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Speaker 1: Chapter one of the Summer Holidays A Story for Children.
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Speaker 1: Audiebook's podcast The Summer Holidays A Story for Children by Amoro.
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Speaker 1: Chapter one, Uncle harvests parlor. Mister Harvey's two sons, Thomas
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Speaker 1: and John, were very anxious for their cousin some Will
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Speaker 1: read to spend the August Holidays with them. His father
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Speaker 1: said that he might, and when school was closed for
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Speaker 1: the season, some Will bade his father good bye, and
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Speaker 1: was soon in the carriage driving toward Uncle Harvey's country seat.
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Speaker 1: The boys had not seen each other since New Year's Day.
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Speaker 1: It was a happy meeting when some Will jump out
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Speaker 1: of the carriage by the gate leading from the main
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Speaker 1: road up to mister Harvey's house, for there his uncle
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Speaker 1: and two cousins were waiting for him. Thomas and John
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Speaker 1: each grabs a hand while their father led the way
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Speaker 1: to the house. We were afraid you were not coming,
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Speaker 1: said John. How tall you have grown since Christmas, exclaimed Thomas.
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Speaker 1: Were you not tired of being in the hot city
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Speaker 1: such weather as this. Someone said that he was, and
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Speaker 1: then they all entered the house while the driver brought
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Speaker 1: in someone's baggage. It was about five o'clock in the
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Speaker 1: afternoon when someone reached his uncle's house. He was taken
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Speaker 1: into a small parlor which opened upon a garden where
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Speaker 1: many flowers were in bloom. It was a warm day,
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Speaker 1: but this room was cool and fragrant, and on the
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Speaker 1: table were several plates of fruit and some cakes, which
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Speaker 1: his uncle caused to be placed there so that he
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Speaker 1: might eat some as soon as he arrived. While someone
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Speaker 1: was eating some of them, Jan said, we are so
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Speaker 1: glad you have come somewhere. Last winter you could see
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Speaker 1: nothing but snow. What became of the snow man we
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Speaker 1: made last winter, asked Samuel. It froze very hard for
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Speaker 1: more than a week after you left, replied Thomas. But
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Speaker 1: Jane and I broke its head a great deal with snowballs,
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Speaker 1: and afterwards a warm rain fell and wash it away.
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Speaker 1: Is it warm in the city now, asked Jan, Yes,
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Speaker 1: answered his cousin. In the middle of the day, the
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Speaker 1: fave men seemed to be about on fire, and people
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Speaker 1: are afraid to walk far lest they may be sunstrup.
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Speaker 1: Yesterday two men died with a heat. There seems to
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Speaker 1: be no air steering from morning till night. Besides, there
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Speaker 1: is much sickness in town, and many persons have left
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Speaker 1: their houses and gone into the country. Father said Thomas,
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Speaker 1: How miserable we should be if we had no water
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Speaker 1: to drink this weather, like those poor Arabs you told
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Speaker 1: us of the other day. Yes, answered mister Harvey. The
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Speaker 1: sun must be burning hot in the Arabia. Now how
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Speaker 1: can they live in such a place, asked Jan. They
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Speaker 1: are not all so miserable as the party I told
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Speaker 1: you of the other day, replied his father. Besides, you
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Speaker 1: know it is their country and God has taught them
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Speaker 1: to love it. If an Arab were brought here, he
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Speaker 1: would probably think it a most dreary land, except in summer.
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Speaker 1: But what do you do in town somewhere, asked Jan,
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Speaker 1: when it is too warm to go out. It is
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Speaker 1: very hot only in the middle of the day, replied
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Speaker 1: his cousin, And then you know, we are at school
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Speaker 1: in the afternoons. I sometimes rode out with father or
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Speaker 1: went on the steamboat. Last week a balloon went up
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Speaker 1: from the other side of the river. We had a
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Speaker 1: fine view of it from the roof of our house.
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Speaker 1: Two men were in it, and when they had risen
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Speaker 1: so high that the balloon appeared quite small, they threw
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Speaker 1: out a little machine called a parachute. It looked something
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Speaker 1: like an umbrella and had a doll to eat. The
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Speaker 1: balloon sailed a great distance through the air and came
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Speaker 1: down safely. It was now six o'clock, and mister Harvey
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Speaker 1: told the boys that they might go to supper, which
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Speaker 1: she had ordered to be ready earlier than usual. And
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Speaker 1: of Chapter one. Recording by Maria A. Brannica World Adibook's podcasts.
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Speaker 1: Chapter two of The Summer Holidays A Story for Children.
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Speaker 1: Chapter two, The evening Walk. After supper, Samuel and his
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Speaker 1: cousins to a walk in the meadow toward the mill pond.
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Speaker 1: The air was now cool and pleasant, and as the
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Speaker 1: boys moved through the narrow path among the low grass,
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Speaker 1: Thousands of grasshoppers and other insects filled the air with
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Speaker 1: their cheerful holm. Thomas with his companions passed round the
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Speaker 1: mill and then climb a fence which led through a
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Speaker 1: field of corn. The corn was not very high, so
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Speaker 1: that they had to be careful not to tread upon it.
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Speaker 1: When they reached the other side, Samuel saw that the
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Speaker 1: fence was covered with raspberry vines from one end to
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Speaker 1: the other. He asked what they did with so many
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Speaker 1: all that father wishes to use or to eat, replied Thomas.
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Speaker 1: He gathers out of the garden, but dize lives for
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Speaker 1: two or three poor families who live not far off,
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Speaker 1: and who take them to town to sell. It helps
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Speaker 1: them to pay their and thus he give away blackberries, too,
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Speaker 1: asked Samuel. Yes, and many other kinds of fruit, replied
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Speaker 1: his cousin. He has such large fields and orchards that
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Speaker 1: he can afford to give away great quantities of apples, peaches, currants,
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Speaker 1: grain and vegetables. The boys roamed about the fields, talking
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Speaker 1: in this manner until after sunset. When Toma said it
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Speaker 1: was time to return. They crossed into a by path
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Speaker 1: and walked over the house through a field in which
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Speaker 1: it had been growing. Among the short straw left by
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Speaker 1: the reapers, Samuel so many birds nest and deep poles
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Speaker 1: that had been dug by the rabbits, filled mice and
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Speaker 1: other small animals. In a short time, they passed a
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Speaker 1: very old house whose sides appeared as if they would
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Speaker 1: fall every moment. The roof was covered with moss and grass,
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Speaker 1: and the boards had crumbled and separated from each other.
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Speaker 1: A number of bats and swallows were flying about it,
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Speaker 1: and Tomas said that dozens of these little animals, beside
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Speaker 1: rats and mice, lived inside. Samuel asked him if anybody
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Speaker 1: lived there. No, said his cousin. But father remembers very
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Speaker 1: well when an old soldier that the farmer's called Jack,
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Speaker 1: did live in this house. His leg had been shut
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Speaker 1: off in the bottles with the Indians. After it healed,
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Speaker 1: he moved to this place and live on the vegetables
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Speaker 1: he could raise in a little garden besides what people
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Speaker 1: gave him. Every night he came out and sat on
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Speaker 1: the log by the door, playing on an old fiddle.
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Speaker 1: Then the school children would collect around him and give
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Speaker 1: him pennies or fruit and such things. Sometimes he told
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Speaker 1: them stories, for he had traveled in many lands and
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Speaker 1: knew a great deal about them. In the summer nights,
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Speaker 1: Father says he often heard poor old Jack singing the
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Speaker 1: songs that he had learnt when he was a boy,
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Speaker 1: and sometimes he could be seen hobbling down this lane
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Speaker 1: on his crutches, or sitting by the water catching some
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Speaker 1: fish for his supper. One day he was missed, and
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Speaker 1: fox thought he was sick. But they waited till the
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Speaker 1: next morning, and then a great crowd collected round the
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Speaker 1: house and called him. No one answered, so someone lifted
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Speaker 1: the latch and went in. Old Jack was not there,
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Speaker 1: and the people began to get frightened. They hunted for
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Speaker 1: him all that day and many days afterward, but he
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Speaker 1: was never found. Something that he was drowned. Others that
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Speaker 1: he went away with strangers, and a few are foolish
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Speaker 1: enough to believe that he is still living and will
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Speaker 1: one day come back. Since that time, no one has
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Speaker 1: ever lived in his house, and in a few years
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Speaker 1: it will tumble down with old age. While Thomas had
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Speaker 1: been giving this account of poor Jack, Soldier Jan was
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Speaker 1: very busy moving round the old house and peeping to
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Speaker 1: the cracks in the boards. At last, he motioned Thomas
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Speaker 1: and Samuel to come to him, and then whispered, stood down,
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Speaker 1: don't make a bit of noise, and peep through the crap.
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Speaker 1: You'll see the biggest owl that ever you did see
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Speaker 1: all your life. Both of them looked through. It was
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Speaker 1: very dark, but Samuel saw two great eyes, like balls
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Speaker 1: of fire, and in a little while he could perceive
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Speaker 1: the body of an owl, which, as Jan had said,
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Speaker 1: was the largest he had ever seen. Let us go
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Speaker 1: in and catch him, said Jan. But Thomas answered that
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Speaker 1: as it was now darthy, owl could easily fly away,
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Speaker 1: and besides, as they did not wish to kill it,
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Speaker 1: it could be of no use to them if they
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Speaker 1: should catch it. It might do for cousin to look at,
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Speaker 1: replied Jan, but he did not insist. Upon entering the house.
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Speaker 1: As they were going away, Samuel asked his cousin if
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Speaker 1: he did not think owls were ugly. No, indeed, answered Chan,
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Speaker 1: I would rather see an owl any time than these
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Speaker 1: little birds that can do nothing but sing. See how
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Speaker 1: soft his feathers are, all barred and spotted with black
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Speaker 1: and brown, which is more handsome than to be all
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Speaker 1: over red or yellow. I know he can't sing, but
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Speaker 1: he's got nice long ears, and that no other birds has,
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Speaker 1: and how nice and round his head is. Then he
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Speaker 1: sits on a tree and looks wise. As father says.
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Speaker 1: The canary and the mocking bird are good enough to
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Speaker 1: keep in cages, But of all birds, give me an owl.
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Speaker 1: Thomas and Samuel laugh at this notion, but Jan continued
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Speaker 1: Thomas did not some people who live a long while
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Speaker 1: ago call the owl the bird of wisdom? Yes, replied Thomas.
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Speaker 1: I have heard Father say that it was the Athenians
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Speaker 1: that shows how wise they are, said Jean. It seems
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Speaker 1: to me as though that owl which we saw was
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Speaker 1: keeping house for poor old soldier Jack. Too hush about Hal's,
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Speaker 1: said his brother, laughing, and they ran together through the
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Speaker 1: gate and into the yard. En of Chapter two. Recording
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Speaker 1: The Summer Holidays. A Story for Children by Amiral, Chapter three,
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Speaker 1: A visit to Daddy. Next morning, mister Harvey told his
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Speaker 1: sons that they might go to see an old man
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Speaker 1: who lived in a small house about two miles off,
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Speaker 1: and who was so sickly that he could not work.
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Speaker 1: This old man's name was Hall, and the boys of
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Speaker 1: the school called him Daddy Hall. He had once been rich,
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Speaker 1: but sickness and misfortune had reduced him to poverty, so
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Speaker 1: that he now lived with his little son in a
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Speaker 1: small hut near a hill. Every week he sent fruit
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Speaker 1: and vegetables to market in a cart drawn by a donkey,
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Speaker 1: which some of the neighbors had given to him. Every
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Speaker 1: week mister Harvey sent either a servant or one of
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Speaker 1: the boys to see how he was getting along and
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Speaker 1: to carry him something nice. The two boys with their
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Speaker 1: cousin were soon off, carrying with them a basket full
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Speaker 1: of things for the old man. They went by the
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Speaker 1: road across the meadows and threw a small gate in
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Speaker 1: the hedge. Samuel observed that the hatthorn of the hedge
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Speaker 1: grew very thick and close, so that a bird could
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Speaker 1: scarcely get through it. The roots and branches were twisted
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Speaker 1: into each other, appearing like strong thick chains woven together,
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Speaker 1: and on the vines grew sharp torns longer than a needle.
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Speaker 1: Mister Harvey's voice told her Casin that neither men nor
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Speaker 1: beasts could get through such a hedge, and that if
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Speaker 1: a man were placed on the top, he could walk
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Speaker 1: on the vines without sinking down. They were so strong
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Speaker 1: and close. It would be an easy traveling, though, added
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Speaker 1: jan for his feet would be torn to pieces by
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Speaker 1: the spiky torns. They now left the edge and went
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Speaker 1: on through two white fields until they reached some hills
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Speaker 1: that stood by themselves and were steep and bare. Three
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Speaker 1: of them a deep pits dug in them. While piles
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Speaker 1: of rock, stones, and sand were lying around. Samuel asked
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Speaker 1: his cousin what place it was. It is an iron mine,
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Speaker 1: said Thomas, But it is not work anymore because there
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Speaker 1: is not enough of iron found to pay for the trouble.
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Speaker 1: All these stones lying about her are pieces of ore,
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Speaker 1: but the quantity of iron in them is so small
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Speaker 1: that it will not pay for the expense of taking
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Speaker 1: it out from the ore. How is iron taking from
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Speaker 1: the ore, asked seint Moon. Thomas replied the ore is
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Speaker 1: first crushed into coarse dust and then washed. Afterwards, this
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Speaker 1: dust is melted in a hot furnace, and the iron
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Speaker 1: is separated from the melted stone. Or draws in a
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Speaker 1: manner which is very troublesome, and which Father can explain
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Speaker 1: to you better than I can. Sometimes the ore is
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Speaker 1: almost all iron. John, and I have some pieces in
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Speaker 1: our cabinets in which you cannot see any stone. But
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Speaker 1: did men go down the steep wall? Asked same more. Yes,
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Speaker 1: they were low, were down in backets, and the water
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Speaker 1: was pomp out by a machine. The water was so cold,
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Speaker 1: even in the middle of summer, that one could scarcely
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Speaker 1: hold his hand in it. The boys began to throw
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Speaker 1: stones down one of the wells, so that they might guess,
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Speaker 1: by hearing them strike the bottom how deep it was.
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Speaker 1: The first stones were too small to be heard. Then
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Speaker 1: they threw larger ones and listened, but could hear no sound.
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Speaker 1: At last, chanted a piece of rock as big as
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Speaker 1: his head and rolled it into the well. It fell
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Speaker 1: with a hollow, rumbling noise, and all was then still.
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Speaker 1: The boys thought it had reached the bottom, but all
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Speaker 1: at once they heard it splash into water. Then the
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Speaker 1: boys knew that the well was very tip for the
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Speaker 1: stones had been falling several seconds. They then hunted among
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Speaker 1: the piles of oar for some handsome pieces to give
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Speaker 1: to Sembuel. They picked up their basket and hurried on
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Speaker 1: toward Daddy Holes. On reaching his house, they found the
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Speaker 1: old man sitting at the door, while his son, a
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Speaker 1: good boy, was preparing to take the donkey to market
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Speaker 1: with a card load of churnips, raddishes, peas, beans and cabbage.
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Speaker 1: Daddy Hole was pale and thin, but he aroused to
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Speaker 1: meet the boys and seemed very glad to see Samuel.
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Speaker 1: Although he was sick almost every day and sometimes suffered
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Speaker 1: great pain, yet no one ever heard him complain. He
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Speaker 1: loved children and was very fond of talking to them,
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Speaker 1: and before he grew so weak and feeble, many of
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Speaker 1: the farmers sent their little ones to him to learn
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Speaker 1: to read. After they had been seated a little while,
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Speaker 1: Chan asked him if he did not get tired of
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Speaker 1: staying in the house sometimes, said the old man. I
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Speaker 1: wish I could go out as I once could and
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Speaker 1: work for myself, but I do not feel tired. Besides,
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Speaker 1: this is the best condition I can be placed in,
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Speaker 1: and If you ask me why, I will tell you God,
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Speaker 1: my children has placed me in it, and he knows
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Speaker 1: what is best for each of us. He has given
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Speaker 1: me many comforts, kind friends, plenty to eat and drink,
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Speaker 1: and a son who is one of the best of boys.
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Speaker 1: There is nothing john more cheering to the heart of
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Speaker 1: an old man than the kindness of a dautiful sin.
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Speaker 1: And let me ask each of you to listen to
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Speaker 1: the advice of one who owns such a blessing, and
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Speaker 1: always to show honor and respect your parents and of
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Speaker 1: Chapter three. Recording by Maria Brannica World Audiobooks Podcasts. Chapter
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Speaker 1: The Walk through the Woods. The boys left their basket
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Speaker 1: with Daddy Hall and set out on their return to
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Speaker 1: the house. Let us go through the woods, said Thomas,
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Speaker 1: and they all walked toward a thick wood which stood
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Speaker 1: not far from the hill near which Daddy Hall's house
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Speaker 1: was built. They were glad to reach its school shade,
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Speaker 1: for the sun was now getting warm. Samuel saw a
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Speaker 1: number of birds among the branches that he did not
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Speaker 1: know the names of, and many bright little flowers were
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Speaker 1: growing in the shade among the roots of oak and
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Speaker 1: beech trees. A little distance in the wood, they reached
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Speaker 1: a small rock, near which some large stones were lying
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Speaker 1: as if they had been thrown together. Thomas stopped and said, Samuel,
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Speaker 1: this is the place where we killed the big snake
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Speaker 1: last spring. You can see his hole under this rock.
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Speaker 1: Jane and I try hard to move these loose stones,
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Speaker 1: but we could not. I dare say there are snake
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Speaker 1: nests underneath, perhaps which we can move, one of them,
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Speaker 1: replied his cousin. They all got hold and at last
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Speaker 1: pulled the stone from its place. There was nothing underneath
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Speaker 1: but some old nutshells, but Jane said he was sure
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Speaker 1: they would find snakes if they could but move the
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Speaker 1: other stones. After much pulling, they raised another one, and
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Speaker 1: under it was a large tortoise with several little ones,
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Speaker 1: no larger than a walnut. After examining this, he observed
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Speaker 1: a hole running under another stone into the ground. Samuel
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Speaker 1: also found two or three snake skins, which his cousins
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Speaker 1: told him the snakes threw off every spring, after which
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Speaker 1: a new and large skin grew on them. They pulled
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Speaker 1: hard a destroyed stone, but could not move it. But
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Speaker 1: while they were going away, Thomas said that they could
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Speaker 1: bring an iron bar some day and easily rooted up.
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Speaker 1: In the middle of the wood was a fine spring
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Speaker 1: of water, which gushed from a rack and then spread
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Speaker 1: out into a little pool, so clear and quiet that
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Speaker 1: the small stones could be seen at the bottom. Samuel
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Speaker 1: tasted the water and found it cold and refreshing. He
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Speaker 1: asked his cousin how so much water could come out
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Speaker 1: of the rug. It does not come from the rack,
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Speaker 1: replied Thomas, but only runs through it. Father says that
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Speaker 1: spring water often comes from the hills and mountains, running
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Speaker 1: under the ground through cracks and holes in the rocks
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Speaker 1: until it finds some outlet. I suppose this water run
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Speaker 1: downs from the top of the hills near the iron mine.
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Speaker 1: But this is not rain water, said his cousin. It's
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Speaker 1: neither taste nor looks like it. It has become changed
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Speaker 1: while passing under the ground, replied Thomas. After a heavy shower,
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Speaker 1: the water soaks into the earth until it reaches the
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Speaker 1: sun or rock underneath. Then it runs through every little crack,
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Speaker 1: down the hill and under the ground to some place
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Speaker 1: like this where it can escape. The sand and gravel
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Speaker 1: which it meets with make it pure underlime and other
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Speaker 1: substances of the rust alter its taste and of Chapter four.
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Speaker 1: The Summer Holidays A Story for Children by Ameral Chapter five,
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Speaker 1: What Uncle Harvey said about train. When the boys reached
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Speaker 1: the house, mister Harvey was in his study. Samuel was
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Speaker 1: anxious to ask him some questions about springs, but he
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Speaker 1: would not go upstairs to disturb him. But after dinner,
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Speaker 1: his uncle came into the parlor where the boys were,
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Speaker 1: and then Samuel asked him where all the water comes
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Speaker 1: from that flows in the rivers and other streams from
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Speaker 1: the ocean, answered mister Harvey, I suppose you have seen
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Speaker 1: water boiling Samel, yes, sir, And have you seen the
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Speaker 1: steam rise up from the water into the air. Samuel
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Speaker 1: said that he had. His uncle continued, whenever water is heated,
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Speaker 1: sometimes cold, If there is enough of heat to make
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Speaker 1: water boil, the wavor passes off very fast until the
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Speaker 1: water is gone. Now, the sun is continually changing the
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Speaker 1: water of rivers, ponds, lakes, and off the ocean into
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Speaker 1: Bayfore these bay for rises. The air about a mile
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Speaker 1: above the earth is much colder than it is on
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Speaker 1: the earth. So when the hot pavor from the ocean
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Speaker 1: meets the cold air, it becomes water and forms clouds.
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Speaker 1: I see you already with a question, Jan, Yes, sir,
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Speaker 1: said jan I cannot see, father, how the clouds can
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Speaker 1: float in the air if there are nothing but water?
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Speaker 1: Why do they not pour down? His father answered, I
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Speaker 1: are water, but not in a clothes mass like that
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Speaker 1: in a bucket or in the mill pond. You have
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Speaker 1: them may be joined together without breaking. It is supposed
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Speaker 1: by learned men that clouds are nothing but many thousands
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Speaker 1: of bubbles, which, being lighter than air, would you no
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Speaker 1: float on it? But father, said John, what makes it rain? That?
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Speaker 1: It's not certainly known, replied mister Harvey. But no doubt
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Speaker 1: lightning has much to do with it. I will show
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Speaker 1: said Samuel. There is one more question which I would
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Speaker 1: I have read, sir, that the water of the ocean
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Speaker 1: said mister Harvey, salt cannot be changed to before, and
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Speaker 1: it is too heavy to be raised in any quantity
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Speaker 1: a Hawk. This afternoon was very hot, and the boys
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Speaker 1: spent in their room arranging their books and pictures and
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Speaker 1: the window, he suddenly exclaimed, there's a howk. Both the
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Speaker 1: boys ran to the window and saw a large hawk
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Speaker 1: sailing slowly toward the barn. He's the one that steals
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Speaker 1: our chickens, said John, and see he's flying straight for
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Speaker 1: the barn. Thomas ran and asked father for the gun.
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Speaker 1: Mister Harvey kept two guns in his house, but he
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Speaker 1: about to steal the poultry. Jane and Thomas had learned
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Speaker 1: to use them and sometimes spent an afternoon in firing
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Speaker 1: at a mark, but they never did so without their
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Speaker 1: father's consent. Thomas soon joined the other boys, having the
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Speaker 1: gun in his hand, and after mister Harvey had bidden
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Speaker 1: them to be careful, they followed in the direction the
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Speaker 1: hawk was flying. They kept close by the pants so
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Speaker 1: that it could not see them. In a short time,
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Speaker 1: it was over the barnyard and sailing round and round
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Speaker 1: in order to make a sweep downwards. Hurry, Thomas, said,
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Speaker 1: Jan and Thomas ran stooping alone some bushes, followed by
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Speaker 1: Jan and Samuel on their hands and fit. The hawk
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Speaker 1: was now quite low and the boys could hear the
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Speaker 1: hands screaming and running about. At last Thomas reached the
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Speaker 1: barn fence and his brother told him to fire, but
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Speaker 1: can take aim now, whispered Jan. The hawk now made
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Speaker 1: under the barn, and the hawk flew up a little higher.
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Speaker 1: Just then Thomas fired. The hawk came down head foremost,
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Speaker 1: and Thomas drew away his gun and sprang over the wall.
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Speaker 1: Jan and Samuel jump after him, shooting as loud as
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Speaker 1: they could. In a few moments, the hawk was dead.
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Speaker 1: It was the largest one that either of them had
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Speaker 1: ever seen. When they reached the house, mister Harvey was
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Speaker 1: waiting for them, and on seeing so large a hawk,
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Speaker 1: seven about bats. This evening, while the boys were reading
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Speaker 1: and talking to mister Harvey, several bats flew in at
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Speaker 1: the window. John caught one of them in his hat
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Speaker 1: and placed it on the table for his cousin to examine.
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Speaker 1: Samuel ask his uncle if it would not fly away. No,
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Speaker 1: said mister Harvey. It cannot raise itself from the ground
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Speaker 1: what we call its swings, while you see nothing but
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Speaker 1: two thin skins or membranes, stretch from its hind legs
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Speaker 1: to its fore ones, and fastened to its sides. When flying,
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Speaker 1: it spreads out its SOEs throws unfold. These membranes, and
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Speaker 1: thus balances itself in the air. Do not Some people
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Speaker 1: think that the bat is a bird as same one. Yes,
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Speaker 1: but probably he never examined a bed closely. You see
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Speaker 1: that it looks nothing at all like a bird, Father,
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Speaker 1: said John. Where did those great bats come from which
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Speaker 1: you have in your cabinet? From the island Java, said
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Speaker 1: mister Harvey. They are called Java bats. I have seen
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Speaker 1: some with bodies as large as hands, and wings like umbrellas.
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Speaker 1: Hundreds of these animals fly about the gardens and orchards
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Speaker 1: of that island every night, destroying great quantities of fruit.
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Speaker 1: The people there are spread nets over the trees to
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Speaker 1: protect the fruit, and shoot the bats with guns, as
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Speaker 1: you did the hawk. I have read in a book
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Speaker 1: of travels, said Samuel, that while persons are asleep, these
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Speaker 1: buds or some other large kind suck their blood. Is
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Speaker 1: the true, sir, No, said mister Harvey. Such tales were
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Speaker 1: long believed even by writers on natural history. And I
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Speaker 1: have somewhere a picture of a monstrous bat sucking the
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Speaker 1: blood from a man's veins. But all this is now
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Speaker 1: known to be fabulous. No kind of bird will attack
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Speaker 1: an animal as large as itself nor enter a house
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Speaker 1: when there is abundance of fruit and insects in the field?
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Speaker 1: Shall we let is? But go now, said Jan. Mister
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Speaker 1: Harvey said yes, and then Jan lifted it on on
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Speaker 1: a large sheet of paper and threw it into the air.
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Speaker 1: In a moment, it spread out its tin wings, and,
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Speaker 1: after a flying about the room two or three times,
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Speaker 1: passed out of the window. Mister Harvey told them that
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Speaker 1: although the bat was so feeble when on the ground,
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Speaker 1: yet its strength of wings was greater than that of
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Speaker 1: a Story of Children by Emerald. Chapter eight The Walk
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Speaker 1: to the Creek. The next day, there was a heavy
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Speaker 1: thundershower in the morning, which compelled the boys to stay
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Speaker 1: in the house, and in the afternoon, the teacher of
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Speaker 1: the academy paid mister Harvey a visit. During the time
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Speaker 1: that he stayed. Thomas with his brother and cousin were
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Speaker 1: told to remain in the house. But the next day
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Speaker 1: was cool and pleasant, and they started early on a
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Speaker 1: rumble through the fields. As they passed close to a farmhouse,
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Speaker 1: Samuel saw a large dog chain to a tree in
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Speaker 1: the yard. It looked very fierce at them as they passed,
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Speaker 1: and begun to growl and bark. Thomas told his cousin
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Speaker 1: that this dog had beaten several persons in the neighborhood,
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Speaker 1: and that some of the schoolboys had tried to poison it,
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Speaker 1: but that the farmer was careful always to keep it
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Speaker 1: chained so that nobody might get a chance to catch
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Speaker 1: it in the road. About half a mile further onward
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Speaker 1: was a fine stream of water. It began in the
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Speaker 1: hills and run winding along deeper and broader to a
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Speaker 1: great distance. Mister Harvey owned several farms along this creek,
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Speaker 1: and here Thomas and jan often came in summer evenings
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Speaker 1: to swim. The water was clear and pure, so that
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Speaker 1: hundreds of fish could be seen sporting around the shores.
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Speaker 1: When the boys reached this creek, they sat down under
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Speaker 1: the songs of the birds when the baschies that hang
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Speaker 1: over the water. In a short time, a number of
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Speaker 1: eels came from under a large stone, one after the other,
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Speaker 1: and after swimming about for a little while, buried themselves
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Speaker 1: in the mud. Samuel asked Thomas where so many came from.
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Speaker 1: They live in the water, replied his cousin. On a
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Speaker 1: pleasant evening, you can see many more swimming among the
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Speaker 1: stones and the roots of trees by the edge of
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Speaker 1: the quik. But they know that they sometimes come out
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Speaker 1: of the water and glide about the men wadows. No,
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Speaker 1: said Samuel, do they, yes, replied Thomas. At night, you
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Speaker 1: may sometimes see a great many among the grass. One
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Speaker 1: evening last summer, Johan and I met a whole company
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Speaker 1: of them going from the little creek near Daddy Hole's
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Speaker 1: house toward the mill pond. He thought at first there
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Speaker 1: were snakes, and so moved out of the road. But
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Speaker 1: by and by we perceived that they were ills. The
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Speaker 1: weather had been hot and dry for two weeks before,
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Speaker 1: and these ils were traveling to find more water, so
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Speaker 1: father told us afterwards. The boys now walked on down
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Speaker 1: the creek until they came to a small bridge, and
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Speaker 1: this boy, about as large as Seymo, was standing drowing
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Speaker 1: stones in the water. When Thomas and the other two
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Speaker 1: got near enough, they saw he was toning frogs. Every
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Speaker 1: time one of these little animals put its head above
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Speaker 1: the water, the boy pelted it with a stone, and
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Speaker 1: two or three had been marched to death as they
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Speaker 1: sat on the broa old stones near the water edge.
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Speaker 1: Now all good boys and girls who read this book
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Speaker 1: will say that this was a cruel boy, and so
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Speaker 1: he was. As soon as John saw what he was about,
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Speaker 1: he called to him to stop. The boy said he
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Speaker 1: would not, and stone harder than before. Then John began
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Speaker 1: though Jan was a noble hearted fellow, yet he was
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Speaker 1: quick of temper, and when he saw boys doing wrong,
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Speaker 1: he was up to get angry very soon if they
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Speaker 1: did not stop when they were told so. Seeing the
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Speaker 1: boys still throw stones, he called to him again, louder
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Speaker 1: than before. What shall I stop for? Said the boy, because,
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Speaker 1: said John, as he stepped on the bridge, you have
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Speaker 1: no business to stone frogs. What hurt do they do you?
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Speaker 1: A good deal? Said the boy, and he threw another
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Speaker 1: stone I tell you to stop, replied Jan. This is
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Speaker 1: father's field, and there are his frogs too, and you
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Speaker 1: have no right here if you can't behave yourself. The
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Speaker 1: boy now drew off his cup as if to fight,
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Speaker 1: and said, I don't care for you or your father either.
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Speaker 1: As done as long as I please, and no one
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Speaker 1: fist in Jan's face. Jan was now very angry. If
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Speaker 1: you touch me, he said, I'll throw your head foremost
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Speaker 1: over the bridge. I tell you to quit stoning frogs,
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Speaker 1: Chan and the boy stood looking at each other for
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Speaker 1: a little while. But at last the boy, seeing that
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Speaker 1: and walk off, muttering that he did not care for anybody.
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Speaker 1: He had better go, said Jan. When his brother began
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Speaker 1: Chapter nine, The Hard Battle. In coming home by some
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Speaker 1: cherry trees that stood near the fence, Samoe saw a
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Speaker 1: little animal larger than the bed lies swiftly from one
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Speaker 1: branch to another. He asked his cousins if it was
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Speaker 1: not a flying squirrel. Thomas answered, yes, several nests of
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Speaker 1: of these squirrels closely, you would see that it wings,
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Speaker 1: as they are called, are not like bird swings. They
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Speaker 1: the sides from the fore legs to the hind ones.
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Speaker 1: But these squirrels cannot fly far nor stay long in
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Speaker 1: asked Samon. The gray squirrel, said Thomas, much larger than
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Speaker 1: Some people eat squirrels, but I have never tasted one.
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Speaker 1: The boys now heard some one screaming, and stopped to listen.
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Speaker 1: It comes from the field, said John. Let us run
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Speaker 1: and see what is the matter. They did so, and
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Speaker 1: soon so that the big dog they had passed his
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Speaker 1: going to the creek, had got out and was chasing
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Speaker 1: a boy. His boy was screaming with fear, and John
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Speaker 1: perceived that he was the boy who had been stoning frogs.
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Speaker 1: But the boys ran with all their might to help him,
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Speaker 1: ground in their way. When they reached the boy, he
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Speaker 1: was pale with fear, for the dog was close to him.
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Speaker 1: Samuel also fought a little afraid, but he joined his
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Speaker 1: two cousins and trying to beat the dog back. The
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Speaker 1: fierce animal gout gent sticks in his mouth and wretched
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Speaker 1: it out of his hand. But he kicked in the
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Speaker 1: Thomas and Samuel struck it over the head with all
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Speaker 1: their might. As to the boy, he ran as hard
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Speaker 1: as he could until he was out of sight. Thoma's
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Speaker 1: stick now broke that, Samuel ran his down the dog's throat,
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Speaker 1: and John ran to bring a great pall, which was
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Speaker 1: lying a little distance off. With this, they kept the
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Speaker 1: dog from biting them until some men came running down
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Speaker 1: a laye and over into the field. They had seen
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Speaker 1: the dog run out of the farmer's yard and were
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Speaker 1: anxious to kill it, so they threw a rope round
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Speaker 1: its neck and drag it away. They said it should
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Speaker 1: be shut. The boys were very warm and could scarcely
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Speaker 1: get their breath. They walked therefore to a tree which
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Speaker 1: stood in the field, and sat down to get cool
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Speaker 1: and rest themselves. Tooma said he would be glad if
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Speaker 1: the dog were killed, for such a animal was not
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Speaker 1: fit to keep. If we had each had a good stout,
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Speaker 1: Club replied his brother, he would never have run after
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Speaker 1: any of us again. They looked up for the boy,
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Speaker 1: but he could not be seen, and after resting themselves,
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Speaker 1: they walked home. When mister Harvey heard of their bottle
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Speaker 1: with a dog, he said that it was a great blessing.
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Speaker 1: They had not been bidden for that. In summer, the
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Speaker 1: Story for Children by Emerald. Chapter ten about corn and
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Speaker 1: the uses of animals. When Semyel had been at his
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Speaker 1: ankles about two weeks, mister Harvey told him one morning
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Speaker 1: that he might go with his cousins to a field
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Speaker 1: where early corn was growing and pull some to cook
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Speaker 1: if it was ripe. They had a merritime among the
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Speaker 1: high corn. As they came back to the house carrying
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Speaker 1: their basket of pears, Samuel asked his cousins. Why corn
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Speaker 1: was sometimes called Indian corn, It is because it formed
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Speaker 1: the chief food of the Indians before white men came
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Speaker 1: to this country, replied Thomas. Father says, its proper name
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Speaker 1: is maiz. It was first found in this country. And yes,
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Speaker 1: said Samuel, they were sweeter than wheat bread. But I
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Speaker 1: would not like to eat them every day, nor I either,
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Speaker 1: said Chan. But I like Indian milk with sugar, eggs
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Speaker 1: and milk in it, and then baked brown in the oven,
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Speaker 1: I think corn is best boiled on the ear and
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Speaker 1: eaten with meat and vegetables. Mister Harvey's library, as I
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Speaker 1: have already told you, was very large, and much time
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Speaker 1: in the room, for it was either reading or writing.
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Speaker 1: In the afternoon, after the voice had godded the corn,
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Speaker 1: he called them into this room and showed them some
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Speaker 1: beautiful pictures of animals and countries. While looking at them,
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Speaker 1: Samuel asked him if he thought every animal had been
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Speaker 1: made for some useful purpose. Yes, my boy, answered his uncle.
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Speaker 1: We have reason to believe that even things which appear
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Speaker 1: to be entirely useless, such as gravel stones or whists
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Speaker 1: have been made by God for some good, And the
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Speaker 1: more we learn about animals and plants, the more plainly disappears.
43:36
Speaker 1: I will show you the picture of a very curious
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Speaker 1: animal called a slot. It looks a little like a bear.
43:43
Speaker 1: Now listen, boys, to a few words about this animal.
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Speaker 1: It lives in thick, gloomy forest, so that it can
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Speaker 1: scarcely ever be taken. When plays on the ground, it
43:53
Speaker 1: cannot walk, but drugs itself forward with its forelegs, crying
43:57
Speaker 1: all the time as if in great pain. Cloths are
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Speaker 1: long and turn up under its feet. In the woods,
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Speaker 1: it lives all the time on the trees, hanging from
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Speaker 1: a branch with its back toward the ground. Tell me
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Speaker 1: what you think of such an animal. I think it
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Speaker 1: must be miserable all day long, replied Samuel. So everyone
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Speaker 1: talked about fifty years ago, said mister Harvey. But men
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Speaker 1: who have gone to the countries where slots are and
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Speaker 1: seen them in the high trees tell a very different story.
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Speaker 1: They say that the slot's home is in the branches
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Speaker 1: as much as a fish is in the water, and
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Speaker 1: he is there a strong and happy animal, although he
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Speaker 1: looks so weak and miserable on the ground. He lives
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Speaker 1: on fruit and moves from one branch and one tree
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Speaker 1: to another with considerable swiftness. So you see that the
44:50
Speaker 1: sloth enjoys himself as well as any of us. And
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Speaker 1: I have no doubt that he was created for some
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Speaker 1: good purpose, although we may not be able to under
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Speaker 1: precisely what it is. But do not some animals eat
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Speaker 1: each other? Asked Thomas. Yes, replied mister Harvey. But this
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Speaker 1: is of great use to man. What would the farmer
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Speaker 1: if they too were not eaten by hawks. If animals
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Speaker 1: after the three boys had taken a pretty long walk,
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Speaker 1: they came to a small cottage standing by a garden
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Speaker 1: round which was a neat hedge. Part of this garden
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Speaker 1: was planted with vegetables and parted with flowers. While many
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Speaker 1: vines and sweet briar bushes stood before the cottage door.
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Speaker 1: There were also large white roses, which Samuel taught finer
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Speaker 1: than any he had yet seen. And in a corner
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Speaker 1: of the garden orders from the house, stood two beehives.
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Speaker 1: As the boys passed by, a young woman came out
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Speaker 1: on the piazza and asked them in. John and Thomas
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Speaker 1: had often been there, so they opened the gate and
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Speaker 1: passed through with her cousin. The young woman, whose name
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Speaker 1: boughs for each of them to drink. Then she walked
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Speaker 1: with them through the garden, showing them the true flowers
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Speaker 1: and telling their names. He was much pleased with the
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Speaker 1: vie hives. They were made of wood with blast stops
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Speaker 1: so that the bees might be seen at work. After
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Speaker 1: watching them for some time, they returned to the garden
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Speaker 1: to the cottage door. At this moment, an old lady
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Speaker 1: came to the door and spoke to mister Harvey's boyce.
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Speaker 1: Samuel observed that she was very feeble and that her
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Speaker 1: voice could scarcely be heard. She looked like one who
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Speaker 1: had been often sick. When they left the cottage, he
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Speaker 1: asked who she was. Her name is Gray, said Thomas.
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Speaker 1: Alice is her daughter. Missus Grey's husband was a sailor,
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Speaker 1: and when Alice was about three years old, he went
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Speaker 1: on a voyage to catch whales, but was lost with
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Speaker 1: all the crew. Missus Gray was poor and had four children,
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Speaker 1: and as no one in the town where she lived
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Speaker 1: would help her, she opened a school for little boys
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Speaker 1: and girls. The money she got by teaching supported her
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Speaker 1: family until her two oldest children died. Soon after, the
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Speaker 1: poor woman herself became sick and the school was closed.
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Speaker 1: Then she moved into this part of the country and
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Speaker 1: tried to make her living by weaving mats out of rushes.
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Speaker 1: But in the fall, the child older than Alice died
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Speaker 1: and Missus Gray again grew sick. Her landlord was a
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Speaker 1: hard hearted man. He turned her out of doors, and
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Speaker 1: the poor woman would have died if some neighbors had
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Speaker 1: not taken her in and provided for her until she
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Speaker 1: could work for herself. At last, she went to live
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Speaker 1: on one of the hills that you can't see, near
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Speaker 1: the iron mine. She did prey the world that winter,
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Speaker 1: but one day in the spring, a great freshet prove
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Speaker 1: in everything that she had and almost carried away her house.
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Speaker 1: Afraid to stay on the hill any longer, she was
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Speaker 1: about to go to the city and ask assistants from
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Speaker 1: the societies which give help to poor people, when some
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Speaker 1: persons told her to move to the cottage she is
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Speaker 1: in now and that they would pay the rent. She
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Speaker 1: did so. When Alice grew older, she worked hard to
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Speaker 1: support her mother, and she it was who planted all
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Speaker 1: the flowers and vegetables that he saw in the garden.
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Speaker 1: Mother made her a present of the beehives. Everybody loves
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Speaker 1: the old lady still sick, asked samud Yes, said his cousin,
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Speaker 1: in having a good daughter and kind friends, and loves
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Speaker 1: to see the young people who sometimes stop the talk
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Speaker 1: or read to her. At some distance from the cottage,
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Speaker 1: the boys met a ball in the road. It was
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Speaker 1: standing still when they first saw it, but in a
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Speaker 1: little while it began to strike the ground with its
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Speaker 1: feet and toast about its head. Samuel was afraid to
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Speaker 1: go on, but his cousins told you to follow them
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Speaker 1: without attempting to run. As they passed, the bull looked
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Speaker 1: firstly at them and begun to roar. But they walk on,
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Speaker 1: keeping their eyes steady on it all the while. It
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Speaker 1: continued to make a great noise, but did not follow them.
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Speaker 1: After they had passed it, Thomas said they could then
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Speaker 1: walk as fast as they chose, lest the ball might
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Speaker 1: killed people. Yes, he replied. Balls are dangerous when anything
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Speaker 1: makes them angry, and at such times, if you run
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Speaker 1: from them, they are sure to follow. They often fight
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Speaker 1: with each other, and farmer Smith had a ball killed
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Speaker 1: by another one last spring. If you meet them in
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Speaker 1: any fear. It is not often that they will attack
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Speaker 1: Children by Ameral Chapter twelve Locust, mister Harvey's voice had
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Speaker 1: a very fine fig tree, which had been presented to
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Speaker 1: them by a friend of their father, and of which
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Speaker 1: they took great care. It was kept in a large
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Speaker 1: box so that it might be placed in the house
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Speaker 1: during the winter. The boys expected it would bear fruit
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Speaker 1: next year. One day John burst into the room where Thomas,
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Speaker 1: Samuel and his father were sitting and exclaimed with a
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Speaker 1: doleful voice, Oh, father, it is dead, eaten by the locust.
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Speaker 1: I found a dozen on it. What's the matter, Jan,
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Speaker 1: said mister Harvey. What have the locus eaten our fig tree?
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Speaker 1: Replied Jan, It is gone past all remedy. Only come
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Speaker 1: with me and you'll see it. They followed him down
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Speaker 1: the garden walk. On reaching the fig tree, mister Harvey
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Speaker 1: saw that nearly all its lives had been eaten off,
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Speaker 1: with most of the bark and young branches. Thomas and
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Speaker 1: Samuel were very sorry, and jan said he would kill
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Speaker 1: every locust he met from the day forward. Mister Harvey
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Speaker 1: examined the tree and found that although much damage had
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Speaker 1: been done to it, yet with proper care, it might
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Speaker 1: be restored. We ought to have covered it with a net,
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Speaker 1: he said to the boys. While his father was talking
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Speaker 1: with Thomas and his cousin John was stooping on the
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Speaker 1: ground hummering something with a stone. At last, mister Harvey
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Speaker 1: turned round and asked John what he was doing. I'm
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Speaker 1: killing these fine locust that I have got, replied Jack. Stop,
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Speaker 1: my son, said mister Harvey. That is a foolish conduct,
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Speaker 1: and very weakened. You are giving way to anger and revenge,
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Speaker 1: two of the worse passions that a youth can indulge.
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Speaker 1: But father, he will eat more trees. The damage that
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Speaker 1: a few locusts can do is not much, answered his father,
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Speaker 1: And if you had taken proper care with a fig tree,
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Speaker 1: they would not have reached it. Let those under your
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Speaker 1: hat go, and when we go into the house, I
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Speaker 1: will tell you about the locust of the eastern countries,
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Speaker 1: and said he was sorry for having acted so foolishly.
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Speaker 1: Then mister Harvey trimmed the fig tree with his knife
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Speaker 1: and said he would send a servant to place a
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Speaker 1: screen over it. When they came to the house, John
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Speaker 1: reminded his father of his promise concerning the locust. Mister
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Speaker 1: Harvey took from a shelf several large pictures of insects,
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Speaker 1: playing one on the table, ask his son what he
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Speaker 1: thought it was. It looks like a large grasshappers, said John.
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Speaker 1: It is the locust of the east, replied his father.
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Speaker 1: These locusts are shaped almost exactly like the long wing
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Speaker 1: grass hoppers that fly about our fields, but they are
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Speaker 1: two three times larger. What do you think this picture is?
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Speaker 1: It seemed to be a great cloud of dust. It
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Speaker 1: is warm of eastern locusts. Hundreds of thousands fly thats together,
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Speaker 1: darkening the air and driving everything before them. When alighting,
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Speaker 1: they cover the earth for more than a mile round
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Speaker 1: and eat every green thing to the very roots. The
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Speaker 1: noise of their rings is like thunder. They leave the
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Speaker 1: country like a desert, so that terrified people look forward
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Speaker 1: to misery and femine, men, women and children turn out
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Speaker 1: with guns and stones to kill them, and sometimes large
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Speaker 1: fires are kindled for the same purpose. The dead ones
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Speaker 1: are taken by cart loads to markets and sold for
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Speaker 1: food to be eaten, Sir, said Samuel, Yes, replied mister Harvey.
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Speaker 1: Mixed with butter and fried in a pan, they form
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Speaker 1: almost all the meat that the poorer glasses in those
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Speaker 1: countries get. It is a shocking meal, said John. Not
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Speaker 1: so bad as you supposed, said his father. Perhaps if
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Speaker 1: it were not the custom in this country to eat
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Speaker 1: lobsters or hogs, we would look upon them with as
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Speaker 1: much disgust as you do upon locust. What do you
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Speaker 1: think of dining off of spiders? Horrible? Said John. His
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Speaker 1: father continued, I have read of a man who ate
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Speaker 1: nothing else when he could get spiders. So you see
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Speaker 1: that people tastes differ. You know that John Baptist food
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Speaker 1: was locust and wild honey. Do the people kill all
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Speaker 1: the locusts in a swarm? Asked Thomas, No, said his father.
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Speaker 1: A swarm is so large that, after hundreds of cart
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Speaker 1: loads are taken from it, it seems no smaller. Generally,
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Speaker 1: the wind drives them into the sea, where they perish,
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Speaker 1: but their dead bodies cast upon shore become corrupt and
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Speaker 1: produce plags. I wish, said John, that the wind would
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Speaker 1: drive all we have into the sea or else a
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Speaker 1: good distance from our fig tree. Who would you think
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Speaker 1: that such little animals could do so much mischief? You
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Speaker 1: sit through that locusts return after every seventeen years, as Samuel, Yes,
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Speaker 1: said mister Harvey, But not the common kind such as
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Speaker 1: eat the fig tree. All locusts come from eggs. In first,
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Speaker 1: coming from the egg, they are not winged, but look
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Speaker 1: like grub worms. After a while, these grubs cast off
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Speaker 1: their skins and become locusts. Now there is a kind
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Speaker 1: of locusts which is seventeen years in changing from the
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Speaker 1: egg to the full insect. It is this kind which
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Speaker 1: is so numerous every seventeen years. If you go into
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Speaker 1: the field when they are coming from the ground, you
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Speaker 1: will see the grass and plants covered with them. Father,
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Speaker 1: said Jan. Why did the locust trip all the leaves
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Speaker 1: the locust? Had there been figs on the tree, they
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Speaker 1: in the evening into mister Harvey's barnyard, but as a
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Speaker 1: dog belonging to one of the farmers was near, he
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Speaker 1: was driven off before he could catch any of the chickens.
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Speaker 1: The boys heard the noise and ran down. He saw
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Speaker 1: the fox running very fast away, while the dog, which
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Speaker 1: could not follow through the hole under the fence, had
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Speaker 1: gone round the barn to get into the field. Samuel
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Speaker 1: and his cousins chased the fax as far as they
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Speaker 1: could see it, and then returned to the barnyard to
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Speaker 1: hunt for more, but none could be found, and they
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Speaker 1: walked up to the house. At last, the month of
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Speaker 1: August rolled around, and the holidays drew toward the clothes.
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Speaker 1: I have told you only about a few things that
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Speaker 1: Samuel saw in his walks around the country with his cousins,
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Speaker 1: but you perceived that he enjoyed himself very much. He
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Speaker 1: also learned a great deal. I hope children, you have
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Speaker 1: remember all that his ankle and casins told him, and
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Speaker 1: often thought of it when he was by himself. It
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Speaker 1: would be well if you would do the same. Have
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Speaker 1: you a little brother or sister, see if you can
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Speaker 1: tell it what mister Harvey told Samuel about bats, locust, beavers,
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Speaker 1: to rain and sluts. You may also tell the story
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Speaker 1: of Alice Gray and Old Jack the Soldier. You remember
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Speaker 1: that Samuel was to go home at the end of August.
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Speaker 1: Thomas and jan looked very sorrowful as the time drew near,
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Speaker 1: mister Harvey took all the boys to a branch of
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Speaker 1: in a boat on the water. It was a beautiful
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Speaker 1: moonlight evening, and they rode to the place in the carriage.
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Speaker 1: Samuel taught that the side of the water, sparkling in
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Speaker 1: the moon beams and stretching away so wide and still,
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Speaker 1: thing he had yet seen. When they were in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the stream and gliding slowly down it, mister
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Speaker 1: and as they had brought plenty of food with them,
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Speaker 1: they stayed on the water until midnight. Next morning, Samuel
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Speaker 1: started for town at nine o'clock. He had received many
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Speaker 1: beautiful and useful things from his cousins, and as he
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Speaker 1: pressed their hands and again and again paid them goodbye,
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Speaker 1: he felt how much he would miss their company when
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Speaker 1: he would be in the city. But they promised to
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Speaker 1: write to each other, and as often as they could
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Speaker 1: send presents from one to another. Then the horses trotted
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