often, for they are expensive, as the old
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  Speaker 1: hens demand twenty-five grains of corn for each egg. End
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  Speaker 1: of Chapter 1 Read by Kara Schallenberg www.kra.org on Friday,
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  Speaker 1: September 20, 2013, in San Diego, California. Adventures of the
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  Speaker 1: Teenie Weenies by William Donaghy chapter two the easter egg
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  Speaker 1: humpty dumpty sat on a hill humpty dumpty had a
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  Speaker 1: great spill all the teenies ladies and men can't put
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  Speaker 1: humpty dumpty together again Rufus Rhyme, Teenie Weenie Poet Well, madam,
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  Speaker 1: said the general, lifting his hat and bowing politely to
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  Speaker 1: the old hen who lived near the shoehouse, will it
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  Speaker 1: be possible for you to furnish the Teenie Weenies with
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  Speaker 1: an egg for their Easter dinner this year? Why, yes,
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  Speaker 1: of course, snapped the old hen.' Ain' t I always ready
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  Speaker 1: to lay an egg when I gets my pay?'' Dear me!'
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  Speaker 1: whispered the lady of fashion to the doctor, 'did you
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  Speaker 1: ever in all your life hear such bad grammar?'' How
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  Speaker 1: much will you charge us?' asked the general, as he
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  Speaker 1: sat down on a pebble.' Twenty- five grains of corn,' answered
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  Speaker 1: the hen, glaring about at the teeny-weenies.' Great guns!' exclaimed
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  Speaker 1: the general.' Why, that's five bags, and last year we
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  Speaker 1: paid you only three.' Things are awfully high now, and
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  Speaker 1: worms are scarce. Well, all right, you can have an
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  Speaker 1: egg for twenty grains of corn, and not one grain less,
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  Speaker 1: cried the old hen. That's pretty expensive, said the general.
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  Speaker 1: But it wouldn't seem like Easter if we didn't have
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  Speaker 1: a boiled egg, so I'll take it, and we'll bring
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  Speaker 1: over the corn in the morning and get the egg.
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  Speaker 1: The next morning the little folks filled four teeny-weeny bags
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  Speaker 1: with corn. Five grains were put into each bag, and
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  Speaker 1: it was about all a teeny-weenie could do to carry it.
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  Speaker 1: When the teeny-weenies arrived at the hen's house, they opened
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  Speaker 1: the bags and poured the corn out on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: so the old hen could count them, for she was
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  Speaker 1: a business-like old lady, and wanted to be sure that
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  Speaker 1: she was getting her full amount of corn.' I' m not
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  Speaker 1: afraid you'll cheat me,' she said,' but anyone is liable
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  Speaker 1: to make a mistake, and I always believe in being
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  Speaker 1: careful in a business deal.' That's right, that's right, said
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  Speaker 1: a big rooster with a huge double chin who strutted
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  Speaker 1: up to the hen house. You can't be too careful
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  Speaker 1: when it's a matter of business. How are you going
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  Speaker 1: to get the egg home? asked the old hen. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: we can roll it very nicely, answered the general. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I was just going to say that I couldn't deliver
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  Speaker 1: it at the low price of twenty grains of corn,
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  Speaker 1: cackled the hen. Give me ten grains more, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: walk over to the shoe house and lay it anywhere
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  Speaker 1: you say. It isn't far, and we can roll it easily,
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  Speaker 1: answered the general. Well, clear out and give me a
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  Speaker 1: little time, and I'll lay the egg for you, said
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  Speaker 1: the hen. You don't think I can lay an egg
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  Speaker 1: with all you folks standing around here staring, do you?
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  Speaker 1: The teeny-weenies retired to the other end of the chicken yard,
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  Speaker 1: where they sat down on several corn cobs to wait.
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  Speaker 1: Presently the old hen announced the laying of the egg
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  Speaker 1: with loud cackles, and the little folks started at once
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  Speaker 1: to roll the egg home. It was easy work rolling
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  Speaker 1: the egg over the level ground, but when the teeny-weenies
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  Speaker 1: came to a steep hill that lay in their path,
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  Speaker 1: they found that it would be necessary to use ropes
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  Speaker 1: in order to let it down safely. The little fellows
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  Speaker 1: rolled the egg up to the edge of the hill,
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  Speaker 1: while the Turk made the ropes ready to handle the
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  Speaker 1: heavy load. Suddenly a puff of wind struck the egg,
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  Speaker 1: and it rolled over the edge of the hill. The
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  Speaker 1: cook and Gogo tried to catch it, but they were
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  Speaker 1: too late, and the egg and the two teeny-weenies tumbled
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  Speaker 1: down the hill. the policeman, who was standing below, just
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  Speaker 1: had time to fall out of the way as the
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  Speaker 1: egg and the cook rolled past him and smashed up
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  Speaker 1: against an old birch. The cook was able to save
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  Speaker 1: a great deal of the broken egg, which he dipped
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  Speaker 1: up into many wash-tubs and thimbles. The teeny-weenies went to
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  Speaker 1: bed that night with heavy hearts, for they knew that
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  Speaker 1: it would be quite impossible to buy another egg at
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  Speaker 1: such high prices. Easter morning, Shoehurst was filled with the
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  Speaker 1: greatest excitement, for on the ground in front of the
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  Speaker 1: house lay a fine big egg. Most of the teeny-weenies
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  Speaker 1: thought the Easter rabbit had left the egg, but they
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  Speaker 1: were greatly mistaken, for the old hen, who was really
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  Speaker 1: a kind-hearted old lady in spite of her gruff manner,
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  Speaker 1: had heard of the broken egg, and, feeling sorry for
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  Speaker 1: the little people, had slipped over early in the morning
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  Speaker 1: and laid the egg herself. End of chapter 2 Read
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  Speaker 1: by Kara Schallenberg, www.kray.org, on Sunday, September 22, 2013, in
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  Speaker 1: San Diego, California. Chapter 3 of Adventures of the Teenie
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  Speaker 1: Weenies This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are
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  Speaker 1: please visit LibriVox.org. ADVENTURES OF THE TEENIE WEENIES by William
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  Speaker 1: Donaghy CHAPTER III THE RAIN CAME DOWN BY THE THIMBLEFALL
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  Speaker 1: When Zip, the little wild man, came to live with
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  Speaker 1: the Teenie Weenies, there wasn't a bit of room left
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  Speaker 1: in the old shoe-house, so the kind-hearted Chinaman took the
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  Speaker 1: little chap into his teapot laundry. There was plenty of
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  Speaker 1: room in the old teapot, so here the two little
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  Speaker 1: fellows lived in great comfort, and Zip paid for his
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  Speaker 1: board by helping the Chinaman launder the Teenie Weenie clothes.
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  Speaker 1: Zip and the Chinaman had eaten a great deal of
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  Speaker 1: the Easter egg, and being tired and sleepy, they had
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  Speaker 1: retired quite early. While the little chaps lay dreaming in
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  Speaker 1: their tiny beds, a great storm came up, and the
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  Speaker 1: big raindrops came down by the thimbleful. The little men
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  Speaker 1: were awakened by the roar of the raindrops splashing on
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  Speaker 1: the roof, but they merely turned over in their beds
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  Speaker 1: and went to sleep again, for why should they worry
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  Speaker 1: about the storm, when they were sheltered in a strong teapot?
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  Speaker 1: Presently the Chinaman was awakened by a queer bouncing of
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  Speaker 1: his bed, and to his great astonishment he found that
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  Speaker 1: he was floating about the room. The frightened Chinaman sat
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  Speaker 1: straight up, and as he did so he lost his
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  Speaker 1: balance and tumbled kersplash into the water. He quickly jumped
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  Speaker 1: to his feet and found that the water was just
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  Speaker 1: up to his waist. Next he groped about the room
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  Speaker 1: for some teeny-weeny matches, and in a few minutes he
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  Speaker 1: lit a tiny candle. A wonderful sight met the little
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  Speaker 1: fellow's eyes, for all about the room chairs, tables, and
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  Speaker 1: things floated in great confusion. Zip lay snoring on his bed,
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  Speaker 1: which floated about, and the Chinaman had to shake him
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  Speaker 1: hard before he could be awakened.' Zippy, Zippy, click, click!'
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  Speaker 1: shouted the Chinaman.' Wake up, click! Oh, suchy-muchy wet!' Poor
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  Speaker 1: Zip was scared half out of his wits when he
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  Speaker 1: looked about the room, and it didn't take the two
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  Speaker 1: teeny-weenies long to grab a few clothes and scramble up
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  Speaker 1: onto the roof. for the water was almost up to
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  Speaker 1: their necks and was rising fast. The rain had stopped,
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  Speaker 1: but it was pitch dark, so the little fellows could
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  Speaker 1: do nothing but put on their clothes and wait for daylight.
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  Speaker 1: The rest of the teeny-weeny houses were not injured by
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  Speaker 1: the heavy rain, for they stood on the high ground,
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  Speaker 1: and the water ran off down the hill into the
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  Speaker 1: little hollow in which the teapot stood. The laundry was
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  Speaker 1: entirely surrounded by water, which was fully fourteen teeny-weeny feet deep,
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  Speaker 1: and as neither of the little men dared swim among
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  Speaker 1: the floating sticks, they were forced to wait until help arrived.
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  Speaker 1: Shortly after daylight, the Chinaman and Zip were discovered sitting
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  Speaker 1: on top of the teapot, and in a short time
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  Speaker 1: the Teenie Weenies came to their rescue. They made a
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  Speaker 1: raft out of a couple of clothespins, an old lead pencil,
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  Speaker 1: and some boards. Gogo and the Turk pushed the raft
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  Speaker 1: through the floating rubbish about the teapot, and soon landed
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  Speaker 1: the Chinaman and Zip on dry land.' J- j- j- jiminy fish-hooks!' exclaimed
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  Speaker 1: the dunce, who was much excited over the rescue.' When
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  Speaker 1: I-I-I go to bed to-night, I'm going to take a
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  Speaker 1: c-c-cork with me for a life-preserver.'' Ollie say me savey irons!'
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  Speaker 1: cried the Chinaman, who had brought two of his flat-irons
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  Speaker 1: through the flood.' It' s a mighty good thing you held
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  Speaker 1: on to those irons,' laughed the Clown.' They might have
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  Speaker 1: floated away.' The ground around the laundry was a sight
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  Speaker 1: when the water finally settled, for the teeny-weeny woodpile was
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  Speaker 1: quite near, and pencils, matches, and many sticks' legs scattered
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  Speaker 1: all over the ground. The teeny-weenies carried eight thimblefuls of
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  Speaker 1: mud out of the teapot, and in a short time
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  Speaker 1: the little folks had the laundry as clean as a
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  Speaker 1: billiard ball, for every one of the little people helped
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  Speaker 1: with all his might. End of chapter 3 Read by
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  Speaker 1: Kara Schallenberg on Sunday, September 22, 2013, in San Diego, California.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter 4 of Adventures of the Teenie Weenies This is
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  Speaker 1: of the Teenie Weenies by William Donaghy CHAPTER IV. GOGO
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  Speaker 1: AND THE COOK RUN ACROSS AN.
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  Speaker 3: EARLY BIRD.
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  Speaker 1: A few days after the big flood, Gogo and the
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  Speaker 1: cook washed up the breakfast dishes, cleaned the kitchen, and
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: set out in search of a mushroom for lunch. There's
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  Speaker 1: some powerful big fat ones over in the big field,
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  Speaker 1: remarked Gogo. Why, there was one we all saw one
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  Speaker 1: day what was so big that four of us done
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  Speaker 1: stand under it while it was raining and never a
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  Speaker 1: single dropped untouch us. listen whispered the cook as the
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  Speaker 1: little fellows were making their way through some tall grass
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  Speaker 1: what in the name of goodness is that.
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  Speaker 3: Awful noise.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds powerful funny like answered gogo suppose we go through
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  Speaker 1: the weeds and see what it is the two teeny-weenies
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: pushed their way quietly through the thick weeds, and soon
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: they saw a sight which made them laugh. A young
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: robin stood at the side of a freshly spaded flower-bed,
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  Speaker 1: and in his beak he held one end of a
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  Speaker 1: big fat worm. The other end of the worm was
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  Speaker 1: fast in a piece of earth, and the robin, with
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  Speaker 1: his feet braced, was holding on to the worm with
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  Speaker 1: all his might. The robin was gurgling and trying to
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  Speaker 1: call for help through his half-closed beak, and the two
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  Speaker 1: teeny-weenies quickly saw he needed help if he wished to
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  Speaker 1: save the worm.' Hold on tight!' shouted the cook, running
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  Speaker 1: up to the bird,' and we'll get a pick and
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  Speaker 1: dig this old worm out for you.' The bird nodded
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  Speaker 1: his head, while the two little chaps hurried over to
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  Speaker 1: the shoe-house, where they secured a pick, and shouted to
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the teeny-weenies to follow. The Turk caught
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  Speaker 1: hold of the bird's tail and helped him hold on
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  Speaker 1: to the worm, while the dunce pushed on the robin's
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  Speaker 1: chest with all his strength. Gogo soon broke the piece
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  Speaker 1: of earth up with the pick, and with one gulp
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  Speaker 1: the robin swallowed the worm.
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  Speaker 3: Whee!
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  Speaker 1: Exclaimed the bird, as he moved his head around to
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  Speaker 1: ease the stiffened muscles. That was some hard job. I
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  Speaker 1: haven't worked as hard as that for my breakfast for
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  Speaker 1: a long time. I saw that worm and I grabbed
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  Speaker 1: on to him, but he was a strong old fellow,
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  Speaker 1: for he certainly did hang on to that piece of
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  Speaker 1: earth with a powerful grip. I hung right on to him,
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  Speaker 1: for I hadn't had a worm for several days, and
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  Speaker 1: I made up my mind I'd have him if I
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  Speaker 1: had to hold on all day. Well, you certainly got
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  Speaker 1: him all right, laughed the policeman. You bet I did,
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  Speaker 1: thanks to your help, grinned the bird. How would you
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  Speaker 1: all like to hear a verse, said the poet, who
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  Speaker 1: had been writing on a piece of tiny paper while
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  Speaker 1: the teeny-weenies had been helping the bird to get the worm?
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  Speaker 1: We'd like to hear it, shouted the teeny-weenies. This verse
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  Speaker 1: is entitled, Would You?, said the poet as he stepped
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  Speaker 1: onto a piece of earth in full view of the
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  Speaker 1: little people. I'd love to be a little bird and
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  Speaker 1: hop about the trees, and aeroplane above the land and
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  Speaker 1: fly across the seas. I wouldn't like to eat the
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  Speaker 1: things that little birdies do, for I don't care a
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  Speaker 1: bit for worms, now honestly, do you? End of chapter four,
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  Speaker 1: read by Kara Schallenberg, www.kray.org, on Sunday, September 22nd, 2013,
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  Speaker 1: in San Diego, California.
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  Speaker 4: Chapter five of Adventures of the Teenie Weenies. This is
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  Speaker 4: a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
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  Speaker 4: For more information or to volunteer, Please visit LibriVox.org. Recording
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  Speaker 4: by Lynn Thompson. Adventures of the Teenie Weenies by William Donaghy.
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  Speaker 4: Chapter 5. The Dunce Picks a Soft Place to Fall
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  Speaker 4: Every Sunday afternoon, when the weather was pleasant, the Teenie
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  Speaker 4: Weenies took a long walk. It's good for your health,
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  Speaker 4: the General told them, and besides, it's a good way
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  Speaker 4: to put in the Sabbath afternoon. One Sunday, when they
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  Speaker 4: were out on their walk, they stopped near a house
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  Speaker 4: to chat a bit with a couple of sparrows, and
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  Speaker 4: as the little party talked, the general happened to see
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  Speaker 4: the dunce crawl up a vine, onto a windowsill, and
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  Speaker 4: disappear through the open window.' Mr. Policeman,' said the general,'
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  Speaker 4: I wish you would follow that foolish dunce and see
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  Speaker 4: what he is up to.' The policeman quickly followed the
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  Speaker 4: dunce through the window. but presently he appeared on the
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  Speaker 4: sill and motioned to the general to come up. The
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  Speaker 4: general climbed the vine, followed by the rest of the teeny-weenies,
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  Speaker 4: and crossing over to the inside of the window-sill, he
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  Speaker 4: saw a most alarming thing. Right below him stood a table,
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  Speaker 4: and on the table stood the dunce, almost knee-deep in
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  Speaker 4: a piece of custard pie.' Well, sir,' cried the general sternly,
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  Speaker 4: while the rest of the teeny-weenies tried to keep from laughing.
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  Speaker 4: Haven't I told you not to meddle things when you
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  Speaker 4: go into people's houses? What do you mean by disobeying
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  Speaker 4: me this way? Just a minute, General, and I'll explain,
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  Speaker 4: shouted the dunce, waving his dripping hands at the General.
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  Speaker 4: It's all an accident, you see, and this is the
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  Speaker 4: way it all happened. While you were all down there,
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  Speaker 4: talking to those sparrows, I happened to see this window
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  Speaker 4: was open. and I thought I'd climb down here on
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  Speaker 4: the table, and just then something told me I was
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  Speaker 4: about to have a fall, and as long as I
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  Speaker 4: had to have a fall, I thought I might just
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  Speaker 4: as well fall into the pie. You see, it being
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  Speaker 4: a custard pie, I knew that it was soft, and
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  Speaker 4: of course I wanted to fall onto something soft. Why,
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  Speaker 4: it almost scares me to death when I stop to
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  Speaker 4: think that if that pie had been an apple pie
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  Speaker 4: with a hard crust on it, I might have broken
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  Speaker 4: an arm or something. Well, when I found I was
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  Speaker 4: going to fall, I stepped up onto the edge of
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  Speaker 4: the windowsill, just above the pie, for I wanted to
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  Speaker 4: fall into something soft. When I landed in the pie,
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  Speaker 4: I made up my mind that it wouldn't hurt anything
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  Speaker 4: if I took a bite. So I took a lick
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  Speaker 4: or two. Well, sir, said the general, I have a
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  Speaker 4: feeling that I am going to fall, and I believe
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  Speaker 4: that as long as I've got to fall, it might
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  Speaker 4: as well be on you. What do you mean, general?
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  Speaker 4: asked the frightened dunce. I mean, sir, growled the general,
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  Speaker 4: that I saw a toothpick outside on the ground, and
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to get it and give you a much-deserved whipping.
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  Speaker 4: The dunce slowly crawled out of the pie, climbed to
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  Speaker 4: the windowsill, and followed the general down the vine to
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  Speaker 4: the ground. The general picked up half a toothpick, which
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  Speaker 4: lay on the ground, and taking the naughty fellow by
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  Speaker 4: the arm, he led him back to an old tin bucket. Now, sir,
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  Speaker 4: said the general sadly, this is going to hurt me
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  Speaker 4: more than it hurts you. I'll trade places with you, general,
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  Speaker 4: stuttered the dunce. The general was a most kind-hearted little man,
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  Speaker 4: and he seldom used the switch, but the dunce had
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  Speaker 4: been warned many times to keep from meddling, and he
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  Speaker 4: had to be punished. He struck the dunce several times
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  Speaker 4: very lightly across his teeny-weeny legs, and the little chap
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  Speaker 4: yelled as though he was being killed. It didn't hurt
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  Speaker 4: the dunce a bit, and he simply yelled because he
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  Speaker 4: was frightened, but it did him a great deal of good,
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  Speaker 4: for he behaved himself for a long time. which goes
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  Speaker 4: to show that even a teeny-weenie needs a teeny-weenie bit
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  Speaker 4: of punishment once in a while. Recording by Lynn Thompson
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  Speaker 4: Adventures of the Teenie Weenies by William Donaghey Chapter 6 Help! Policemans!
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  Speaker 4: Thunder and snails! exclaimed Paddy Pin, shortly after the little
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  Speaker 4: folks had helped the robbing get his breakfast, as he
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  Speaker 4: picked up one of the tiny garden hoes the Teenie
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  Speaker 4: Weenies use. I'd bust this hoe with one dig, that's
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  Speaker 4: what I'd do, and the big fellow burst out in
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  Speaker 4: a good laugh. Well, that's the best we've got to
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  Speaker 4: offer you, said the old soldier. I'll make one for
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  Speaker 4: myself before a grasshopper can shake his left hind foot.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I'll do, cried Paddy, and he ran off
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  Speaker 4: towards the rosebush under which the teeny weenies lived. In
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  Speaker 4: a few minutes he returned with a big thorn, which
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  Speaker 4: he had cut from a dead briar, and using a
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  Speaker 4: match for a handle, he made a fine hoe by
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  Speaker 4: tying the thorn to the match.
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  Speaker 5: There!
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  Speaker 4: He exclaimed, holding it up. That's what I call a
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  Speaker 4: man-sized hoe. That's what I do. The little people set
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  Speaker 4: out for the garden, as the general had ordered them
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  Speaker 4: to hoe the lima beans. A number of seeds had
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  Speaker 4: been planted, for the teeny weenies were fond of lima beans,
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  Speaker 4: and they usually had to store away about 250 beans
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  Speaker 4: to last them through the winter. It will take quite
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  Speaker 4: a few more beans this winter, said the general, for
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  Speaker 4: our family is larger now. Why, the dunce can eat
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  Speaker 4: twenty himself, laughed the cook. You bet I could, cried
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  Speaker 4: the dunce, who was always hungry. I could eat a
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  Speaker 4: whole lemur bean right this minute. Why, you couldn't eat
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  Speaker 4: half a bean at once, said the old soldier. Well,
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  Speaker 4: I bet a grapeseed I could eat a third of
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  Speaker 4: a bean anyhow, answered the dunce. The teeny-weeny garden was
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  Speaker 4: hidden away, where grown-up people would not be likely to
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  Speaker 4: tramp on the plants. and as the little folks trudged
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  Speaker 4: along gogo struck up the following song while all the
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  Speaker 4: rest joined in the chorus beans they take the place
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  Speaker 4: of meat and so if we all wish to eat
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  Speaker 4: we must take our rake and hoe and scratch the
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  Speaker 4: earth and make em grow hoe, hoe, rake and hoe,
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  Speaker 4: digging up and down the row, hoe, hoe, rake and hoe,
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  Speaker 4: if you want to see them grow. The teeny weenies
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  Speaker 4: soon arrived at the garden, and they set to work
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  Speaker 4: at once, still singing the little song. and keeping time
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  Speaker 4: with the music as their tiny hose struck the ground
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  Speaker 4: the lady of fashion helped with the work but she
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  Speaker 4: was very careful not to soil her new garden suit
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  Speaker 4: especially her tiny boots which were made out of the
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  Speaker 4: finest frog leather listen said the old soldier i thought
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  Speaker 4: i heard but he did not finish the sentence for
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  Speaker 4: loud screams came from the tall grass back of the
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  Speaker 4: garden helpie helpie policemans policemans came a voice, and suddenly
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  Speaker 4: the frightened Chinaman burst into sight with the most alarming speed.
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  Speaker 4: Hanging on to his shirt-tail was a big, fat, pinching bug,
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  Speaker 4: and the scared Chinaman was only touching the ground about
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  Speaker 4: every six inches. Paddy Pin struck the bug on the
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  Speaker 4: head with his huge hoe as the Chinaman went by,
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  Speaker 4: and it rolled over on the ground, half stunned by
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  Speaker 4: the mighty blow. Where did you pick up your friend?
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: asked the General as he watched the bug scurry away
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  Speaker 4: through the tall grass. Me no picky him up, gasped
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  Speaker 4: the Chinaman. All the same he pick me up. Me
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  Speaker 4: sit down under bush to rest and me go to sleepy.
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  Speaker 4: Me wakey up much quicker and willikers me see a
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  Speaker 4: big plinch bug and me run. But he catch him
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  Speaker 4: to shirtytail and me runny like glasshopper.' I should say
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  Speaker 4: you did run like a grasshopper,' laughed the cowboy.' All
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  Speaker 4: the same you run like a grasshopper, too,' glared the Chinaman,'
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  Speaker 4: if bleak pinching-blug was hanging on your shirty tail.' End
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  Speaker 4: of Chapter 6 Chapter 7 of Adventures of the Teenie
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  Speaker 4: Weenies This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are
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  Speaker 4: in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
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  Speaker 4: please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Lynne Thompson. Adventures of the
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  Speaker 4: Teenie Weenies by William Donaghy. Chapter 7 Fuzzy Wuzzy The
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  Speaker 4: dunce teased the Chinaman a great deal after his experience
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  Speaker 4: with the pinching bug, but the little fellow took it
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  Speaker 4: in good humour.' All he say me have he chance
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  Speaker 4: to laugh at you sometime, maybe,' said the Chinaman. Me
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  Speaker 4: no get mad, but me likey chance to laugh at you.
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  Speaker 4: All right, chink, laughed the dunce. If I ever get
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  Speaker 4: a pinching bug on my shirt-tail, you can laugh yourself sore. Well,
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  Speaker 4: me waity, maybe time come when me only same laughy,
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  Speaker 4: said the Chinaman. The Chinaman's chance came sooner than he expected.
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  Speaker 4: Every Sunday afternoon the teeny-weenies took a long walk, for
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  Speaker 4: it was helpful to walk in the fresh air. and
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  Speaker 4: besides it made them hungry for the fine dinner which
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  Speaker 4: the cook always prepared. One Sunday during their walk the
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  Speaker 4: little people stopped to pay a short call on an
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  Speaker 4: old hen and her chickens, who lived some little distance
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  Speaker 4: from the shoe-house. After chatting with the hen and her
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  Speaker 4: children for some time, the little people continued their walk
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  Speaker 4: through the big open field, where they finally sat down
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  Speaker 4: to rest on a soft mossy bank.' Where' s the dunce?'
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  Speaker 4: asked the general as he sat down beside the lady
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  Speaker 4: in fashion.' I haven't seen him since we left the
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  Speaker 4: old hen,' answered the little lady.' He' s back there teasing
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  Speaker 4: those chickens,' announced Go-Go.' I told him he'd better look out,
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  Speaker 4: for the first thing he knew he'd get a powerful
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  Speaker 4: good pecking, for one of those fuzzy chickens looked mighty mad.
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  Speaker 4: That's what she did.'' It would just serve him right,'
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  Speaker 4: laughed the general. and maybe it would teach him a lesson. Help!
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  Speaker 5: Help!
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  Speaker 4: Came a voice from over a bank of earth, and
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: suddenly the dunce dashed into view, followed by a very
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  Speaker 4: angry young chicken. The frightened dunce was covering the ground
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  Speaker 4: in great leaps, and just as he ran into the
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  Speaker 4: midst of the startled teeny-weenies, the chicken overtook him. There,
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  Speaker 4: you young rascal! shouted the chicken, giving the dunce a
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  Speaker 4: peck with her beak. which sent the little chap sprawling
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  Speaker 4: in the dirt. What's the trouble? asked the general, jumping
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  Speaker 4: to his feet. He was calling me fuzzy-wuzzy and throwing
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  Speaker 4: things at me. That's what he was, said the chicken,
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  Speaker 4: and I stood it just as long as I could,
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  Speaker 4: and I chased him. That's what I did, and I'll
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  Speaker 4: do it again, too, if he ever teases me again.
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  Speaker 4: You did exactly the right thing, said the general, and
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  Speaker 4: I hope this will be a lesson to him. I
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: suppose I shouldn't have lost my temper, but I couldn't
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  Speaker 4: stand it another minute, said the chicken as she trotted
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  Speaker 4: away in the direction of her home. Jiminy Christmas, exclaimed
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: the dunce, but that fool chicken gave me an awful wallop.
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  Speaker 4: That night there was a big black and blue spot
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  Speaker 4: on the dunce's back, and the doctor had to rub
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: it with salve, but it really did the foolish fellow
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  Speaker 4: a lot of good. for he has done no teasing since.
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  Speaker 6: CHAPTER VIII. THE CHINAMAN ASKS FOR A CISTERN Well, Chink,
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: what can I do for you this morning? asked the
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  Speaker 6: General as the Chinaman took off his hat and stepped
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  Speaker 6: into the teeny-weeny library. Olly same, me gotty flavor me
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  Speaker 6: want to ask, said the little fellow. Sit down, sir,
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  Speaker 6: and tell me what it is, smiled the General, pushing
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  Speaker 6: a tiny chair towards the Chinaman. Well, said the Chinaman,
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  Speaker 6: me got a lot of washy all the time, and
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  Speaker 6: me use a lot of water. Yes, I imagine you
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  Speaker 6: use a lot of water. Oh yes, exclaimed the Chinaman.
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  Speaker 6: Me use muchy much. Sometimes me use ten, twenty, twenty-three
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  Speaker 6: thimblefuls when me have big wash. Me likey water from roof,
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: it muchy much better to washy clothes in, but... When
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  Speaker 6: the rain he no come down, me have to carry
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  Speaker 6: water from cleek in that long way to carry wash water. Yes,
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  Speaker 6: it is, agreed the general, and we will have to
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  Speaker 6: build a cistern so you can have all the water
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  Speaker 6: you need without having to carry it so far. Yes,
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  Speaker 6: me wanty cistern, me need cistern, and me likey very
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  Speaker 6: much to have cistern. Yes, you shall have a cistern.
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  Speaker 6: I'll give orders for one to be built right away,
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  Speaker 6: said the general. The general went out in search of
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  Speaker 6: the old soldier, who was cutting up some matches for firewood,
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  Speaker 6: and the two teeny weenies discussed the matter of a
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: cistern for some time. We ought to have a good
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  Speaker 6: big cistern, said the old soldier, and I believe we
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  Speaker 6: could make a good one by sinking a tin can
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  Speaker 6: in the ground. after a great deal of talk about
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: the matter the little men decided to build the cistern
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  Speaker 6: as near the center of the little village as possible
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  Speaker 6: you see said the old soldier if we build it
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: at some central point we won't have to lay so
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  Speaker 6: many pipes and we will be able to catch all
• 37:38
  Speaker 6: the water from most of the roofs the next morning
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: the little people went to work and while several of
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: the teenie weenies dug a deep hole near the shoe
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: house the rest went out in search of a tin
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: can to fill the hole On an ash heap not
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: far away they found an old tin can, and after
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: a great deal of labor the little folks rolled it
• 37:59
  Speaker 6: up to the hole. When the hole had been dug
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: deep enough, the teeny weenies rolled it in, and then
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: filled the earthen around the edges, so that when the
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: work was done only the top could be seen. The
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: teeny weenies used dried hollow reeds for water pipes, and
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  Speaker 6: when they had been painted throughly with a waterproof paint,
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: which the soldier boiled up in a thimble, They carried
• 38:22
  Speaker 6: the water nicely. The pipes were connected with the spouting
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: from the tiny roofs and laid in trenches to the cistern.
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: The top of the can was cut off and a
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: tight-fitting cover was put on. A little door was left
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: in the top of the cover so a bucket could
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: be lowered and water drawn up when it was needed.
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  Speaker 6: A bucket made out of a hazelnut was used for
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  Speaker 6: the purpose and it took three buckets full to fill
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  Speaker 6: a thimble. Now all we need is a rain, cried
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  Speaker 6: the Chinaman, when the work was finished, and me hope
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  Speaker 6: it rainy like everything's tonight. Well, you may have your wish, Chink,
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  Speaker 6: said the soldier, looking up at the sky. It sort
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  Speaker 6: of looks like we may have a shower tonight. The
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  Speaker 6: soldier was right. It did rain that night, and it
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  Speaker 6: rained hard. The Chinaman was up at daylight to see
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  Speaker 6: whether the cistern had been filled, and to the great
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  Speaker 6: joy of the little chap, he found it full to
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  Speaker 6: the very top. End of chapter 8 Chapter 9 of Adventures.
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  Speaker 2: Of the Teenie Weenies.
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  Speaker 5: Adventures of the Teenie Weenies by William Donaghey Chapter 9
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  Speaker 5: The Doctor Saves a Bird Doctor, shouted the dunce one
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  Speaker 5: morning as he popped his head into the library. There's
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  Speaker 5: a bird outside who wants to see you. All right,
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  Speaker 5: answered the doctor. Tell him I'll be out in a minute.
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  Speaker 5: I think he's a her, said the dunce, but anyhow,
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  Speaker 5: she's awfully excited, and I think something terrible must have happened.
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  Speaker 5: The doctor stepped out onto the teeny-weeny front porch, and
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  Speaker 5: before the house he saw a bird in the act
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  Speaker 5: of shaking a tear off the end of her bell. Well, madam,
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  Speaker 5: said the doctor, what can I do for you? oh
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  Speaker 5: doctor cried the bird please save my baby i have
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  Speaker 5: lost two babies in the last month and please oh
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  Speaker 5: please save my last baby for me be calm my
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  Speaker 5: dear lady said the doctor and tell me all about
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  Speaker 5: the case well began the mother i had three lovely
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  Speaker 5: babies this spring and about six weeks ago two of
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  Speaker 5: them were taken suddenly ill i did everything i could
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  Speaker 5: for them but they both died and only last night
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  Speaker 5: my last baby was taken sick a squirrel who lives
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  Speaker 5: in a tree near my nest told me about you
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  Speaker 5: and i decided to come to you for help i'll
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  Speaker 5: get my medicine case and join you in a minute
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  Speaker 5: said the doctor and running into the tiny house he
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  Speaker 5: soon returned jump right on to my back said the
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  Speaker 5: bird and i'll take you to my baby in a
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  Speaker 5: jiffy the doctor climbed on to the bird's back and
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  Speaker 5: in another minute he found himself sailing over the tops
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  Speaker 5: of the trees so fast he could scarcely breathe in
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  Speaker 5: a few minutes the bird landed on a bush and
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  Speaker 5: quickly hopped to a pretty nest hidden beneath the green
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  Speaker 5: leaves The doctor slid off into the nest, where he
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  Speaker 5: found a young and very sick bird.' Let' s see your tongue,'
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  Speaker 5: said the doctor. But the poor bird was so sick
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  Speaker 5: he could hardly open his mouth, and the doctor was
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  Speaker 5: forced to take hold of his beak and help. Next
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  Speaker 5: the doctor examined the bird's eyes and felt his pulse.'
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  Speaker 5: What has the patient been eating lately?' asked the doctor.
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  Speaker 5: I have given him only the nicest and fattest bugs
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  Speaker 5: and worms I could find, answered the mother. Madam, said
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  Speaker 5: the doctor, your baby is a very sick boy, but
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  Speaker 5: I think I can save his life if you will
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  Speaker 5: follow my advice. I'll do anything to save my boy,
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  Speaker 5: cried the poor mother. First, said the doctor, the patient
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  Speaker 5: must not have much to eat. He will have to
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  Speaker 5: have a special diet which the teeny-weeny cook will prepare
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  Speaker 5: for him. The patient must be kept dry at all costs,
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  Speaker 5: continued the doctor. Oh, I never leave the nest when
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  Speaker 5: it's raining, cried the mother bird, and I keep him
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  Speaker 5: just as dry as can be. Oh, you keep the
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  Speaker 5: rain off your child, no doubt, said the doctor, but
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  Speaker 5: the nest gets wet and it must be kept dry too.
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  Speaker 5: The bird carried the doctor back to the shoe house,
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  Speaker 5: where he soon made arrangements for taking care of the
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  Speaker 5: sick child. The teeny weenies carried boards over to the
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  Speaker 5: tree and pulled them up to the nest with ropes
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  Speaker 5: and pulleys. They built a strong framework over the nest
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  Speaker 5: and roofed it with cardboard, which was given several coats
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  Speaker 5: of waterproof paint. This will keep the nest dry, said
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  Speaker 5: the doctor when the work had been done, and that
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  Speaker 5: is a most important matter. The cook made angle-worm broth
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  Speaker 5: for the sick bird, and he cooked corn and rice
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  Speaker 5: in such a delicious way that the poor patient soon
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  Speaker 5: began to improve. At the end of a week, the
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  Speaker 5: bird was much better, and three weeks later he was
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  Speaker 5: entirely cured.
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  Speaker 4: Weenies by William Donaghy. Chapter 10. Friday the 13th. Do
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: you all know what day this is? asked Go-Go as
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: he stopped at the laundry door and looked mournfully in
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  Speaker 4: at the Chinaman. who was singing loudly as he rubbed
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  Speaker 4: a tiny shirt up and down his washboard.' Why, I'll
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  Speaker 4: say me Friday,' answered the Chinaman.' Yes, sir,' said the
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  Speaker 4: little-coloured teeny-weeny sadly.' It' s more than just Friday. It's Friday
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  Speaker 4: the 13th.'' I' ll say me what difference?' asked the Chinaman.'
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  Speaker 4: When Friday comes on the 13th of the month, it's
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  Speaker 4: mighty unlucky,' answered Gogo. with a most serious expression on
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  Speaker 4: his black little face.' You all better look out,' cause
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  Speaker 4: something always happens' that is powerful unlucky on a day
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  Speaker 4: like this.'' Nothing happen unlucky to me,' cried the Chinaman.'
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: Me velly happy.' Me gutty glisten, full of water,' and
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: me gutty lotty wash to do.' So me too busy
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  Speaker 4: to be unlucky.'' And the little chap began washing all
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  Speaker 4: the harder.' Well, just you remember that I all told
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  Speaker 4: you it was unlucky. I just wanted to warn you all,
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  Speaker 4: that's all. And Go-Go mournfully made his way to the
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  Speaker 4: lover's bungalow, where he left much advice to Mr. and Mrs. Lover.
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  Speaker 4: Go-Go spent most of the morning explaining that it was
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  Speaker 4: Friday the 13th, and he warned each and every teeny-weeny
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  Speaker 4: that it was a most unlucky day. Well, go, go,
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  Speaker 4: said the General, when the little people sat down to
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  Speaker 4: their noonday meal. Has anything unlucky happened yet? No, sir,
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  Speaker 4: not yet, answered the little fellow, but there's plenty of
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: time yet for something to happen. Just you wait and see. General,
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  Speaker 4: said the cook, popping his head through the kitchen door,
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: there isn't a bit of sugar in the house. Every
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: last speck has been used, and we haven't a grain.
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  Speaker 4: Great pinhead! exclaimed the General.
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  Speaker 2: That's terrible.
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  Speaker 4: We can't get along without sugar. Didn't I all tell
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  Speaker 4: you that this was an unlucky day? cried Gogo, looking
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  Speaker 4: around at his friends. Well, it certainly is unlucky if
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  Speaker 4: we haven't any sugar in the house, cried the dunce,
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  Speaker 4: who had a large sweet tooth. After dinner I'll see
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  Speaker 4: what we can do, cook, said the general. We certainly
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  Speaker 4: must have some sugar. The teeny weenies made their own
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  Speaker 4: sugar from the sap of the maple tree. or from
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: the blossoms of sweet clover, but the frost had stopped
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: the flow of the maple sap, and the little folks
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  Speaker 4: had only been able to make a small amount of sugar.
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  Speaker 4: It will be quite a spell before we can make
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  Speaker 4: sugar out of the sweet clover blossoms, said the old soldier,
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  Speaker 4: and we will have to get sugar some other way.
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  Speaker 4: That afternoon the general ordered the teeny weenies to go
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  Speaker 4: out in search of sugar, but mind, warned the general,
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  Speaker 4: I don't want anyone to take sugar from the big
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  Speaker 4: houses unless you see that it is going to waste.
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  Speaker 4: All afternoon the little people searched about the big house,
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  Speaker 4: but not one bit of sugar could they find, and
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  Speaker 4: as it was growing dark it began to look as
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  Speaker 4: though the teeny-weeny sugar bowl would be empty that night.
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  Speaker 2: At supper.
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  Speaker 4: That's all on account of Friday the 13th, moaned Gogo.
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  Speaker 4: This is certainly a most unlucky day. General... general gasped
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  Speaker 4: the dunce as he dashed into the teenie weenie sitting-room
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  Speaker 4: jimminy fish hooks i found a great lot of sugar
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  Speaker 4: where asked the excited teenie weenies well said the dunce
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  Speaker 4: i was hurrying along the walk over by the big
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  Speaker 4: fence and i saw a little boy stub his toe
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  Speaker 4: and fall down when he got up and went away
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  Speaker 4: i went over where he had fallen and I found
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  Speaker 4: a bag of sugar. He dropped it when he fell,
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  Speaker 4: and it was spilled over the sidewalk. Didn't he try
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  Speaker 4: and pick it up? asked the doctor. No, answered the dunce.
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  Speaker 4: He just got up and went on his way. Well,
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  Speaker 4: we certainly can't let that sugar lie there and spoil,
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  Speaker 4: smiled the general, and he ordered the teeny-weenies to rescue
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  Speaker 4: as much of the sugar as possible. Taking shovels and thimbles,
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: the little folks hurried to the bag of sugar, where
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: they set to work, carrying it to their storehouse. they
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  Speaker 4: worked until it was quite dark and when the last
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  Speaker 4: bit of sugar which could be saved had been carried
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  Speaker 4: to the storeroom it filled an old teacup it took
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  Speaker 4: 84 thimblefuls to fill the cup and the cook announced
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  Speaker 4: that it would be quite enough to last the little
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  Speaker 4: family through the canning season Well, go, go, said the
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  Speaker 4: old soldier, as the little people sat around the tiny
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  Speaker 4: fireplace after dinner. Considering that cup full of sugar we
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  Speaker 4: found today, Friday the 13th hasn't proved so very unlucky. No, taint,
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  Speaker 4: answered the little fellow sadly, but it's been mighty unlucky
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  Speaker 4: for that little boy that stubbed his toe just the same.
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  Speaker 4: End of chapter 10 CHAPTER XI. AN INVITATION' Say, cook,'
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  Speaker 4: said the dunce, peering into the teeny-weeny kitchen, Can't we
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  Speaker 4: make some taffy? You have a lot of sugar now,
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: and I thought maybe you could spare some. Oh, I
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  Speaker 4: suppose so, answered the cook. But just remember this. I
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  Speaker 4: don't want you to get things messed up, and you've
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  Speaker 4: got to clean the kitchen up when you're through. Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 4: we will, cried the dunce, and he hurried out to
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  Speaker 4: tell the good news to the clown. But as he
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  Speaker 4: ran out of the door, All thoughts of Taffy popped
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  Speaker 4: from his tiny head, for he saw a most unusual sight.
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  Speaker 4: Up the walk came six teeny-weenies, staggering under the weight
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  Speaker 4: of a big letter, and it was addressed to the teeny-weenies.
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  Speaker 4: The little men dropped the letter on the ground before
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  Speaker 4: the shoe-house, and quickly cut the envelope open with one
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  Speaker 4: of their tiny axes. A piece of paper was folded
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: inside the envelope, and the little people soon pulled it
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  Speaker 4: out and spread it on the ground.' Read it, General,
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  Speaker 4: read it!' shouted the excited Teenie Weenies.' All right,' cried
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  Speaker 4: the General.' Keep quiet, and I'll read it aloud.' The
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  Speaker 4: little folks had been chattering like a lot of magpies,
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  Speaker 4: but they instantly held their tiny tongues and gathered closely
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: about the edge of the letter.' Dear Teenie Weenies,' began
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  Speaker 4: the General, I thought I would write to you and
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  Speaker 4: ask you if you would come and live in my dollhouse.
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  Speaker 4: I have a nice dollhouse and it would make a
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  Speaker 4: very nice place for you to live in. I will
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  Speaker 4: cook good things for you to eat. You can play
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  Speaker 4: with my toys and I have a little toy horse
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: that the dunce can ride on. You can have a
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: pan of water to swim in. I will make beautiful
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: clothes for the lady of fashion. I will make cookies
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  Speaker 4: for you and I will make candy too. Please come.
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  Speaker 4: I would like to have you come. Yours truly, your friend,
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  Speaker 4: Helen Myers. Jiminy fishhooks! shouted the dunce. Let's go. I
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: can pack my suitcase in two shakes of a grasshopper's
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  Speaker 4: hind leg. Why, goodness sakes! exclaimed the lady of fashion,
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  Speaker 4: who had been looking at the little girl's address at
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: the bottom of the letter. This little girl lives quite near,
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  Speaker 4: and we could go over to her house and see
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  Speaker 4: her dollhouse. let's do it shouted the little people so
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: earnestly that the general gave his consent and they set
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  Speaker 4: off immediately after a long walk the teenie weenies finally
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: arrived at the little girl's home and finding the coast
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  Speaker 4: clear they soon made their way into the house in
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  Speaker 4: the corner of a room the little folks found the
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  Speaker 4: doll-house which they examined from top to bottom Well, it's
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: a nice enough house to look at, remarked the cook,
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: as he stepped out onto the front porch. But there
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: isn't any running water or a sink in the kitchen.
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: And there isn't a bathroom, cried the lady of fashion.
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: I simply couldn't live in a house that had no bath.
• 53:46
  Speaker 4: That just suits me, said the dunce who hated baths.
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  Speaker 4: It's built out of paper, said the old soldier. I'd
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: never live in a house that was built out of paper.
• 53:58
  Speaker 4: There's too much danger of fire, and besides, no insurance
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  Speaker 4: company would ever insure a paper house. And the old
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: soldier sat down on the little porch. Well, said the general,
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  Speaker 4: sitting down beside the old soldier, I don't think we
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  Speaker 4: want to give up the old shoe-house. Even if it
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  Speaker 4: is old, it's a pretty comfortable place after all, and
• 54:21
  Speaker 4: all the little folks quite agreed with him. The teeny-weenies
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  Speaker 4: were much interested in the little girl's doll, which sat
• 54:28
  Speaker 4: near the dollhouse, and they examined it very carefully. Of
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: course the dunce had to climb all over the doll,
• 54:35
  Speaker 4: although the policeman had warned him to keep off. Finally
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: he got his feet tangled in the doll's hair and
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: fell off its head right on top of the policeman,
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: who was so angry that he marched the dunce home
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  Speaker 4: and sent him to bed with nothing to eat but
• 54:52
  Speaker 4: water and bread. The little girl never knew that the
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: Teenie Weenies had paid her a visit, but had she
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  Speaker 4: examined the front porch of her doll's house, she might
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  Speaker 4: have seen tiny footprints in the dust. The next morning
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: the Teenie Weenies answered the little girl's letter, and here
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  Speaker 4: it is, just as the little people set it down.
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  Speaker 4: Dear Helen, We want to thank you for your kind invitation,
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  Speaker 4: but we think it would be much better for us
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  Speaker 4: to live in the old shoe house. Shoehurst is quite comfortable,
• 55:26
  Speaker 4: and it is so pretty under the old rosebush, we
• 55:30
  Speaker 4: should hate to give it up. The big briars, with
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: their sharp thorns, guard us like a sentinel, and keep
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: big feet from treading on our home, and in the
• 55:39
  Speaker 4: summer the cool leaves shield us from the hot sun.
• 55:43
  Speaker 4: It is beautiful in June, when the scent of roses
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: is in the air, to lie on the cool moss
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: and listen to the humming of the bees. Your kind
• 55:52
  Speaker 4: invitation has given us a great deal of pleasure, for
• 55:55
  Speaker 4: it's mighty nice to know that people want us to
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  Speaker 4: come and live with them, even if we can't do it.
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  Speaker 4: We can't leave Shoehurst, for, although it's nothing but an
• 56:04
  Speaker 4: old shoe, it's home. Again, thanking you for your generous invitation,
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  Speaker 4: we are sincerely yours, the Teenie Weenies. CHAPTER XII THE
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: MOUSEBACK RACE Although the teeny-weenies refused to live with big people,
• 56:54
  Speaker 4: they never tired of going into the big houses, for
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: there were many wonderful things to see in them. It
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: was mighty nice of that little girl to ask us
• 57:04
  Speaker 4: to come and live in her doll's house, said the
• 57:07
  Speaker 4: old soldier, but if we lived all the time in
• 57:09
  Speaker 4: a big house, we'd get so used to them, we
• 57:12
  Speaker 4: wouldn't care to visit them, and that would spoil a
• 57:15
  Speaker 4: lot of our fun. for it really is a great
• 57:18
  Speaker 4: pleasure to wander among the things that big people use.
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  Speaker 4: One afternoon several of the little folk were taking a
• 57:26
  Speaker 4: walk when they stopped before a big house. Let's go
• 57:30
  Speaker 4: in and look around, said the dunce, who had fond
• 57:32
  Speaker 4: hopes of finding something good to eat. Early same house
• 57:36
  Speaker 4: where Blilly Mouse lives, cried the Chinaman. That's so, said
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: the General. Let's go in and make a call on Billy. Yes,
• 57:45
  Speaker 4: let's do it. cried the rest of the teeny-weenies, and
• 57:49
  Speaker 4: they quickly made their way into the cellar where Billy
• 57:52
  Speaker 4: Mouse lived. The entrance to the home of Mr. Mouse
• 57:56
  Speaker 4: was through a crack between two bricks. The general knocked
• 58:00
  Speaker 4: loudly several times, and, receiving no answer, he told the
• 58:03
  Speaker 4: rest to wait for him, and stepped boldly in. He
• 58:07
  Speaker 4: found no one at home, and so, leaving his card,
• 58:11
  Speaker 4: returned to the waiting teeny-weenies. I'm awfully sorry Mr. Mouse
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: is out, said the lady of fashion, as the little
• 58:19
  Speaker 4: people moved away. I haven't seen him for a long time.
• 58:23
  Speaker 4: Here he comes now, cried the cook, pointing toward a
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: pile of lumber at the other end of the cellar,
• 58:29
  Speaker 4: and there's another mouse with him. Billy Mouse saw the
• 58:34
  Speaker 4: teeny weenies and came bounding joyfully up to them. My,
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: it does my eyes good to see you again, he cried.
• 58:42
  Speaker 4: It's a long time since I have seen you. Motioning
• 58:46
  Speaker 4: the other mouse to come up. He introduced him to
• 58:49
  Speaker 4: all the teeny weenies I'm delighted to meet you the
• 58:53
  Speaker 4: new mouse said making a deep bow Well, how have
• 58:57
  Speaker 4: you been asked the general sitting down on the edge
• 59:00
  Speaker 4: of an old scrubbing brush? Oh I'm in pretty good
• 59:03
  Speaker 4: shape now answered Billy Mouse, but I have had a
• 59:07
  Speaker 4: very bad time of it for the last three weeks
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: I had a bad case of ptomaine poisoning.'' Ptomaine poisoning!'
• 59:16
  Speaker 4: exclaimed the General.' That' s rather serious.'' Yes, I was pretty
• 59:21
  Speaker 4: sick for a time,' said the Mouse.' Got hold of
• 59:24
  Speaker 4: some cheese that was tainted.' You ought to be careful
• 59:28
  Speaker 4: of what you eat, cried the lady of fashion. People
• 59:31
  Speaker 4: are always putting out food which has been poisoned. I
• 59:35
  Speaker 4: know it, said Billy Mouse, especially cheese. I'm always suspicious
• 59:39
  Speaker 4: of cheese, but this piece, which made me sick, looked
• 59:42
  Speaker 4: perfectly good. I smelled it and carefully tasted it before
• 59:47
  Speaker 4: I ate it, and I thought it was all right.
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: Let's have a race! suggested the cowboy after the two
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: mice and the teenie weenies had talked for some time
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: the mice agreed and a race course was soon chosen
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 4: the race was to be run between two long boards
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 4: and an old scrubbing brush was brought up for a
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 4: hurdle at the end of the track the cowboy was
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 4: to ride one mouse and the dunce who claimed to
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 4: be a good rider the other now said the general
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 4: the man who rides down the length of these boards
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: and jumps over the scrubbing brush first will win the
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 4: race when all was ready the signal was given and
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  Speaker 4: down the track came the mice as fast as they
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  Speaker 4: could run with the cowboy and the dunce sticking tightly
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  Speaker 4: to their backs as the mice drew near the hurdle
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 4: the dunce was ahead and it looked as though he
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 4: would win the race but just as the mouse sprang
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 4: into the air to leap over the brush The dunce
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 4: lost his grip and was tossed into the air. The
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 4: mouse jumped over the brush and when the dunce came
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 4: down he hit the ground with a great thud. The
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 4: cowboy stuck tightly to his mouse and leaping gracefully over
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  Speaker 4: the brush he was declared the winner. The dunce was
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  Speaker 4: not hurt by his fall. He joined loudly in the
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  Speaker 4: laughter that greeted his tumble and was the first to
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  Speaker 4: start a cheer for the cowboy. End of chapter 12 Adventures.
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  Speaker 7: Of the Teenie Weenies By W.M. Donaghey Chapter 13 A
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  Speaker 7: Watermelon Feast Say, go, go, shouted the dunce one morning
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  Speaker 7: as he ran up the steps of the shoe house.
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  Speaker 7: Do you like watermelon? Say, foolish person, what you all
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  Speaker 7: ask in such a silly question, foe? grinned the happy-colored teeny-weeny.
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  Speaker 7: If there is anything in the whole world I like
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  Speaker 7: better than watermelon, It's Moe Watermelon. Well, I know where
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  Speaker 7: there's a great big piece, shouted the dunce. It's over
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 7: on a table in the big green house, and there
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  Speaker 7: was a man eating some, and he said that he
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 7: couldn't eat any more. I heard him, for I climbed
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 7: up the morning glory vine at the window and watched him.
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  Speaker 7: Let's go, shouted several of the teeny weenies. Well, You'd
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 7: better not be in a hurry, remarked the general, stepping
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  Speaker 7: out onto the front porch. You all know that it
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 7: wouldn't be right to help yourselves to that watermelon unless
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  Speaker 7: the people who own it were going to.
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  Speaker 3: Throw it away.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, sir, that's just what they are going to do,
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 7: stuttered the dunce. The man said that he couldn't eat
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 7: any more, and a woman said to leave it right
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 7: on the table and she would throw it out. Well,
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  Speaker 7: that's different, answered the general, who was fond of melon himself.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 7: Under the circumstances, we can go over and have a taste.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 7: It took but a short time for the little people
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  Speaker 7: to make their way over to the house and, crawling
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  Speaker 7: through the crack under the kitchen door, they saw the
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  Speaker 7: red top of the melon on the table. To their delight,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 7: they saw a great deal had been left. The teeny
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 7: weenies all are wonderful climbers, and it was a simple
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 7: matter for the little folks to climb up onto the table.
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 7: They swarmed onto the melon and ate until they could
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 7: not hold another bite. After the little people had eaten
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 7: all they could hold, they amused themselves by playing with
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 7: the various things they found on the table. The clown
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 7: climbed up to the top of a fork which stuck
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 7: in the melon and performed some wonderful acrobatic feats. The
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 7: small boys took off their shoes and stockings, waited in
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 7: the juice, and pushed themselves about with toothpicks on the
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 7: huge seeds, which made fine rafts. Gogo ate until he
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 7: nearly burst, and the doctor found the little fellow sitting
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 7: on the handle of a knife, holding his tiny head.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 7: What's the matter? asked the doctor. I's in trouble, he groaned.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 7: Anything serious? asked the doctor.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 7: Answered the colored teeny weeny, pointing to the huge slice
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 7: of melon. I's plum full, can't eat another bite, and
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 7: all that watermelon before me. Well, that is sort of tough,
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 7: laughed the doctor, but if I were you, I'd not
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 7: let that worry me, for you certainly will be sick
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 7: if you eat any more. The cowboy carried several of
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  Speaker 7: the seeds back to the shoe house and stored them
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 7: away in the tool house. I'm going to plant these
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 7: next summer, he said, and then we can have a
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 7: watermelon of our own. You'd have a hard time cutting
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 7: it open, suggested the old soldier. Gosh, exclaimed the cowboy.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 7: I never thought of that. But I suppose we could
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 7: blast it open with dynamite. Just leave that to Go-Go,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 7: laughed the doctor. He will find some way to get
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 7: into it. The teeny weenies were so full of melon
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 7: they could not eat a bite of lunch, not even
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 7: the dunce and the cook. had a good rest that day.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 7: Poor Gogo ate more than was good for him. He
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 7: consumed a piece of melon as big as a hickory nut,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 7: and the doctor was up half the night putting teeny-weeny
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 7: hot water bottles on his teeny-weeny tummy. CHAPTER XIV THE
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 7: DUNTS GET STUCK IN A PLATE OF TAFFY Several days
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 7: after the watermelon feast, the dunce failed to put in
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 7: an appearance at the noonday meal. This was rather unusual,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 7: for he was always hungry, and he generally was the
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  Speaker 7: first teeny weeny to draw his chair up to the
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  Speaker 7: tiny table.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 3: Where's the dunce?
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 7: Asked the general, as he carved a slice from a
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 7: big strawberry and dropped it onto the cowboy's waiting plate.
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  Speaker 7: I haven't seen him for a couple of hours, answered
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 7: the policeman. Last me see him, grunted the Indian, him
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 7: go down garden path to big house. Well, I think
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 7: something must have happened to him, for he is always
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 7: the first to the dinner table, said the general anxiously.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 7: I think so too, put in the lady of fashion,
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 7: for he knew we were going to have a strawberry
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 7: for dinner, and that would bring him, if nothing else did.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 7: Just as soon as we have finished dinner, I think
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 7: some of us had better go out and look for him,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 7: said the general. So, as soon as the meal was over,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 7: the teeny weenies started out to search for the dunce.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 7: The Indian pointed out the house near which he had
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 7: last seen the dunce, and crawling under the door, the
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 7: teeny weenies began to look all about the place. Listen,
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 7: cried the cook as he stepped over a safety pin.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 7: I thought I heard him call.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: Help!
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: Help!
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 7: Came a voice faintly from the next room. That's him!
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 7: That's the dunce's voice! cried the sailor, and running through
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 7: the doorway, they saw the tip of the dunce's cap
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 7: bobbing up and down over the top of a sideboard.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 7: Climbing up, the teeny weenies found the dunce standing up
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 7: to his knees in a plate of sticky taffy. I'm stuck!
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 7: sobbed the dunce. Yes, we can see you are, said
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 7: the general with a smile as he walked up to
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  Speaker 7: the side of the plate. After a great deal of work,
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 7: the cowboy and the Turk pulled the dunce out. What
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 7: were you doing in that taffy? asked the general. As
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 7: he led the dunce up the garden towards the teeny-weeny house.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 7: I saw the plate, answered the dunce, and I just
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 7: went up to get a taste and, and... You got
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 7: stuck fast, said the general. Yes, I did. and the
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 7: dunce looked sad.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 3: And sorry.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 7: Look here, said the general. You've got to stop this
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 7: running away, or I'll send you off to the little
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 7: girl who wrote us a letter and said that if
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 7: the dunce would come and live with her, she would
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 7: reform him and make a good boy out of him.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 7: I think you need reforming. Yes, said the dunce, uncertainly.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 7: What do you think would have happened if we hadn't
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 7: found you and pulled you out of that taffy? demanded
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 7: the general. The dunce looked frightened.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: Why, why?
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 7: He answered. I spec I would have been it. End
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 7: of chapter 14 Chapter 15 of Adventures of the Teenie
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 7: Weenies This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 7: in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
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  Speaker 7: please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Don Leary. Adventures of the
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 7: Teenie Weenies by W.M. Donahay. Chapter 15. The Great Field
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 7: Day The Teenie Weenies teased the dunce a great deal
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 7: after his experience in the taffy plate and if it
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 7: hadn't been for an event which soon took place, he
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 7: would have had to stand much more of their joking.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 7: For a long time, the Teenie Weenies had thought of
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 7: holding a field day. Their interest in athletics probably started
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 7: from the example of the Chinaman, who had become quite
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 7: expert as a pole vaulter. The little fellow made a
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 7: vaulting pole out of a dry straw, and with this
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 7: he could vault over a dandelion with the greatest ease.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 7: Do you all know that we could have a field
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 7: day if we really tried? asked Gogo, one afternoon of
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 7: a group of the little fellows as they sat watching
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 7: the Chinamen. Now, there is the Chinamen who could enter
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 7: the pole vault. The Turk can run fast, and he
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 7: can jump, and I can put the shot. Why, we
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 7: could have a powerful, fine field day. And say, exclaimed
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 7: Rufus Rhyme, how's this for a yell? Ra, ra, ra, zip, boom, fa,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 7: teeny weeny, teeny weeny, ra, ra, ra. That's fine, shouted
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 7: the little chaps, and they practiced the yell until they
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 7: fairly rattled the leaves on the old rosebush. Everybody was
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 7: greatly excited over the suggestion for a field day, and
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 7: for several weeks the little men trained for the great event.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 7: A place was chosen on a fine sandy spot near
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 7: the shoehouse where the little people could hold their games
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 7: in perfect safety. a big board fence, stood on one
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 7: side while a row of bushes protected them from prying
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 7: eyes on the other side. For several days, the old
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 7: soldier and the Turk had worked hard getting things ready
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 7: for the great day. Many hurdles were built out of matches,
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 7: and two long poles were set firmly in the ground
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 7: for the pole vault. The teeny-weeny ladies, led by the
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 7: Lady of Fashion, found a piece of an old silk necktie,
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 7: which they cut up and made into many tiny pennants.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 7: on which they embroidered the teeny-weeny monogram. The day of
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 7: the great event proved to be warm and pleasant, and
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 7: many tiny records were broken by the little folks. Gogo
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 7: proved to be the hero of the day. Besides acting
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 7: as trainer to the athletes, he broke the teeny-weeny record
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 7: for the shot put, hurling the BB Buck shot 42
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 7: 1⁄2 teeny-weeny feet, which is 21 1⁄4 inches in our measurement.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 7: This mighty effort beat the record by two and a
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 7: half feet, which had been held by Paddy Pinn for
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 7: several years. The Turk won the 120-yard hurdle race, beating
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 7: the Dunce by two seconds. The Scotman won the 100-yard dash,
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 7: while the Clown took away the honors in the high jump.
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 7: The little fellow cleared the match at seven and a half,
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 7: teeny-weeny feet, or three and three-quarters inches. The Chinaman set
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 7: a new record for the pole vault. The little chap
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 7: cleared the straw at fifteen teeny-weeny feet. The teeny-weenies had
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 7: a most wonderful day, and that night they held a
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 7: banquet in honor of the occasion. The desks were removed
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 7: from the floor of the schoolhouse. A huge table was
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 7: brought in, and the cook dished up one of the
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 7: finest dinners the little people ever ate. The dunce ate
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 7: so much of the big stuffed prune, which was served
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 7: for dessert, that he had to go to bed. but
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 7: the rest of the little folks danced until a late hour.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 7: End of Chapter Fifteen Chapter Sixteen of Adventures of the
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  Speaker 7: Teenie Weenies This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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• 1:14:18
  Speaker 7: Teenie Weenies by W.M. Donahay. Chapter 16. The dunce pulls
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 7: a tooth. I'll just bet you a grapeseed I'd have
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 7: won that hurdle race from the Turk if I hadn't
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 7: a toothache, said the dunce the day after the field day.
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 7: Why don't you all have it pulled? asked Go-Go. Ah, say,
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 7: Jiminy F-F-Fish Hooks! exclaimed the dunce. That would hurt, and
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 7: I'd rather have the t-t-t-toothache. The poor dunce was afraid
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 7: to mention his toothache to the general for fear he
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 7: would have the doctor pull it out. He suffered for
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 7: some time, but at last he could stand it no longer,
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 7: and one day he decided to ask advice.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 3: Oh, willikers!
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 7: Jiminy Fish Hooks!' Ouch!' he howled as he ran into
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 7: the sitting-room of the shoe-house.' Now what's the matter?' asked
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 7: the General.' I- I- I' ve got the t-t-t-toothache,' wailed the dunce, holding
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 7: his hand over his jaw and dancing about on one foot.' Well,
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 7: find the doctor and get attended to,' said the General.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 7: The dunce found the doctor. and after he had carefully
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 7: examined the aching tooth, he told the dunce it would
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 7: have to be pulled.' What?' shouted the dunce.' Chimney Christmas!
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 7: I'd rather have the toothache!'' All right, just as you like,'
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 7: said the doctor.' Can' t you put something on it to
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 7: make it quit aching?' asked the dunce.' That tooth is
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 7: in bad condition,' said the doctor. and the only way
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 7: to stop it for once and all is to pull it.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 7: All right, sir, groaned the dunce.
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: Pull it out.
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  Speaker 7: The doctor got a tiny pair of forceps and a
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 7: glass of water. He then had the dunce sit in
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 7: one of the easy chairs and told him to open
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 7: his mouth. Say, doc, stuttered the frightened dunce. Is it gonna...
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 7: Hurt much? Yes, it will hurt a little. Say, Doc,
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 7: couldn't I pull it myself? I suppose you could, answered
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 7: the doctor. You could tie a thread to it with
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 7: the other end fixed to a stone and then get
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 7: up on something high and drop the stone. That would
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 7: certainly pull it out. That's what I'm going to do.
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 7: and the dunce jumped out of the chair and disappeared
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 7: through the doorway. The dunce hunted up Go-Go and asked
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 7: that little fellow's advice about pulling the aching tooth. There's
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 7: a fine place over the hill just back of the house,
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 7: said the little black teeny weeny. There's a berry basket,
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 7: and you can done climb up on that, tie on
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 7: to stone, and out comes that tooth like a cork
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 7: out of a bottle. The two little fellows secured a
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 7: piece of strong silk thread. and followed by a number
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 7: of the teeny weenies, they hurried to the basket back
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 7: of the house. The dunce and Gogo chose a peach
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 7: seed for the weight to tie to the end of
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 7: the thread, and after boosting it up onto the basket,
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 7: they climbed up themselves. The thread was fixed tightly to
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 7: the peach seed, and the other end was tied to
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 7: the offending tooth. Now, all you got to do is
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 7: to give dat peach seed a kick, and out comes
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 7: dat tooth, said Gogo. Crickets, moaned the dunce. I got
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 7: kind of a sick feeling in my stomach. I think
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 7: I'll wait a while. For a full half an hour,
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 7: the dunce stood trembling on the edge of the basket
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 7: while Gogo and the doctor argued with the foolish fellow
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 7: to kick off the seed and have it all over.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 7: While the dunce was talking to the doctor, Gogo suddenly
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 7: kicked the seed off the basket and the tooth was
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 7: jerked out of the dunce's mouth. before he really knew
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 7: what happened.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, willikers!
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 7: Jiminy crickets!
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 3: Hallelujah!
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  Speaker 7: Shouted the dunce, dancing up and down with joy, when
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 7: he realized that the tooth was out. It's out!
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 4: It's out!
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  Speaker 3: Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
• 1:19:10
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• 1:19:23
  Speaker 7: Donaghey Chapter 17 An Adventure with a Frog Ali, say
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 7: more clowboy, gasped the Chinaman. stopping at the back porch
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 7: of the shoe house where the cook sat slicing a
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 7: grape for lunch. I saw him a while ago talking
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 7: to the Indian, answered the cook. They were sitting under
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  Speaker 7: that big mushroom on the other side of the house.
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  Speaker 3: Thank ye.
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  Speaker 7: And the Chinaman hurried around the corner of the house,
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 7: puffing like a steam engine. Oh, there you are, he
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 7: cried as he spied the Indian and the cowboy lying
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 7: in the shade of the mushroom. Holly, same me.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 3: Got ye.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 7: Much to tell. Well, what is it, Chink? asked the cowboy.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 7: Me see big clowflog. You mean a big bullfrog, corrected
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 7: the cowboy. Yes, yes, a bulltoad, bullflog, cried the excited Chinaman.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 7: Him sleep on log at pond, him snore like everything's.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 7: You come and throw lasso over his head and we
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 7: catchy him. You round up the fellows and I'll get
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 7: my rope. cried the cowboy, smacking his lips over the
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 7: thought of delicious baked frog ham. In a few minutes,
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  Speaker 7: the teeny weenies were on their way towards the pond,
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  Speaker 7: which lay back of the woods near the shoe house. Shh,
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  Speaker 7: warned the Indian, as the little people hurried up to
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  Speaker 7: the edge of the pond. Frog ham sleep, don't wake.
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  Speaker 7: The teeny weenies sneaked along carefully until they stood quite
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  Speaker 7: near the log on which the sleeping frog sat. He
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  Speaker 7: was a big green fellow and the teeny weenies scarcely
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  Speaker 7: breathed for fear they would awaken the frog and lose him.
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  Speaker 7: Several of the strongest teeny weenies held the end of
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  Speaker 7: the rope while the cowboy crawled silently onto the log. Now,
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  Speaker 7: when I drop the noose over the frog's head, whispered
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  Speaker 7: the cowboy, you fellows jerk the rope and hold on
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  Speaker 7: for dear life. The cowboy slipped quietly up behind the
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  Speaker 7: frog and cleverly tossed the rope over the big fellow's head.
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  Speaker 7: Awakened by the rope falling about his neck, the frog
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  Speaker 7: gave a mighty leap towards the water. He was a
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  Speaker 7: powerful fellow and went into the water with a great splash,
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 7: pulling several of the teeny weenies with him. As the
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  Speaker 7: frog disappeared beneath the water, the teeny weenies swam for shore,
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 7: where they were pulled up onto the bank by their friends,
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  Speaker 7: all sputtering, all soaked to the skin, but unhurt. When
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  Speaker 7: the Teenie Weenies discovered that none of the little folks
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  Speaker 7: had been hurt by the ducking, they laughed until the
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  Speaker 7: tears ran down their Teenie Weenie faces. Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho,
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  Speaker 7: roared the poet as he rolled over on the ground
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  Speaker 7: with laughter. I haven't seen anything so funny as this
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  Speaker 7: for a long time. It's almost as funny as the
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 7: time the dunce fell into the dish of applesauce, giggled
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 7: the Lady of Fashion. Goody gracious! exclaimed the Chinaman, who
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 7: had been looking on with wide open eyes. Ali, say me,
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 7: didn't know that bull clow, I mean bull flog, him
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  Speaker 7: so strong. Strong, cried the doctor. I should say, they
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  Speaker 7: are strong. Why, a frog has wonderfully powerful legs. He
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  Speaker 7: could kick a teeny weeny over an ice cream bucket
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  Speaker 7: with one blow of his hind leg. I wouldn't mind
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  Speaker 7: if one kicked me into an ice cream freezer. grinned
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 7: the dunce, who was fond of ice cream. That old
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  Speaker 7: frog reminds me of an old song, said Go-Go, and
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  Speaker 7: as the teeny weenies walked back towards the shoe house,
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  Speaker 7: the little colored chap sang this quaint little song. Frog
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  Speaker 7: went a-cordin', and he did ride, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Frog went a-cordin',
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  Speaker 7: and he did ride, he wore a pistol, by his side, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 7: He rode up to Miss Mouse's house, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. He
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 7: rode up to Miss Mouse's house. Said he, Miss Mouse,
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  Speaker 7: will you marry me? Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 7: End of Chapter 17.
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  Speaker 3: Chapter 18 of Adventures of the Teenie Weenies This is
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  Speaker 3: of the Teenie Weenies by William Donaghey Chapter 18 Something
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  Speaker 3: about a bear. It was a warm, lazy sort of morning,
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  Speaker 3: and very few Teenie Weenies were to be seen about
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  Speaker 3: the rosebush. Grandpa sat fast asleep in his easy chair
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  Speaker 3: on the front porch of the shoe house. Gogo was
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  Speaker 3: busily engaged carving a sugar bowl out of a large
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  Speaker 3: cherry seed, while several of the little men hacked at
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  Speaker 3: a wood pile back of the kitchen. The policeman was
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  Speaker 3: telling a couple sparrows how the dunce howled over his
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  Speaker 3: tooth being pulled when the lady of fashion touched him
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  Speaker 3: on the shoulder. I beg your pardon? she said. But
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  Speaker 3: do you know where the general is? He's over at
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 3: the tool house, ma'am, answered the policeman touching his hat.
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  Speaker 3: Is he busy? asked the little lady. I don't think so, ma'am.
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  Speaker 3: He's just watching old soldier and Patty Penn, who are
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  Speaker 3: tanning a frog hide for shoe leather. Would you mind
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  Speaker 3: asking him to meet me in the library? I want
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  Speaker 3: to see him on a matter of great importance. said
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  Speaker 3: the lady of fashion. With pleasure, ma'am, answered the policeman,
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  Speaker 3: and touching his hat again, he set off while the
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  Speaker 3: lady of fashion returned to the shoehouse. Well, my dear lady,
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  Speaker 3: said the general a few minutes later as he stepped
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  Speaker 3: into the teeny-weeny library where the lady of fashion sat waiting.
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  Speaker 3: The policeman tells me that you want to speak with me. Yes, general.
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  Speaker 3: answered the little lady. I have something important I want
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  Speaker 3: to talk to you about. I want you to do
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  Speaker 3: something for me. Something very, very nice. Will you? Why,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. What do you want? asked the head
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  Speaker 3: of the teeny weenies as he sat down in one
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  Speaker 3: of the tiny chairs. Well, began the little lady. While
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  Speaker 3: I was out walking yesterday with the doctor, we went
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  Speaker 3: into a house to get warm, and while we were there,
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  Speaker 3: we heard a little girl crying, as though her heart
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  Speaker 3: would break. The little girl had broken the wheel of
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 3: her toy bear, and I wish you would get those
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  Speaker 3: boys to go over and fix it for her. She's
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  Speaker 3: a child who hasn't many toys. I don't see how
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  Speaker 3: we can spare the time just now. for we have
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 3: eleven clothespins to split up in the stovewood, and... But
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  Speaker 3: we'll do it anyhow, said the general as he saw
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  Speaker 3: the tears gathering in the lady of fashion's eyes. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: thank you so much. And the little lady kissed the
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  Speaker 3: general on top of his bald little head. That afternoon
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  Speaker 3: the general and several of the teeny-weeny men walked over
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  Speaker 3: to the house where the little girl lived and had
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  Speaker 3: a look at the broken toy. The bear was a
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  Speaker 3: big fellow, and one of the solid wooden wheels on
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  Speaker 3: which he moved about was broken in two.' The axle
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  Speaker 3: is broken, too,' said the Turk, peering under the board
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  Speaker 3: on which the bear stood. We'll have to make some
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  Speaker 3: long bolts to hold the wheel together, announced the old
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  Speaker 3: soldier who had been measuring the broken wheel with his
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  Speaker 3: tiny tape measure. After a great deal of talk and measuring,
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  Speaker 3: the little men hurried back to the shoe house, where
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  Speaker 3: they set to work, making the bolts and nuts necessary
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  Speaker 3: for mending the broken bear. The next morning the teeny-weeny
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  Speaker 3: workmen set off for the little girl's house. followed by
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  Speaker 3: a number of little people who were curious to see
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  Speaker 3: the bear. As the little girl had been taken out
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  Speaker 3: for a walk, the coast was clear, and the little
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  Speaker 3: men started to work at once, while the rest wondered about,
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  Speaker 3: examining a dollhouse and many other toys which stood about
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  Speaker 3: the room. The teeny weenies jacked up the bear, fitted
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  Speaker 3: in a lead pencil for an axle, bolted together the
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  Speaker 3: broken wheel, and in a short time the little men
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  Speaker 3: had made the toy as good as new. When the
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  Speaker 3: little girl came back from her walk and found the
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  Speaker 3: mended toy, she was very, very happy. And she wondered many,
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  Speaker 3: many times just who had fixed the broken bear. End
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  Speaker 3: of chapter 18. Recording by William Bryant.
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  Speaker 5: Chapter 19 of The Adventures of the Teenie Weenies. This
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  Speaker 5: This section has been read by Rosalind Carlyle. Adventures of
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  Speaker 5: the Teenie Weenies. CHAPTER XIX. INVENTION I'll bet that little
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  Speaker 5: girl has wondered many times how her bear was mended,
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  Speaker 5: chuckled Old Soldier, as he stirred up the fire with
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  Speaker 5: a big darning-needle which the little folks used for a poker.
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  Speaker 5: She must consider it quite a mystery, said the Lady
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  Speaker 5: of Fashion. Speaking of mysteries, cried the Turk, does anybody
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  Speaker 5: know what the dance is up to? The dunce had
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  Speaker 5: been locking himself up in his room for the last
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  Speaker 5: few days in a most mysterious way. He seemed very
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  Speaker 5: important and he refused to answer questions. I'll bet he's
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  Speaker 5: balding something, ventured the cowboy. He's been hammering away all day.
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  Speaker 5: I saw him sneaking along this morning with a cock
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  Speaker 5: on his shoulder, said the cook. We'll just give him
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  Speaker 5: a little time and we'll find out, remarked Grandpa, nodding
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  Speaker 5: his head wisely. He's swelling up, so with importance, he'll
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  Speaker 5: have to tell pretty soon or he will bust. Grandpa
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  Speaker 5: was right, for that very evening the dancer rose from
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  Speaker 5: his chair at the teeny-weeny supper table and said, Ladies
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  Speaker 5: and gentlemen, I have just finished a great invention. And
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  Speaker 5: if I can find some deep water nearby, I will
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  Speaker 5: be glad to show you something astonishing. Three rousing cheers
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  Speaker 5: for Thomas Edison Dunce, shouted the clown, and the cheers
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  Speaker 5: were given with such a will that the squirrel who
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  Speaker 5: lived near the shoehouse came running over and looked in
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  Speaker 5: the window to see what the noise was all about.
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  Speaker 5: As the weather was quite cool, the Teenie Weenies thought
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  Speaker 5: it would be wise to try the Dunces' invention indoors.
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  Speaker 5: So it was decided to go to the big house
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  Speaker 5: across the street, where plenty of water could be found
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  Speaker 5: in the bathroom. As soon as breakfast was over the
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  Speaker 5: next morning, the Teenie Weenies hurried over to the house
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  Speaker 5: and climbed up to the washstand. After a lot of
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  Speaker 5: hard work, they got the faucets turned and filled the
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  Speaker 5: bowl with water. The dunce then took two corks from
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  Speaker 5: a big package that the sailor had helped him carry
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  Speaker 5: and strapped them tightly to his feet. Now, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 5: shouted the dunce, I will show you how easy it
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  Speaker 5: is to walk on water. Letting himself down into the
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  Speaker 5: water by the chain to the stopper, the dunce stepped
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  Speaker 5: bravely out towards the centre of the bowl. But as
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  Speaker 5: soon as he let go of the chain, he lost
• 1:32:22
  Speaker 5: his balance and fell over, care splash, into the water.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 5: The corks, being so light, pulled his feet to the
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  Speaker 5: top of the water and held them there, and if
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  Speaker 5: the Turk and the sailor had not promptly dived in
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  Speaker 5: after him, the dunce would probably have been drowned. Golly,
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 5: spluttered the dunce, as he sat dripping, but safe, on
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  Speaker 5: the edge of the bowl. It didn't work, did it?
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  Speaker 5: The teeny weenies had lots of fun teasing the dunce
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  Speaker 5: about walking on the water, and it was many days
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  Speaker 5: before he heard the last of his wonderful invention. End
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  Speaker 5: of Chapter Nineteen.
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  Speaker 8: Adventures of the Teenie Weenies by William Donaghy. Chapter 20.
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  Speaker 8: The Great Ball There was some great secret in the air.
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  Speaker 8: For some time there had been much stir in and
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  Speaker 8: about the Teenie Weenie village beneath the rosebush. There were
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  Speaker 8: many secret meetings between the General and the Lady of Fashion,
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  Speaker 8: who seemed to be the leading spirits of it all.
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  Speaker 8: The Turk and the Cook and Gogo under the direction
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  Speaker 8: of the Lady of Fashion, spent many days in the
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  Speaker 8: cellar of a certain house not far from Shoehurst. The
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  Speaker 8: lover's bungalow was closed to all gentlemen callers every afternoon
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  Speaker 8: for several weeks, and it was reported that the little
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  Speaker 8: ladies who gathered there were sewing with might and main.'
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  Speaker 8: By heck, it appears to me there's something mighty queer
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  Speaker 8: going on round here,' remarked Grandpa. as he shuffled into
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  Speaker 8: the chinaman's laundry one afternoon such carryin's on i haven't
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  Speaker 8: seen for a long time ah lee same muchee sleekrets
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  Speaker 8: said the chinaman putting down his tiny iron and pushing
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  Speaker 8: out a chair for his visitor' Secrets!' shouted the old man.' Well,
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  Speaker 8: I bless my soul the air is full of them,'
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  Speaker 8: and I reckon it's some of those newfangled ideas of
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  Speaker 8: the lady of fashion.' She' s always up to something or other.
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  Speaker 9: Ollie, same. We find out if we wait long enough,'
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  Speaker 9: laughed the Chinaman.' Well, I spect you're right,' growled Grandpa.'
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  Speaker 9: But we never did have any carry-ins on like that
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  Speaker 9: when I was a youngster.
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  Speaker 8: It wasn't long before all the teeny-weenies knew what the
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  Speaker 8: secret was. For one morning they each received a tiny
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  Speaker 8: invitation written neatly in the dainty hand of the Lady
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  Speaker 8: of Fashion. It was a very formal invitation to a
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  Speaker 8: grand ball in the cellar of a certain house. There
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  Speaker 8: was much excitement among some of the little men. for
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  Speaker 8: it was whispered about that those who attended the ball
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  Speaker 8: were supposed to wear full dress suits, and several of
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  Speaker 8: the little chaps had none. However, the old soldier, who
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  Speaker 8: was quite a good tailor, came to the rescue, and
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  Speaker 8: everybody was provided with a dress suit, or fish-and-soup suit,
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  Speaker 8: as Grandpa called them. The ball was to be the
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  Speaker 8: most fashionable thing that had ever been given in Teeny
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  Speaker 8: Weeny Land, and all the little folks could hardly wait
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  Speaker 8: for the appointed day. The ball was to be given
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  Speaker 8: on the head of a drum which lay in a
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  Speaker 8: cellar not far from the shoe-house. A paper box, which
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  Speaker 8: was found in the cellar, was pulled up beside the drum.
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  Speaker 8: On to it steps were built up to the head
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  Speaker 8: of the drum. By cutting a door in the box,
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  Speaker 8: it made a wonderful place for the little guests to
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  Speaker 8: leave their wraps, and a curtain, strung across the centre
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  Speaker 8: of the box, gave the little ladies a snug place
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  Speaker 8: to powder their tiny noses. The head of the drum
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  Speaker 8: made a fine dance floor, and around the edges comfortable
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  Speaker 8: seats were placed. It took quite a lot of argument
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  Speaker 8: to get the dunce and go-go to act as footmen,
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  Speaker 8: for they wanted to wear dress suits like the rest.
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  Speaker 8: But when they found out they were to help the
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  Speaker 8: cook serve the ice cream, they were very willing. The
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  Speaker 8: day of the ball the excited teeny-weenies started to scrub
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  Speaker 8: and clean themselves many hours before the time set for
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  Speaker 8: the party, and a cleaner set of little folks was
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  Speaker 8: never seen. At nine o'clock the guests began to arrive,
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  Speaker 8: and they were received at the top of the stairs
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  Speaker 8: by the Lady of Fashion and the General. Great candles
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  Speaker 8: flooded the place with light, and the old soldier, Paddy Pin,
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  Speaker 8: and the cowboy furnished music for the dancing. At first
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 8: the guests were rather stiff and formal, but the dunce
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  Speaker 8: relieved the situation by falling down the stairs with a
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  Speaker 8: tray full of dishes. The little people laughed right out
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  Speaker 8: loud when they saw the dunce wasn't hurt, and from
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  Speaker 8: that moment on everyone enjoyed themselves as they never had before.
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  Speaker 8: A wonderful lunch was prepared by the cook, and the
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  Speaker 8: footmen passed around dainty sandwiches, cocoa, lemonade, and ice cream.
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  Speaker 8: All the Teenie Weenies attended the ball, except Grandpa, who
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  Speaker 8: stayed home and took care of the lover twins. And
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  Speaker 8: everyone said that the ball was the greatest event that
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  Speaker 8: had ever taken place in Teenie Weenie social world. We
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  Speaker 8: had a wonderfully fine time, Grandpa, cried the doctor. when
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  Speaker 8: the little folks returned from the ball.' And we had
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  Speaker 8: awfully good things to eat,' announced the dunce.' See, I've
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  Speaker 8: brought some home for you.' And the little fellow uncovered
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  Speaker 8: a tiny dish filled with ice cream.' Once I went
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  Speaker 8: to a party,' said Grandpa, dipping into the ice cream.'
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  Speaker 8: It was along in March in forty-nine.' BUT THE LITTLE
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  Speaker 8: FOLK WERE TOO TIRED TO LISTEN TO THE STORY, AND
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  Speaker 8: THEY TRUDGED OFF TO BED, LEAVING THE OLD GENTLEMAN TO
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  Speaker 8: FINISH HIS ICE-CREAM AND STORY BY HIMSELF. END OF CHAPTER XX.
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  Speaker 10: CHAPTER XXI OF THE ADVENTURES OF THE TEENIE-WEENIES This is
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• 1:39:51
  Speaker 10: by Melissa Redfield-Lyon Adventures of the Teenie Weenies Written by W.M.
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  Speaker 10: Donahay Chapter 21 A Most Unlucky Mouse.
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  Speaker 11: Well, yawned Mr. Mouse, rolling off his soft cotton bed.
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  Speaker 11: I think I'd better go out and see what I
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  Speaker 11: can find for breakfast. We haven't had a bit of
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 11: cheese or bread in the house. Now do be careful, dear,
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 11: warned Mrs. Mouse, and please don't go near that nasty
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 11: old trap underneath the steps. All right, I'll be careful,
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  Speaker 11: laughed her husband as he hurried down the long hall,
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  Speaker 11: which connected their home with a large cellar, where all
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 11: sorts of good things could usually be found. But on
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  Speaker 11: this particular morning, Mr. Mouse found food very scarce, and
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 11: he was forced to climb about in places in search
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 11: for breakfast. While walking along the edge of a basket,
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 11: he chanced to see some breadcrumbs on the steps nearby,
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 11: and wishing to make a shortcut, he decided to leap
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  Speaker 11: onto an empty fruit jar that stood near, and from
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 11: there onto steps. He made a mighty leap onto the jar,
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  Speaker 11: but before he could balance himself, he slipped and fell in.
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 11: His cries for help could not be heard, and it
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  Speaker 11: was some time before Mrs. Mouse, who had been alarmed
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 11: at his absence, found the poor fellow. Oh, dear me,
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 11: by the great cat's tail! This is most awful, exclaimed Mrs. Mouse,
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 11: bursting into tears. Go tell the teeny-weenies, shouted her husband.
• 1:41:34
  Speaker 11: They will come and help me out.
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  Speaker 2: Mrs.
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  Speaker 11: Mouse ran over to the shoehouse, and climbing up the
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 11: front steps, She rapped so hard that she scratched half
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 11: the paint off the tiny door. Between bursts of tears, Mrs.
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  Speaker 11: Mouse told the teeny weenies about her husband and the
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  Speaker 11: little people promised at once to help. Dear Miss Mouse,
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  Speaker 11: said the lady of fashion, trying to comfort the tearful mouse,
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  Speaker 11: you must calm yourself. You must try to be calmed.
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  Speaker 11: Great cat's claws, exclaimed Mrs.
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  Speaker 1: Mouse.
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  Speaker 11: I'd like to see you stay calm with your husband
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  Speaker 11: in a fruit jar. And she burst into another fit
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  Speaker 11: of crying as she hurried back to her imprisoned husband,
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  Speaker 11: followed by the teeny weenies. The teeny weenies quickly put
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  Speaker 11: up a ladder, which they had brought with them, and
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  Speaker 11: the doctor was soon lowered into the jar, where he
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  Speaker 11: found the poor mouse had too badly sprained legs. The
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  Speaker 11: general ordered the big one last brought up, and when
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  Speaker 11: the derrick had been built on top of the fruit
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  Speaker 11: jar out of three strong clothespins, the injured mouse was
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  Speaker 11: bundled into the biggest teeny-weeny tablecloth and pulled out. As
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  Speaker 11: it was late, the teeny-weenies decided to make the poor
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  Speaker 11: mouse as comfortable as possible, for it was quite a
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  Speaker 11: long way to the mouse's home, and they thought that
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  Speaker 11: after a night's rest he could stand the trip with
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  Speaker 11: less pain. The little men made him a soft bed
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  Speaker 11: under the cellar stairs, and after he had eaten a
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  Speaker 11: Welsh rarebit, which the cook brought to him, he fell
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  Speaker 11: into a sound sleep, with Mrs. Mouse sitting watchfully by
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  Speaker 11: his side. We'll be over early in the morning, and
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  Speaker 11: take your husband home, said the general, and the teeny
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  Speaker 11: weenies started back to the shoehouse, for it was fast
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  Speaker 11: growing dark. End of chapter twenty-one A Most Unlucky Mouse.
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  Speaker 4: Chapter 22 of Adventures of the Teenie Weenies This is
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  Speaker 4: by Lynn Thompson Adventures of the Teenie Weenies by William Donaghy.
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  Speaker 4: Chapter 22. Mrs. Mouse asks a favour. It was quite
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  Speaker 4: late when the Teenie Weenies arrived at the shoe house,
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  Speaker 4: and it was almost nine o'clock when the little people
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  Speaker 4: had finished their supper. Well, we'd better all get to bed,
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  Speaker 4: said the General, pushing his chair back from the table.
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  Speaker 4: for we have got to be out bright and early
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  Speaker 4: in the morning and take Mr. Mouse back to his home.
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  Speaker 4: Gogo and the Turk helped the cook wash up the
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  Speaker 4: supper dishes, and half an hour later every single teeny
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  Speaker 4: weeny was sleeping peacefully in his teeny weeny bed. The
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  Speaker 4: teeny weenies had been asleep only a short time when
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  Speaker 4: they were awakened by a loud squeaking and a scratching
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  Speaker 4: at the front door. Who dat? cried Gogo. putting his
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 4: head out one of the tiny windows.' It' s me,' answered Mrs. Mouse.' Oh,
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 4: dear me!'' What' s the trouble?' asked the General, joining Gogo
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  Speaker 4: at the window.' Oh, gracious me!' wailed Mrs.
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  Speaker 10: Mouse.
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  Speaker 4: I' m scared half out of my senses, for I'm afraid
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  Speaker 4: that old cat that lives next door might get in
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  Speaker 4: the cellar, and to think what would happen to my
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  Speaker 4: poor crippled husband just frightens me half out of my
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  Speaker 4: wits we'll not desert you madam said the general kindly
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  Speaker 4: we'll come over immediately and take your husband home the
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 4: teenie weenies soon dressed themselves and gogo hurried over to
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  Speaker 4: the hospital to call the doctor hadn't we better take
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  Speaker 4: along one of the wagons asked the general when the
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  Speaker 4: teenie weenie physician arrived A wagon wouldn't do, answered the doctor.
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  Speaker 4: We could never take Mr. Mouse home in a wagon. Why,
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  Speaker 4: it would jar the poor mouse's injured legs until he
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  Speaker 4: couldn't stand the pain. Great grief, cried the general. How
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  Speaker 4: in the name of ripe cherries are we going to
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  Speaker 4: move him? Very simple matter, said the doctor. We can
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  Speaker 4: carry him in a hammock, which we can make out
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  Speaker 4: of a sheet or tablecloth. This can be hung on
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  Speaker 4: a pole. and we can carry him on our shoulders.
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  Speaker 4: I know where there's a pole that will be just
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  Speaker 4: the thing, shouted the Turk. Come on, go, go, and
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  Speaker 4: we'll get it. The two teeny weenies hurried away in
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  Speaker 4: the darkness, and presently they returned with a long-handled paintbrush.
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  Speaker 4: The cook brought out an old tablecloth, and the little
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  Speaker 4: men set out for the cellar where the poor mouse lay.
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  Speaker 4: It was dark, but the little fellows found their way
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  Speaker 4: without trouble. for teeny weenies can see almost as well
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  Speaker 4: as owls in the dark, and in a short time
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  Speaker 4: they arrived safe and sound. The injured mouse was soon
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  Speaker 4: put into the tablecloth, and the ends were made fast
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  Speaker 4: to the brush-handle. Six of the strongest teeny weenies were
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  Speaker 4: chosen to carry the mouse, and they gently lifted the
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  Speaker 4: brush-handle to their shoulders. The teeny weenies moved off carefully
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  Speaker 4: towards the mouse's home, which lay at the far end
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  Speaker 4: of the cellar. The dunce walked at the side of
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  Speaker 4: the hammock and carried the mouse's long tail over his
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  Speaker 4: shoulder in order to keep it from dragging on the floor,
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  Speaker 4: for the poor fellow's spirits were mighty low and his
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 4: tail would drag. The mouse was carried through a hole
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  Speaker 4: in a brick wall, which was the entrance to his home,
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  Speaker 4: and laid gently on a bed of soft cotton. The
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  Speaker 4: lady of fashion helped Mrs. Mouse nurse her husband back
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  Speaker 4: to health. and the doctor called almost every day, while
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  Speaker 4: the cook made all sorts of dainty dishes for the invalid.
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  Speaker 5: The Scotchman Goes South The doctor had been very busy
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 5: for some time. First, the mouse, who had fallen into
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  Speaker 5: the fruit jar, needed a great deal of attention. The
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  Speaker 5: mouse lived quite a distance from the hospital, and the
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  Speaker 5: doctor called on him once a day for two weeks.
• 1:48:40
  Speaker 5: then a squirrel fell sick and the doctor had to
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  Speaker 5: call on him for several days the twins had the
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  Speaker 5: mumps and the scotchman complained of the rheumatism the scotchman's
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 5: trouble caused the doctor considerable thought he worried over it
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 5: for some time and then decided to take the matter
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  Speaker 5: up with the general taking his tall hat from its
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  Speaker 5: peg behind the office door he hurried over to the
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  Speaker 5: shoe house general he said as he stepped into the
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  Speaker 5: teenie weenie library and closed the door softly i'd like
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  Speaker 5: to speak to you for a few minutes' Go right ahead, Doc,'
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  Speaker 5: said the General, throwing aside his work.' It' s about the Scotchman,'
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 5: said the Doctor, dropping into a teeny-weeny rocking-chair.' Scotty was
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  Speaker 5: troubled with rheumatism in his legs last winter, and the
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  Speaker 5: pain has started again this fall.'' Oh, it's all on
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  Speaker 5: account of his wearing those short-kilt skirts and going around
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  Speaker 5: in his bare knees!' cried the General anxiously. Yes, I
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  Speaker 5: know it is, answered the doctor. I have tried to
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  Speaker 5: get him to wear trousers during the winter weather, but
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  Speaker 5: he will not do it. So he's got to go
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  Speaker 5: south to spend the winter where there's no cold weather,
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  Speaker 5: or he'll be sick. How in the world will he
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 5: ever get down south? asked the general.' I' ve fixed that
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  Speaker 5: up all right,' said the doctor.' You know, our friends,
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 5: the birds, always go south for the winter.'' Yes, yes,'
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  Speaker 5: nodded the general.' Well, I was talking to a bird
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  Speaker 5: this morning, and she told me that she was starting
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  Speaker 5: south in a few days.' I told her about a Scotchman,
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  Speaker 5: and she said that she would be glad to take
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  Speaker 5: him along.' She said that he could ride on her back.'
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 5: She promised to look after him, and said that she
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  Speaker 5: would be bringing him north again in the spring.' The
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  Speaker 5: general thought the plan a good one and Scotty was
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  Speaker 5: told to pack his grip and be ready to go
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  Speaker 5: by the end of the week. The teeny weenies were
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  Speaker 5: greatly excited over the news. The lady of fashion mended
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  Speaker 5: all of the Scotchman's clothes and made him three tiny
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  Speaker 5: new shirts for the trip. The Chinaman washed everything he
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  Speaker 5: had that could be washed, starched and ironed his new
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  Speaker 5: shirts beautifully. and the others did all they could to
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  Speaker 5: make him comfortable and happy. Oh my, said the dunce
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  Speaker 5: when he heard the news, I wish that I had
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  Speaker 5: rheumatism too, so I could go along. The teeny weenies
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  Speaker 5: were up at the first break of day the morning
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  Speaker 5: that the Scotchman was to go. At the promised hour,
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  Speaker 5: the bird flew up to the shoehouse and lighted on
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  Speaker 5: the lawn. All aboard for Dixie, cried the bird, and
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  Speaker 5: the teeny weenies all swarmed out with the Scotchman among them. Here,
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 5: shouted the cook, running out with a big neat package,
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  Speaker 5: here's your lunch. I put in all the things you
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 5: like best. Gemini, muttered the dunce, as he hungrily watched
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 5: the lunch being forced into the Scotchman's already overflowing grip.
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  Speaker 5: I just do wish I was a-going. We'll send your
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  Speaker 5: trunk to you by mail, shouted the cowboy, as the
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  Speaker 5: Scotchman climbed up on the back of the bird. All right,
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  Speaker 5: cried Scotty. Thanks, and goodbye to everybody. The bird spread
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  Speaker 5: her wings and gently rose from the ground. The teeny
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  Speaker 5: weenies stood shouting goodbyes and waving hands and handkerchiefs, till
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  Speaker 5: Bird and Scotchman were lost to sight in the blue
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  Speaker 5: sky overhead. End of chapter twenty-three CHAPTER XXIV. FIRE, FIRE,
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  Speaker 5: FIRE fire fire shouted the excited dunce as he dashed
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  Speaker 5: up to the shoe-house gasping for breath where what cried
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  Speaker 5: the general popping his head out of the front door
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  Speaker 5: over t t t two t th th th great
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  Speaker 5: guns shouted the general throwing up his hands in despair
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  Speaker 5: The house, or whatever it is, will burn down before
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  Speaker 5: you're able to tell us where the fire is. Out
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  Speaker 5: with it! Where's the fire?
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  Speaker 12: Quick!
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  Speaker 5: It's... it's over to... to... to... the... the... the lover's house,
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 5: gasped the dunce, just as the teeny-weeny fire engine and
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  Speaker 5: hook and ladder dashed up to the shoe house. To
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  Speaker 5: the lover's house, cried the general, as he jumped onto
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  Speaker 5: the running board of the fire engine. the little engine
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 5: fairly flew over the melting snow and it nearly fell
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  Speaker 5: over as it skidded dangerously around a piece of paving
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  Speaker 5: brick which lay in its path presently the fire department
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  Speaker 5: arrived at the lovers bungalow where they found clouds of
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  Speaker 5: smoke pouring out of the cracks around the back door
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  Speaker 5: and kitchen windows as mr and mrs lover had locked
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  Speaker 5: up and gone with the doctor to visit a sick
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 5: mouse near by it was found necessary to break in
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  Speaker 5: the back door and soon a stream of water was
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  Speaker 5: thrown into the smoky kitchen the chinaman was ironing one
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  Speaker 5: of the general's shirts when he heard the news of
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  Speaker 5: the fire and in the excitement he ran over to
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  Speaker 5: the lover's house carrying the hot iron he had been
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 5: using at the time the excited dunce climbed up on
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  Speaker 5: to the roof And if it hadn't been for Gogo,
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 5: he would have chopped a hole through the roof. What
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  Speaker 5: are you all going to do with that axe? asked
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  Speaker 5: the little coloured lad as he watched the dunce hurry
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  Speaker 5: up the ladder. Go and chop a hole in the roof,
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 5: answered the dunce. You've always got to do that. They
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  Speaker 5: always chop a hole in the roof when there's a fire.
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 5: But there is no fire in the roof, cried Gogo.
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  Speaker 5: It's down in the kitchen. Makes no difference, said the dunce.
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  Speaker 5: You always have to chop a hole in the roof.
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 5: And if Gogo hadn't grabbed the axe from the dunce's hand,
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  Speaker 5: the foolish fellow would have done a lot of damage
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  Speaker 5: with it. Almost a teacupful of water was thrown into
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  Speaker 5: the tiny kitchen, and it did more damage than the fire,
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  Speaker 5: for really all it had burned was a bean, which Mrs.
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  Speaker 5: Lover had put on the stove to cook, and which
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  Speaker 5: had boiled dry. End of chapter CHAPTER XXV OF ADVENTURES
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  Speaker 5: OF THE TEENIE WEENIES' Crickety!' exclaimed the dunce, as he
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  Speaker 5: dropped into a chair before the teeny-weeny fireplace.' Since the
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  Speaker 5: Scotchman left, it's as dull around here as a lady's pocket-knife.'
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 5: And the little fellow blinked mournfully into the fire.' What' s wrong, dunce?'
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 5: asked the lady of fashion, looking up from her sewing.'
• 1:56:13
  Speaker 5: I want to take a walk or something, and everybody's
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 5: busy or something.' Why don't you get Gogo to go along?
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  Speaker 5: He always likes to take a walk, smiled the little lady.
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 5: He and the cowboy and the Turk are building a
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 5: fly trap over at the tool house. The sailor and
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 5: the Indian are helping the cook to get a spoiled
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 5: potato out the cellar. Paddy Penn, the doctor, the general
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 5: and the old soldier are having a meeting at the hospital.
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 5: and the clown and the poet are in the backyard
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 5: talking nonsense with a sparrow, growled the dunce. I'd love
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  Speaker 5: to take a walk today, but I promised to mend
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  Speaker 5: this dress for Mrs. Lover, and it has to be
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 5: finished by four o'clock, as she and Mr. Lover and
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 5: the twins are invited over to the squirrel's house for dinner.
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  Speaker 5: Why don't you go over to the laundry and try
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  Speaker 5: Chuck and Zip? Maybe one of them would like to
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  Speaker 5: take a walk.' Jink!' shouted the dunce.' I never thought
• 1:57:20
  Speaker 5: about the Chinaman and Zip!' And jumping up, he hurried
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 5: over to the old teapot, where he found Zip toasting
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 5: his shins before the fire. The Chinaman had just gone
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 5: over to the hospital to deliver some shirts to the doctor,
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  Speaker 5: but Zip was ready for a walk, and in a
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  Speaker 5: few minutes he slipped on his sweater and the two
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  Speaker 5: teeny-weenies set off together. There was one place the teeny
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  Speaker 5: weenies loved to visit best of all, and that was
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  Speaker 5: any big house where big people lived, for there are
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  Speaker 5: always so many big and wonderful things to see. The
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  Speaker 5: two little fellows made their way straight to the nearest
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  Speaker 5: big house, and crawling under the door, they began to
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  Speaker 5: investigate the place. Let's crawl up on that, said the dunce,
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  Speaker 5: pointing to a shelf high above their heads, and maybe
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  Speaker 5: we can find something good to eat. After a hard climb,
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  Speaker 5: the two teeny weenies landed on the shelf, but they
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  Speaker 5: found nothing but glass fruit jars which towered above their heads.
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  Speaker 5: said the dunce as he nodded his head in the
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  Speaker 5: direction of one of the jars that jar hasn't got
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  Speaker 5: any top on it and there are pickled peaches in
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  Speaker 5: it i've just been thinking that we could get up
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  Speaker 5: on the shelf above and you could hold a string
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  Speaker 5: while i slid down into the jar and got some
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 5: of the fruit After a long hunt, the two teeny
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 5: weenies found a piece of string and, climbing up to
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  Speaker 5: the shelf, the dunce started to slide down into the jar.
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 5: He got nearly halfway down when the string snapped and
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 5: the little chap dropped with a loud splash into the juice.
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 5: poor zip was scared half out of his wits and
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 5: ran off for help as fast as his legs would
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  Speaker 5: carry him he found three of the teenie weenies in
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  Speaker 5: the tool house and grabbing up a piece of rope
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 5: they followed the little fellow at top speed When they
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 5: climbed up onto the shelf, they all burst out with laughter,
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 5: for the dunce was a funny sight, standing on a
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 5: pickled peach with the juice dripping off the end of
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  Speaker 5: his nose. The cowboy threw a rope to the dunce,
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 5: and the rest of the teeny weenies soon pulled him
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 5: to safety. S-s-say, gasped the dunce, rubbing the juice out
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 5: of his eyes. Don't s- Tell the general he give
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 5: me an awful scolding for getting into this mess. Well,
• 2:00:15
  Speaker 5: you know it's not right to go meddling into things,
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 5: said the cowboy, but if you promise not to try
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 5: anything like this again, we'll not tell on you. I'll promise,
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 5: answered the dunce, but.
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 5: Look at my clothes. They're spoiled. Me fix that all right,
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 5: cried Zip. Me take you to laundry and wash clothes
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 5: for you. Taking a roundabout way so that they would
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 5: not be seen, the dunce and Zip soon reached the laundry,
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 5: where the dunce stripped to the skin and crawled into
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 5: the Chinaman's bed, while Zip washed and dried the soiled clothes.
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 5: They still smell a little of the pickled peaches, said
• 2:01:10
  Speaker 5: the dunce as he put on his clothes. Your clothes
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 5: not smell much like peach, said Zip, sniffing at the dunce.
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 5: Nobody notice him. As it was nearly suppertime, the dunce
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 5: hurried over to the shoehouse. and when he drew his
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 5: chair up to the tiny dinner table the lady of
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 5: fashion looked suspiciously at him something smells funny remarked the
• 2:01:38
  Speaker 5: little lady smells sort of like pickled peaches chuckled the
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 5: cowboy winking at the turk The poor dunce turned red
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 5: as a cranberry, and he was most uncomfortable for a
• 2:01:52
  Speaker 5: few minutes, but fortunately the talk turned to other matters,
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 5: and he felt very much relieved. While he ate his supper,
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 5: the dunce made up his mind that he would never
• 2:02:04
  Speaker 5: enter another pickle jar, and to his credit let it
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 5: be said that he has strictly kept his word. End
• 2:02:16
  Speaker 5: of chapter twenty-five the clown falls off a spool and
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 5: knocks down a house after his experience in the pickle
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  Speaker 5: jar the dunce made a resolution to try to be
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  Speaker 5: good whenever he went into a big house but the
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  Speaker 5: busy little fellow couldn't keep out of mischief and it
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  Speaker 5: wasn't long before he got into trouble again He didn't
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  Speaker 5: really mean to be naughty, for he was a most
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  Speaker 5: kind-hearted little chap, but being so full of life and
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  Speaker 5: so curious, he simply couldn't be quiet. He loved to
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  Speaker 5: look into everything he saw, and being a good climber,
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  Speaker 5: he wanted to crawl over everything. The little people had
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  Speaker 5: been skating all morning, and they had stopped at a
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  Speaker 5: house on their way home to warm themselves. The dunce
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  Speaker 5: had gone prowling about the place and had found a
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  Speaker 5: child's playroom with many wonderful toys in it, which he
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  Speaker 5: wished his friends to see.' Jiminy Christmas!' he shouted.' There' s
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  Speaker 5: building blocks and dolls and chairs and tables and everything.
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  Speaker 5: Come on in!' The teeny-weenies followed the dunce to a
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  Speaker 5: nursery where they found all sorts of pretty toys. the
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  Speaker 5: little folks enjoyed themselves for some time looking at the
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  Speaker 5: many playthings but the thing they liked most was a
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  Speaker 5: beautiful arch or house made out of building blocks of
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  Speaker 5: course the dunce had to climb to the very top
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  Speaker 5: of the house where he sat shouting at the teenie
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  Speaker 5: weenies below jenks he cried you get a dandy view
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  Speaker 5: up here i can see way over to the other
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  Speaker 5: side of the room you'd better come down warned the
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  Speaker 5: doctor the first thing you know you'll fall off and
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  Speaker 5: break your foolish neck at this moment the clown who
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  Speaker 5: had been balancing himself on a spool suddenly slipped and
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  Speaker 5: went crashing into the house run for your lives screamed
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  Speaker 5: the cook as the house toppled forward one of the
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  Speaker 5: small boys who had started to climb up the house
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  Speaker 5: clung screaming to the column and the dunce gave a
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  Speaker 5: mighty leap off the top while those who were on
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  Speaker 5: the floor ran with all their might the house came
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  Speaker 5: crashing down And it was the luckiest thing in the
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  Speaker 5: world that no one was badly hurt. Outside of being
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  Speaker 5: badly scared and pretty well shaken up, the small boy
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  Speaker 5: and dunce were none the worse for their fall. This
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  Speaker 5: is a fine pickle, said the general. Now we'll have
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  Speaker 5: to get pulleys and ropes and build this house up
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  Speaker 5: again just as we found it. the teenie weenies hurried
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  Speaker 5: home for the necessary tools and it took fully four
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  Speaker 5: hours of hard work to build the house again just
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  Speaker 5: as they had found it the little folks did the
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  Speaker 5: work so well that the children who had first built
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  Speaker 5: the house never suspected for a moment what had happened
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  Speaker 5: to it that night rufus rhyme wrote a verse about
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  Speaker 5: the dunce's fall it was called humpty dumpty dunce and
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  Speaker 5: here it is just as the poet set it down
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  Speaker 5: Twenty times a day or more the dunce goes tumbling
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  Speaker 5: on the floor. He must be made of iron and
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  Speaker 5: rocks to stand so many bumpy knocks. End of chapter
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  Speaker 5: 26 Chapter 27 of Adventures of the Teenie Weenies This
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  Speaker 5: is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the
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  Speaker 5: This section has been read by Roslyn Curlile. Adventures of
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  Speaker 5: the Teenie Weenies by William Donaghey Chapter 27 The Army
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  Speaker 5: is Put.
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  Speaker 3: To Route.
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  Speaker 5: The old derby hat which the Teenie Weenies used as
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  Speaker 5: a schoolhouse was also used as an armoury. The second
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  Speaker 5: floor was given over to the army and here the
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  Speaker 5: little soldiers drilled every Wednesday night. Their tiny guns and
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  Speaker 5: uniforms were kept in little cases which stood around the room.
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  Speaker 5: The uniforms were spotless and the tiny guns shone as
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  Speaker 5: bright as the new moon. About four times a year,
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  Speaker 5: the general ordered the army out for a practice march.
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  Speaker 5: It toughens the men up. and makes better soldiers out
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  Speaker 5: of them, he said. And most of the little soldiers
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  Speaker 5: seemed to like the experience. One morning, a tiny paper
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  Speaker 5: was pasted on the bulletin board, and this is what
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  Speaker 5: it said, just as it was written by the general.
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  Speaker 5: Special Notice Thursday morning at eight o'clock, every enrolled member
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  Speaker 5: of the army will meet at the armory for a
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  Speaker 5: practice march to the big woods and back. The General,
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  Speaker 5: Commander-in-Chief of the Teenie Weenie Army. Ah, Crickety, growled the
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  Speaker 5: dunce when he had read the notice. It's too cold
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  Speaker 5: to go marching around in the snow. It won't hurt
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  Speaker 5: you any, said Paddy Pin, who was standing near. It's
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  Speaker 5: good for you. That's what it is. It's good for you.
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  Speaker 5: it may be good for me all right answered the
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  Speaker 5: dunce but it would be much better for me to
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  Speaker 5: be sitting in front of the fire in weather like
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  Speaker 5: this on thursday morning the little men gathered at the
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  Speaker 5: armory promptly at eight o'clock and when they had slipped
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  Speaker 5: into their uniforms the general stepped on to a little
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  Speaker 5: platform at one side of the room and made a
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  Speaker 5: speech men he began While we get a great deal
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  Speaker 5: of good drilling in the armory once a week, it
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  Speaker 5: is quite necessary for us to get out of doors occasionally.
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  Speaker 5: We need the long marches to keep the army in
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  Speaker 5: good shape, for we never know just when it may
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  Speaker 5: be necessary to tackle a hard task, and it is
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  Speaker 5: very wise to be prepared. The soldiers formed in line
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  Speaker 5: in front of the schoolhouse, and when the command was given,
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  Speaker 5: the little army swung off, led by the general, who
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  Speaker 5: looked every inch a commander sitting astride a big grey mouse.
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 5: As the little army trudged along through the snow, they
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  Speaker 5: were suddenly thrown into a panic by the unexpected appearance
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  Speaker 5: of a huge rabbit popped into view over a snowbank
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  Speaker 5: directly in their path. The appearance of the rabbit was
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  Speaker 5: so sudden, the little army were frightened half out of
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  Speaker 5: their wits, and most of the soldiers turned and ran,
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  Speaker 5: in spite of the commands of the old soldier. The mouse,
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  Speaker 5: on which the general rode, reared up on his hind feet,
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  Speaker 5: and the general was tumbled off into the snow.' Well, well,
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  Speaker 5: this is rather unusual,' cried the rabbit. This is the
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  Speaker 5: first time I ever saw anybody run away from me.
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  Speaker 5: I'm usually the one that runs. The rabbit's voice was
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  Speaker 5: so pleasant, the teeny weenies felt sure he would not
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  Speaker 5: harm them, and soon they were gathered all about the
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  Speaker 5: big fellow, feeling his soft fur and asking many questions.
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  Speaker 5: Great grief, exploded the general, picking himself up and brushing
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  Speaker 5: the snow off his coat. That's a fine way to
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  Speaker 5: come bouncing onto an army. You came on us so
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  Speaker 5: quietly and suddenly you gave us a great start. I
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  Speaker 5: have to go along quietly, said the rabbit. I have
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  Speaker 5: to sneak around, for there are so many hunters and
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  Speaker 5: dogs who are always on the lookout for us poor rabbits.
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  Speaker 5: This spring I had thirty-three sons and daughters, and now...
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  Speaker 5: now i am a widower with only seventeen children only
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  Speaker 5: last night i had to call in old doc woodchuck
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  Speaker 5: to take some shot out of my oldest boy's skin
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  Speaker 5: ah mr rabbit cried the poet your sad story has
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  Speaker 5: given me an idea for a verse while you are
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  Speaker 5: talking to my friends here i have been scribbling and
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  Speaker 5: with your kind permission i'll recite what i've written I
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  Speaker 5: would be delighted to hear it if it isn't too long,
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  Speaker 5: said the rabbit. You see, I've got to always be
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  Speaker 5: on the jump. Can't stay very long in one place.
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  Speaker 5: This verse is very short, said the poet. In fact,
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  Speaker 5: it's no longer than its name. It's called The Tale
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  Speaker 5: of a Rabbit. The rabbit's life is full of strife.
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  Speaker 5: His days are short and few, for dodging shot becomes
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  Speaker 5: his lot from the cradle to the stew. A very
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  Speaker 5: truthful and beautiful piece of poetry, said the rabbit, brushing
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  Speaker 5: a tear from his furry cheek. I hope you will
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  Speaker 5: excuse me now, for I must hurry home and call
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  Speaker 5: the roll and see whether any more of my children
• 2:12:05
  Speaker 5: are missing. The teeny-weeny soldiers watched the rabbit hop away,
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  Speaker 5: and then they fell into line and continued their march
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  Speaker 5: to the big woods. Paddy, Penn and the cook had
• 2:12:16
  Speaker 5: gone ahead of the army with food for the soldiers.
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  Speaker 5: They drove one of the army wagons, which was pulled
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  Speaker 5: by a team of mice, and when the hungry little
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  Speaker 5: soldiers arrived, they found a thimble full of hot soup
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  Speaker 5: and other good things to eat. After the men had
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  Speaker 5: rested for a time, they set out on the trip home,
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  Speaker 5: where they arrived safely. A tired, but happy and rosy-cheeked army.
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  Speaker 5: End of chapter 27.
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  Speaker 4: CHAPTER XXVIII COFFING SYRUP General, said the doctor. walking into
• 2:13:19
  Speaker 4: the teeny-weeny sitting-room where the General sat before the fireplace.'
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  Speaker 4: I need some help.'' What' s the trouble, Doc? Has the
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 4: dunce been getting into trouble again?'' No,' answered the Doctor.'
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 4: That bump he got the other day when he tumbled
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 4: off the blockhouse ought to keep him steady for a while.'
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  Speaker 4: And the Doctor drew up a chair and sat down,
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  Speaker 4: while the General threw several matches onto the fire.' What
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to tell you was this,' continued the doctor.'
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  Speaker 4: Several of the children have a bad cough, and—'' I
• 2:13:55
  Speaker 4: knew it! I knew it!' cried the old soldier.' I
• 2:13:59
  Speaker 4: knew they'd get their feet wet.' They were over in
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 4: the garden yesterday, sliding on some ice in a saucer,'
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  Speaker 4: and I told them that ice was dreadfully thin and
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 4: it would break,' and they'd slip in and get wet
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  Speaker 4: and catch their death of cold.' You're right, said the doctor.
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  Speaker 4: They got their feet wet, caught bad colds, and I
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  Speaker 4: haven't a bit of cough syrup in the house. I
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  Speaker 4: know where there's some, cried the clown, who had been
• 2:14:29
  Speaker 4: listening to the conversation. The dunce and I were looking
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  Speaker 4: for some pills to use as bowling balls, and we
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  Speaker 4: saw a big bottle of cough syrup on the bathroom
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  Speaker 4: windowsill of that house next door. We'll go over and
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  Speaker 4: get some for you, doc, said the general. It will
• 2:14:46
  Speaker 4: do us good to have the exercise. Glad of an
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  Speaker 4: excuse to get out, the teeny-weenies were soon on their
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  Speaker 4: way after the cough syrup. The windowsill on which the
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  Speaker 4: bottle of syrup stood was very high, but the clown
• 2:15:01
  Speaker 4: and the cowboy soon climbed to the top, lowering a
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 4: piece of thread that two teeny-weenies had carried between them
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 4: for just such use. They soon pulled the rest of
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  Speaker 4: the little people up beside them. Now, said the Turk,
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  Speaker 4: who had been examining the bottle of syrup. Four or
• 2:15:19
  Speaker 4: five of you fellows get hold and tip the bottle,
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  Speaker 4: and I'll hold the spoon somebody has thoughtfully left beside it,
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  Speaker 4: while you pour out a dose.' Goodness gracious!' cried the
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  Speaker 4: lady of fashion.' We don't need a whole spoonful.'' Well,
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  Speaker 4: it says on the bottle,' One teaspoonful for children,' said
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  Speaker 4: the Turk.' So it does!
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  Speaker 5: So it does!
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  Speaker 4: cried the little lady as she stood on her tiptoes
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  Speaker 4: and carefully read the label on the bottle.' You see
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  Speaker 4: I'm right, don't you?' said the Turk.' The doctor told
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  Speaker 4: me to read carefully what it said on the bottle,
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  Speaker 4: and to bring about three doses. It says one teaspoonful
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  Speaker 4: is a dose for children, so we'll take about three spoonfuls.''
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  Speaker 4: But that does seem an awful lot of medicine,' said
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  Speaker 4: the Lady of Fashion doubtfully. It makes no difference, announced
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  Speaker 4: the Turk. I'm going according to directions. The teeny weenies
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  Speaker 4: poured out three spoonfuls of the syrup, which filled half
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  Speaker 4: an English walnut shell. Mercy on us, cried the doctor
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  Speaker 4: when he saw the teeny weenies carrying the heavy load
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  Speaker 4: of syrup up the walk to the shoe house. You
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  Speaker 4: don't bathe in cough syrup. Well, muttered the Turk, I
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  Speaker 4: went according to directions.' The directions are all right for
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  Speaker 4: big children,' laughed the doctor,' but ours are teeny-weeny children.'' Oh, my!'
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 4: exclaimed the Turk.' I never thought of that.'' Well, we
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  Speaker 4: can put it away and keep it,' said the doctor,'
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  Speaker 4: for it's likely we'll need it again before the winter
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  Speaker 4: is over.' The doctor took out enough of the syrup
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  Speaker 4: to give the children each several doses, and the rest
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  Speaker 4: was put in the half of a large English walnut.
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  Speaker 4: It was then carried to the cellar, covered tightly, and
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  Speaker 4: put away for future use. Of course, the dunce had
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  Speaker 4: to get into trouble while the rest of the teeny-weenies
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 4: were getting the syrup. He climbed to the top of
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  Speaker 4: the talcum-powder box, which stood on the windowsill, and when
• 2:17:29
  Speaker 4: he tried to pull the Chinaman up, the foolish fellow
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 4: slipped and tumbled off. He nearly fell on top of Zip,
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  Speaker 4: but that little chap managed to get safely out of
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  Speaker 4: the way. the dunce was badly shaken up by the
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  Speaker 4: fall and he almost knocked out one of his teeny-weeny
• 2:17:46
  Speaker 4: teeth that's the last time I'll ever try climbing onto
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  Speaker 4: a talcum-powder box, he said as he felt the tooth
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 4: which had been bumped. They're so awfully slippery. End of
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  Speaker 4: chapter 28.
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  Speaker 5: Chapter 29 of Adventures of the Teenie Weenies. This chapter
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  Speaker 5: has been read by Rosalind Carlyle. This is a LibriVox recording.
• 2:18:15
  Speaker 5: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
• 2:18:18
  Speaker 5: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. The Clown Has
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  Speaker 5: a Narrow Escape Well, we're going to have a change
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  Speaker 5: in the weather, announced Grandpa, as he peered out the
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  Speaker 5: tiny sitting-room window at the sky. What makes you think so?
• 2:18:41
  Speaker 5: asked the Turk, who was playing checkers with the cook.
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  Speaker 5: That toe of mine is hurting, answered the old man,
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  Speaker 5: and that's a sure sign there's going to be a change.
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  Speaker 5: And with this prophecy, Grandpa shuffled upstairs to bed. Grandpa
• 2:18:59
  Speaker 5: was quite right about the change in the weather, for
• 2:19:02
  Speaker 5: it grew cold in the night, and the lady of fashion,
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  Speaker 5: who had to get up about midnight to give several
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  Speaker 5: of the children their cough syrup, noticed that the snow
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  Speaker 5: was falling. In the morning, the ground was covered with
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  Speaker 5: almost an inch of soft white snow, and the little
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  Speaker 5: people shivered as they slept on their tiny clothes. After breakfast,
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  Speaker 5: several of the teeny-weenies went out to play in the snow.
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  Speaker 5: but most of the little people were contented to sit
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  Speaker 5: before the warm fire. This snowstorm reminds me of an
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  Speaker 5: experience of mine in forty-nine, said Grandpa, who pulled his
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  Speaker 5: chair so near the fire he almost scorched his shins.
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  Speaker 5: I was cutting up an old ruler for firewood one
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  Speaker 5: afternoon when— Help!
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  Speaker 2: Help!
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  Speaker 5: Screamed a voice from outside. What's that? cried the general,
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 5: jumping to his feet. Suddenly the front door burst open
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  Speaker 5: and a frightened teeny-weeny boy sprang into the room.
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  Speaker 4: Quick!
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  Speaker 13: Help!
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  Speaker 5: Panted the small boy. The clown has broken through the
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  Speaker 5: ice and he can't get out.
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  Speaker 3: Quick!
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  Speaker 4: Help!
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  Speaker 5: Land's sakes! cried the general. Where's the clown? he's over
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  Speaker 5: in the chicken yard in a pan of water gasped
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  Speaker 5: the small boy with all speed the teenie weenies made
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  Speaker 5: their way to the chicken yard as they hurried up
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  Speaker 5: to the pan they could hear the clown faintly crying
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  Speaker 5: for help The Turk and the cook boosted the sailor
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  Speaker 5: up to the top of the pan, where he caught
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  Speaker 5: on and pulled himself over the edge. The poor clown's
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  Speaker 5: head was only just out of the water, and he
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  Speaker 5: was holding fast to the edge of the ice.' Throw
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  Speaker 5: me a board, or a match, or something strong!' shouted
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  Speaker 5: the sailor to the others waiting below. At once the
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  Speaker 5: little people began to dig about in the snow for
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  Speaker 5: the desired board. oh dear cried the dunce if we
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  Speaker 5: only had a straw i always heard a that a
• 2:21:14
  Speaker 5: drowning man catches at a straw here shouted the old
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  Speaker 5: soldier here's a burnt match but it's frozen to the
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  Speaker 5: ground the turk grabbed the match and with a mighty
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  Speaker 5: heave he pulled it free and threw it up to
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  Speaker 5: the waiting sailor the sailor carefully pushed the match out
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  Speaker 5: across the hole and with its help he soon pulled
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  Speaker 5: the half-frozen clown from the water the poor fellow was
• 2:21:43
  Speaker 5: carried quickly to the shoe-house where he was given a
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  Speaker 5: hot bath wrapped up in a warm comforter and set
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  Speaker 5: before the fireplace the cook made cocoa for the clown
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  Speaker 5: and brought it to him steaming hot' J- Geminy F-Fishooks!' stuttered
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  Speaker 5: the dunce as he watched the clown sip the delicious cocoa.'
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  Speaker 5: I- I- I- I wish I'd have fallen into the pan so I
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  Speaker 5: could get some of that good cocoa.'' You don't need
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  Speaker 5: to fall in a pan to get some,' laughed the
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  Speaker 5: kind-hearted little cook.' I' ll bring you some.' And in a
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  Speaker 5: few seconds, he handed the dunce a steaming cup. Oh, crackety,
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  Speaker 5: but this is good, cried the dunce as he sat
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  Speaker 5: down beside the clown. Germany, I'm glad you fell into
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  Speaker 5: that pan. So am I, answered the clown as he
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  Speaker 5: drained his cup. now i want you to tell me
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  Speaker 5: how this happened said the general when the clown had
• 2:22:55
  Speaker 5: finished his cocoa why a couple of us were skating
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  Speaker 5: said the clown and all at once the ice cracked
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  Speaker 5: and-and i fell in Now then, I don't want to
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  Speaker 5: hear of any more skating in pans, said the general,
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  Speaker 5: shaking his finger at the open-mouthed teeny-weenies standing about. Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 5: several meekly answered. That is, continued the general, unless they
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  Speaker 5: are shallow pie pans out of which you could wade. Remember,
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  Speaker 5: we will promise the little people. End of chapter twenty-nine.
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  Speaker 3: CHAPTER XXX. A SQUELL TO THE RESCUE. The weather continued
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  Speaker 3: cold for several days, and the Teenie Weenies enjoyed almost
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  Speaker 3: a solid week of skating. An oil-dripping pan, which stood
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  Speaker 3: under a water spout at the corner of the big
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  Speaker 3: house nearby, made a wonderful place to try out their
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  Speaker 3: tiny skates. The ice was fully an inch thick, and
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  Speaker 3: it was frozen solid. It made a safe place to skate.
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  Speaker 3: The little people had a fine time on the smooth ice,
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  Speaker 3: but at the end of the week a thaw set in,
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  Speaker 3: and they were forced to walk for their exercise. I'd
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  Speaker 3: advise you people to go out and take a long walk.
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  Speaker 3: for I am going to have a dandy dinner, and
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  Speaker 3: I want you to have good appetite, so you'll enjoy it,
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  Speaker 3: said the cook Sunday morning as he stood tying on
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  Speaker 3: his apron in the teeny-weeny dining-room door.
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  Speaker 12: What are you going to have for dinner?
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  Speaker 3: Asked the dunce. A baked prune? Well, here's the menu,
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  Speaker 3: grinned the cook. Potato soup, planked minnow, mashed peas and
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  Speaker 3: grape salad. For dessert, we'll have a date stuffed with
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  Speaker 3: chopped nuts and whipped cream. Oh, good, good, shouted the dunce,
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  Speaker 3: catching the lady of fashion around the waist and dancing
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  Speaker 3: about the room. In a few minutes, the teeny weenies
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  Speaker 3: bundled themselves into the warm mugs, sweaters and mittens and
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  Speaker 3: started out on a long walk. Let's go down to
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  Speaker 3: the creek and see if it's frozen over, said the general.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't been down that way for a long time,
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  Speaker 3: and it will make a nice.
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  Speaker 4: Walk for us.
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  Speaker 3: There was quite a lot of snow on the ground,
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  Speaker 3: but as it was rather solid, the little people were
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  Speaker 3: able to walk on it without much trouble. And in
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  Speaker 3: a short time they stood on the bank of the creek.
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  Speaker 3: For some time the teeny weeny stood. watching the huge
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  Speaker 3: cakes of ice as they floated down the stream in
• 2:26:18
  Speaker 3: order to get a better view the lady of fashion
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  Speaker 3: and the doctor stepped out on a piece of ice
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  Speaker 3: which had not been broken away from the bank and
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  Speaker 3: to the horror of the little people the piece of
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  Speaker 3: ice on which they stood snapped off and floated out
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  Speaker 3: into the surging stream it was impossible to swim among
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  Speaker 3: the sharp cakes of ice as a teeny weeny would
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  Speaker 3: have been ground to pieces for some of the cakes
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  Speaker 3: of ice were as big as soda-crackers oh jiminy cricket
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  Speaker 3: cried the frightened dunce The lady of fashion and the
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  Speaker 3: doctor will be drowned, and they won't get any of
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  Speaker 3: that good dinner.
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  Speaker 14: The cook is getting ready for us.
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  Speaker 3: And the poor dunce burst into tears.
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  Speaker 14: Hold on a minute, Doc.
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  Speaker 12: Shouted a voice and to the astonishment of the frightened
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  Speaker 12: teenie weenies a squirrel ran up a bush which hung
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  Speaker 12: over the stream hanging by his front feet the squirrel
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  Speaker 12: swung his body down over the stream so that his
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  Speaker 12: bushy tail was only an inch or two from the
• 2:27:30
  Speaker 12: water and as the lady of fashion and the doctor
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  Speaker 12: floated by he yelled to the doctor to catch on
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  Speaker 12: Catching the lady of fashion about the waist, the doctor
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  Speaker 12: grabbed the tail, and the squirrel quickly pulled the two
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  Speaker 12: teeny weenies up to the bush, down which they safely
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  Speaker 12: crawled to the bank. The teeny weenies were not the
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  Speaker 12: only ones who enjoyed a good dinner that day, for
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  Speaker 12: the little people presented the squirrel and his wife with
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  Speaker 12: four hickory nuts, five English walnuts, and a half-dozen almonds,
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  Speaker 12: for his bravery in rescuing the Lady of Fashion and
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  Speaker 12: the Doctor.
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  Speaker 13: CHAPTER XXXI. A CHRISTMAS PRESENT On Christmas morning the dunce
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  Speaker 13: was first to jump out of bed. While he was
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  Speaker 13: getting into his teeny-weeny clothes, he happened to glance out
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  Speaker 13: of the tiny window.' G- g- g- great cat-c-c-catfish!' he yelled. His eyes
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  Speaker 13: nearly popped out of his head, for on the walk
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  Speaker 13: before the schoolhouse stood a huge box.' Get up, D-d-d-dairy!'
• 2:29:09
  Speaker 13: cried the dunce, pulling the bedclothes from the sleeping clown.'
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  Speaker 13: There' s a c-c-c-christmas p-p-p-present in the front yard, and it's
• 2:29:18
  Speaker 13: as big as-as-as a chimney! It's as big as everything!'
• 2:29:22
  Speaker 13: and Dunce dashed out of the house at top speed.
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  Speaker 13: All the little folks had been awakened by the noisy dunce,
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  Speaker 13: and in a few minutes they came pouring out of
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  Speaker 13: the shoehouse like a stream of water.' It' s got a
• 2:29:34
  Speaker 13: stamp on it and everything!' shouted the excited dunce, who
• 2:29:37
  Speaker 13: had crawled up onto the box.' It' s addressed to us, too.
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  Speaker 13: The mailman must have left it.
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  Speaker 3: Hooray!
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  Speaker 13: And the dunce danced in such a comical way that
• 2:29:47
  Speaker 13: all the little folks nearly burst from laughing. Some kind
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  Speaker 13: person had sent the little people a pound box of candy,
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  Speaker 13: and they were too excited to eat their breakfast, so
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  Speaker 13: the general told them they could open the box at once.
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  Speaker 13: It took a great deal of labor for the little
• 2:30:03
  Speaker 13: folks to cut away the paper and remove the box cover.' Oh, Williker!'
• 2:30:07
  Speaker 13: howled the dunce, when the cover had been removed.' It' s
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  Speaker 13: full of chocolates and bonbons and great cat-size! There's a
• 2:30:14
  Speaker 13: stick of peppermint candy!'' I don't know where in the
• 2:30:17
  Speaker 13: world we're going to store all this candy,' said the general.
• 2:30:20
  Speaker 13: There's enough to last us a year. You can store
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  Speaker 13: it in my bedroom, cried the dunce, only just leave
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  Speaker 13: enough room for me to sleep in. You mean leave
• 2:30:29
  Speaker 13: enough room so you can eat yourself to death, laughed
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  Speaker 13: the cowboy. We can put a little of it in
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  Speaker 13: the cellar, said the cook, maybe two or three pieces.
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  Speaker 13: There's room for four or five pieces in the tool-house,
• 2:30:42
  Speaker 13: suggested the old soldier, and I think we can put
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  Speaker 13: the rest in the upper floor of the school-house. It
• 2:30:47
  Speaker 13: was decided to store as much as possible in the schoolhouse,
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  Speaker 13: and the little men began carrying the candy as fast
• 2:30:53
  Speaker 13: as they could. We can't put any more in here,
• 2:30:56
  Speaker 13: shouted the old soldier, who came running out of the
• 2:30:58
  Speaker 13: schoolhouse after several pieces had been stored away. We've stored
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  Speaker 13: eight chocolates and a stick of peppermint upstairs, and the
• 2:31:06
  Speaker 13: beams have begun to bend. The floor will come tumbling
• 2:31:09
  Speaker 13: down if we put another piece up there. Other places
• 2:31:13
  Speaker 13: had to be found to store the candy, and when
• 2:31:15
  Speaker 13: the last piece had been put away, There wasn't a
• 2:31:18
  Speaker 13: bit of vacant space left anywhere in the little houses
• 2:31:21
  Speaker 13: under the rosebush. Great grief! exclaimed the general, when the
• 2:31:25
  Speaker 13: last piece had been tucked away. We'll have enough candy
• 2:31:28
  Speaker 13: to last us the rest of our natural lives. Don't
• 2:31:31
  Speaker 13: you worry about that, general, cried the dunce. I can
• 2:31:34
  Speaker 13: eat a whole chocolate myself. After the teeny-weenies had eaten
• 2:31:38
  Speaker 13: their Christmas dinner, a whole chocolate was placed on the table,
• 2:31:41
  Speaker 13: and every one of the little people was allowed to
• 2:31:43
  Speaker 13: eat all the candy he wanted. The dunce ate himself sick,
• 2:31:47
  Speaker 13: but the next morning he was ready for more, and
• 2:31:49
  Speaker 13: the General made up his mind that the candy would
• 2:31:52
  Speaker 13: not last as long as he first thought it would.
• 2:31:55
  Speaker 13: Several of the candy stuffed with nuts and these the
• 2:31:57
  Speaker 13: teeny-weenies gave to their friend the squirrel, but most of
• 2:32:00
  Speaker 13: it they kept for themselves, and several pieces are still
• 2:32:03
  Speaker 13: stored this very minute in the little house under the rose-bush.
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  Speaker 13: End of Chapter Thirty-One.
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  Speaker 14: Chapter Thirty-Two ADVENTURES OF THE TEENIE WEENIES This is a
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  Speaker 14: by Natalia Baikov. ADVENTURES OF THE TEENIE WEENIES by William
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  Speaker 14: Donaghey Mother Bunch Drinks a Toast Well, my toe was
• 2:32:43
  Speaker 14: on the rampage again, announced Grandpa. several evenings after the
• 2:32:47
  Speaker 14: rescue of the doctor and the lady of fashion. Whenever
• 2:32:50
  Speaker 14: that old toe gets to hurting, just look out for
• 2:32:53
  Speaker 14: a change in the weather. It'll be mighty cold tomorrow,
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  Speaker 14: or I'm no weather prophet. I hope it gets cold
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  Speaker 14: enough to freeze the ice again. That's what I do,
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  Speaker 14: cried Paddy Pin, who was fond of skating and had
• 2:33:04
  Speaker 14: some new racing skates that he was anxious to try.
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  Speaker 14: I remember once in 49, said Grandpa. when the ice
• 2:33:12
  Speaker 14: was frozen about six inches deep. I had to—' But
• 2:33:16
  Speaker 14: he got no further with his story, for the teeny
• 2:33:19
  Speaker 14: weenies started upstairs to bed, and the old gentleman soon
• 2:33:23
  Speaker 14: followed their example. The next morning the weather was very cold,
• 2:33:27
  Speaker 14: and the teeny weenies were quite happy to stay indoors
• 2:33:30
  Speaker 14: where it was warm and comfortable. The Chinaman was braver
• 2:33:33
  Speaker 14: than the rest, for that little chap wrapped himself up
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  Speaker 14: good and warm and set out to visit a mouse
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  Speaker 14: that lived near the rosebush. Hey there, you Chinaman, shouted
• 2:33:42
  Speaker 14: a voice as the little fellow hurried past a chicken yard.
• 2:33:46
  Speaker 14: The Chinaman glanced up at a huge chicken head that
• 2:33:49
  Speaker 14: smiled down at him through the slats on the fence,
• 2:33:51
  Speaker 14: and taking off his hat, he made a very polite bow.
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  Speaker 14: Good mornings, said the little chap. It must be good mornings. Cold,
• 2:34:01
  Speaker 14: exclaimed the old hen. I should say it was. I
• 2:34:05
  Speaker 14: feel just like a feathered icicle, and I wish I
• 2:34:08
  Speaker 14: had a pair of nice warm felt boots for my feet.
• 2:34:11
  Speaker 14: They're as cold as a doorknob. Ollie say me muchy sorry,
• 2:34:15
  Speaker 14: and me will give you me muffler, said the little fellow,
• 2:34:18
  Speaker 14: unwinding the tiny scarf from about his neck.
• 2:34:21
  Speaker 15: I'm much obliged, I'm much obliged, but whistling gizzard, that
• 2:34:26
  Speaker 15: little muffler of yours wouldn't keep my little toenail warm,
• 2:34:29
  Speaker 15: laughed the old hen. However- There is something you can
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  Speaker 15: do for me which would help me a great deal.
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  Speaker 14: Only same you tell me and me be much glad
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  Speaker 14: to help, cried the Chinaman. Well, said Mother Bunch, for
• 2:34:44
  Speaker 14: that was the old hen's name. I'm as dry as
• 2:34:47
  Speaker 14: a Saratoga chip. I haven't had a drink for three days.
• 2:34:51
  Speaker 14: There's a pan of water in my coop, but it's froze.
• 2:34:55
  Speaker 14: I beg your pardon, I mean frozen. I've pecked at
• 2:34:59
  Speaker 14: the ice with my bill until it's as sore as
• 2:35:02
  Speaker 14: an ingrown pinfeather, and I haven't made a dent in it.
• 2:35:05
  Speaker 14: All he say me tell Glennerle, and he come up
• 2:35:07
  Speaker 14: click and chop hole in ice, shouted the Chinaman. That's
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  Speaker 14: the idea, that's the idea, exclaimed the old hen. You see,
• 2:35:17
  Speaker 14: the folks who feed me just throw the corn into
• 2:35:19
  Speaker 14: the pan, and they never look at the pan of water,
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  Speaker 14: and of course they never suspect that it's frozen. If
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  Speaker 14: you tell the general to come over and cut a
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  Speaker 14: hole so I can get a drink, you will be
• 2:35:30
  Speaker 14: doing an old lady a great favor. Me tell him click,
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  Speaker 14: cried the Chinaman, and off he ran for the shoe
• 2:35:36
  Speaker 14: house as fast as he could. The Chinaman told his
• 2:35:39
  Speaker 14: story to the general, and a few minutes later a
• 2:35:42
  Speaker 14: number of the little people were on their way to Mrs.
• 2:35:44
  Speaker 3: Bunch's coop.
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  Speaker 14: The old hen saw the little people coming, and she
• 2:35:48
  Speaker 14: was so excited, she sat down and laid an egg
• 2:35:51
  Speaker 14: right before the teeny weenies. In just a few minutes,
• 2:35:55
  Speaker 14: the little folks set about cutting a hole in the ice,
• 2:35:58
  Speaker 14: and it was quite a hard task, for the water
• 2:36:00
  Speaker 14: was frozen to the depth of one teeny-weeny foot. Well,
• 2:36:05
  Speaker 14: here's to your health, said Mother Bunch, when the little
• 2:36:08
  Speaker 14: men had chopped a hole through the ice, and dipping
• 2:36:11
  Speaker 14: her big yellow beak into the cold water, she filled
• 2:36:14
  Speaker 14: her bill, and raising her head, she let it trickle
• 2:36:17
  Speaker 14: down her throat. The pan which held the old hen's
• 2:36:20
  Speaker 14: water had a long handle, and the dunce thought it
• 2:36:22
  Speaker 14: great fun to crawl up on the handle and slide
• 2:36:25
  Speaker 14: down to the edge of the pan. He did this
• 2:36:28
  Speaker 14: several times with great success, but finally failed to catch
• 2:36:32
  Speaker 14: the edge of the pan, and he slid off onto
• 2:36:34
  Speaker 14: the ice and dropped, kersplash, into.
• 2:36:37
  Speaker 5: The cold water.
• 2:36:38
  Speaker 14: He was dragged out by the Turk and was sent
• 2:36:41
  Speaker 14: home in disgrace, to the great amusement of the old hen.
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  Speaker 3: Mrs.
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  Speaker 14: Bunch presented the egg she laid to the teeny weenies
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  Speaker 14: for their kindness, and the little people went home, happy
• 2:36:51
  Speaker 14: to have such a friendly neighbor.