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1.18.25 - Part 1 · Children's Hour

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to Radioized Children's Story Hour. As a
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  reminderize a reading service intended for people who are blind
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  or have other disabilities that make it difficult to read
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  printed material. Today we will be reading from books about Twinter.
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  Your reader today is Diane. We will begin with the
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  book Bear and Wolf. It was published by Enchanted Lion Books.
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  It has a copyright ear of twenty eighteen. The author
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  of the book is Daniel Samia. It was a windless
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  night and glowing snowflakes fell through the trees deep in
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  the forest. Bear was out walking when she spotted something
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  poking out from the glistening white. At the same time,
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  Wolf was out walking when he spotted something poking out
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  from the glistening white. When Bear got closer, she could
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  see it was a young wolf. She could see the
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  wolf's pointy snout, smooth gray fur, god nie, and wet
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  black nose. When Wolf got closer, he could see it
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  was a young bear. He could see the bear's big
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  round head, soft black fur, deep brown eyes, and wet
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  black nose. Are you lost, ask spear. No, I'm not lost,
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  Are you asked Wolf? No, I'm not lost. I'm out
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  for a walk to fill the coat on my face
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  and to enjoy the quite of the woods when it snows.
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  Speaker 2: What are you doing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm out for a walk to fill the coat under
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  my paws and listen to the crunching of the snow
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  as I walk. Do you want to walk with me?
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  Ask spear, Sure, said wolf. Bear and wolf walked through
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  the quietly falling snow, using their eyes and ears and
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  noses to take in the snowy woods. They both had thick,
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  warm fur that covered their whole bodies. They were creatures
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  made to be comfortable in the very Barren Wolf smelled
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  to the wet bark of the trees and heard the
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  small sounds the snowflakes made on their fur. They slowed
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  down to look closely at the different shapes high up
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  above the trees. Bird was gliding through the sky, feeling
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  the snowy air on her wings. When she saw through
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  the branches two shapes poking out from the glistening white.
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  She flopped down to rest on a branch to get
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  a better look. Now she could see it was a
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  bear and a wolf walking together, side by side. Barren
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  Wolf continued on through the woods, looking up to notice
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  the bird and passing quietly under the branch where she sat.
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  The snow was slowing as they came to a great
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  clearing in the woods. Both Bear and Wolf had been
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  there before, but that was in the summertime, when the
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  forest was green and bursting with sounds and smells. In
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  the summertime, this place was a round blue lake. Now
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  it was a huge, flat circle of white. They walked
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  out onto the frozen lake and looked down. Bear cleared
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  away some snow with her paw. They looked through the cloudy,
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  frozen water and saw fish floating asleep in the green depths.
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  I have to go now, wolf, said Bear. I have
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  to go back to my cave and sleep through the
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  rest of the winter with my family. I have to
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  go now, also said Wolf. I have to go back
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  to my pack. We are following the scent of Cariboo
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  and have many nights of running ahead of us. I
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  really liked walking with you, said Bear. I really liked
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  walking with you too, said Wolf. I hope they'll meet again.
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  And they turned from each.
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  Speaker 2: Other and walked away.
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  Speaker 1: Bear spent the winter deep in a cave with her family,
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  sleeping dreamlessly in her thick, warm fur, and Wolf spent
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  his winter running silently with this.
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  Speaker 2: Pick, looking for caribou.
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  Speaker 1: Some time passed and winter faded from their part of
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  the earth. The snow melted, the grass and leaves grew again,
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  and birds sang in the tops of trees.
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  Speaker 2: The forest was bursting.
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  Speaker 1: With sounds and smells. Bear was out walking through the
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  deep grass when she spotted something poking out from the
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  swaying green. Bear and wolf walked through the gentle breeze,
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  using their eyes and ears and noses to take in
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  the awakening woods.
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  Speaker 2: Our next book.
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  Speaker 1: Is a nursery rhyms, and it is called My Very
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  First Mother Goose. It was published by candle Wick Press.
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  It's a copywriter of nineteen ninety six. It was edited
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  by Ona Opie. First Chapter one, Jack and Jill. Jack
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  and Jill went up the to fetch a pil of water.
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  Jack fell down and broke his crown, and Jill came
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  tumbling after. Shoe fly, don't bother me, shoe fly, don't
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  bother me, shoe fly, don't bother me. I belong to somebody.
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  Boys and girls come out to play. The moon doth
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  shine as bright as day. Leave your supper and leave
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  your sleep, and join your playfellows.
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  Speaker 2: In the street.
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  Speaker 1: Come with a whoop, and come with a call, Come
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  with a good will, or not at all. Up the
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  ladder and down the wall. A tumpenny loaf will serve us.
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  Speaker 2: All.
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  Speaker 1: You bring milk, and I'll bring flour, and we'll have
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  a pudding in a half an hour. Humpty Dumpty sat
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  on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All
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  the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put
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  Humpty together again. Down at the State early in the morning,
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  See the little puffer billies all in a row. See
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  the engine driver pull his little lever, puff puff peep, peep,
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  Off we go, bah bah, black sheep. Have you any wool, yes, sir, yes, sir?
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  Three bags full, One for the master and one for
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  the Dame, and one for the little boy who lives
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  down the lane. Cockle, cockle, mother, goose. Have you any
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  feathers loose?
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  Speaker 2: Truly?
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  Speaker 1: Have I pretty fellow quite enough to fill a pillow?
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  Little boy blue, come blow your horn. The sheep's in
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  the middle, the cow's in the corn. Where is the
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  boy who looks after the sheep? He's under a haycock,
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  fast asleep. Will you wake him?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: Not I for If I do, he's sure to cry
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  to market, to market to buy a fat pig, home.
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  Speaker 2: Again, home again.
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  Speaker 1: Jiggity jig to market, to market to buy a fat hog,
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  home again, home again, jiggity jug. Wash the dishes, Wipe
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  the dishes. Ring the bell for tea. Three good wishes,
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  three good kisses. I will give to thee Rain on
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  the green grass, and rain on the tree, Rain on
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  the housetop, but not on me. Warm hands warm. The
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  men are gone to plow. If you want to warm
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  your hands. Warm your hands. Now, ride a cuck horse
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  to Banbury Cross to see a fine lady on a
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  white horse. Rings on her fingers and bells on her toes.
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  She shall have music wherever she goes. Trot, trot to Boston, Trot,
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  trot to Lynn, Trot, trot to Salem. Home home again. Horsey, horsey,
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  don't you stop. Just let your feet go clippity clop,
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  your tail go swish, and the wheels go round. Giddy
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  up your homeward bound father, mother and uncle John went
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  to market. One by one fell off, and mother fell off,
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  But uncle John went on and on and on and
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  on and on and on and on. Hey diddle diddle,
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  the cat and the fiddle. The cow jumped over the moon.
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  The little dog laughed to see such fun, and the
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  dish ran away with the spoon, sing a song of sixpence.
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  A pocketful of rye four and twenty blackbirds baked in
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  a pie. When the pie was opened, the birds began
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  to sing. Wasn't that a dainty dish to set before
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  the king? Smiling girls, rosy boys, come and buy my
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  little toys. Monkey's made of gingerbread and sugar, horses painted red,
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  handy spandy, sugary candy, French almond, rock, bread and butter
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  for your supper. That's all your mother's got. Dickery dickery dock.
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  The mouse ran up the clock. The clock strike one,
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  The house ran down degree dickery dock dickery dickery dare.
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  The pig flew up in the air. The man in
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  Brownston brought him down. Dickery dickery dare. There was a
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  crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile. He found
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  a crooked sixpence against a crooked style. He bought a
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  crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse, And they all
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  lived together in a little crooked house, The cops on
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  the housetop blowing his horn. The bulls in the barn
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  are threshing the corn. The maids in the metal are
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  making the hay. The ducks in the river are swimming away.
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  Bat back, Come under my hat, and I'll give you
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  a slice of bacon. And when I bake, i'll give
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  you a cake. If I am not mistaken. Great a
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  little a bouncing bee. The cat's in the cupboard and
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  can't see me. Pat a cake, patty cake, baker's man.
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  Bake me a cake as fast as you can, pat
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  it and cricket, and mark it with a tea. Put
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  it in the oven for Tommy and me. Davy Davy dumpling.
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  Boil him a pot sugar ham and butter him and
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  eat him while he's hot. Little Jack Corner sat in
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  a corner eating his Christmas pie. He put in his
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  thumb and pulled out a plumb and said, what a
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  good boy?
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  Speaker 2: Am I? Hi?
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  Speaker 1: Hi, says Anthony. A puss in the pantry. Nine and
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  nine A mutton mutton bone. See how she tumbles it,
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  See how she mumbles it, See how she tosses the
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  mutton mutton bone, sing saying what shall I sing? The
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  cats run away with a pudding string?
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  Speaker 2: Do do?
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  Speaker 1: What shall I do? The cats run away with the
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  pudding too? Hiketty pickety, my black hen, she lays eggs
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  for gentlemen. Gentlemen come every day to see what my
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  black hen doth lay. Elsie Marley's grown so fine she
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  won't get up to feed the swine. Fit lives in
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  bed too, A nine lazy Elsie Marley.
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  Speaker 2: Pussy Cat, pussy Cat.
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  Speaker 1: Where have you been? I've been to London to look
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  at the queen. Pussy Cat. Pussy Cat, What did you there?
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  I frightened little mouse under her chair. Dance to your daddy,
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  my little baby, dance to your daddy, My little lamb,
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  you shall have a fishy in a little dishy, You
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  shall have a fishy when the boat comes in. Pussy
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  came dancing out of a barn with a pair of
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  bagpipes under her arm. She could sing nothing but fiddle comfy.
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  The mouse has married the bumblebee pipe cat dance Mouse
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  will have a wedding at our good house. Little jumping
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  Joan here I am little jumping Jane. When nobody's with me,
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  I'm all alone. I had a little nut tree. Nothing
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  would it bear but a silver nutmeg and a golden hair.
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  The King of Spain's daughter came to visit me, and
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  all for the sake of my little nut tree. I
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  skipped over water, I danced over sea, and all the
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  birds in the air couldn't catch me up in the
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  wooden hill to blanket fare. What shall we have when
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  we get there? A bucket full of water and a
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  pentethworth of hay gee up, dabbing all the way. If
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  I had a donkey that wouldn't go, do you think
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  I'd beat him?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: No, no, I put him in a barn and give
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  him some corn. The best little donkey that ever was born.
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  From Wibbleton to Wobbleton is fifteen miles. From Wobbleton to
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  Wibbleton is fifteen miles Wibbleton to Wobbleton. From Wobbleton to Wibbleton.
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  From Wibbleton to Wobbleton is fifteen miles. Cobbler, Cobbler, mind
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  my shoe, get it done by half past two. Stitch
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  it up and stitch it down. Then I'll give you
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  half a crown. One two, three four Mary's at the
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  cottage door five six, seven, eight eating cherries off a plate,
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  one for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl,
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  four for a boy, five for silver, six for goat,
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  seven for a secret. Never be told. Whose little pigs
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  are these? These?
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  Speaker 2: These?
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  Speaker 1: Whose little pigs are these? They are Roger the cooks.
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  I know by their looks. I found them among my peas.
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  Good morning, missus Hen. How many chickens have you got, madam?
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  I've got ten. Four of them are yellow, and four
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  of them are brown, and two of them are speckled red.
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  The nicest in the town. Oh, the brave Olduke of York.
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  He had ten thousand men. He marched them up to
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  top of the hill, and he marched.
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  Speaker 2: Them down again.
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  Speaker 1: And when they were up, they were up, And when
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  they were down, they were down. And when they were
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  only half way up, they were neither up nor down.
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  Missus Mason bought a basin. Missus Tyson said, what a nison?
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  What did it cost? Said Missus Frost. Half a crown,
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  said Missus Brown?
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  Speaker 2: Did it? Indeed?
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  Speaker 1: Said Missus Reed? It did for certain, said Missus Burton.
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  Then Missus Nick's up to her tricks through the basin
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  on the bricks. Star light, star bright, first star, I
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  see tonight. I wish, I may, I wish I might
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  have the wish I wish tonight. Sally go round the Sun,
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  Sally go round the moon. Sally go round the chimney pods.
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  On a Sunday afternoon, the moon sees me. I see
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  the moon, and the moon sees me. God bless the moon,
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  and God bless me. The wind, the wind, The wind
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  blows high, the rain comes scattering down the sky. She
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  is handsome, she is pretty. She is the girl of
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  the golden city. She goes to court in one two three,
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  Please and tell me who is she?
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  Speaker 2: Blow?
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  Speaker 1: Wind, blow, and go milk go, that the miller may
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  grind his corn, that the baker may take it into
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  bread and make it, and bring us the loaf in
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  the morn, Greg goose and gander, wapped your wings together,
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  and carry the good King's daughter over the one strand river.
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  Jack be nimbled, Jack be quick, Jack jumped over the candlestick.
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  The man in the moon came down too soon and
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  asked his way to Norwich. He went up by the
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  south and burnt his mouth with sopping cold, plump porridge. Milkman, milkman,
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  where have you been in buttermilk channel up to my chin.
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  I spilled my milk and spoiled my clothes, and I
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  got a long icicle hung from my nose. Polly put
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  the kettle on. Polly, put the kettle on. Allie put
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  the kettle on. We'll all have tea. Suki take it
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  off again, Suki, take it off again, Suki, take it
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  off again.
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  Speaker 2: They've all gone away.
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  Speaker 1: I'll buy you a tartan bonnet and feathers to put
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  upon it with a hush, a bay and a lullaby.
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  Because you are so like your daddy, we Willie Winky
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  runs through the town, upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown,
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  rapping at the window, crying through the lock.
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  Speaker 2: Are the children on in bed for now?
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  Speaker 1: It's eight o'clock, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John Bless the
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  bed that I lie on. Four angels round my bed.
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  Two of them stand at my head, two of them
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  stand at my feet.
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  Speaker 2: All will watch me while I sleep.
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  Speaker 1: The big ship sails on the alley ally O, the
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  alley alley, Oh, the alley ally, Oh, the big ship
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  sails on the alley alley.
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  Speaker 2: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: On the last day of septeb How many miles to
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  Babylon through scores and ten can I get there by candlelight?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and back again.
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  Speaker 1: Open your gates as wide as the sky, and let
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  the king and his men pass by. Matthew, Mark, Luke,
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  and John hold my horse till I leap on. Hold
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  him steady, hold him shirt, and I'll get over the
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  misty Moore.
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  Speaker 2: Our next book is.
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  Speaker 1: About Martin Luther King, Junior, and our story is called Memphis,
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  Martin and the Mountaintop the Sanitation Strike of nineteen sixty eight.
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  It was published by Calkins Creek and Imprint of Highlights.
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  It has a copyright year of twenty eighteen and the
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  author of the book is Alice Faye Duncan. This story
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  was mine from history books and the memories of a
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  Memphis teacher. When she was a child. She marched in
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  the Memphis Sanitation Strike with their mother and father. Men,
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  women and children contribute to to the strike in nineteen
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  sixty eight. Whole families sacrificed their comforts, they suffered for
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  the cause. However, doctor Martin Luther King Jr. Paid the
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  highest cost. He gave his life to the struggle for
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  freedom and justice. Memphis, nineteen sixty eight. I remember Memphis,
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  I remember the stinking sanitation strike. Alley cats, rats and
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  dogs rummaged through piles of trash. Black men marched through
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  Memphis with protests, science raised high. I also marched in
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  sixty eight with red rebins in my hair. I remember
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  Memphis and legions of noblemen. I remember broken glass in
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  the voice of a fallen king. Fire smoke and ashes
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  ravaghed midnight city escapes. Black men march to honor, and
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  I must tell the story. You must tell the story
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  so that no one will forget.
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  Speaker 2: Mud puddles.
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  Speaker 1: The conflicts, starting in January, cold and wet with rain,
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  poor wages for black sanitation workers sparked grumblings of a
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  labor strike. In stormy February, death made the grumbling swell
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  to a loud, blasting rage. I know I was there
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  as clouds covered the Memphis sky. I had skipped outside
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  to splash and play on the sidewalk in mud puddles. Lorraine, Lorraine,
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  My mama called my name. I could feel it. A
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  punishment was on the way. But when Daddy ran up
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  the porch, distressed and out of breath, Mama ignored my
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  muney shoes on her clean kitchen floor. Bad news. Traveled
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  at lightning speed. There was a tragic accident on a
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  Memphis garbage truck. Two black men working in the rain
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  never made it home for dinner. Their names still live
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  with me. Echo Co and Robert Walker dumped garbage with
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  my daddy. Several Memphis garbage trucks were up and unsafe.
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  The trucks were not maintained. According to my daddy. A
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  picker blade malfunction crushing his friends. Daddy told Mama, it
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  ain't right to die like that. Mama shook her head,
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  and I saw new storm rising up. I saw it
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  in their eyes, marching orders. Memphis sanitation workers shared one
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  common trait, Like my daddy. Most of the men were black.
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  They carried rusted garbage sparrows as slop dripped down their clothes.
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  White managers called them ugly names too ugly to repeat.
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  The average pay for sanitation workers was a dollar seventy
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  in an hour. Daddy called it starvation pay. Even with
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  a full time job, he needed government help to buy
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  groceries for our family. Sanitation workers formed a labor union
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  to advocate their rights. Better pacing close at hand. The
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  labor union encouraged better treatment and safety on the job,
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  but the men faced opposition from Memphis Mayor Henry Loeb.
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  Tall like a giant and stubborn like a mule, Mayor
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  Loeb said no to a pay increase. He did not
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  acknowledge the workers labor union, the American Federation of State,
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  County and Municipal Employees Local one seventy three three to
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  insult the men even further. Mayor Loeb gave little assistance
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  to co and Walker families. When they could take the
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  abuse no more oney, three hundred men deserted their garbage barrels.
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  They organized a labor strike on February twelfth, nineteen sixty eight.
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  In the morning and afternoon for sixty five days, sanitation
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  workers marched fourteen blocks through the streets of downtown Memphis
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  from Claiborne Temple to the steps of City Hall. They
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  squared their shoulders, raised their heads, and carried their pigt signs.
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  He marched in that number. He marched for better pay,
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  He marched for decent treatment. My daddy marched for me
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  winter blues. The strike crippled garbage collection. With terrific success.
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  Replacement workers operated thirty eight garbage trucks while whooping one
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  hundred eighty trucks stayed parked at the city barn. Sidewalks
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  turned and sightly. By the end of February, Loose paper
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  with crushed cans, empty boxes, and food scraps littered the
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  Memphis streets. With Daddy on the picket line and less
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  money in the house, he wrote pennies to pay our rent.
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  The phone bill went unpaid one week, we had no lights,
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  and when classmates visited the candy lady on their way
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  home from school, they bought cookies, pickles, and peppermint sticks.
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  I walked home empty handed that year, when I was
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  nine years old, I learned what the grown folks knew.
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  Troubled visits every life. But as strikers marched through sun
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  and rain, help came in many forms. A group of
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  Memphis preachers from Community on the Move for Equality. The
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  organization used church donations to help strikers pay their bills.
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  The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People organized
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  boycotts to support the strike. My mama answered their call.
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  In her right hand, she carried her boycott's sign in
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  her left. She held my hand. Together we marched past
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  downtown stores with shiny storefront windows, pretty shoes, made me smile,
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  But Mama's money stayed in her purse, and I wore
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  old shoes all winter trouble. Every night, Dandy drove his
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  blue Jelope to jam picked rallies where strikers sang freedom songs.
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  We shall come, we shall overcome, we shall overcome. Someday.
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  Music lightened the heavy mood. Dady clapped his large fly hands.
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  He also listened to Memphis preachers who plotted out strike
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  strategies and delivered fiery speeches to encourage the striking men.
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  As winter turned into spring, experienced union leaders with the
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  afscmeme flew into Memphis from Washington, d c. They spoke
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  with the strike workers as advocates and strategists. Still nothing changed.
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  The mayor real no to every labor request. My daddy
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  kept right on marching. One night, as I finished homework
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  in the dark by fading candlelight, Mama pleaded, William, maybe
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  you should quit the strike and go on back to work.
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  Daddy hugged Mama tightly, glad as he insisted we got
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  a hold on till the end. And I heard him promise,
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  trouble don't last always.
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  Speaker 2: Martin.
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  Speaker 1: My daddy was a sanitation worker my mama was a maid.
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  Neither one of them read very well or finished high school.
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  Lifting garbage and cleaning houses was all the work they
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  could find. When mama's boss paid her wages on Friday afternoons,
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  he also put old magazines and newspapers in her carry bag.
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  Mama gave the papers to me, and I would read
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  the headlines to both of my parents, and we'd follow
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  the strike. I read the headlines that early March when
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  strike negotiations felled. But as daddy's sows wore thin on
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  his mountain climb, there came a spark of light.
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  Speaker 2: Good news filled the air.
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  Speaker 1: Reverend James Lawson, an advisor, called his old friend Martin
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  to Memphis. The headlines encouraged to my parents. Daty buzzed
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  around the house. Doctor King is coming to town, Mama
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  told MIAs brooks, our neighbor girl. I can't believe it.
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  Doctor Martin Luther King Junior practiced non violent protest. He
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  was a champion for social change who marched for racial
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  equality across Mississippi, Alabama, and Washington. D c was His
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  persistent demand for justice then inspired President Lyndon B. Johnson
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  to help abolish segregation and sign the Civil Rights Acts.
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  Speaker 2: Of nineteen sixty four.
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  Speaker 1: Since Martin had conquered giants in the Valley of Injustice,
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  Reverend Lawson believed his powerful friends could help the striking men.
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  That was my silent prayers. I leaned against my dady's
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  knee and read the news out louds. We will have
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  to continue this story next time. So this concludes our
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  story our for today. Please join us next time as
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  we will read more stories, fables and fairy tales. Thank
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