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10.31.26 - Part 2 · Children's Hour

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  Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to Radio Eye's Children's Story Hour. As
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  Speaker 1: a reminder, Radio Eye is a reading service intended for
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  Speaker 1: people who are blind or have other disabilities that make
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  Speaker 1: it difficult to read printed material. Today we're going to
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  Speaker 1: be reading the second installment or hopefully finish the book
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  Speaker 1: that we have already started and it's called Roscoe Riley Rules,
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  Speaker 1: number seven. Never Race a Runaway Pumpkin. The author is
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  Speaker 1: Catherine Applegate. Illustrator is Brian Biggs. And it was published
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  Speaker 1: by Harper Publishing in 2009. When we were last reading,
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  Speaker 1: we learned that a young boy named Roscoe Riley is
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  Speaker 1: very superstitious. He firmly believes that black cats cause bad luck,
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  Speaker 1: even though his teacher, Ms. Diz, and his mother have
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  Speaker 1: told him that superstitions like that are not true. We
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  Speaker 1: also learned about a contest that the Hilltop Bookstore is sponsoring.
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  Speaker 1: If you enter the contest and you guess the weight
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  Speaker 1: of a giant pumpkin that they have in their store's window,
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  Speaker 1: you will win books for the school library and lots
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  Speaker 1: of candy. Roscoe and his brother and his little sister
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  Speaker 1: have all made their guesses. So now, let's continue the story.
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  Speaker 1: Guestimating The next day at school, we learned more about
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  Speaker 1: weighing things. We learned about greater than and less than.
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  Speaker 1: We learned that a little pumpkin's weight is greater than
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  Speaker 1: a quarter. We even learned that a medium pumpkin weighs
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  Speaker 1: less than Miss Diz. The more I thought about weighing stuff,
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  Speaker 1: the more I wished I'd taken a guess about the
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  Speaker 1: giant pumpkin's weight. It didn't seem fair that a fuzzy, mewing,
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  Speaker 1: purring animal with bad luck germs was ruining my chance
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  Speaker 1: at winning. All day long, I thought about that giant pumpkin.
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  Speaker 1: All day long, I thought about that black cat. Heading
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  Speaker 1: home on the school bus, I finally came up with
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  Speaker 1: a perfect plan. I could guess that pumpkin's weight and
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  Speaker 1: keep away from that black cat and her bad luck.
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  Speaker 1: All I had to do was send someone else into
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  Speaker 1: the bookstore to write down my guess. That way I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't have to go anywhere near that cat. I knew
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  Speaker 1: just the guy to help me out. I ran into
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  Speaker 1: the house. Dad was doing work stuff in the kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: How was school, Roscoe? he asked. He kissed me on
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  Speaker 1: the top of my head. I plopped my backpack onto
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen table. We learned all about how to guesstimate
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  Speaker 1: weight today. estimate dad said cool how much do you
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  Speaker 1: figure i weigh i thought for a minute greater than
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  Speaker 1: a mouse but less than a monster truck not bad
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  Speaker 1: dad said i could get a chance for an extra
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  Speaker 1: practice if you took me back to the bookstore dad
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  Speaker 1: raised his eyebrow not the giant pumpkin again I didn't
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  Speaker 1: get to guess the last time, I said, because of
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  Speaker 1: that bad luck kitty. Dad checked his watch. Hazel and
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  Speaker 1: your mom are at Mommy and Me Music, so you
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  Speaker 1: and I have to pick up Max after his softball practice.
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  Speaker 1: I suppose we could stop at the bookstore on the way.
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  Speaker 1: You're the best dad in the whole entire metropolitan area,
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  Speaker 1: I said. They say that on TV a lot. Why,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, said Dad. Dad, do you believe in superstitions?
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  Speaker 1: I ask. Well, I've been known to knock on wood
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  Speaker 1: when I'm wishing for good luck, but I know it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't really bring me luck. Do you have lucky underwear? No,
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  Speaker 1: that's your Uncle Ed's department. Do you think black cats
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  Speaker 1: make you eat green beetles? Dad scratched his head. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure I'm following you, Roscoe. Well, it's like this, Dad,
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  Speaker 1: I said. Would you mind writing down my pumpkin gifts
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  Speaker 1: while I wait outside the bookstore? Dad got an oh-I-get-it face. Roscoe,
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  Speaker 1: your mom told me all about the black cat. If
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  Speaker 1: you want to go back into the store, You're going
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  Speaker 1: to have to go inside, kitty or no kitty. Black
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  Speaker 1: cats do not cause bad luck. Not unless they cross
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  Speaker 1: your path, I said. Roscoe, said Dad firmly, that's just
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  Speaker 1: not true. The only way you're going to believe it
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  Speaker 1: is if you go into that bookstore and see for yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I hate it when parents give you hard choices. I
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  Speaker 1: like my choices nice and easy. Okay, I finally said.
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  Speaker 1: I guess I can do that. Probably she won't even
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  Speaker 1: be there. Just to be on the safe side, though,
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  Speaker 1: I knocked on a wooden chair extra hard. A bad
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  Speaker 1: luck magnet. Wow, Dad exclaimed when he saw the pumpkin
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  Speaker 1: in the window. You weren't kidding. That is one big pumpkin.
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  Speaker 1: Hello there, said Dad. Back again? My school really needs books,
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  Speaker 1: I said. And he really likes candy, said Dad with
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  Speaker 1: a smile. Matter of fact, so do I. Is No
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  Speaker 1: Name around, I asked. I just got here a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes ago, said Dad. but I haven't seen her. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: somebody decided to take her home. My daughter will be
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  Speaker 1: disappointed if they did, said Dan. She spent all of
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  Speaker 1: our dinner begging us to add no-name to our family.
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  Speaker 1: No no-name was good news. Finally, I could concentrate on
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  Speaker 1: more important things. I thought about the world's biggest pumpkin. Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Page said it was over one thousand six hundred pounds.
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  Speaker 1: He'd shown us a picture of it, too. The bookstore
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  Speaker 1: pumpkin was smaller than that, but it was still pretty big.
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  Speaker 1: I thought about the medium-sized pumpkin at school. Ms. Diz
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  Speaker 1: had weighed. It was seventeen pounds. The bookstore pumpkin weighed
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  Speaker 1: a lot more than that one. Finally, I felt ready
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  Speaker 1: to take a guess. I wrote down my number, 964.
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  Speaker 1: I put Roscoe Riley on my paper and also my
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  Speaker 1: telephone number. Then I folded up the paper and put
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  Speaker 1: it into the plastic pumpkin that held the other guesses.
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  Speaker 1: There were a lot of other guesses. Good luck, said Dan.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be announcing the winner on Saturday morning during the
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  Speaker 1: Fall Festival. Dad looked at his watch. We've got a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes before we have to pick up Max, he said.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go check out the kids' book section. That's where
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  Speaker 1: Hazel had run into No-Name. We should probably go get Max,
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  Speaker 1: I said quickly. We've got plenty of time, Dad said.
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  Speaker 1: I followed him very closely down the aisle. So far,
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  Speaker 1: so good. No, No-Name. We passed the picture book part
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  Speaker 1: and the pop-up book part and the books that have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of big words and not enough pictures part.
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  Speaker 1: Just as we passed a tall stack of wizard books,
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  Speaker 1: I tripped. My shoelace was untied. That happens about 20
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  Speaker 1: times a day. I bent down to tie my shoe,
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  Speaker 1: but somebody else wanted to help. No name! She leaped
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  Speaker 1: out of a bookshelf and grabbed my shoelace. It's her, Dad!
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  Speaker 1: I cried. I could feel the bad luck rubbing off
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  Speaker 1: on me. The illustration here shows Roscoe bending down to
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  Speaker 1: tie his shoe, and there's No Name, the black cat,
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  Speaker 1: rubbing up against him. Just relax, said Dad. She's only playing.
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  Speaker 1: Kittens love string. I stood statue still. Dad, I said
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  Speaker 1: in a trembly voice, I will have to burn this shoe.
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  Speaker 1: It is covered with unluckiness. No name rubbed up on me,
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  Speaker 1: right on my lucky red sock. Great, I said, now
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  Speaker 1: I have bad luck. Cats stink all over my red sock.
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  Speaker 1: dad grinned i think she likes you dad i said
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  Speaker 1: we have to get out of here if she walks
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  Speaker 1: in front of us we are cursed forever or for
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  Speaker 1: seven years i'm not exactly sure which gently dad pulled
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  Speaker 1: the shoelace from no name's little claws Then he picked
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  Speaker 1: her up.' Dad!' I cried.' What is wrong with you?''
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  Speaker 1: I' m just holding her,' he said.' It' s not like she's
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  Speaker 1: crossing my path.' No-Nay made that rumbly purring noise again.
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  Speaker 1: She sounded like she swallowed a little toy engine. It
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  Speaker 1: was a good sound, but I knew it was just
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  Speaker 1: a sneaky cat trick. She wanted me to think she
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  Speaker 1: was cute. so she could cross my path and ruin
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  Speaker 1: my life. Please, can we go now? She's already unlocked
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  Speaker 1: my lucky sock. All right, Dad said. I dashed ahead
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  Speaker 1: of him down the aisle. I guess No-Name thought I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to play catch the boy. She jumped right out
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  Speaker 1: of Dad's arms, and she ran right after me and
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  Speaker 1: my shoelace. Help! I cried. I'm being chased by bad luck.
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  Speaker 1: leaves dropping. I spun around and ran toward the back
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  Speaker 1: of the store. I saw an open doorway and flew inside.
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  Speaker 1: I was in a tiny office. A lady sat at
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  Speaker 1: a desk talking on the phone. She had a tissue
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  Speaker 1: in her hand and a red nose. She looked very
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  Speaker 1: surprised to see me. Sweetie, you're not supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: in here. This is the office, she said. Are you lost? No,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just looking, I said, because That's what my mom
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  Speaker 1: always says to store helpers. Well, just let me finish
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  Speaker 1: up this call and I'll see if I can help you,
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  Speaker 1: she said. I peeked out the door. No name was
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  Speaker 1: waiting for me. Her tail swished back and forth like
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  Speaker 1: windshield wipers. She was plotting how to cross my path.
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  Speaker 1: I could see it in her shiny green eyes. The
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  Speaker 1: office lady sneezed. Yes, I know, she said into the phone.
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  Speaker 1: She's a darling kitten, but I'm so allergic I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: someone will take her home on Saturday. I heard footsteps.
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  Speaker 1: Dad poked his head in the door. Roscoe, he said,
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  Speaker 1: that cat is not going to give you bad luck,
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  Speaker 1: but I will if you don't start listening to reason.
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  Speaker 1: Can I help you, sir? the lady asked. Just collecting
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  Speaker 1: my son. Dad said. He took my hand and pulled
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  Speaker 1: me out of the office. No-Name sat in the aisle,
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  Speaker 1: swishing her tail and waiting for her chance to curse me. Run, Dad,
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  Speaker 1: I yelled. I rushed toward the exit as fast as
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  Speaker 1: I could. No-Name rushed after me. Just as I reached
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  Speaker 1: the front door, it swung open. A boy carrying a
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  Speaker 1: strawberry milkshake came in. I crashed into him. He crashed
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  Speaker 1: into me. The strawberry milkshake crashed into my T-shirt. No-Name
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  Speaker 1: took one look at the mess and ran the other way.
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  Speaker 1: I was pink and milky, but I'd outsmarted that bad
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  Speaker 1: luck kitty. Roscoe, what happened to your white T-shirt, Mom
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  Speaker 1: asked when we got home. A strawberry milkshake ran into me,
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  Speaker 1: I said. We stopped at the bookstore so Roscoe could
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  Speaker 1: take a guess on the Mega Pumpkin. Dad said, I
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  Speaker 1: met no name, by the way. Hazel, she's a very
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  Speaker 1: cute kitty. Although Roscoe might not agree with me. Can
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  Speaker 1: we have her, Dad? Can we please? Hazel begged. I
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  Speaker 1: could dress her in my doll clothes and name her
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  Speaker 1: Bitsy Boo. Bitsy, boo, you've got to be kidding, Max laughed.
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  Speaker 1: How about Rocky? Hazel shook her head. Nope, she's a
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  Speaker 1: girl and she needs a girl name. Well, well, call
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  Speaker 1: her what you want, but you can't dress her in
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  Speaker 1: doll clothes, Max said. Right, Mom? Right, said Mom. Cats
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  Speaker 1: generally aren't in favor of playing dress-up. Everybody, I shouted loudly.
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  Speaker 1: We can't take no name. We're just considering the idea,
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  Speaker 1: Dad said. We haven't made a final decision. But you
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  Speaker 1: can't get her, I said. Roscoe, I told you that
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  Speaker 1: black cats are not bad luck, Mom said. I took
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  Speaker 1: a deep breath. We can't get her because I heard
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  Speaker 1: the lady in the bookstore office say someone was for
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  Speaker 1: sure already taking her home on Saturday. I was sort
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  Speaker 1: of eavesdropping. Hazel's eyes got wide. Mommy, what's leaves dropping?
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  Speaker 1: She asked. Listening to a conversation you're not supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be listening to, said Mom. Are you sure about this, Roscoe?
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  Speaker 1: Dad said. Positive, I said. At least I was pretty
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  Speaker 1: sure that's what the lady said. Well, maybe not exactly sure,
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  Speaker 1: but kind of sure. And besides, I didn't want my
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  Speaker 1: family to have bad luck move in with them. Shoelace grabbing,
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  Speaker 1: cute purring, big eye blinking bad luck. Hazel's eyes got
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  Speaker 1: wet with tears. But I wanted her to be my kitty,
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  Speaker 1: she said. I'm sorry, sweetheart, said Mom. If we decide
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  Speaker 1: to get a kitty, there are lots of sweet cats
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  Speaker 1: at the animal shelter. Goofy trotted over to Hazel. He
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  Speaker 1: tried to lick her tears. She blew her nose on
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  Speaker 1: Mom's shirt. She looked so sad. Hazel, I said, maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe what? Hazel asked, sniffling loudly. Never mind, I said.
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  Speaker 1: I was not exactly sure what what i was going
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  Speaker 1: to say maybe i was going to say that maybe
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  Speaker 1: i wasn't really sure about no name being taken already
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  Speaker 1: maybe but i guess i'll never know because i didn't
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  Speaker 1: say it and the winner is saturday morning the town
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  Speaker 1: square was full of people main street was closed for
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  Speaker 1: the fall festival no cars could go there but people
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  Speaker 1: could I saw dunking for apples and carved pumpkins. There
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  Speaker 1: was even a scarecrow competition. But the giant pumpkin was
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  Speaker 1: the big attraction. Somehow those bookstore guys had managed to
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  Speaker 1: put it on a big wooden cart, like a pumpkin wagon.
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  Speaker 1: It sat in the middle of the street at the
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  Speaker 1: very top of the hill. Next to the pumpkin were
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  Speaker 1: two giant sacks. Look at all that, Hazel, I said.
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  Speaker 1: Probably one is full of books for the school, and
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  Speaker 1: one is full of candy for us. But she didn't answer.
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  Speaker 1: She was still sad about no name, I guess. She
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  Speaker 1: hadn't even eaten her pancakes this morning, even though Dad
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  Speaker 1: had made them in the shape of an H. A
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  Speaker 1: huge crowd gathered for the pumpkin winner announcement. We stood
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  Speaker 1: behind lots of other people. I couldn't see much, just
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  Speaker 1: the top of Dan the bookstore guy's head and half
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  Speaker 1: of the giant pumpkin. Dan picked up a microphone. It
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  Speaker 1: made a screechy sound. Folks, he said, Hilltop Bookstore is
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  Speaker 1: proud to announce the winner of our Guess the Weight
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  Speaker 1: of the Giant Pumpkin contest. Mom, can I go see
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  Speaker 1: the pumpkin close up, I asked. Sure, Mom said. Take
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  Speaker 1: Hazel with you. Hazel and I made our way to
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  Speaker 1: the front of the crowd. Near Dan's feet, I noticed
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  Speaker 1: a cardboard box. It had holes in it. Someone had
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  Speaker 1: drawn orange and yellow leaves on the sides of the box.
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  Speaker 1: On the front of the box was a sign that said,
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  Speaker 1: Please fall for me. No name the kitten needs a
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  Speaker 1: loving home. Uh-oh, I thought. The winner of our contest
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  Speaker 1: will win books for their school library, said Dan, enough
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  Speaker 1: to fill this giant pumpkin. The box moved just a little. Roscoe,
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  Speaker 1: what's in that box, Hazel asked. It keeps wiggling. Today's
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  Speaker 1: winner guessed exactly the right weight, Dan said. The box
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  Speaker 1: jiggled again. Hazel yanked on my shirt. What's that sign
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  Speaker 1: on the box say, Roscoe? she asked. Dan opened up
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  Speaker 1: a piece of paper. With the only correct guess of
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  Speaker 1: 964 pounds, the winner is Roscoe Riley, Dan yelled. That's me,
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  Speaker 1: I cried. I'm Roscoe Riley. Roscoe, come on up here,
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  Speaker 1: my friend, and take a bow, said Dan. I ran
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  Speaker 1: up to Dan. Then I bowed and waved to the crowd.
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  Speaker 1: Dan shook my hand, and a lady from the local
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  Speaker 1: newspaper took a picture of me. Mom and Dad and
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  Speaker 1: Max smiled and waved. Hazel crept closer to the box.
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  Speaker 1: She poked at the top of it. Hazel, no, I whispered.
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  Speaker 1: But it was too late. The box popped open. No-Name
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  Speaker 1: leaped out. She gave a little meow. Then she took
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  Speaker 1: a big leap right for my shoelace. She grabbed my
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  Speaker 1: lace with her kitty claws. I could feel the bad
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  Speaker 1: luck pouring over me. I fell backwards. right into the
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  Speaker 1: pumpkin cart. The giant pumpkin rocked back and forth. Mommy, Daddy,
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  Speaker 1: it's the kitty, Hazel yelled. Slowly, the pumpkin rolled off
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  Speaker 1: the cart. It started down the hill, just like a
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  Speaker 1: giant piece of fruit going for a nice stroll. Look out, folks,
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  Speaker 1: Dan yelled. Run away, pumpkin! The giant pumpkin was escaping,
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  Speaker 1: and it was all my fault. Don't worry, Dan, I cried.
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  Speaker 1: I'll stop it. The pumpkin rolled a little faster, then
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  Speaker 1: faster still. Most people moved out of the way, but
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  Speaker 1: some ran after the pumpkin with me, kids mostly. It's
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  Speaker 1: not all that often you get to chase a giant fruit.
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  Speaker 1: I ran my fastest. No name ran beside me. You
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  Speaker 1: could tell she thought that Chase the Boy Chasing the
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  Speaker 1: Pumpkin was a wonderful new game. The pumpkin picked up steam,
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  Speaker 1: but so did I. I was behind it. I was
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  Speaker 1: chasing it. I was ahead of it. It was chasing me.
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  Speaker 1: I was almost to the bottom of the hill. The
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  Speaker 1: statue of Thomas Toadswallow stood just a few feet away.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want to get between Thomas and nine hundred
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  Speaker 1: sixty four pounds of pumpkin. So I did what any
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  Speaker 1: sensible kid would do. I jumped out of the way.
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  Speaker 1: No name jumped to right onto my head, which I
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  Speaker 1: believe is even worse luck than crossing your path. The
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  Speaker 1: giant pumpkin smashed right into Thomas and his porcupine. The
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  Speaker 1: pumpkin split right in two. The illustration here shows the
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  Speaker 1: statue of Thomas Toadswallow holding a pumpkin, and the giant,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's holding a porcupine, and the giant pumpkin
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  Speaker 1: down below has smashed into a million pieces. Pumpkin guts
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  Speaker 1: were everywhere, orange and slimy and full of seeds and
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  Speaker 1: pumpkin juice. It smelled just like Halloween. Nonay jumped off
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  Speaker 1: my head. She circled around me, purring happily. That kitty
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  Speaker 1: crossed my path, big time. The crowd was running toward
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  Speaker 1: us to see if we were okay. I was, and
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  Speaker 1: so was Nonay. The pumpkin? Not so much. Goodbye from
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  Speaker 1: Time Out. So that's how I ended up in Time Out.
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  Speaker 1: When Mom and Dad found out I had sort of
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  Speaker 1: exaggerated about No Name finding a home, they were not
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  Speaker 1: very happy. They said I should have told them exactly
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  Speaker 1: what I'd overheard in the bookstore office. Not kind of
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  Speaker 1: what I heard. They also said black kitties are absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: positively not bad luck. Mom and Dad made me promise
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  Speaker 1: to talk to them if I have any more superstitions
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  Speaker 1: and not to Uncle Ed. They also made me promise
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  Speaker 1: not to chase any more runaway fruits. or vegetables. The
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  Speaker 1: bookstore made good use of all the pumpkin guts. The
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  Speaker 1: bookstore said that the pumpkin really is a fruit because
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  Speaker 1: that thing was full of seeds. Dan roasted the seeds
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  Speaker 1: and gave them away to customers. He made about a
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  Speaker 1: Google pumpkin pies, too. And guess what else? No-Name is
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  Speaker 1: our kitty now. Except that she isn't called No-Name anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Her name is Bitsy Boo now. We haven't had any
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  Speaker 1: bad luck since we brought her home. I have to admit,
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  Speaker 1: I like her swishing tail and her blinking eyes and
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  Speaker 1: her fluffy black kitten fur. But you know what I
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  Speaker 1: like best of all? Hearing that sound. Kind of like
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: the world's tiniest motorcycle. Time out goes a lot faster
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  Speaker 1: when someone's purring in your lap. And the final illustration
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  Speaker 1: here is of Roscoe Riley still sitting in his time
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  Speaker 1: out chair. But he's holding the black cat. named Bitsy Boo.
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  Speaker 1: Here at the end of the book, we see a
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  Speaker 1: page that says, Useful Things I Learned at the Bookstore
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  Speaker 1: by me, Roscoe Riley. Number one, do not ask the
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  Speaker 1: bookstore lady to come to your house and read you
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  Speaker 1: a bedtime story. She has other plans. Number two, There
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  Speaker 1: will never be enough books about dinosaurs or pirates. Number three,
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  Speaker 1: first graders are not young adults. Number four, say store manager,
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  Speaker 1: not boss of the books. Number five, if you knock
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  Speaker 1: over the giant stack of Harry Potters, be sure to
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  Speaker 1: say sorry to the bookstore lady. Then she will say,
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  Speaker 1: that's okay, sweetheart. Number six, if you pop a pop-up
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  Speaker 1: book so much that it stops popping, be sure to
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  Speaker 1: say you're extra sorry to the bookstore lady. Then she
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  Speaker 1: will say, that's okay. She will also ask, who's keeping
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  Speaker 1: an eye on you, sweetheart? Number seven, the bookstore manager.
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  Speaker 1: Cannot call your favorite author and ask why it is
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  Speaker 1: taking so long for her to write another book. Number eight,
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  Speaker 1: do not climb the rolling ladder that goes to the
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  Speaker 1: tip-top bookshelf, especially when you are holding a Junie B.
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  Speaker 1: Jones in one hand and a Captain Underpants in the other.
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  Speaker 1: Number nine, during story time, do not yell out the
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  Speaker 1: end of the story. The other kids will not exactly
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it. And number 10, there is a rule called
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  Speaker 1: do not write in the book unless you are pretty
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  Speaker 1: sure your mom is going to buy it. Well, this
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  Speaker 1: concludes the Children's Story Hour for today. Please join us
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  Speaker 1: next time as we will read more stories, fables, and
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  Speaker 1: fairy tales. And thank you for listening. Please stay tuned
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  Speaker 1: for continuing programming on Radio Eye.