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  Speaker 1: Chapter one of the National Nursery Book. This is a
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Phil Chineffeer, The National Nursery Book by unknown.
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  Speaker 1: Little Red riding Hood. Once upon a time there lived
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  Speaker 1: on the borders of a great forest, a woodman and
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  Speaker 1: his wife, who had one little daughter, a sweet, kind
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  Speaker 1: child whom every one loved. She was the joy of
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  Speaker 1: her mother's heart. And to please her, the good woman
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  Speaker 1: made her a little scarlet cloak and hood. And the
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  Speaker 1: child looks so pretty in it, that everybody called her
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  Speaker 1: Little Red riding Hood. One day her mother told her
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  Speaker 1: she meant to send her to her grandmother, a very
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  Speaker 1: old woman who lived in the heart of the wood,
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  Speaker 1: to take her some fresh butter and new laid eggs
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  Speaker 1: and a nice cake. Little Red riding Hood was very
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  Speaker 1: pleased to be sent on this errand, for she liked
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  Speaker 1: to do kind things. And it was so very long
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  Speaker 1: since she had seen her grandmother that she had almost
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  Speaker 1: forgotten what the dame looked like. The wolf the sun
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  Speaker 1: was shining brightly, but it was not too warm under
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  Speaker 1: the shade of the old trees, and Red riding Hood
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  Speaker 1: sang with glee as she gathered a great bunch of
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  Speaker 1: wild flowers to give to her grandmother. She sang so
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  Speaker 1: sweetly that a cushat dove flew down from a tree
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  Speaker 1: and followed her. Now it happened that a wolf, a
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  Speaker 1: very cruel, greedy creature, heard her song also and longed
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  Speaker 1: to eat her for his breakfast. But he knew Hugh
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  Speaker 1: the Woodman was at work very near with his great dog,
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  Speaker 1: and he feared they might hear Red riding Hood cry
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  Speaker 1: out if he frightened her, and then they would kill him.
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  Speaker 1: So he came up to her very gently and said,
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  Speaker 1: good day, little Red riding Hood. Where are you going
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  Speaker 1: to see my grandmother? Said the child, and to take
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  Speaker 1: her a present from mother of eggs and butter and cake.
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  Speaker 1: Where did your grandmama live, asked the wolf, Quite in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the wood. She replied, oh, I think
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  Speaker 1: I know the host. Good day, Red riding Hood, and
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  Speaker 1: the wolf ran off as fast as he could. At
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  Speaker 1: play in the wood, Little Red riding Hood was not
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  Speaker 1: in a hurry, and there were many things to amuse
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  Speaker 1: her in the wood. She ran after the white and
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  Speaker 1: yellow butterflies that danced before her, and sometimes she caught one,
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  Speaker 1: but she always let it go again, for she never
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  Speaker 1: liked to hurt any creature. And then there were the merry,
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  Speaker 1: cunning little squirrels to watch, cracking nuts on the branches
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  Speaker 1: of the old trees. And every now and then a
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  Speaker 1: rabbit would hurry away through the tall ferns, or a
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  Speaker 1: great bee come buzzing near her, and she would stop
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  Speaker 1: to watch it, gathering honey from the flowers and wild thyme.
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  Speaker 1: So she went on very slowly by and by she
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  Speaker 1: saw Hugh the woodman. Where are you going, little Red
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  Speaker 1: riding Hood? Said he all alone. I am going to
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  Speaker 1: my Grandmamma's, said the child, good day. I must make
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  Speaker 1: haste now, for it grows late. Grandmother and the wolf.
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  Speaker 1: While Little Red riding Hood was at play in the wood,
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  Speaker 1: the great wolf galloped on as fast as he could
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  Speaker 1: to the old woman's house. Grandmother lived all by herself,
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  Speaker 1: but once or twice a day a neighbor's child came
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  Speaker 1: to tidy her house and get her food. Now, Grandmother
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  Speaker 1: was very feeble and often kept to her bed, and
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  Speaker 1: it happened that she was in bed the day Little
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  Speaker 1: Red riding Hood went to see her. When the wolf
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  Speaker 1: reached the cottage door, he tapped, Who is there, asked
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  Speaker 1: the old dame Little Red riding Hood. Grannie said the wolf,
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  Speaker 1: trying to speak like the child. Come in, my dear,
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  Speaker 1: said the old lady, who was little deaf. Pull the
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  Speaker 1: string and the latch will come up. The wolf did
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  Speaker 1: as she told him, went in. And you may think
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  Speaker 1: how frightened poor grandmother was when she saw him standing
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  Speaker 1: by her bed instead of Little Red riding Hood. Red
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  Speaker 1: Riding Hood at the door. Very soon the wolf, who
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  Speaker 1: was quite hungry after his run, eat up poor grandmother. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: she was not enough for his breakfast, and so he
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  Speaker 1: thought he would like to eat sweet Red riding Hood also. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: he dressed himself in Grannie's nightcap and got into bed
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  Speaker 1: and waited for the child to knock at the door.
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  Speaker 1: But he waited a long time. By and by, Little
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  Speaker 1: Red riding Hood reached her grandmother's house and tapped at
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  Speaker 1: the door. Come in, said the wolf, in a squeaking voice.
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  Speaker 1: All the string and the latch will come up. Red
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  Speaker 1: riding Hood thought grandmother must have a cold. She spoke
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  Speaker 1: so hoarsely, but she went in at once, and there
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  Speaker 1: lay her Grannie, as she thought, in bed. If you please, grandmamma,
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  Speaker 1: mother sends you some butter and eggs. She said, Come here, dear,
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  Speaker 1: said the wicked wolf, let me kiss you. And Red
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  Speaker 1: Riding Hood obeyed the wolf and the child. But when
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  Speaker 1: Red Riding Hood saw the wolf, she felt frightened. She
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  Speaker 1: had nearly forgotten her grandmother, but she did not think
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  Speaker 1: she had been so ugly grandmamma, She said, What a
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  Speaker 1: great nose you have, All the better to smell with,
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  Speaker 1: my dear, said the wolf. And Grandmamma, What large ears
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  Speaker 1: you have, all the better to hear with my dear, Ah, grandmamma.
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  Speaker 1: And what large eyes you have, all the better to
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  Speaker 1: see with my dear, said the wolf, showing his teeth,
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  Speaker 1: for he longed to eat the child up. Oh, grandmamma,
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  Speaker 1: and what great teeth you have, said Red Riding Hood.
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  Speaker 1: A benner to eat you up with, growled the wolf,
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  Speaker 1: and jumping out of bed, he rushed at Red Riding
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  Speaker 1: Hood and would have eaten her up. But just at
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  Speaker 1: that minute the door flew open, and a great dog
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  Speaker 1: tore him down. The wolf and the dog were still
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  Speaker 1: fighting when Hugh the Woodman came in and killed the
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  Speaker 1: wicked wolf with his axe. Death of the Wolf. Little
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  Speaker 1: Red riding Hood threw her arms round the woodman Ewe's
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  Speaker 1: neck and kissed him and thanked him again and again. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you good kind Hugh, she said, How did you know
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  Speaker 1: the wolf was here in time to save me? Well,
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  Speaker 1: said Hugh, when you were gone by, I remembered that
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  Speaker 1: a wolf had been seen about the wood lately, and
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  Speaker 1: I thought I would just come after you and see
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  Speaker 1: if you were safe. When we were near grandmother's house,
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  Speaker 1: Trim sniffed and ran to the door and whind and
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  Speaker 1: then he pushed it open you had not shut it close,
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  Speaker 1: and rushed in, and I followed him, and between us
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  Speaker 1: we have killed the wolf. Then Hugh took the child home,
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  Speaker 1: and her mother and father could not thank him enough
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  Speaker 1: for saving Little Red Writing Hood. End of Little Red Writing.
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  Speaker 2: Hood, Chapter two of The National Nursery Book. This is
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  Speaker 2: Recording by Sean Bowers. The National Nursery Book by unknown
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  Speaker 2: Puss and boots. Once upon a time there was a
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  Speaker 2: miller who had three sons. When he died, he left
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  Speaker 2: his mill to the eldest son, his ass to the
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  Speaker 2: second son, and his cat to the youngest, who had
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  Speaker 2: always been his favorite. The two eldest sons resolved to
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  Speaker 2: live together, but they would not let their brother live
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  Speaker 2: with them because he had only a cat. So the
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  Speaker 2: poor lad was very sorrowful and wondered what he should
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  Speaker 2: do to get his bread. While he was sitting thinking
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  Speaker 2: about it, Puss jumped up on the table and touched
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  Speaker 2: him with her paw. My dear master, she said, do
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  Speaker 2: not fret. I will get your living for you. Only
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  Speaker 2: you must buy me a pair of boots and give
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  Speaker 2: me a bag. The miller's son had very little money,
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  Speaker 2: but he thought it such a wonderful thing to hear
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  Speaker 2: a cat talk that he could not refuse her request.
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  Speaker 2: So he took Puss to the shoemaker's and got him
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  Speaker 2: to make her a very smart pair of boots, and
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  Speaker 2: then he gave her a nice large bag. The rabbit Warren. Now,
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  Speaker 2: not far from the mill there was a rabbit warren,
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  Speaker 2: and Puss resolved to catch some rabbits for dinner. So
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  Speaker 2: she put some lettuce, leaves and fine parsley into her bag,
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  Speaker 2: went into the warren and held the bag very quietly open,
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  Speaker 2: hiding herself behind it, and little greedy rabbits who knew
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  Speaker 2: no better, ran into it to have a feast. Directly
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  Speaker 2: they were safe in, Puss pulled the string of the
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  Speaker 2: bag and carried them off to her master. The miller's
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  Speaker 2: son killed them and cooked one for dinner, but Puss
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  Speaker 2: took away the other, which was a very fine one,
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  Speaker 2: and hung it up for their next day's meal. But
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  Speaker 2: although their larder was thus provided, early the next day,
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  Speaker 2: Puss took her bag and went again into the warren,
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  Speaker 2: and in the same manner caught two more fine young rabbits,
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  Speaker 2: But instead of carrying them home, she walked to the
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  Speaker 2: king's palace and knocked at the door. Puss at the palace.
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  Speaker 2: The king's porter asked who was there. I have brought
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  Speaker 2: a present to the King, said Puss. Please let me
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  Speaker 2: see his majesty. The porter let her in, and when
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  Speaker 2: Puss came into the King's presence, she made a low bow, and,
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  Speaker 2: taking a fine rabbit out of her bag, said my
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  Speaker 2: Lord Marquis of Carabas sends this rabbit to your majesty
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  Speaker 2: with his respects. I am much obliged to the marquis,
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  Speaker 2: said the king, and he ordered his head cook to
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  Speaker 2: dress the rabbit for dinner. By the king's side sat
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  Speaker 2: his daughter, a very beautiful lady. She ordered one of
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  Speaker 2: the attendants to give Puss a good cup of cream,
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  Speaker 2: which she liked very much, and she went home and
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  Speaker 2: told her master all she had done. The miller's son laughed,
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  Speaker 2: but every morning Puss caught a rabbit and carried it
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  Speaker 2: to the palace with the same message the ogre. Now
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  Speaker 2: in that country there lived a cruel ogre who used
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  Speaker 2: to eat children, so everybody was afraid of him, but
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  Speaker 2: nobody could kill him. He was such a giant. One
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  Speaker 2: day Puss went to call on him. He received her civilly,
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  Speaker 2: for he did not care to eat cats. So Puss
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  Speaker 2: sat down and began to talk. I hear, She said,
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  Speaker 2: great Ogre, that you are so clever that you can
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  Speaker 2: turn yourself into any creature you please. Yes, so I can,
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  Speaker 2: said the ogre. Dear me, said Puss, how much I
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  Speaker 2: should like to hear your ogre ship do it? Then
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  Speaker 2: the ogre, who liked to show how clever he was,
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  Speaker 2: turned himself into a lion and roared so loudly that
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  Speaker 2: Puss was quite frightened and jumped out of the way.
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  Speaker 2: Then he changed back into an ogre again. Puss praised
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  Speaker 2: him a great deal, and then said, can your ogre
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  Speaker 2: ship become a small animal as well as a large one? Oh? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: said the vain ogre, and he changed himself into a
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  Speaker 2: little mouse. Directly Puss saw him in this form, she
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  Speaker 2: jumped at him and killed him on the spot, the
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  Speaker 2: Marquis of Carabas. Then Puss ran home and bade her
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  Speaker 2: master go and bathe in the river, and he should
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  Speaker 2: see what she would do for him. The miller's son obeyed,
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  Speaker 2: and while he was in the water, Puss took away
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  Speaker 2: all his clothes and hid them under a large stone. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the king's carriage came into sight soon after, just as
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  Speaker 2: Puss had expected, for he always drove in that direction,
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  Speaker 2: and directly she saw it, she began to cry very loudly,
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  Speaker 2: help help for my lord, the Marquis of Carabas. The
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  Speaker 2: king put his head out and asked, what was the matter, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: your majesty, said Puss, My master. The marquis was bathing,
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  Speaker 2: and some one has taken away his clothes. He will
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  Speaker 2: catch the cramp and be drowned. Then the King ordered
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  Speaker 2: one of his attendants to ride back to the palace
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  Speaker 2: and get a suit of his own clothes for the marquis,
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  Speaker 2: who had so often sent him gifts, he said, And
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  Speaker 2: when they were brought, Puss took them to her master
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  Speaker 2: and helped him to dress in them. Puss frightens the reapers.
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  Speaker 2: The miller's son looked quite like a gentleman in the
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  Speaker 2: king's clothes, and when he went to thank his majesty
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  Speaker 2: for them, the King asked him to get into the
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  Speaker 2: coach and he would drive him home. Then Puss told
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  Speaker 2: the coachman where to go, and ran on before and
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  Speaker 2: came to some reapers. Reapers said she, if the King
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  Speaker 2: asks you whose field this is, say it belongs to
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  Speaker 2: the Marquis of Carabas. If you don't say so, you
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  Speaker 2: shall be chopped up as small as mincemeat. The reapers
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  Speaker 2: were so frightened that they promised to obey her, and
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  Speaker 2: she ran on and told all the other laborers on
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  Speaker 2: the road to say the same. So, when the king
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  Speaker 2: asked to whom do these fine fields belong the reapers
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  Speaker 2: answered to the Marquis of Carabas. The herdsman said the
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  Speaker 2: same of the cattle, and the king, turning to the
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  Speaker 2: miller's son, said, my lord, you have a fine property.
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  Speaker 2: But all had belonged really to the Ogre, for it
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  Speaker 2: was to his castle. The cunning cat had told the
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  Speaker 2: coachman to drive the castle. At last the coach stopped
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  Speaker 2: at the Ogre's castle, and Puss came out, and, bowing
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  Speaker 2: very low, said your majesty and the princess are welcome
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  Speaker 2: to the castle of my lord, Marquis of Carabas. The
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  Speaker 2: king was delighted, for it was indeed a very nice castle,
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  Speaker 2: fully of riches. They sat down to a great feast,
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  Speaker 2: which Puss ordered to be served, And the king was
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  Speaker 2: so pleased with the miller's son, and thought him such
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  Speaker 2: a good match for the princess, that he invited him
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  Speaker 2: to court, and in a little while gave him his
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  Speaker 2: daughter for his wife, and made him a prince. You
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  Speaker 2: may be quite sure that the miller's son was very
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  Speaker 2: grateful to Puss for his good fortune, and she never
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  Speaker 2: had to catch mice for her dinner anymore, For dainty
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  Speaker 2: meat and the best cream were every day given to
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  Speaker 2: Puss in Boots. End of Puss in Boots recording by
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  Speaker 2: Sean Bowers McKinney, Texas, Random Creative Efforts dot blogspot dot.
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  Speaker 1: Com, Chapter three of the National Nursery Book. This is
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  Speaker 1: Recording by Phil Shnaverar. Old Mother Hubbard. Old Mother Hubbard
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  Speaker 1: went to the cupboard to get her poor dog a bone,
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  Speaker 1: but when she came there, the cupboard was bare, and
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  Speaker 1: so the poor dog had none. She went to the
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  Speaker 1: baker's to buy him some bread, but when she came back,
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  Speaker 1: the poor dog looked dead. She went to the hatters
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  Speaker 1: to buy him a hat, but when she came back,
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  Speaker 1: he was feeding the cat. She went to the barbers
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  Speaker 1: to buy him a wig, but when she came back,
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  Speaker 1: he was dancing a jig. She went to the joiners
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  Speaker 1: to buy him a coffin, but when she came back,
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  Speaker 1: the poor dog was laughing. She took a clean dish
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  Speaker 1: to get him some tripe, but when she came back
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  Speaker 1: he was smoking a pipe. She went to the alehouse
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  Speaker 1: to get him some beer, but when she came back,
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  Speaker 1: the dog sat in a chair. She went to the
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  Speaker 1: tavern for white wine and red, but when she came back,
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  Speaker 1: the dog stood on his head. She went to the
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  Speaker 1: fruitiers to buy him some fruit, but when she came back,
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  Speaker 1: he was playing the flute. She went to the tailor's
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  Speaker 1: to buy him a coat, but when she came back,
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  Speaker 1: he was riding a goat. She went to the seamstress
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  Speaker 1: to buy him some linen, but when she came back
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  Speaker 1: the dog was a spinnin. She went to the hosiers
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  Speaker 1: to buy him some hose, but when she came back
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  Speaker 1: he was dressed in his clothes. She went to the
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  Speaker 1: cobblers to buy him some shoes, but when she came
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  Speaker 1: back he was reading the news. The Dame made a curtsy,
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  Speaker 1: the dog made a bow. The Dame said, your servant.
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  Speaker 1: The dog said bow wow. This wonderful dog was Dame
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  Speaker 1: Hubbard's delight. He could sing, he could dance, he could read,
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  Speaker 1: he could write. So she gave him rich dainties whenever
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  Speaker 1: he fed, and erected a monument when he was dead.
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  Speaker 1: End of Old Mother Hubbard.
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  Speaker 3: Chapter four of the National Nursery Book. This is a
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  Speaker 3: Recording by Christine The National Nursery Book, by unknown, Cock
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  Speaker 3: Robin's Death? Who killed cock Robin? Ay said a sparrow
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  Speaker 3: with my bow and arrow, I killed cock Robin. Who
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  Speaker 3: saw him die?
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  Speaker 4: Ay?
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  Speaker 3: Said the fly with my little eye, I saw him die.
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  Speaker 3: Who caught his blood?
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  Speaker 5: Aye?
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  Speaker 3: Said the fish with my little dish, I caught his blood.
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  Speaker 3: He'll carry him to the grave, Aye, said the kite.
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  Speaker 3: If it's not in the night, I'll carry him to
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  Speaker 3: the grave. Who'll carry the link? I said the linnet.
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  Speaker 3: I'll fetch it in a minute. I'll carry the link.
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  Speaker 3: Who'll make his shroud?
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  Speaker 6: Aye?
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  Speaker 3: Said the beetle. With my thread and needle, I'll make
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  Speaker 3: his shroud. Who'll dig his grave?
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  Speaker 7: Aye?
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  Speaker 3: Said the owl With my spaden shovel, I'll dig his grave.
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  Speaker 3: Who'll toll the bell?
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  Speaker 8: Aye?
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  Speaker 3: Said the bull? Because I can pull, I'll pull the bell.
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  Speaker 3: Who'll be the parson? Aye said the rock With my
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  Speaker 3: little buck, I'll be the parson. Who'll be the clerk?
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  Speaker 4: Aye?
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  Speaker 3: Said the lark, if it's not in the dark, I'll
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  Speaker 3: be the clerk who'll be chief mourner, Aye said the dove,
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  Speaker 3: for I mourn for my love. I'll be chief mourner.
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  Speaker 3: Who'll sing a psalm. Ay said the thrush, as she
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  Speaker 3: sat in a bush, I'll sing a psalm. All the
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  Speaker 3: birds of the air feller singing and sobbing when they
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  Speaker 3: heard a bell tolling for poor cock Robin.
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  Speaker 5: End of Kockrobin's Death, Chapter five of The National Nursery Book.
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  Speaker 5: National Nursery Book. By Unknown Jack and the Beanstalk. Once
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  Speaker 5: upon a time there was a poor widow who lived
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  Speaker 5: in a little cottage with her only son, Jack. Jack
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  Speaker 5: was a giddy, thoughtless boy, but very kind hearted and affectionate.
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  Speaker 5: There had been a hard winter, and after it the
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  Speaker 5: poor woman had suffered from fever and ague. Jack did
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  Speaker 5: not work as yet, and by degree they grew dreadfully poor.
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  Speaker 5: The widow saw that there was no means of keeping
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  Speaker 5: Jack and herself from starvation but by selling her cow.
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  Speaker 5: So one morning she said to her son, I am
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  Speaker 5: too weak to go myself, Jack, so you must take
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  Speaker 5: the cow to market for me and sell her. Jack
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  Speaker 5: liked going to market to sell the cow very much,
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  Speaker 5: but as he was on the way, he met a
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  Speaker 5: butcher who had some beautiful beans in his hand. Jack
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  Speaker 5: stopped to look at them, and the butcher told the
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  Speaker 5: boy that they were of great value and persuaded him
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  Speaker 5: to sell the cow for them. And Jack was so
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  Speaker 5: silly as to consent to this foolish bargain. When he
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  Speaker 5: brought them home to his mother, instead of the money
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  Speaker 5: she expected for her nice cow, she was very vexed
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  Speaker 5: and shed many tears, scolding Jack for his folly. He
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  Speaker 5: was very sorry, but he said he might as well
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  Speaker 5: make the best of his bargain. So he put the
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  Speaker 5: seed beans into the ground close by the side of
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  Speaker 5: the steep hill, under shelter of which their cottage was built,
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  Speaker 5: and went to bed. The next morning, when he got up,
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  Speaker 5: he found that the beans had grown till the beanstalks
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  Speaker 5: reached right over the top of the hill and were
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  Speaker 5: lost to his sight. Greatly surprised, he called his mother,
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  Speaker 5: and they both gazed in silent wonder at the beanstalk,
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  Speaker 5: which was not only of great height, but was thick
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  Speaker 5: enough to bear Jack's weight. I wonder where it goes,
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  Speaker 5: said Jack to his mother. I think I will climb
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  Speaker 5: up and see. His mother wished him not to venture
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  Speaker 5: up this strange ladder, but Jack coaxed her to give
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  Speaker 5: her consent to the attempt, for he was certain there
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  Speaker 5: must be something wonderful in the beanstalk. Jack instantly began
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  Speaker 5: to climb and went up and up on the ladder
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  Speaker 5: like bean till everything he had left behind him, the cottage,
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  Speaker 5: the village, and even the tall church tower looked quite little,
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  Speaker 5: and still he did not see the top of the beanstalk.
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  Speaker 5: Jack felt a little tired and thought for a moment
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  Speaker 5: that he would go back again. But he was a
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  Speaker 5: very persevering boy, and he knew that the way to
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  Speaker 5: succeed in anything is not to give up. So after
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  Speaker 5: resting for a moment, he went on and at last
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  Speaker 5: reached the top of the bean and found himself in
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  Speaker 5: a beautiful country, finely wooded, and not far from the
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  Speaker 5: place where he got off the beanstalk, stood a fine
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  Speaker 5: and strong castle Jack wondered very much that he had
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  Speaker 5: never heard of or seen this castle before, But when
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  Speaker 5: he reflected on the subject, he saw that it was
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  Speaker 5: as much separated from the village by the perpendicular rock
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  Speaker 5: on which it stood, as if it were in another land.
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  Speaker 5: While Jack was standing looking at the castle, a very
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  Speaker 5: strange looking woman came out of the wood and advanced
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  Speaker 5: towards him. Jack took off his hat to the other
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  Speaker 5: old lady, and she said, pointing to the castle boy,
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  Speaker 5: that castle belongs to you. A wicked giant killed your
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  Speaker 5: father and took it from your mother. Try and win
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  Speaker 5: it back from the monster who now has it. As
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  Speaker 5: she ceased speaking, she suddenly disappeared, and of course Jack
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  Speaker 5: knew she was a fairy. He was much surprised. However,
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  Speaker 5: He walked up to the castle door and knocked, and
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  Speaker 5: an old giantess came out. She did not wait till
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  Speaker 5: he spoke, but pulled him in at once, for she
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  Speaker 5: thought he would make a nice supper for her when
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  Speaker 5: her husband was asleep. Just at that moment, however, she
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  Speaker 5: heard the giant's step approaching, so she put Jack into
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  Speaker 5: a press and told him to hide there or the
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  Speaker 5: giant would eat him. As soon as the ogre came in,
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  Speaker 5: he cried in a terrible voice, fee fa fie foe fum,
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  Speaker 5: I smell a breath of an englishman. Oh, said his wife.
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  Speaker 6: There is nobody here.
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  Speaker 5: You only smell a crow that is flying over the chimney.
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  Speaker 5: Then the giant sat down to dinner, which was quite ready,
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  Speaker 5: And when he had eaten a whole sheep, he said,
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  Speaker 5: bring me my hen. The giantess brought a hen and
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  Speaker 5: put it on the table before him, and then she
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  Speaker 5: went away. Lay, said the giant to the hen, and
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  Speaker 5: she laid a golden egg. Jack could see quite plainly
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  Speaker 5: through a little hole which he had bored in the door.
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  Speaker 5: Three times the giant said, lay, and each time the
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  Speaker 5: hen laid a solid gold egg. Then the Jogre, being drowsy,
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  Speaker 5: shut his eyes and soon snored very loudly. Directly, Jack
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  Speaker 5: found that the giant was asleep. He stole out of
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  Speaker 5: the press, caught up the hen, ran out of the room,
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  Speaker 5: opened the door the castle which the giant had left ajar,
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  Speaker 5: and descended the bean stalk as fast as he could go.
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  Speaker 5: His mother was glad to see him again, and much
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  Speaker 5: surprised at seeing the hen, which laid them three gold
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  Speaker 5: eggs every day. Jack's mother took them to the next
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  Speaker 5: town and sold them, and soon grew quite rich. Some
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  Speaker 5: time afterwards, Jack made another journey up the bean stalk
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  Speaker 5: to the giant's castle, but first he dyed his hair
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  Speaker 5: and disguised himself. The old woman did not know him again,
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  Speaker 5: and dragged him in as she had done before, to
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  Speaker 5: eat him by and by. But once more she heard
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  Speaker 5: her husband coming and hid him in the press. Not
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  Speaker 5: thinking that it was the same boy who had stolen
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  Speaker 5: the hen, she put him into the same press and
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  Speaker 5: bade him stay quite still there or the giant would
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  Speaker 5: eat him. Then the giant came in, saying, he fa
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  Speaker 5: fie foe fum, I smell the breath of an englishman.
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  Speaker 5: Oh oh, said his wife, It is only the cowherd
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  Speaker 5: who has just been here. We cannot spare him for
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  Speaker 5: your dinner. Then the giant sat down, and when he
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  Speaker 5: had eaten half an ox, he told his wife to
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  Speaker 5: bring his money bags to him. She instantly went and
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  Speaker 5: fetched two large bags full of gold, and then left
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  Speaker 5: him to go about her usual housework. The ogre counted
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  Speaker 5: out the gold twice over and then put it into
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  Speaker 5: bags and tied them up. In a few minutes, Jack
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  Speaker 5: heard him snore. He directly crept out of the press,
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  Speaker 5: seized the bags, and, hurrying out of the castle, carried
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  Speaker 5: them home quite safely. Jack's mother was glad to see
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  Speaker 5: him safe at home again, and for a long time
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  Speaker 5: she would not let him go up the bean stalk.
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  Speaker 5: But Jack knew he had not yet obeyed the fairy's
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  Speaker 5: command to win back the castle, so after a time,
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  Speaker 5: he set off once more on this adventure and tapped
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  Speaker 5: again at the castle door. The giantess, who was very stupid,
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  Speaker 5: did not know him again, but she stopped a minute
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  Speaker 5: before she took him in. She feared another robbery, but
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  Speaker 5: Jack's fresh cheeks looked so tempting that she could not
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  Speaker 5: resist him, so she bade him come in, but at
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  Speaker 5: that moment she heard her husband's step approaching. Afraid of
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  Speaker 5: losing her supper, the ogress at once shut Jack in
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  Speaker 5: the press, and she had hardly hidden him when the
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  Speaker 5: giant came in, saying, as usual, fee fa fie foe
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  Speaker 5: FuMB isy smell the blood of an englishman. Oh no,
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  Speaker 5: said his wife, It is only the shepherd who has
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  Speaker 5: been up with a sheep for your dinner. The giant
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  Speaker 5: sat down, and when he had eaten a whole sheep,
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  Speaker 5: he said, I should like some music. Bring me my harp.
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  Speaker 5: The ogress went and brought a golden harp to him,
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  Speaker 5: set it on the table, and went away. Then the
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  Speaker 5: ogre said play to the harp, and it played so
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  Speaker 5: delightfully that Jack was charmed by and by. However, the
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  Speaker 5: giant snored so loud that he could not hear the music,
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  Speaker 5: and Jack quickly stole out, and, seizing the harp, ran
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  Speaker 5: away with it. But the harp was a fairy belonging
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  Speaker 5: to the giant, and as Jack ran it cried out, Muster, Muster.
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  Speaker 5: The giant woke up slowly and rushed after Jack, but
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  Speaker 5: the boy was very nimble and out ran him. You
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  Speaker 5: may imagine how fast Jack went down the bean stalk,
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  Speaker 5: this time hearing all the while the tramp of the
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  Speaker 5: giant's feet behind him. Just as he reached the bottom,
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  Speaker 5: the ogre looked down on him. The next moment his
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  Speaker 5: great feet were on the beanstalk. Mother, mother, bring me
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  Speaker 5: the axe, cried Jack. His mother hastened with it, and
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  Speaker 5: just as the giant was half way down the beanstalk.
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  Speaker 5: Jack succeeded, and chopping it in halves. The lower he fell,
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  Speaker 5: the upper half swung away, and the giant, losing his hold,
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  Speaker 5: fell heavily to the ground on his head and broke
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  Speaker 5: his neck. The same moment, the fairy again stood beside Jack, and,
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  Speaker 5: touching the broken beanstalk, was turned into a flight of
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  Speaker 5: broad easy steps. Go up, she said, and take possession
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  Speaker 5: of your own home, so long kept from you. The
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  Speaker 5: ogress is dead and there is no more danger. You
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  Speaker 5: have been brave and good.
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  Speaker 4: May you be happy.
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  Speaker 5: Jack thanked the fairy very warmly for her aid, and
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  Speaker 5: she again departed to Fairyland, after explaining to Jack that
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  Speaker 5: she had been the butcher who had sold him the beans.
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  Speaker 5: End of chapter five. Recording by Mary Anne Weathers.
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  Speaker 9: Chapter six of The National Nursery Book. This is a
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  Speaker 9: Recording by Andrew Olsen. The National Nursery Book by unknown
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  Speaker 9: Tom Thumb. In the days of Good King Arthur, there
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  Speaker 9: lived a countryman and his wife, who, though they had
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  Speaker 9: plenty to eat and to drink and a very comfortable
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  Speaker 9: cottage to live in. Were not at all happy. They
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  Speaker 9: had no children, and they both wished very much for
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  Speaker 9: a baby. The wife was often in tears when her
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  Speaker 9: husband was out at work and she was all alone
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  Speaker 9: because she had not an infant to take care of
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  Speaker 9: and nurse. One day, as she sat weeping by herself,
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  Speaker 9: more than usually sad, she said aloud, if I only
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  Speaker 9: had a dear little baby, I should not care what
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  Speaker 9: it was like. I should be thankful for one if
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  Speaker 9: it were no bigger than my husband's thumb. Now it
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  Speaker 9: happened that the Queen of the fairies was passing by,
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  Speaker 9: though the poor woman could not see her, And as
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  Speaker 9: she knew the farmer's wife was kind to the poor
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  Speaker 9: and likely to be a good mother, she thought she
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  Speaker 9: would grant her wish. So about an hour or two afterwards,
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  Speaker 9: the woman was much surprised to see standing by the
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  Speaker 9: table a very beautiful lady, dressed splendidly, with a glittering
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  Speaker 9: star on her forehead and a wand in her right
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  Speaker 9: hand with a gem of great brilliancy at the top
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  Speaker 9: of it. But what delighted the woman most of all
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  Speaker 9: was a tiny cradle made of a walnut shell lined
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  Speaker 9: with velvet, in which lay the prettiest baby ever seen.
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  Speaker 9: But it was only just as large as a man's thumb. See,
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  Speaker 9: said the fairy, your wish is granted. Here is a
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  Speaker 9: baby for you. Take care of it. It is your own.
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  Speaker 9: The woman did not know how to thank the fairy enough,
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  Speaker 9: she was so delighted, and the queen went away quite
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  Speaker 9: pleased at having given so much happiness. Before the fairy
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  Speaker 9: went away, however, she gave the woman a little shirt
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  Speaker 9: of spider's web and a doublet of thistle down for
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  Speaker 9: the baby. When the farmer came home, he was very
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  Speaker 9: much pleased. He invited all his friends to the christening,
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  Speaker 9: and the child was named Tom after him and thumb,
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  Speaker 9: because he was no bigger than one. The baby was
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  Speaker 9: very well and merry, and grew, of course, but still
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  Speaker 9: it was very small. However, at last Tom thought himself
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  Speaker 9: quite a great boy, and begged his mother to make
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  Speaker 9: him a little suit of clothes. And she made him one,
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  Speaker 9: but with a great deal of trouble. They were so small.
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  Speaker 9: Tom was very often in mischief. He was so small
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  Speaker 9: that his mother used to put him on the table
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  Speaker 9: to play, and once she found him in the salt box.
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  Speaker 9: One day, she was making a plum pudding, and Tom
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  Speaker 9: stood by the side of the basin and peeped over
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  Speaker 9: the edge, but he could not see into it very well,
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  Speaker 9: And while his mother was gone for some more flour,
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  Speaker 9: he drew himself up on the edge of the basin.
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  Speaker 9: Alas he fell in and disappeared in the wet pudding,
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  Speaker 9: which for poor Tom was a huge morass. Tom would
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  Speaker 9: have cried out, but the pudding stuck his lips together,
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  Speaker 9: and his mother, not missing him, stirred him up in
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  Speaker 9: the mixture and put it and him into the pot.
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  Speaker 9: Tom no sooner felt the hot water than he danced
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  Speaker 9: about like mad. The woman was nearly frightened out of
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  Speaker 9: her wits to see the pudding come out of the
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  Speaker 9: pot and jump about, and she was glad to give
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  Speaker 9: it to a tinker who was passing that way. The
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  Speaker 9: tinker took the pudding and put it into a cloth
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  Speaker 9: to carry it home to his family, who seldom tasted
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  Speaker 9: such a good dish. But by and by, as he
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  Speaker 9: was climbing over a stile, he happened to squeeze it,
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  Speaker 9: and Tom, who had made quite an arch over his
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  Speaker 9: own head in the dry pudding by this time cried
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  Speaker 9: out from the middle of it hello pickens, which so
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  Speaker 9: terrified the tinker that he let the pudding drop in
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  Speaker 9: the field and scampered off as fast as he could.
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  Speaker 9: The pudding fell to pieces in the fall, and Tom,
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  Speaker 9: creeping out, went home to his mother, whom he found
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  Speaker 9: in great trouble because she could not find him. After
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  Speaker 9: this accident, Tom's mother never let him stay near her
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  Speaker 9: while she was cooking, but she was obliged to take
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  Speaker 9: him with her when she went out milking, for she
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  Speaker 9: dared not trust the little man in the house alone.
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  Speaker 9: A few days after his escape from the pudding, Tom
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  Speaker 9: went with his mother into the fields to milk the cows,
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  Speaker 9: and for fear he should be blown away by the wind,
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  Speaker 9: she tied him to a thistle with a small piece
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  Speaker 9: of thread. Very soon after, a cow ate up the
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  Speaker 9: thistle and swallowed tom thumb. His mother was in sad
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  Speaker 9: grief again, but Tom scratched and kicked in the cow's
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  Speaker 9: throat till she was glad to throw him out of
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  Speaker 9: her mouth again, and he was not at all hurt.
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  Speaker 9: But his mother became very anxious about her small son,
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  Speaker 9: who now gave her a great deal of trouble. Sometimes
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  Speaker 9: he fell into the milk pail and was nearly drowned
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  Speaker 9: in the milk. Once he was nearly killed by an
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  Speaker 9: angry chicken, and another time had a narrow escape from
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  Speaker 9: a cat. One day, Tom went plowing with his father,
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  Speaker 9: who gave him a quit made of a barley straw
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  Speaker 9: to drive the oxen with. But an eagle flying by
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  Speaker 9: caught him up in his beak and carried him to
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  Speaker 9: the top of a great giant's castle and dropped him
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  Speaker 9: on the leads. The giant was walking on the battlements
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  Speaker 9: and thought at first that it was a foreign bird
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  Speaker 9: which lay at his feet, but soon seeing that it
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  Speaker 9: was a small man, he picked Tom up with his
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  Speaker 9: finger and thumb and put the poor little creature into
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  Speaker 9: his great mouth. But the fairy dwarf scratched the roof
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  Speaker 9: of the giant's mouth and bit his great tongue, and
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  Speaker 9: held on by his teeth till the ogre, in a passion,
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  Speaker 9: took him out again and threw him over into the
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  Speaker 9: sea which ran beneath the castle walls. Here a very
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  Speaker 9: large fish swallowed him up directly. Tom did not at
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  Speaker 9: all like swimming about in the fish, but by and
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  Speaker 9: bye he felt it drawn upwards and guessed at once
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  Speaker 9: that it was caught. And so it was, and being
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  Speaker 9: a very large fish, the fisherman thought it would make
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  Speaker 9: a good present for his beloved King Arthur. So he
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  Speaker 9: took it to the palace and begged the king to
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  Speaker 9: accept it. King Arthur was pleased with the poor man's
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  Speaker 9: affection and ordered the fish to be carried to the
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  Speaker 9: kitchen and cooked for his own dinner. The fisherman took
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  Speaker 9: it to the cook, who admired it very much, but
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  Speaker 9: said it was very heavy. Then he laid it on
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  Speaker 9: a table and began to cut it open. You may
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  Speaker 9: imagine how he jumped with fear and wonder when Tom
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  Speaker 9: Thumb slipped out of the fish. The cook's cries brought
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  Speaker 9: the other servants, and soon everybody near ran to behold
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  Speaker 9: this wonder the tiny man who came out of the fish.
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  Speaker 9: Tom begged for some water to wash himself, and when
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  Speaker 9: he was clean, the courtiers thought him so pretty and
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  Speaker 9: such a marvel that they ran to tell the king
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  Speaker 9: about him. Arthur was very much surprised, but he desired
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  Speaker 9: them to send the little man up after dinner to
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  Speaker 9: see him, and the court tailor made haste at once
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  Speaker 9: to get ready a court suit for Tom, which did
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  Speaker 9: not take him long to make, there were so few
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  Speaker 9: stitches in it. As soon as the King's great punch
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  Speaker 9: bowl was set on the royal table, Tom Thumb was
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  Speaker 9: carried to see the monarch, who was delighted with the
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  Speaker 9: little man. Tom walked on the King's hand and danced
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  Speaker 9: on the queen's. He became a great favorite with Arthur,
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  Speaker 9: who made him a knight. Such is the wonderful history
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  Speaker 9: of Tom Thumb, who did much good when he grew older,
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  Speaker 9: and thus proved that however small people are, they may
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  Speaker 9: be of use in the world. He was good and
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  Speaker 9: kind to his parents and to everybody, And the old
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  Speaker 9: ballads says such were his deeds and noble acts in
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  Speaker 9: Arthur's court there shown as like in all the world
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  Speaker 9: beside was hardly seen or known and of Tom Thumb.
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  Speaker 3: Chapter seven of the National Nursery Book. This is a
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  Speaker 3: Dottle recording by Christine G. The National nursery book by
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  Speaker 3: an unknown Cinderella. Cinderella's mother died when she was a
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  Speaker 3: very little child, leaving her to the care of her
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  Speaker 3: father and her stepsisters, who were very much older than herself,
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  Speaker 3: for Cinderella's father had been twice married, and her mother
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  Speaker 3: was his second wife. Now, Cinderella's sisters did not love her,
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  Speaker 3: and were very unkind to her. As she grew older,
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  Speaker 3: they made her work as a servant, and even sith
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  Speaker 3: the Cinders, on which account they used to call her
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  Speaker 3: in mockery Cinderella. It was not her real name, but
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  Speaker 3: she became afterwards so well known by it that her
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: proper one has been forgotten. She was a very sweet tempered,
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: good girl, however, and everybody except her cruel sisters loved her.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: It happened when Cinderella was about seventeen years old that
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: the king of that country gave a ball to which
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: all ladies of the land, and among the rest the
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: young girls sisters were invited, and they made her dress
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: them for the ball, but never thought of allowing her
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: to go there. I wish you would take me to
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: the ball with you, said Cinderella, meekly, take you indeed,
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: answered the elder sister with a snare. It is no
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: place for a cinder sifter. Stay at home and do
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: your work. When they were gone, Cinderella, whose heart was
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: very sad, sat down and cried bitterly. But as she
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: sat sorrowful thinking of the unkindness of her sisters, a
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: voice called to her from the garden, and she went
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: out to see who was there. It was her godmother,
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: a good old fairy. Do not cry, Cinderella. She said,
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: you also shall go to the ball, because you are
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: a kind, good girl. Bring me a large pumpkin. Cinderella obeyed,
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: and the fairy touching it with her wand turned it
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: into a grand coach. Then she decided Cinderella to go
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: to the trap and bring her a rat. The girl obeyed,
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: and at much of the fairy's wand turned him into
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: a very smart coachman. Two mice were turned into footmen,
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: four grass uppers into white horses. Next, the fairy touched
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: Cinderella's rags and they became rich satin robes trimmed with
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: point lace diamonds shone in her hair and on her
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: neck and arms. And her kind godmother thought she had
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: seldom seen so lovely a girl. Her old shoes became
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: a charming pair of glass slippers, which shone like diamonds.
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  Speaker 6: Now, go to the.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: Ball, my love, she said, and enjoy yourself. But remember
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: you must leave the room before the clock strikes eleven.
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: If you do not, your dress will return to its
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: original rags. I approve of pleasure, but not of dissipation,
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: and I expect that you will show your gratitude by
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: obeying me. Cinderella kissed and thanked her godmother. Then she
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: stepped into her coach and drove off, with the footman behind,
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: in great style. The fairy when she was gone, returned
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: to fairyland. Cinderella was that the King's palace with great respect.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: The Lord Chamberlayne bowed low to her, thinking she must
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: be a very great lady by her dress and carriage,
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: and who showed her at once into the ball room.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: She was so beautiful that everybody looked at her and
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: wondered who she was. And the prince asked her to
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: dance with him, and afterwards would dance with no one else.
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: But she made haste to leave a little before the
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: hour fixed, and had time to undress before her sisters
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: came home. They told her a beautiful princess had been
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: at the ball with whom the Prince was delighted. They
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: did not know it was Cinderella herself, and she was
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: amused to have them admire her grace and beauty and
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: say that they were sure she was a royal lady.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: The Prince was quite vexed when supper time came and
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: he could not find in his beautiful partner, and no
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: one had seen her leave the room, But in hopes
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: of beholding her again, he persuaded the King to give
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: another grand ball. As soon as her sisters were gone
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: to be Cinderella's godmother arrived. You were so good and
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: obedient last time, that I shall let you go out again,
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: said she to the young girl. And once more the rat, mice,
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: grassoppers and pumpkin, which had gone back to their original
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: shapes after the first ball, were turned into the grand
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: carriage and attendants, and Cinderella, in rose colored satin and rubies,
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: went to the royal ball. Directly the Prince saw her,
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: he asked her to dance and would have no other partner,
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: And as he led her past her two unkind sisters,
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: she saw them look at her dress with envious eyes,
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: and knew that they wished they were as beautiful and
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: as well dressed as she was. But in the midst
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: of her enjoyment, Cinderella remembered the Fairy's command, and at
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: half past ten glided out of the room and drove
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: home again. Her sisters found her waiting to undress them
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: in her usual ranks, and kept her up to tell
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: her how beautiful the unknown princess was and how well
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: she was dressed. Again, the prince was vexed that the
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: sudden disappearance of the beautiful stranger, and once more he
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: persuaded the King to give a grand state ball. I
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: wonder if Prince's beauty will be there, said the sisters
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: to Cinderella. We must have new dresses, for she is
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: so splendid she makes every one look shabby. Cinderella smiled
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: as she helped them dress. She was sure the fairyer
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: would let her go to the ball too, and she
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: was right. Her godmother, pleased with her obedience, came in
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: good time, and Cinderella, dressed in blue satin and pearls,
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: went in the same style as before. The Prince would
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: scarcely let her out of his sight and Cinderella, who
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: was getting a little spoiled by all the flattery she heard,
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: began to think more of herself and less of the fairy.
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: So the time stole on till glancing up at the clock,
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: she saw it wanted only five minutes to eleven. At once,
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: she darted out of the room and ran through the
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: palace as fast as she could go. But as she
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: reached the hall she lost one of her precious glasses slippers.
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: She did not stop to pick it up, but rushed
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: to the door alas the clock had struck eleventh. She
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: found no coach, only a pumpkin and a rat and
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: mice ran quickly away when they saw her, while all
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: her fine rest turned to rags, and she had to
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: run home alone in the darkness of the night. The
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: Prince was very much surprised when he missed Cinderella again, and,
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: leaving the ball, went in search of her. He asked
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: all the attendants, but no one had seen her, and
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: when inquiry was made of the porter, he said that
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: no one had gone out of the palace except a
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: poor ragged beggar girl. However, the prince's search was rewarded
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: by his finding the glass slipper, which he well knew
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: belonged to the unknown princess. He loved Cinderella so much
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: that he now resolved to marry her, And as he
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: felt sure that no one else could wear such a
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: tiny shoe as hers was, he sent out a herald
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: to proclaim that whichever lady in his kingdom could put
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: on this glass slipper should be his wife. All the
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: great ladies who wished to be a princess tried to
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: put it on, but in vain. Cinderella's sisters tried but
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: could not get it on, and then Cinderella asked if
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: she might try. They laughed at her, but the prince,
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: hearing of her wish, sent for her. She went with
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: her sisters in her poor dress, but very clean, and
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: at once put on the slipper. Then she drew the
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: fellow of it from her pocket and slipped it on
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: her other foot. The prince, who had thought the moment
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: he saw her, that the poor girl was very much
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: like the beautiful princess, was delighted. He insisted on Cinderella
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: telling him her story, which she did very modestly, and
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: all listened with wonder as her tale ended. The fairy
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: godmother suddenly entered a room, and placing her god child's hand,
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: and the princess said, take this young girl for your wife, Prince.
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: She is good and patient, and as she has known
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: how to submit to unjustice meekly, she will know how
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: to reign justly. So Cinderella was married to the Prince
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: in great state, and they lived together very happily. She
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: forgave her sisters and treated them all as very kindly,
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: And the Prince had great cause to be glad that
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: he had found the glass slipper and of Cinderella.
• 47:15
  Speaker 5: Chapter eight of the National Nursery Book. This is a
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  Speaker 5: Recording by Mary Anne Weathers, The National Nursery Book, by unknown.
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  Speaker 5: Chapter eight, The Three Bears. Once upon a time, three
• 47:40
  Speaker 5: bears lived in a nice little house in a great forest.
• 47:44
  Speaker 5: There was the father bear, the mother bear, and the
• 47:47
  Speaker 5: baby bear. They had each a bed to sleep in,
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: a chair to sit on, and a basin and spoon
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: for eating milk or honey, which was their favorite food.
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: One morning, the three bears resolved on taking a walk
• 47:59
  Speaker 5: before breaka. But before they went out, they poured their
• 48:02
  Speaker 5: warm milk into their basins that it might get cool
• 48:05
  Speaker 5: by the time they came back. When the milk was
• 48:07
  Speaker 5: poured out, the three bears set out for a walk.
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  Speaker 5: Mister and Missus Bear walked arm in arm, and baby
• 48:14
  Speaker 5: ran by their side. What a fine day it is,
• 48:17
  Speaker 5: growled mister Bear. What a fine day it is, said
• 48:21
  Speaker 5: missus Bear. What a fine day, squeaked a little bear.
• 48:26
  Speaker 6: And so it was.
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: The sun shone brightly though it was low in the sky,
• 48:30
  Speaker 5: and its rays glittered on the fine webs on the grass.
• 48:34
  Speaker 5: The leaves shivered in the soft breeze. The woodpigeon cooed,
• 48:38
  Speaker 5: the larks sang loud enough to make himself hoarse. The
• 48:41
  Speaker 5: sparrows chirped, the bee buzzed, and a yellow butterfly perched
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: on Great Bear's nose. What a squeaky noise these creatures make,
• 48:49
  Speaker 5: said Big Bear, as he brushed off the butterfly. What
• 48:52
  Speaker 5: a pity it is they do not have our deep voices, Yes,
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: said missus Bear, you have a much finer voice than
• 48:59
  Speaker 5: the lark. I should like to hear him growl.
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  Speaker 6: As you do.
• 49:03
  Speaker 5: Oh, my dear, you are too kind. My growl is
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: nothing to the lions, And thus conversing the bears walked on.
• 49:12
  Speaker 5: Now there lived in the same forest a sweet little
• 49:14
  Speaker 5: girl who was called Golden Hair. She was the woodman's daughter,
• 49:18
  Speaker 5: and her hair looked just like sunbeams. She knew every
• 49:22
  Speaker 5: tree in the green wood and every flower in it.
• 49:25
  Speaker 5: She loved the birds and liked to listen to their song,
• 49:27
  Speaker 5: and everything in the wood loved Golden Hair. The trees
• 49:31
  Speaker 5: bent down their lower branches to touch her glittering head
• 49:34
  Speaker 5: as she passed. The birds sang sweeter as she glided by.
• 49:38
  Speaker 5: The lark's song in the sky was come up, Come up,
• 49:41
  Speaker 5: Golden Hair, here is your happy home. Coo, I love you.
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: Coo, I love.
• 49:46
  Speaker 5: You, cooed the woodpigeon. As she passed. Twit twit, pretty child,
• 49:51
  Speaker 5: said the sparrow, Oh you darling, sang the blackbird, and
• 49:54
  Speaker 5: Goldenhair laughed with glee, for she liked to be loved.
• 49:58
  Speaker 5: As to the butterflies, they flew after her and rested
• 50:01
  Speaker 5: on her hair and tickled her cheeks, but she never
• 50:04
  Speaker 5: tried to catch them. She would not frighten or vex
• 50:07
  Speaker 5: them for anything. She loved all the creatures, and that
• 50:10
  Speaker 5: is why they loved her. Love makes love, Dear little
• 50:15
  Speaker 5: golden Hair. She went on singing merrily through the green wood,
• 50:18
  Speaker 5: saying sometimes to herself, I wish I could sing as
• 50:21
  Speaker 5: well as a lark. By and by, little Golden Hair
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: reached the bear's house. She had never seen it before,
• 50:26
  Speaker 5: and she wondered who lived there. A window was open,
• 50:29
  Speaker 5: and Golden Hair peeped in. Dear me, thought the child,
• 50:33
  Speaker 5: whose house can it be? There's a table and three chairs,
• 50:37
  Speaker 5: and three basins of hot milk, all steaming, and nobody
• 50:39
  Speaker 5: to drink it. But I don't see any work, or
• 50:42
  Speaker 5: books or anything else. I think I will go in
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: and see who lives here. So she tapped at the
• 50:47
  Speaker 5: door and cried, is anyone at home? But there was
• 50:51
  Speaker 5: no answer. Then Goldenhair stepped in very carefully and looked
• 50:55
  Speaker 5: about her. She could not see any one, nor hear
• 50:57
  Speaker 5: anybody snoring. So she walked into the bear's parlor. There
• 51:01
  Speaker 5: was a fire which made the room cheerful, and the
• 51:03
  Speaker 5: hot milk looked very inviting. It quite seemed to say
• 51:07
  Speaker 5: come and have some breakfast. And the early spring air
• 51:11
  Speaker 5: had made Golden Hair rather cold and very hungry, so
• 51:14
  Speaker 5: she sat down by the fire in the little Bear's chair.
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  Speaker 5: It was too small for her, but she did not
• 51:19
  Speaker 5: quite sit down at first. In a moment, she got
• 51:22
  Speaker 5: up again and went round the table and tasted the
• 51:24
  Speaker 5: milk in all the basins. Little Bear's was the nicest
• 51:27
  Speaker 5: because it had sugar in it, and Golden Hair thought
• 51:30
  Speaker 5: it was good. So she took the basin and sat
• 51:33
  Speaker 5: down again in little Bear's chair, took his spoon and
• 51:36
  Speaker 5: ate up all his milk. Now this was very wrong.
• 51:40
  Speaker 5: A tiny bear is only a tiny bear. Still, he
• 51:42
  Speaker 5: has a right to keep his own things. But Goldenhair
• 51:45
  Speaker 5: did not know any better. Unluckily, baby Bear's chair was,
• 51:50
  Speaker 5: as we have said, too small for her. She broke
• 51:53
  Speaker 5: the seat and fell through basin and all. Then Goldenhair
• 51:57
  Speaker 5: went upstairs, and there she saw three beds, all in
• 52:00
  Speaker 5: a row. Golden Hair lay down on father Bear's bed first,
• 52:04
  Speaker 5: but that was too long for her. Then she lay
• 52:06
  Speaker 5: down on mother Bear's bed, and that was too wide
• 52:09
  Speaker 5: for her. Last of all, she lay down on baby
• 52:12
  Speaker 5: Bear's bed, and there she fell asleep, for she was
• 52:14
  Speaker 5: tired by and by the bears came home. Baby Bear
• 52:19
  Speaker 5: saw that his chair was broken and thrown down, and
• 52:22
  Speaker 5: he cried in a very squeaky voice, somebody has been here.
• 52:26
  Speaker 5: And father Bear growled, somebody has been here, and mother
• 52:31
  Speaker 5: Bear growled more softly.
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: Somebody has been here.
• 52:35
  Speaker 5: Then they went to the table and looked at their breakfasts,
• 52:38
  Speaker 5: and father Bear growled, who has touched my basin? And
• 52:42
  Speaker 5: mother Bear growled who has touched my basin? And Tiny
• 52:47
  Speaker 5: Bear squeaked somebody has broken mine? And then Tiny Bear
• 52:52
  Speaker 5: began to cry, for he was very fond of his
• 52:54
  Speaker 5: own basin and his own chair, and besides he was
• 52:58
  Speaker 5: very hungry after his long walk in the forest. It
• 53:01
  Speaker 5: really did seem a shame. Then the three bears thought
• 53:04
  Speaker 5: they would go over their house to see who had
• 53:06
  Speaker 5: been in it and to try if they could find
• 53:08
  Speaker 5: the thief. They went upstairs to their bedroom, which was
• 53:11
  Speaker 5: over their other room, and as soon as they saw
• 53:14
  Speaker 5: the tumbled beds, father Bear growled, who has been lying
• 53:18
  Speaker 5: on my bed? And mother Bear growled, who has been
• 53:21
  Speaker 5: lying on my bed? And Tiny Bear squeaked out, Oh,
• 53:26
  Speaker 5: here's a little girl in my bed, and it must
• 53:28
  Speaker 5: be she who has eaten my breakfast and broken my chair.
• 53:32
  Speaker 5: Then father Bear growled, let's eat her up, and Mother
• 53:36
  Speaker 5: Bear growled, let's eat her up, and Tiny Bear squeaked,
• 53:40
  Speaker 5: let us eat her up. The noise they made woke
• 53:44
  Speaker 5: Golden Hair, and you may imagine how frightened she was
• 53:46
  Speaker 5: when she saw the three bears. She started out of
• 53:49
  Speaker 5: bed and jumped at once out of the window. The
• 53:52
  Speaker 5: bears rushed after her, and Father Bhaer caught her Golden
• 53:55
  Speaker 5: Hair in his teeth, but she left a lock behind
• 53:58
  Speaker 5: and still ran on. Then the three bears all jumped
• 54:01
  Speaker 5: out after her, but they fell one on top of
• 54:04
  Speaker 5: the other and rolled over and over. And while they
• 54:06
  Speaker 5: were picking themselves up, little Goldenhair ran home, and they
• 54:09
  Speaker 5: were not able to catch her. But I do not
• 54:12
  Speaker 5: think she had acted rightly. Though she did not deserve
• 54:15
  Speaker 5: to be eaten up, it was very wrong to break
• 54:18
  Speaker 5: little Bear's chair and eat his milk. And I think
• 54:21
  Speaker 5: Goldenhair will have to take great care to keep out
• 54:24
  Speaker 5: of the reach of the three bears. End of chapter eight.
• 54:30
  Speaker 5: Recording by Mary Anne Weathers.
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  Speaker 7: Chapter nine of the National Nursery Book. This is a
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  Speaker 7: Recording by Rob Bawd. The National Nursery Book by Unknown
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  Speaker 7: Punch and mister Punch and his wife led a terrible life,
• 55:05
  Speaker 7: very much like a dog and a cat. Till one
• 55:09
  Speaker 7: summer morn a baby was born, a darling, all dimples
• 55:13
  Speaker 7: and fat. Missus Judy was proud, and the nurses aloud
• 55:18
  Speaker 7: that they never had seen such a child. And the
• 55:22
  Speaker 7: proud mother thought, when her baby she brought to her husband,
• 55:26
  Speaker 7: it must make him mild. Mister Punch was quite pleased
• 55:31
  Speaker 7: the poor baby. He seized and danced up and down
• 55:34
  Speaker 7: in great joy. Oh my Judy, he cried, with a
• 55:39
  Speaker 7: father's just pride. I look on our beautiful boy. But
• 55:44
  Speaker 7: the baby soon cried. Punch's temper was tried, and in
• 55:49
  Speaker 7: a great passion he flew. He shook the poor child,
• 55:53
  Speaker 7: and with rage growing wild, the babe o'er the balcony
• 55:58
  Speaker 7: through Judy greatly displeased. A thick stick at once seized
• 56:04
  Speaker 7: and began her stern husband to beat. Oh you monster,
• 56:09
  Speaker 7: she cried. As her weapon, she plied, you deserve the same,
• 56:13
  Speaker 7: ending to meet on his arms and his head. Her
• 56:17
  Speaker 7: blows fell like lead. She wondered such treatment. He stood,
• 56:22
  Speaker 7: beating and battering. She made such a clattering it sounded
• 56:27
  Speaker 7: like chopping up wood. Of his beating. Quite tired, Punch's
• 56:33
  Speaker 7: patience expired. He snatched the stick out of her hands
• 56:37
  Speaker 7: and gave Judy a blow, which alas laid her low,
• 56:42
  Speaker 7: and above her a conqueror stands. Then he danced, and
• 56:46
  Speaker 7: he sang, and such nonsense began that we laughed, though
• 56:51
  Speaker 7: we couldn't tell why, for in such a sad case,
• 56:55
  Speaker 7: it were much more our place for Judy's misfortunes to cry.
• 57:00
  Speaker 7: But the constable, See.
• 57:02
  Speaker 4: Are you come here for me?
• 57:04
  Speaker 7: Cries Punch as he dances about. Yes, yes, come to jail.
• 57:09
  Speaker 7: Tis a terrible tale, said the constable. You must come
• 57:13
  Speaker 7: out and be tried for your life for thus killing
• 57:17
  Speaker 7: your wife in prison. Meantime you'll abide. Oh no, I
• 57:23
  Speaker 7: won't go, cried Punch, And a blow he gave the
• 57:27
  Speaker 7: poor man in his side. Now Punch had a pet
• 57:31
  Speaker 7: whom we must not forget, a dog known as Toby
• 57:35
  Speaker 7: by name. A clown from a show one day came
• 57:39
  Speaker 7: to know if Punch would not sell him the same.
• 57:42
  Speaker 7: But Punch would not part from his dog for his heart,
• 57:46
  Speaker 7: though a wooden one to him was true. He cried,
• 57:51
  Speaker 7: give me a kiss. Dear Toby, I wiss, I never
• 57:54
  Speaker 7: will sever from you. But jack Ketch comes at last.
• 58:00
  Speaker 7: Punches frolics are past. There is no one his cause
• 58:04
  Speaker 7: to befriend. His nonsense and fun are all alas done.
• 58:10
  Speaker 7: He has come to a very bad end. If he
• 58:13
  Speaker 7: were not of wood, it would not be good to
• 58:16
  Speaker 7: laugh at the harm he has done. But twas only pretense,
• 58:21
  Speaker 7: and there was not much sense in his crimes, or
• 58:25
  Speaker 7: his grief or his fun. For a great many years, punches,
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  Speaker 7: laughter and tears have amused both the child and the man.
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  Speaker 7: So I think at the last, for the sake of
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  Speaker 7: the past, we will keep him as long as we can.
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  Speaker 7: End of Chapter nine.
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  Speaker 3: Chapter ten of The National Nursery Book. This is a
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  Speaker 3: by unknown. The Pets the Sheep. The sheep is a
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  Speaker 3: very useful animal. Its wools sheared off make us cloth
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  Speaker 3: and flannel, and all kinds of woolen goods, and its flesh,
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  Speaker 3: called mutton, is a chief part of our food. When
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  Speaker 3: sheep are little, they are called lambs and are very playful,
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  Speaker 3: pretty creatures. Sheep soon learn to know the voice of
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  Speaker 3: their shepherd and will follow it. In Eastern countries, the
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  Speaker 3: shepherd walks before his flock and they are led by
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  Speaker 3: his voice. There are dogs called sheep dogs, which take
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  Speaker 3: care of the flocks and protect the sheep and keep
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  Speaker 3: them together. In some countries, these dogs have often to
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  Speaker 3: fight with wolves, which attack the sheep and carry them
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  Speaker 3: off whenever they can, but the dogs are quite able
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  Speaker 3: to keep the wolf away when they are trained to
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  Speaker 3: do so. On the Scottish hills, the sheep dog is
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  Speaker 3: often obliged to seek his child in the snow drifts
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  Speaker 3: and to help out a poor sheep or lamb which
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  Speaker 3: has got buried in it. Sheep love green meadows and
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  Speaker 3: pure water. You remember, I dare say the beautiful psalm.
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  Speaker 3: The Lord is my shepherd. Therefore I shall lack nothing.
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  Speaker 3: Rabbits are the favorite pets of boys. They are merry
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  Speaker 3: little creatures and it is an amusing sight to watch
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  Speaker 3: them running over the green turf about their warren. When
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  Speaker 3: they are free. They have many enemies, however, such as dogs, foxes,
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  Speaker 3: and weasels. But in spite of their enemies, rabbits live
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  Speaker 3: a merry life together. There are a great many different
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  Speaker 3: kinds of tame rabbits. Some are white with pink eyes
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  Speaker 3: and long airs. Rabbits have many young ones. One pair
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  Speaker 3: will have fifty six little rabbits in a year, so
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  Speaker 3: it is lucky. Many other creatures feed on them. If
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  Speaker 3: they were left to increase, they would soon eat up
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  Speaker 3: every stock of corn and all the green herbs. The
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  Speaker 3: native country of the rabbit is Spain, in the Orkney Islands,
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  Speaker 3: where there are a great number of rabbits. The wild
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  Speaker 3: ones are of a gray color, and in winter time
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  Speaker 3: almost white. The fur of the rabbit is much used
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  Speaker 3: for making hats. They are good for food. Also. The
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  Speaker 3: cow is a very valuable animal. Indeed, I do not
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  Speaker 3: know what we should do without her. She gives us
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  Speaker 3: milk and butter, cheese and cream, and her skin is
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  Speaker 3: of great use, and her flesh is often eaten as beef.
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  Speaker 3: Cows grow fond of those who are kind to them.
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  Speaker 3: There are a great many different kinds of cows, some red,
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  Speaker 3: some black, some brindled, white or spotted hairfirshied cows have
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  Speaker 3: white faces. The ancient Britons had a great number of
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  Speaker 3: fine cows, and wild cattle were common in our country.
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  Speaker 3: Seven hundred years ago in the neighborhood of London, in
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  Speaker 3: Henry the Second's reign, there was a large forest which
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  Speaker 3: contained a great many wild bulls and cows. The cow
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  Speaker 3: is a good mother, very fond of her calf. The
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  Speaker 3: bull is a very bald, fierce animal. It has a
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  Speaker 3: great dislike to the color red, and will run after
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  Speaker 3: and if it can toss any one wearing it. In
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  Speaker 3: Spain they have a cruel spot called bull fights between
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  Speaker 3: these brave animals and men on horseback. The flesh of
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  Speaker 3: the cow and ox is called beef, that of the
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  Speaker 3: calf is veal. The donkey, this patient and useful animal
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  Speaker 3: is supposed to have come at first from the East,
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  Speaker 3: where it still continues to be, of a greater size
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  Speaker 3: and of a much better appearance. They were as valuable
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  Speaker 3: there in former ages as horses. Great men and judges
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  Speaker 3: rode on asses. The ass is very fond of its foal,
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  Speaker 3: and can be attached to its master if kindly treated.
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  Speaker 3: Its milk is thought very good for consumptive people. It
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  Speaker 3: is very shell footed and strong, and able to carry
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  Speaker 3: heavy burdens. The donkey is a very useful animal to
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  Speaker 3: the poor. It can do a great deal of work
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  Speaker 3: on very coarse and cheap food. Thistles make a daintly
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  Speaker 3: dinner for the ears. It is patient and gentle, but
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  Speaker 3: occasionally very obstinate, a fault chiefly produced in the poor
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  Speaker 3: beast by ill usage. Children should never be cruel to
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  Speaker 3: this poor animal, but treated kindly, and it will not
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  Speaker 3: then be stubborn and slow, but will do its best
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  Speaker 3: to carry them. The cock, the hen, and the chickens.
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  Speaker 3: Here is a fine farm yard family, very useful friends
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  Speaker 3: of us. The cock, who is a brave spirited bird,
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  Speaker 3: wakes us up in the morning by crowing. The hen
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  Speaker 3: lays OUs eggs for breakfast, and when the weed chicks
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  Speaker 3: are big enough, they are very good food as roast chicken.
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  Speaker 3: The cock teaches us watchfulness, the hen motherly love. There
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  Speaker 3: are many different kinds of fowls. The largest are the
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  Speaker 3: tall cochinchinas, the smallest the pert little bantams. It is
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  Speaker 3: a great amusement for children to have a few fowls
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  Speaker 3: of feet and take care of feeding them and finding
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  Speaker 3: their eggs is one of the country child's plashes. The
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  Speaker 3: hen sits on our eggs for three weeks, and when
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  Speaker 3: the chicks are hatched, she takes the great care of them,
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  Speaker 3: gathering them under her wings when danger is near or
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  Speaker 3: the weather is at an old cold and she is
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  Speaker 3: ready to fight a hawk or even a dog in
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  Speaker 3: the fence of her little ones. Fowls feed on barley
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  Speaker 3: or any kind of grain, and pick up worms and
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  Speaker 3: such in their run. Stinging nettles are very good food
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  Speaker 3: for chickens. The horse, this noblest of animals, is believed
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  Speaker 3: to be a native of Arabia, but was in our
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  Speaker 3: islands before the Romans came here. The first money coned
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  Speaker 3: in Britain was stamped with the figure of a horse.
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  Speaker 3: The horse has a wonderful memory. He never forgets a
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  Speaker 3: place to which he has once been taken. He loves
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  Speaker 3: his master if well treated, and in battles he displaced
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  Speaker 3: the greatest courage and joy. He also understands sounds and
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  Speaker 3: loves music. Indeed, the horse may be called the friend
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  Speaker 3: of man, and deserves all the kindness we can show him.
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  Speaker 3: The Arabs bring up their horses with their children in
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  Speaker 3: their own tents, and the steed thus reared is very
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  Speaker 3: sensible and gentle. An Arab will not sell his favorite
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  Speaker 3: horse for any sum, however large. It is as dear
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  Speaker 3: to him as his children. The goat. The goat is
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  Speaker 3: a very useful animal. Its flesh is very good, though
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  Speaker 3: English people seldom eat it. Its milk is also very good,
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  Speaker 3: and are use to people in consumption. The most beautiful
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  Speaker 3: gloves are made from its skin. Goats abound in the
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  Speaker 3: Welsh mountains. It is indeed an animal that loves the
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  Speaker 3: great hills. The Welsh coats are white. They are very active,
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  Speaker 3: and walk on the brink of precipices and take the
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  Speaker 3: most wonderful leaps. The scent of a goat is unpleasant,
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  Speaker 3: but it is thought to prevent infection amongst cattle. Horses
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: are very fond of goats. They are more common in
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  Speaker 3: France than with us. In that country one sees a
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  Speaker 3: goat with nearly every flock of sheep. Goat's flesh is
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  Speaker 3: called kid. Do you remember how Jacob deceived his father
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  Speaker 3: with the skin and meat of a kid. Of the
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  Speaker 3: goats and of the pets.
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  Speaker 6: The National Nursery Book by unknown Nursery songs. Little Miss Muffett.
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  Speaker 4: Leetle tole Miss Murfett, she said, on a tofet eating
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  Speaker 4: off gords, and we there came a great spider who
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  Speaker 4: sat down beside her and frightened Miss Murfhatt to week.
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  Speaker 4: Patta cake, Patta cake, pattera cake, Pato cake. Bakeers man,
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  Speaker 4: make me a cake as fast as you can, pattit
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  Speaker 4: and pre kit and marked with tea and sandy tom
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  Speaker 4: for Tommy and me. Humpty Dumpty, Humty Dumpty set on
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  Speaker 4: a wall, Humty Dumpty had a great fall. All the
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  Speaker 4: King's horses and all the kingsmen could not set Humpty
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  Speaker 4: Dumpty up again.
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  Speaker 6: Young lambs to sell.
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  Speaker 10: Young GLAMs, to sell, young lambs to sell.
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  Speaker 4: If I had as much money as I could tell,
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  Speaker 4: I never would cry.
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  Speaker 10: Young lams to sell, young lambs, to sell, young lams
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  Speaker 10: to sell. I never would cry young GLAMs to sell.
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  Speaker 6: Little Robin redbreast set upon a tree.
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  Speaker 4: Little Robin red breast sat upon a tree. Up went poussy.
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  Speaker 11: Cat, and down went he. Down came pussy cat, and
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  Speaker 11: er we Robin ran, says little Robin red breast, catch
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  Speaker 11: me if you can. Little Robin red breast jumped upon
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  Speaker 11: a wall. Poussy cat jumped after him.
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  Speaker 4: And almost got her fall. Little Robin chirped and sang.
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  Speaker 4: And what did poussy say? Poussy cat said you, and
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  Speaker 4: Robin jumped away.
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  Speaker 6: Handy spandy jacket, dandy handy spandee jack, a dandee loft,
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  Speaker 6: plum cake and sugar candy. He bought some mata grocer's shop, and.
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  Speaker 8: Out he came.
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  Speaker 6: Hop hop up, Little boy Blue.
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  Speaker 4: Little boy Blue, come blow up your horn. The sheep's
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  Speaker 4: in the meadow. The cow's in the corn. Where's the
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 4: little boy that looks after the sheep? He's and o'ther haycock?
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  Speaker 4: Fast asleep? The little pig went to market. This little
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 4: pig went to market. This little pig stayed at home.
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  Speaker 4: This pig had a piece of bread. Then, but this
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  Speaker 4: little pig head none. This little pig said, Wei wei wei,
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  Speaker 4: I can't find my way home.
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  Speaker 6: End of nursery songs recording Byzua in Belgium in February
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  Speaker 6: twenty fifteen, Chapter twelve of The National Nursery Book. This
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  Speaker 6: rhymes Little Jackconner.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 4: Little Jackconner sat in a corner eating his Christmas pye.
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  Speaker 4: He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum
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  Speaker 4: and said, what a good boy. Oh yeah, My.
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  Speaker 6: To market to market, to market, to market to buy
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  Speaker 6: a fat pig? Whom again, whom again?
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  Speaker 8: Giget tjig?
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  Speaker 4: To market to market to buy a fat hog?
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  Speaker 6: Whomer again, whom again?
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  Speaker 4: Giget te jug.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 6: Taffy was a Welshman.
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 4: Toffy was a Welshman. Toffy was a thief. Toffy came
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 4: to my house and stole a piece of beef. I
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 4: went to Taffy's house. Toffy was from home. Tuffie came
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 4: to my house and stole a marrow bone. Bye bye
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 4: black sheep, Bye Bay black sheep.
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  Speaker 12: Have you any wool? Yes, Mary, have I three bags full?
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  Speaker 12: One for my master, one for my name, but none father.
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  Speaker 12: Little girl that cries in the.
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  Speaker 6: Lane, Pretty maid, Pretty maid, Pretty maid, Pretty maid?
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  Speaker 4: Where have you been gathering a posy to give to
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 4: the queen?
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  Speaker 6: Marry Mary? Quite contrary, Marry Mary, quite contrary?
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 4: How does your garden grow? Silver bells and cockle shells
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 4: and column binds?
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  Speaker 6: Olfer rough, Little bo peep, Little.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 4: Bo peep has lost his sheep and cannot tell where
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  Speaker 4: to find them. Leave them alone and they'll come home
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 4: and bring their tails behind them. Little bo peep fell
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 4: faster asleep and dreamt he heard them bleating. When he
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  Speaker 4: are woke, he found it the joke, for still they
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 4: all were fleeting. Then up he took his little crook
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 4: dee ter mean'tfult to find them. He found them minded,
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  Speaker 4: but it made his heart bleat, for they'd left their
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 4: tails behind them. Hot cross buns, hot cross buns, hot
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  Speaker 4: cross buns one a penny, two a penny hot cross buns,
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  Speaker 4: hot cross buns, hot cross buns. If you have no daughters,
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  Speaker 4: give them to your sons.
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  Speaker 6: The cat and fiddle, Hey diedle needle, The cat and
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 6: the fiddle. The cow jumped over the moon. The little
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 6: dog left to see the sport, while the dish ran
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  Speaker 6: after the spoon. The Queen of Hearts, the.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 4: Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts upon a summer day.
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  Speaker 8: The Nave of Hearts.
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  Speaker 4: He stole those starts and took them quite away. The
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  Speaker 4: King of Hearts, he miss'd those starts and beat the
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  Speaker 4: napheful soul. The Knave of Hearts brought back those starts
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  Speaker 4: and vowed he'd still no more.
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  Speaker 6: I had a little husband.
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  Speaker 4: I had a little husband, no bigger than my thumb.
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  Speaker 4: I put him in a pint pot, and there I
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  Speaker 4: beat him drum, I bow the little hos. That girl
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  Speaker 4: looped up and down. I bridled him and saddled him
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  Speaker 4: and sent him out of town. I gave him some
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 4: garters to gter up his horse, and alyttle handkerchief to wipe.
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  Speaker 4: He's pretty news.
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  Speaker 6: Goosey goosey gander, goosey goosey gender.
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  Speaker 4: Where shall I wander? Upstairs? Downstairs in my lady's chamber.
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  Speaker 4: There I met an old man that would not say
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  Speaker 4: he sprays. I took him by the left leg and
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  Speaker 4: threw him downstairs.
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  Speaker 6: Little Polly Flinders, Little.
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  Speaker 4: Polly flinderss sat among the cinders, woming her pretty little total.
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  Speaker 4: Her mother came and caught her and scooled it, herlyttle daughter, false,
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  Speaker 4: spoiling her nice new cloes. Ding dong bell, ding dong bell, Poossy,
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  Speaker 4: he's in the wall. Who pulled her in? Little Tommy
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  Speaker 4: ling who pulled her rout? Little Tommy tried, what a
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  Speaker 4: naughty boy was that to drown poor little pussy cat,
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  Speaker 4: who never did him any harm, but killed the mice
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  Speaker 4: in his father's barn.
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  Speaker 13: Multiplication is vexation, multiplication iss vexation DIVISIONI says bad.
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  Speaker 8: The rule of.
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  Speaker 4: Three doth puzzle me, and practice drives me mad.
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  Speaker 6: The dapple gray pony.
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  Speaker 4: I had a little pony. His name was dapple Gray.
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  Speaker 4: I lend him to a lady to ride the mile away.
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  Speaker 4: She weep'd him, she slash'd him, she rolled him through
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  Speaker 4: the minm. I would not lend my pony now for
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  Speaker 4: old the.
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  Speaker 8: Ladies high.
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  Speaker 6: Old woman, old woman, says.
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  Speaker 8: I, old woman, old woman, old woman, say aye, oh whither, oh, whither,
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  Speaker 8: oh whither.
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  Speaker 14: So to sweep the cobwebs of the sky shell, go
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  Speaker 14: with you, hie bye and bye.
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  Speaker 4: Dame Trot and her cat, Dame Trot and her cat
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  Speaker 4: leder peaceable life when they were not troubled with the
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  Speaker 4: other folk. Strive when Dame had her diner poo, snee
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  Speaker 4: her wood weight and worse short to receive a nice
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  Speaker 4: piece from her plate.
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  Speaker 6: Simple simon, Simple simon.
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  Speaker 4: Matter, pie man going to the thing, say simple simon
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  Speaker 4: to the piman. Let me eat, taste your way, says
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  Speaker 4: the pie man to see, Simple simon, show me first
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  Speaker 4: your penny. Say simple simon to the pie man.
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  Speaker 6: Indeed, I have not tarny, Simple simon.
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  Speaker 4: When a fishing for to cacherway, all the water he
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  Speaker 4: had got was in his mother's space.
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  Speaker 6: Mary had a pretty bird. Mary had a pretty.
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  Speaker 4: Bird with feathers, bright and yellow, slender legs. Upon my word, he.
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  Speaker 8: Was a pretty fallow.
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  Speaker 4: The sweetest note he always sang, which much delighted Mary,
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  Speaker 4: And near the cage she'd ever sit to hear her
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  Speaker 4: own canary?
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  Speaker 6: Is John Smith within? Is John Smith within?
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 4: Yes, that he is. Can He said to Shoe, I
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  Speaker 4: may three too, he u nil and there u nil
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  Speaker 4: tick tack two, Guy Fawkes, please to remember the fifth
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  Speaker 4: of November gunpowder treason and plot. I know no reason
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  Speaker 4: why gunpowder treason should never be forgot.
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  Speaker 6: Jack and Jill.
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  Speaker 4: Jack and Jill went up the heel to fetcher pale
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  Speaker 4: of water. Jack fell down and broke his crown, and
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  Speaker 4: Jill came tumbling after.
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  Speaker 6: Little Fred.
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  Speaker 4: When nettle Fred went too bad, he always said his prayers.
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  Speaker 4: He kissed Mama and then Papa, and straight we went upstairs.
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  Speaker 4: Little tom Tucker, Little Tommy Tucker sings for his super
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 4: What shall he white bread and butter? How shall he
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 4: cut it without a knife? How will he be married
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  Speaker 4: without a wife?
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  Speaker 6: Where are you going, my pretty maid?
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  Speaker 8: Where are you going, my pretty maid?
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  Speaker 4: I'm gooing, ameal king, Sir, she said.
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  Speaker 8: Me, I go with you, my pretty maid.
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  Speaker 4: You kindly welcome, sir. She said, what is your.
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  Speaker 8: Fortune, my pretty maid?
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  Speaker 4: My face is my fortune, sir. She said.
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  Speaker 8: Then I won't marry you, my pretty maid.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody asked you, sir. She said, Ride a cock horse,
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  Speaker 4: rideer cocours to Benberry Cross to see an old lady
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  Speaker 4: upon a white horse. Rings on her fingers and bells
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  Speaker 4: on her toes. And so she makes music wherever she goes.
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  Speaker 6: Sing a song of sixpence, sing a song of sixpen
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  Speaker 6: a back food, a fry four and twenty black birds,
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  Speaker 6: big tea a pass when the pie was open, and
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  Speaker 6: the birds began to see, was not that dainty dish
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  Speaker 6: to set before the king.
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  Speaker 4: The King was in his counting house, counting out his money.
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  Speaker 4: The queen was in the bar eating bread and honey.
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  Speaker 4: The maid was in the garden hanging out the clothes.
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  Speaker 4: Long came a black bird, and snap of her.
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  Speaker 6: Nose, Tom Tom. The pipersn.
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  Speaker 4: Tom Tom. The piper's son stole a pig, and away
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  Speaker 4: he run the pig wazy, and Tom was beat, and
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  Speaker 4: Tom went roaring down the street. Old King Call, Old
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  Speaker 4: King call, was a merry old soul, And a merry
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  Speaker 4: old soul was he. He called for his pipe, penny
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  Speaker 4: called for his ball, and he called for his fiddlers.
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  Speaker 4: Three every fiddler he had a feiddle, and a very
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  Speaker 4: fine fiddle.
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  Speaker 1: Had he.
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  Speaker 4: Tweet tweedledee, tweedledee. When the fiddlers, who, there's none so
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  Speaker 4: rare as can compare with King colin his feet nurse three.
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  Speaker 6: Four and twenty tailors went to kill a snail.
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  Speaker 4: Four and twenty tailors went to kill a snail. The
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  Speaker 4: best man among them durst not touch her tail. She
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  Speaker 4: put out her horns like a litle kailu cow run,
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  Speaker 4: Tailor's run, or she'll kill you all even now. Hush
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  Speaker 4: a bye baby, hushaby bababy, Thy cradle is green, Father's
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  Speaker 4: an noble man, Ma others a queen, Betty's a lady,
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  Speaker 4: And where's a Gordry? And Johnny is a drama and
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  Speaker 4: drums for the King.
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  Speaker 6: End of Nursery Rhymes recording by Iswa in Belgium in
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  Speaker 6: February twenty fifteen. End of the National Nursery Book by
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  Speaker 6: unknown