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13 - Folk Tales Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie · Folk Tales Every Child Should Know

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  Speaker 1: Chapter twelve of folk Tales Every Child Should Know. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox dot org. Recording by Greg Giardano. Folk Tales Every
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  Speaker 1: Child Should Know, edited by Hamilton Wright maybe chapter twelve
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  Speaker 1: George with the Goat, translated from the Bohemian by A. H.
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  Speaker 1: Ratislaw m A. In sixty folk tales from exclusively Slavonic sources.
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  Speaker 1: There was a king who had a daughter who never
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  Speaker 1: could be induced to laugh. She was always sad, so
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  Speaker 1: the king proclaimed that she should be given to any
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  Speaker 1: one who could cause her to la. There was also
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  Speaker 1: a shepherd who had a son named George. He said, Daddy,
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  Speaker 1: I too will go to see whether I can make
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  Speaker 1: her laugh. I want nothing from you but the goat.
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  Speaker 1: His father said, well, go The goat was of such
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  Speaker 1: a nature that when her master wished, she detained everybody,
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  Speaker 1: and that person was obliged to stay by her. So
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  Speaker 1: he took the goat and went and met a man
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  Speaker 1: who had a foot on his shoulder. George said, why
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  Speaker 1: have you a foot on your shoulder? He replied, if
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  Speaker 1: I take it off, I leap a hundred miles. Whither
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  Speaker 1: are you going? I am going in search of service
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  Speaker 1: to see if any one will take me. Well, come
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  Speaker 1: with us. They went on and again met a man
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  Speaker 1: who had a bandage on his eyes. Why have you
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  Speaker 1: a bandage on your eyes? He answered? If I removed
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  Speaker 1: the bandage, I see a hundred miles. Whither are you going?
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  Speaker 1: I am going in search of service. If you will
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  Speaker 1: take me, yes, I'll take you. Come also with me.
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  Speaker 1: They went on a bit farther and met another fellow
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  Speaker 1: who had a bottle under his arm, and instead of
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  Speaker 1: a stopper, held his thumb in it. Why do you
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  Speaker 1: hold your thumb there? If I pull it out, I
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  Speaker 1: squirt a hundred miles and besprinkle everything that I choose.
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  Speaker 1: If you like, take me also into your service. It
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  Speaker 1: may be to your advantage and ours too. George replied, well,
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  Speaker 1: come too. Afterward they came to the town where the
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  Speaker 1: king lived and bought a silken riband for the goat.
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  Speaker 1: They came to an inn, and orders had already been
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  Speaker 1: given there beforehand that when such people came, they were
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  Speaker 1: to give them what they liked to eat and drink.
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  Speaker 1: The king would pay for all. So they tie the
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  Speaker 1: goat with that very ribond and placed it in the
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  Speaker 1: innkeeper's room to be taken care of, and he put
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  Speaker 1: it in the side room where his daughter slept. The
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  Speaker 1: innkeeper had three maiden daughters who were not yet asleep.
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  Speaker 1: So Manka said, oh, if I too could have such
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  Speaker 1: a rebond, I would go and unfasten it from that goat.
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  Speaker 1: The second Doddla said, don't, he'll find it out in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, but she went notwithstanding, And when Maka did
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  Speaker 1: not return for a long time, the third Kate said,
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  Speaker 1: go fetch her. So Dotdla went and gave Maka a
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  Speaker 1: pat on the back. Come leave it alone, And now
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  Speaker 1: she too was unable to withdraw herself from her, so
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  Speaker 1: Kate said, come, don't unfasten it. Kate went and gave
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  Speaker 1: Dottla a pat on the petticoat, and now she too
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  Speaker 1: couldn't get away, but she was obliged to stay by her.
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  Speaker 1: In the morning, George made haste and went for the
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  Speaker 1: goat and led the whole set away Kate, Dadla and Manka.
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  Speaker 1: The innkeeper was still asleep. They went through the village
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  Speaker 1: and the judge looked out of a window, and said, fye, Kate,
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  Speaker 1: what's this? What's this? He went and took her by
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  Speaker 1: the hand, wishing to pull her away, but remained also
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  Speaker 1: by her. After this, a cowherd drove some cows through
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  Speaker 1: a narrow street, and the bull came rushing round. He
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  Speaker 1: stuck fast, and George led him too in the procession.
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  Speaker 1: Thus they afterward came in front of the castle, and
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  Speaker 1: the servants came out of doors, and when they saw
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  Speaker 1: such things, they went and told the king, oh, sire,
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  Speaker 1: we have such a spectacle here. We have already had
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  Speaker 1: all manner of masquerades, but this has never been here yet.
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  Speaker 1: So they immediately led the king's daughter to the square
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  Speaker 1: in front of the castle, and she looked and laughed
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  Speaker 1: till the castle. Now they asked him what sort of
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  Speaker 1: person he was. He said that he was a shepherd's
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  Speaker 1: son and was named George. They said that it could
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  Speaker 1: not be done, for he was a mean lineage, and
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  Speaker 1: they could not give him the damsel. But he must
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  Speaker 1: accomplish something more for them. He said what They replied
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  Speaker 1: that there was a spring yonder a hundred miles off.
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  Speaker 1: If he brought a goblet of water from it in
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  Speaker 1: a minute, then he should obtain the damsel. So George
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  Speaker 1: said to the man who had the foot on his shoulder.
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  Speaker 1: You said that if you took the foot down, you
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  Speaker 1: could jump a hundred miles. He replied, I'll easily do that.
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  Speaker 1: He took the foot down, jumped and was there. But
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  Speaker 1: after this there was only a very little time to spare,
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  Speaker 1: and by then he ought to have been back. So
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  Speaker 1: George said to the other you said that if you
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  Speaker 1: remove the bandage from your eyes, you could see a
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  Speaker 1: hundred miles. Peep and see what is going on. Ah, sir,
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  Speaker 1: goodness gracious, he's fallen asleep. That will be a bad job,
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  Speaker 1: said George. The time will be up. You third man,
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  Speaker 1: you said, if you pulled your thumb out, you could
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  Speaker 1: squirt a hundred miles. Be quick and squirt thither that
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  Speaker 1: he may get up. And you look whether he is
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  Speaker 1: moving or what. Oh, sir, he's getting up now, he's
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  Speaker 1: knocking the dust off, he's drawing the water. He then
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  Speaker 1: gave a jump and was there exactly in time. After this,
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  Speaker 1: they said that he must perform one task. More that
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  Speaker 1: yonder in a rock was a wild beast, a unicorn,
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  Speaker 1: of such a nature that he destroyed a great many
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  Speaker 1: of their people. If he cleared him out of the world,
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  Speaker 1: he should obtain the damsel. So he took his people
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  Speaker 1: and went into the forest. They came to a fir wood.
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  Speaker 1: There were three wild beasts, and three lairs have been
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  Speaker 1: formed by wallowing as they lay. Two did nothing, but
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  Speaker 1: the third destroyed the people. So they took some stones
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  Speaker 1: and some pine cones in their pockets and climbed up
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  Speaker 1: into a tree. And when the beasts lay down, they
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  Speaker 1: dropped a stone down upon that one, which was the unicorn.
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  Speaker 1: He said to the next, be quiet, don't but me,
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  Speaker 1: it said, I'm not doing anything to you. Again, they
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  Speaker 1: let a stone fall from above upon the unicorn. Be quiet,
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  Speaker 1: you've already done it to me twice. Indeed, I'm doing
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  Speaker 1: nothing to you. So they attacked each other and fought together.
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  Speaker 1: The unicorn wanted to pierce the second beast through, but
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  Speaker 1: it jumped out of the way, and he rushed so
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  Speaker 1: violently after it that he struck his horn into a
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  Speaker 1: tree and couldn't pull it out quickly. So they sprang
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  Speaker 1: speedily down from the fir and the other two beasts
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  Speaker 1: ran away and escaped, But they cut off the head
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  Speaker 1: of the third. The unicorn took it up and carried
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  Speaker 1: it to the castle. Now those in the castle saw
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  Speaker 1: that George had again accomplished that task. What prithee shall
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  Speaker 1: we do? Perhaps we must after all give him the damsel. No, sire,
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  Speaker 1: said one of the attendants, that cannot be. He is
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  Speaker 1: too low born to obtain a king's daughter. On the contrary,
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  Speaker 1: we must clear him out of the world. So the
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  Speaker 1: king ordered them to note his words what he should say.
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  Speaker 1: There was a hired female servant there, and she said
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  Speaker 1: to him, George, it will be evil for you to day.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to clear you out of the world. He answered, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not afraid. When I was only just twelve years old,
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  Speaker 1: had killed twelve of them at one blow. But this
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  Speaker 1: was the fact. When his mother was baking a flat cake,
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  Speaker 1: a dozen flies settled upon her, and he killed them
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  Speaker 1: all at a single blow. When they heard this, they said,
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  Speaker 1: nothing else will do, but we must shoot him. So
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  Speaker 1: they drew up the soldiers and said they would hold
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  Speaker 1: a review in his honor, for they would celebrate the
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  Speaker 1: wedding in the square before the castle. And they conducted
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  Speaker 1: him thither. And the soldiers are already going to let
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  Speaker 1: fly at him. But George said, to the man who
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  Speaker 1: held his thumb in the bottle in the place of
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  Speaker 1: a stopper, you said, if you pulled your thumb out,
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  Speaker 1: you could besprinkle everything. Pull it out quick, Oh sir,
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  Speaker 1: I'll easily perform that. So he pulled out his thumb
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  Speaker 1: and gave them all such a sprinkling that they were
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  Speaker 1: all blind and not one could see. So when they
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  Speaker 1: perceived that nothing else was to be done, they told
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  Speaker 1: him to go, but they would give him the damsel.
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  Speaker 1: Then they gave him a handsome royal robe, and the
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  Speaker 1: wedding took place. I too, was at the wedding. They
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  Speaker 1: had music, there, sang ate and drank. There was meat.
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  Speaker 1: There were cheese, cakes, and baskets full of everything, and
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  Speaker 1: buckets full of strong waters. To day I went. Yesterday
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  Speaker 1: I came. I found an egg among the tree stumps.
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  Speaker 1: I knocked it against somebody's head and gave him a
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  Speaker 1: bald place, and he's got it still. End of chapter twelve.
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  Speaker 1: George with the Goat. Recording by Greg Giardano, Newport Richey, Florida,