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  Speaker 1: Section zero of Nixibunny and Holidayland. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 1: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Nixibunny
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  Speaker 1: in Holidayland by Joseph Sindelaire. Introduction. Happy is the child
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  Speaker 1: who strays into the land of holidays, where, surely as
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  Speaker 1: the sun arises, each noonday brings its surprises. In the
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  Speaker 1: pleasant autumn weather, holidays bloom close together. In the winter,
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  Speaker 1: cold and dreary is made by them quite bright and cheery.
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  Speaker 1: Happy is the child who strays into the land of holidays.
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  Speaker 1: There are many gardens needs, where each flowers a story.
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  Speaker 1: Sweet as for flowers, the springs the season, so be
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  Speaker 1: it by rhyme or reason. Holidays are then cheeriest, though
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  Speaker 1: in summer they are marrius. Come it is a pleasant day.
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  Speaker 1: Let us go far far away. Here are your bonnet
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  Speaker 1: in my cap, there's our satral. Here are map on
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  Speaker 1: the map you trace your way through the land of holiday.
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  Speaker 1: End of section zero read by Cossandra A. M. Section
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  Speaker 1: one of Nixy Bunny in Holiday Land by Joseph Sindelar.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. Nixy Bunny.
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  Speaker 1: I'm mister Nixy Bunny. My home is in this book.
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  Speaker 1: Now do you think that funny? Just stop and take
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  Speaker 1: a look, and here is Missus Bunny Good, Missus Cottontail.
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  Speaker 1: To you. It may seem funny, but this book is
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  Speaker 1: our tale. Nixy Bunny was a rabbit. He was a
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  Speaker 1: Cottontail rabbit. His full name was Nixy Bunny Cottontail. Nixy
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  Speaker 1: lived on a farm with his wife and his son Thumpy,
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  Speaker 1: and his daughter Bunny Girl. Their home was in Workadayland.
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  Speaker 1: The Nixy Bunny Cottontails had another son, Spotty, who was married.
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  Speaker 1: He had a home of his own. It was next
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  Speaker 1: door to his father's house. Nixy Bunny had been a
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  Speaker 1: farmer for a long time, or what is a long
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  Speaker 1: time in a rabbit's life. He had had to work
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  Speaker 1: very hard and had found little time to go visiting.
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  Speaker 1: But now that the children were grown, Nixy thought he
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  Speaker 1: would like to make a visit to some far country.
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  Speaker 1: He and Missus Cottontail had read of a country called Holidayland.
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  Speaker 1: They had often talked of visiting there, but they never
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  Speaker 1: seemed ready to set out day, something happened which made
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  Speaker 1: Nixy decide to go. Early one spring morning, Missus Cottontail
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  Speaker 1: had gone over to see what the Spotty Cottontails were doing.
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  Speaker 1: And what do you suppose she found at their house?
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  Speaker 1: I know you can't guess, so I'll tell you. Missus
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  Speaker 1: Cottontail found two pretty new baby rabbits. They had come
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  Speaker 1: to the home of mister and missus Spotty Cottontail in
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  Speaker 1: the night, and the Spotty Cottontails were so pleased that
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  Speaker 1: they were going to have the baby rabbits live with
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  Speaker 1: them always. When Missus Cottontail returned home, she said to Nixy,
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  Speaker 1: I have a surprise for you. You are now Grandpa Cottontail.
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  Speaker 1: Two of the dearest little rabbits have come to live
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  Speaker 1: with Spotty and his wife. Just think of it, Nixy
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  Speaker 1: Bunny a grandpa, and he was not yet five years old.
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  Speaker 1: I can tell you though, that he was glad. That
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  Speaker 1: settles it, he said, settles what, asked missus Cottontail in surprise.
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  Speaker 1: That settles it? Nixy said again. As soon as the
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  Speaker 1: little Cottontails are old enough, we will take them with
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  Speaker 1: us to Holidayland. So at last we are going are
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  Speaker 1: we missus, Cottontail laughed. Well, I am glad of that.
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  Speaker 1: I am sure the little folks will enjoy it too.
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  Speaker 1: I believe Thumpy and bunny Girl can manage the farm
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  Speaker 1: until we come back, said Nixy Bunny Girl said. The
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  Speaker 1: baby boy rabbit looked like his grandfather, Nixy Button Cottontail,
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  Speaker 1: so they named him Nixy Bunny Cottontail Junior. But he
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  Speaker 1: had such merry brown eyes that everyone called him Brownie.
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  Speaker 1: The other baby rabbit was a little girl, and they
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  Speaker 1: named her Molly for her mother. You can see by
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  Speaker 1: the picture what pretty little rabbits these two were. Brownie
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  Speaker 1: and Molly grew and a very few weeks they were
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  Speaker 1: able to run about and play with other rabbits. They
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  Speaker 1: were old enough too to eat the green things from
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  Speaker 1: the garden. But when they were four months old, which
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  Speaker 1: is not so very young for a rabbit, Brownie and
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  Speaker 1: Molly said goodbye to their mother and father and bunny
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  Speaker 1: Girl and Thumpy. Then off they started for Holidayland with
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  Speaker 1: Grandma and Grandpa Nixy. End of Section one read by
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  Speaker 1: Cassandra A. M. Section two of Nixy Bunny and holiday
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  Speaker 1: Land by Joseph Sindelaer. This LibriVox recording is in the
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  Speaker 1: public domain. Labortown. One day we packed our satchels and
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  Speaker 1: we went to Labortown. There we saw a big procession
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  Speaker 1: parading up and down. It was on a Monday that
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  Speaker 1: the Cottontails reached holiday Land. It was the first Monday
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  Speaker 1: in September. The place at which they stopped was called Labortown.
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  Speaker 1: The first thing the Cottontails did was to have their breakfast.
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  Speaker 1: Then Nixsey hired an automobile. He drove the car and
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  Speaker 1: Grandma and Brownie and Molly sat behind, and off they went. Oh, Grandpa,
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  Speaker 1: cried Brownie. Look at the crowd. Look at the crowd.
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  Speaker 1: What a lot of bunnies there were. There were large bunnies,
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  Speaker 1: middle sized bunnies, small bunnies, and little bits of bunnies.
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  Speaker 1: It looked as though the whole town were on the streets.
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  Speaker 1: Why are all these bunnies here, asked Molly. Don't you know,
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  Speaker 1: asked Grandma Cottontail, as she looked in her notebook. What
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  Speaker 1: day of the week is it? Monday? Said Molly. But
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  Speaker 1: why should there be such a crowd on the streets
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  Speaker 1: on Monday, asked Brownie. I thought people had to work
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  Speaker 1: on Monday, so they do, said Grandpa Nixy. But you forget.
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  Speaker 1: You are on holiday land. Now there is to be
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  Speaker 1: a parade today. Whose birthday is it, asked Molly. It
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  Speaker 1: is Labor's birthday, said Grandma Contenttail. That's right, said Nixy.
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  Speaker 1: Today is Labor Day. Labor Day is the youngest of
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  Speaker 1: the Holiday family. He was born on the first Monday
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  Speaker 1: in September, and his birthday is always a holiday. But
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  Speaker 1: why is it a holiday, asked Brownie. I should think
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  Speaker 1: that everyone would work on Labor Day. Labor means work,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't it. Yes, labor means work, said Nixy. But Labor
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  Speaker 1: Day means labor's holiday. Labor Day is really a holiday
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  Speaker 1: for laborers and working land, and they almost always have
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  Speaker 1: a parade. Just then, little Molly began to jump up
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  Speaker 1: and down. Oh, goody, goody, she cried, Here comes the band.
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  Speaker 1: Sure enough, the beating of the drum could be heard,
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  Speaker 1: Reba dub dub, rub a dub dub. Then everyone got
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  Speaker 1: into line. You should have seen the parade. First came
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  Speaker 1: the band, Then the men marched along like a little
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  Speaker 1: tin soldiers on parade. Then the little boys came. I
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  Speaker 1: think they marched because they liked the music. The ladies
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  Speaker 1: and the little girl stood on the sidewalks and watched
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  Speaker 1: the men and the little boys go by. They watched
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  Speaker 1: the prettiy trimmed wagons too. These were a part of
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  Speaker 1: the parade. At last, the end of the long line
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  Speaker 1: came and the parade was over. Where are they going now,
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  Speaker 1: asked Brownie. I suppose they are going to have a
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  Speaker 1: picnic in the woods, said Nixy. I hope they will
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  Speaker 1: have lots of fun, said Molly. I hope so too,
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  Speaker 1: said Grandma Cottontail. For tomorrow they must return to their work.
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  Speaker 1: Let us hope they enjoy that, also, said Grandpa Nixy.
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  Speaker 1: It is good for men to work. It is good
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  Speaker 1: for little boys and girls too, said Grandma Cottontail. To
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  Speaker 1: those who work gladly, work as play to those who
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  Speaker 1: work sadly, long is the day. Always remember that when
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  Speaker 1: you have a task to do, and always remember to
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  Speaker 1: work honestly and to help everyone you can, said Nixy.
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  Speaker 1: End of section two read by Cassandra A. M. Section
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  Speaker 1: three of Nixy Bunny and Holidayland by Joseph Sindeler. This
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain, little boy of
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  Speaker 1: long ago. There was a boy of whom I knew,
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  Speaker 1: and he had chances but a few, but he would
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  Speaker 1: try and try and try, and he grew famous. By
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  Speaker 1: and bye. For many days the Cottontails traveled after leaving
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  Speaker 1: labor Town. Then one morning Nixy said, tomorrow we shall
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  Speaker 1: be at Columbustown. Columbus Town is one of the most
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  Speaker 1: interesting places in holiday Land. Why is it called Columbus Town,
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  Speaker 1: asked Brownie. It was named for Christopher Columbus, the man
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  Speaker 1: who discovered America, answered Nixy. Tell us all about him.
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  Speaker 1: Grandpa said, Molly, tell us how he discovered America. But
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  Speaker 1: my dear, said Nixy, I really know very little about
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  Speaker 1: it myself. You see, even though he was a grandfather,
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  Speaker 1: Nixy wasn't quite five years old, And what child of
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  Speaker 1: five years could tell the story?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 1: As it happened, the next day, Nixy met a sailor
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  Speaker 1: who knew the story well, and the sailor promised to
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  Speaker 1: tell it to the children. This sailor, i must tell you,
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  Speaker 1: was already seven years old, And of course those who
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  Speaker 1: are seven know ever so much more than those who
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  Speaker 1: are only five. This is a story as the sailor
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  Speaker 1: told it, and even the old folks listened to him.
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  Speaker 1: Once there was a little boy, a little boy of
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  Speaker 1: long ago. His name was Christopher Columbus. Wasn't that a
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  Speaker 1: strange name for a little boy. His home was in Italy,
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  Speaker 1: sunny Italy, which is across the sea, far away from
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  Speaker 1: our own country. This little boy lived near the sea.
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  Speaker 1: He liked to sit and watch the boats, and he
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  Speaker 1: liked to listen to the story that the sailor is told.
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  Speaker 1: And often he would say to his father, father, I
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  Speaker 1: should like to be a sailor. Christopher made small boats
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  Speaker 1: and sailed them in the water. On Sundays and holidays,
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  Speaker 1: his father and mother would go to the seashore with
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  Speaker 1: their boy. Oh, father, little Christopher would say, when I
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  Speaker 1: am grown, I shall say a large boat. Then I
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  Speaker 1: shall be a real sailor. I will sail far and
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  Speaker 1: away over the sea. And will you not come back
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  Speaker 1: to us? His mother would ask sadly. Oh, yes, said Christopher,
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  Speaker 1: I will come back as often as I go, and
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  Speaker 1: all the beautiful things I will bring to you each
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  Speaker 1: time I return. And Christopher's father said, for many years,
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  Speaker 1: your mother and I have been cumbers of wool. I'd
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  Speaker 1: hope that you too would learn to trade and stay
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  Speaker 1: at home near us. But if you wish to be
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  Speaker 1: a sailor, you must go to school. You must study
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  Speaker 1: geography and learn to draw mouts. You must learn to
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  Speaker 1: know the stars so you may be guided by them
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  Speaker 1: on your way. So Christopher went to school. He studied
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  Speaker 1: geography and learned to draw mouts. He watched the stars
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  Speaker 1: and learned their names. He also made friends with the
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  Speaker 1: sea captain, who told him many stories of strange sights
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  Speaker 1: in foreign lands. How Christopher would listen, how eager he
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  Speaker 1: was to go with the captain. The one day, the
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  Speaker 1: sea captain said he had a place for another sailor.
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Columbus was only fourteen years old, but he said
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  Speaker 1: he would like to place, so his friend took him
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  Speaker 1: away in the ship. Columbus had to work hard, as
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  Speaker 1: most sailors do. He studied hard and soon learned the
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  Speaker 1: things about a ship in the sea that a good
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  Speaker 1: sailor must know. He made many voyages, and he became
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  Speaker 1: a captain when he was still young. He grew to
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  Speaker 1: be a wise and brave captain. He also made maps,
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  Speaker 1: which he sold to other captains. But the maps which
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  Speaker 1: Christopher made were very different from those we now have.
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  Speaker 1: At that time, no one knew about our country. The
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  Speaker 1: people who lived in the lands far across the ocean
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  Speaker 1: did not know that there was such a country as America.
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  Speaker 1: Here the sailor stopped. My How strange, said Brownie. The
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  Speaker 1: sailor looked at his watch. He saw that it was
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  Speaker 1: long past the time when the little cottail should be
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  Speaker 1: in bed. So he said good night and went away.
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  Speaker 1: But he promised to return the next evening and finish
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  Speaker 1: his story. End of section three read by Cassandra A. M.
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  Speaker 1: Section four of Nixy Bunny and Holiday Land by Joseph Sindelair.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. The brave
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  Speaker 1: captain I sometimes spent an hour or so making my
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  Speaker 1: boats a sailing go. I sail them east, I sail
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  Speaker 1: them west, whichever way they sail the best. How can
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  Speaker 1: that be? Where is my sea? My Tub's my sea?
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  Speaker 1: You will agree that it is plenty large enough, And
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  Speaker 1: then the sea is never rough. Brownie and Mollie could
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  Speaker 1: hardly wait until the next evening to hear the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the story. Soon after supper was over, there was
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  Speaker 1: a knock at the door. Oh, goody, goody, cried Brownie
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  Speaker 1: and Molly, it's the sailor man, and sure enough it was.
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  Speaker 1: Nixy said, come in. I am very glad to see you.
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  Speaker 1: The children have been talking about you all day, said
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  Speaker 1: Grandma ca untail. Well, I am glad to hear that,
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  Speaker 1: said the sailor. Then he picked Brownie up in his
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  Speaker 1: arms and said, I suppose you would like to hear
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the story, And both the little rabbits cried, yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see where did we leave off, asked the sailor.
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  Speaker 1: I know, said Mollie. We left off where Columbus was
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  Speaker 1: making mats, and he didn't have America on the map,
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  Speaker 1: because no one knew then that there was such a country.
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  Speaker 1: Brownie added, that's right, that's right, said the sailor. Now
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  Speaker 1: I believe I can go on. So he began. As
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  Speaker 1: long as America wasn't on the map and no one
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  Speaker 1: knew about it, the captains couldn't sail their ships there.
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  Speaker 1: So the sailors went to a very rich country far
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  Speaker 1: to the east called India. They brought back many things
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  Speaker 1: from India, but they had to travel a long distance.
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  Speaker 1: The voyage was a hard one. Columbus believed that he
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  Speaker 1: could find a shorter and better way. All the other
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  Speaker 1: sailors went to the east, Columbus wanted to sail to
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  Speaker 1: the west. He said, I believe the earth is round.
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  Speaker 1: If it is round, I think this way will be shorter.
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  Speaker 1: He needed a ship so that he could sail across
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  Speaker 1: the ocean to India, but he was too poor to
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  Speaker 1: buy a ship, and nobody was willing to help him
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  Speaker 1: get one. Most people made fun of his plans. Some
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  Speaker 1: thought he was crazy. A few believed as Columbus did,
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  Speaker 1: but even they would not help them. After many years,
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  Speaker 1: he found a friend who helped him. The friend was Isabella,
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  Speaker 1: Queen of Spain. She gave him three ships. They were
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  Speaker 1: very small, but Columbus was glad to have them. But
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  Speaker 1: now he had a hard time finding sailors to go
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  Speaker 1: with him. Then had sailed around the globe. No one
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  Speaker 1: then had even dared to sail very far out on
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  Speaker 1: the ocean to the west of Europe. The people called
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  Speaker 1: this ocean the Sea of Darkness. Now we call it
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  Speaker 1: the Atlantic Ocean. No one knew then what lands lay
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  Speaker 1: west of the Atlantic Ocean. At last, Columbus sailed away
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  Speaker 1: from Spain and one of his ships. The other two followed.
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  Speaker 1: They sailed to the west on the Sea of Darkness.
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  Speaker 1: People said they would never come back, but Columbus felt
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  Speaker 1: sure they were going to find a shorter way to India.
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  Speaker 1: They sailed for many long days, and all that they
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  Speaker 1: could see was water. At last, the men began to
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  Speaker 1: think that they were sailing on an ocean which had
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  Speaker 1: no end. They tried to make Columbus turn back, but
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  Speaker 1: he said he would not give up. He was a
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  Speaker 1: brave captain, and he tried to make his sailors pa
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  Speaker 1: He said, I'll give a velvet coat to the man
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  Speaker 1: who sees land first. The very next day, a flock
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  Speaker 1: of land birds flew by the ships. The branch of
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  Speaker 1: a tree came floating by. Also, it was covered with
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  Speaker 1: red berries. The sailors now felt sure that land was near.
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  Speaker 1: They were no longer afraid. That night, Columbus saw a
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  Speaker 1: moving light in the distance. Soon after that, a gun
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  Speaker 1: was fired from one of the ships. This was a
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  Speaker 1: sign that land was in sight. The next morning, Columbus
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  Speaker 1: saw the shores of a beautiful island. There were many
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  Speaker 1: trees growing on it. How glad he was. How glad
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  Speaker 1: the sailors were when they went on shore. They kissed
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  Speaker 1: the ground. They were so happy to feel it under
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  Speaker 1: their feet once more. It was the twelfth day of October.
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  Speaker 1: Columbus believed that he had reached India, so he called
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  Speaker 1: the red men whom he found you are Indians, but
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  Speaker 1: we know the land was not India. It was a
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  Speaker 1: new world that Columbus had found. He had discovered America.
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  Speaker 1: As the sailor finished his story, Mollie said, Oh, I'm
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  Speaker 1: so glad, glad about what, Fun, asked Grandma. Fun was
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  Speaker 1: our pet name for Mollie. Oh, I'm so glad about everything,
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  Speaker 1: said Molly. I'm glad that Queen Isabella gave Columbus to
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  Speaker 1: the ships. I'm glad that Columbus made the sailors keep
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  Speaker 1: on until he found America. I'm glad that we were
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  Speaker 1: all here. And I'm glad that you're my grandma, that
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  Speaker 1: Nixy is my grandpa, and that Brownie is my brother.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, everyone laughed at that. Then they all thanked
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  Speaker 1: the sailor for the good story he had told them.
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  Speaker 1: It was late, so the sailor said good night and
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  Speaker 1: went home, and the Cottontailers went to bed Section four
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  Speaker 1: read by Cassandra A. M. Section five of Nixy Bunny
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  Speaker 1: and Holidayland by Joseph Sindelar. This LibriVox recording is in
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  Speaker 1: the public domain. Halloween one day, we took some pumpkins
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  Speaker 1: and cut insides outs. Emily cut out noses and eyes
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  Speaker 1: and teeth and mouth. We boys each got a candle
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  Speaker 1: and fastened it inside. That made a jack lantern and
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  Speaker 1: lots of fun beside. The next place the Cottontails visited
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  Speaker 1: was Halloween. It was at the end of October, the
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  Speaker 1: very last day of the month. Nixy and Brownie were
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  Speaker 1: sitting at the window of their hotel when what do
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  Speaker 1: you suppose happened? A long line of boys came marching past.
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  Speaker 1: Every one of them carried a large pumpkin. Look, Grandpa, look,
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  Speaker 1: cried Brownie. What a lot of pumpkins? Well, well, said Nixy,
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  Speaker 1: I guess the boys are going to have a big
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  Speaker 1: time this evening. What are they going to do with
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  Speaker 1: all the pumpkins, asked Brownie. Are they going to make
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  Speaker 1: pumpkin pies?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: What a lot of pies. There will be pies, cried Nixy.
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  Speaker 1: Not one of the pumpkins. Will ever see the inside
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: of an oven? Do you see that boy crossed the way?
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: He has a pumpkin. He has a knife too. Do
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: you see what he is doing with his pumpkin?
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Yes, said Brownie, He is cutting it up. No, said Nixy,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: He isn't cutting it up. He has cut out the inside, perks.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: See the two big round holes he has cut near
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: the top. Those are meant to look like eyes. See
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: the queer little nose he has made on the face
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: of pumpkin, and the large funny mouth he is cutting.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: When he finishes the cutting, he will put a little
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: candle inside. Then after dark he will light the candle.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: He will call his pumpkin a jack lantern. The boys
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: will have a merry time, for tonight is Halloween. In
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: a merry time, the boys did have how many funny pumpkinheads?
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: The cottontails saw that evening, each pumpkin head a lighted
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: candle inside. The jacquelin sat on the fences, They looked
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: in at the windows. They marched along the streets, they
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: sat on the steps. Grandma said, the fairies must have
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: been working hard. What are fairies, asked Molly. Fairies said Grandma,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: are good natured spirits that help people, or at least
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: that is what they used to be. I am told
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: that there are good and bad fairies now, just as
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: there are good and bad people. The good fairies are
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: sometimes called brownies. The bad fairies are called witches. Years ago,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: many people thought that on Halloween, witches in brownies came
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: out from their hiding places. They would go about playing
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: jokes on people. Sometimes they would do kind deeds. They
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: would pull up roots of cabbages and turnips and other plants.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: These they would hang over people's doors. It was said
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: that the cabbage or other root brought good luck to
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: the first one who came in through that door. Can
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: we see any of the fairies, asked Brownie. Well, sometimes,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: said Grandma. The good fairies are those that help people.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Sometimes they leave baskets of food for poor people, and
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: sometimes they leave clothes to wear. Sometimes they help with
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: the words. But when your doorbell rings and you hear
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: someone running away, you can tell that a bad fairy
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: has been there. The last fairy I saw doing this
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: looked like a little boy. Sometimes such fairies steal gates
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: and make bonfires. These, you may be sure, are very
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: very bad fairies, or perhaps they are not fairies at all,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: but wicked goblins. End of section five right by Cassandra A. M.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Section six of Nixey, Bunny and Holidayland by Joseph Sindelair.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: This liprivox recording is in the public domain. Indian days
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: and now comes Indian Summer the sweetest time of year.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: It's warm and pleasant weather and hazy atmosphere. Then what
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: is Indian summer? Aha? So don't you know is the
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: time when Indian spirits go marching to and fro. The
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: next day was the first day of November. That day,
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: the Cottontails went to pay a visit to a farmer.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Nixy had known him when they both were little boys.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: The farmer's house stood on a hill. There were no
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: other houses near it, but there were trees around it
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: and fields like all about it. From the house, the
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Connontails could see the gardener out in the yard. He
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: was raking and burning the fallen leaves. Brownie said, Grandpa,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: maybe go out to wash the gardener. Yes, run along,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: said Nixy. So while Nixy and Grandma Cottontail talked with
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: the farmer and his wife, Brownie and Molly ran out
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: to watch the gardener at his work. The sun was setting,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: the cows were coming home from pasture. The old gardener
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: was singing at his work. Brownie and Molly stood near him.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Why are you doing that, Brownie asked, to clear the
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: ground before the cold weather sets in, said the gardener.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: It is now Indian summer. What is Indian summer, asked Molly.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Indian summer, said the gardener, is a spell of nice
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: warm weather that we have late in the autumn. Don't
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: you feel the pleasant dry air? And don't you know
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: what fine moonlight nights we are having? Are we said Brownie?
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: But why is it called Indian summer? I suppose it
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: is because then all the Indians come back, said the gardener.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: You know, years and years ago, long before my great
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: great great grandfather was born, there used to be many
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Indians around here. How many, asked Molly. Thousands and thousands,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: said the gardener. Real Indians, asked Brownie. Yes, indeed, said
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: the gardener, real living Indians. There were no painted wooden
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: ones in those days. There were Indians all around here.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Do you see the corn standing and shocks out in
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: the field. Well, some of the Indians' houses used to
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: look very much like those shocks, only they were built
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: in the woods, not out in the fields. They were
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: called wigwhams. Just then, the gardener threw more leaves on
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: the fire, and he and the two little bunnies sat
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: down to watch them burn. Brownie and Molly sat very
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: close to the gardener. Don't be afraid, he said. There
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: are no Indians around here now. They've been gone for
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: many many years. Where did they all go, oh, asked Molly.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Many of them died, and their rest are chased away
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: by the white men, said the gardener. And are there
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: none left anywhere? Asked Brownie. Oh, yes, there are still some,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: said the gardener. There are many many miles from here.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: And can they ever come back? Asked Molly. Yes, said
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: the gardener. Every year about this time they all come back,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: at least their spirits do Do you notice how hazy
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: the air looks? Well, it always looks that way before
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: the Indian spirits come. Ah, they are here now it
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: isn't too dark to see them. Look straight ahead of you.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Look there in the fields. Do you see the Indians
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: marching and dancing? They are all around us. Now do
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: you see their wigwams like corn shucks, to be sure,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: but they are Indian houses or with whims. Do you
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: notice that smoky smell in the air. Oh, no, that
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: isn't from the burning leaves. It isn't that at all.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: That comes from the Indian campfires and the Indian pipes.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: But soon all the Indians will go marching away back
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: to their happy hunting ground. Why is the happy hunting ground,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: asked Brownie. It is the Indian's idea of heaven, said
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: the gardener. The Indian likes to hunt buffalo and kill bears,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: so he believes that after he dies, he will go
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: to a beautiful country where he may take his dog
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: and go hunting. He calls this country his happy hunting ground.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: But next year you will see the Indians all here again.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Every one of them will be here. There will be
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: as many here as there were when the Pilgrims first came.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Who are the Pilgrims, asked Molly. Why don't you know,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: said the gardener. They were some of the first white
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: people who came to live in America. Will you tell
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: us about them, asked Brownie. You had better ask your
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: grandpa to tell you about the Pilgrims, said the gardener.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: It is getting link now. Unless be hurry, we shall
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: miss our supper. End of section six read by Cassandra A. M.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Section seven of Nixy Bunny and holiday Land by Joseph Sindelaire.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: This Liberbox recording is in the public domain. Nixy's story
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: of the Pilgrims. Should you have liked to be a
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: pilgrim girl or boy, and come across the sea and
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: seldom have a toy? Should you have liked to meet
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: a lot of red men, bold, not have much to eat,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: and suffer with the cold? The Cottontails visited for a
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: number of days with the good farmer and his wife.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: The little bunnies made a great friend of the gardener.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: You may be sure they were sorry to leave when
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: the time came to say goodbye. But the Cottontails had
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: many other places to visit, and they could stay no
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: longer on this pleasant farm. Where are we going now,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: asked Brownie. We are on our way to Thanksgiving, said Nixye.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Where is Thanksgiving, asked Molly. Why it's right down near
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: the end of the November map, said Grandma Cottontail. Then
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: she pulled the map out of her traveling bag and
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: showed the two bunnies just where Thanksgiving was. Perhaps you
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: have never heard of a November map. Well, the Cottontails
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: called the calendar their map. Isn't that strange? Thanksgiving is
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: the last Thursday in the month, said Nixy. Then Molly asked,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: will you tell us the story of the Pilgrim's grandpa. Well,
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: said Nixy, the story of the Pilgrims is really the
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: story of Thanksgiving. I will tell you about both at
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: one time. And here is the story as Nixy told
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: it to the two little bunnies. Long long, long ago,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: there were no white men in America. There were only
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Indians or red men. After a while, the white men
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: began to come here from Europe. Some of the first
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: to come were the Pilgrims. These people called themselves Pilgrims
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: because they went from place to place. Do you wonder
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: why they did that? I will tell you. The Pilgrims
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: first lived in England, but they were not happy there
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: because the king said they must belong to this church.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: He said, if you will not obey, I will put
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: you in prison. They wished to be free, so they said,
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: let us go away from this country, let us go
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: to Holland. So they left their old homes and sailed
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: away to Holland. The Dutch people who lived in Holland
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: were very kind to the Pilgrims. Then the Pilgrim's children
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: began to grow up in a few years. They were
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: not at all like other English children. They even spoke Dutch,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: like the little boys and girls of Holland. This troubled
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: the pilgrim fathers and mothers. They said, we cannot stay here.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: We must find a home that will be more our own.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Look at our children playing with the Dutch children. There.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: See how different they are from children in England. They
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: even speak a different language. It should not be so.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: At last, the Pilgrims made up their minds to come
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: to America. They sailed away from Holland and a boat
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: called the Mayflower. There were about one hundred people on
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: the boat. There were fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: and little children. They were on the ocean for two
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: long months. A baby boy was born in the ship.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: They called him Oceanus because he was born on the ocean.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Here is a picture of his cradle. The Pilgrims reached
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: America in the winter. The weather was very cold. The
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: ground was hard and bare. All that the pilgrims could
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: see were rocks and sand. And one of these rocks
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: the pilgrims landed. It is not called Plymouth Rock. Here
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Nixy stopped. Then Grandma said, oh, that isn't the way
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I've heard the story of Thanksgiving. You haven't told about
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: the turkeys and about the Indians that came to the feast.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: I'm afraid you have never known the whole story, said Nixy.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: The Indians and the turkeys and the other things came
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: last of all. We shall soon get to them. End
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: of Section seven read by Cassandra A. M. Section eight
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: of Nixy Bunny in Holidayland by Joseph Singular. This LibriVox
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain. The first Thanksgiving Day.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: On Thanksgiving Day, we should give thanks as to the
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: pilgrim's brave of yore, Thanks for meat and drink and
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: things we have, and for things we hope may lie
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: in store. The next morning it snowed and snowed. Then
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: weren't the cottontails happy. If there is anything that delights
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: the heart of a bunny, it is snow.
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: We must be near Thanksgiving, said Molly, please tell us
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: the rest of the Pilgrim's story, Grandpa said Brownie. So
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Grandma and Molly and Brownie all sat down to hear
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: the rest of Nixy's story. This is it, just as
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: he told it. When the Pilgrims left their ship and
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: went on shore, they looked about to see if they
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: couldn't find the houses of any white people. They saw
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: only some Indians and Indian wigwams. They were afraid of
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: the Indians. The Indians were afraid of the white men too.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: When they saw any white man, they would run away,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: But after a while some of them became the friends
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: of the white men. That first winter, the Pilgrims had
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: a hard time. Many of them died because they were
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: so cold and hungry. You see, they couldn't buy clothes
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: to wear and things to eat because there were no stores.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: There were no schools, more churches, nor big buildings of
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: any kind. There weren't even any streets. At first, the
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Pilgrims built one big log house for all of them
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: to live in, but later they built a house for
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: each family. At last, the winter was over, the days
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: grew warmer and the ground softer. Then the Indians showed
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: the white men how to plant corn in the soft ground.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: The pilgrims had never seen corn before, for corn did
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: not grow in England and Holland. Everyone worked hard during
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: the summer. The summer sunshine ripened the corn, and in
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: the autumn the pilgrims had a good harvest. In the
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: forest were wild ducks and geese and big wild turkeys.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: In the woods, grapes and plumps and berries grew. Besides,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: the pilgrims had fish and clams from the sea. All
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: this made them very happy. We shall have enough to
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: eat this winter, said the pilgrims. We should thank God
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: for his goodness to us. Let us have a day
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: of thanksgiving. So they had the first Thanksgiving. They gave
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: a great feast and invited the Indians to it. Almost
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: a hunted red men came in the morning. All the
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: pilgrims went to church. They sang hymns and thanked God
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: for his goodness. After church came the feast. My, what
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: a lot of good things the pilgrim mothers had cooked.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: The Indians had brought several fine deer which they had
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: killed in the woods. Then the Pilgrims had turkey for dinner,
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: just as we do now, only their turkeys were wild ones.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: So the Indians, the pilgrim fathers, the pilgrim mothers, and
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: the little children all sat down together after dinner was over,
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: they played and ran races. The Indians had such a
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: good time that they stayed three days. So you see,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: the first Thanksgiving was really three days long. Ever since
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: that time, Thanksgiving has been kept in our country. Every year,
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: our fathers and mothers, and grandfathers and grandmothers have found
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: something to be thankful for in every year. The little
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: children have wished that Thanksgiving might be three days long
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: as the first Thanksgiving was. That would be fine, said Brownie.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Oh what foam we could have in a Thanksgiving three
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: whole days long. But Molly said there would be too
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: many dishes to wash. End of section eight read by
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Cassandra Am of Nixy Bunny and holiday Land by Joseph Sinelar.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: This librifox recording is in the public domain. In Santa
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: claus Land, where the sleigh bells twinkle sweetest, where the
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: reindeer are the fleetest, where the falling snowflakes bless us,
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: and the wind so cold caress us. There let us
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: wander hand in hand, for that is Santa claus Land.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: The Cottontails had a big dinner on Thanksgiving Day, and
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Brownie and Molly had much fun besides. But both bunnies
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: ate more than was really good for them. They went
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: to bed early, as Nixy said that the next day
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: they would start for the Christmas holiday. This holiday was
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: only a month away. That night, Brownie had a dream,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: and this is why he dreamed. He was away up
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: in the north Land. It was oh so much farther
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: north than the Eskima country. All the ice was raw candy,
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: all the snow was sugar, The houses were made of chocolate,
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: and the animals were made of gingerbread. Not all of
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: the animals, but all except eight of them. These eight
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: were reindeer, and they belonged to a very very old man.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: His name was Santa Claus. The whole country was owned
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: by this old man, so it was called Santa claus Land.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: Mister Santa Claus himself lived in a chocolate palace in
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: Santa claus Land. Right in front of his palace to
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: two great Christmas trees. Back of it were growing a
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: million or more little evergreen trees. These were going to
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: be Christmas trees for a million or more families, And
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: all around the palace grew holly bushes covered with shiny
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: red berry. But all this was nothing compared with what
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: was inside the palace. Brownie climbed the broad flood of
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: chocolate stairs and went up to the great front door.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: Brownie opened the door. He was dressed in a red suit,
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: with gold buttons on his coat, and with gold braid
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: down the sides of his trousers. What can I do
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: for you, your Royal Highness? He asked. For a moment,
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Brownie did not know what to say. How should you
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: like to be called? Your Royal Highness? At last, Brownie said,
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: I have come to see mister Santa Claus. Is he
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: at home?
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: This way?
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Please, said the polite little Brownie. Mister Santa Claus will
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: be glad to see you. As Brownie passed through the palace,
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: he noticed everywhere piles and piles and piles of things
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: for Christmas. There were several piles of popcorn balls. So
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: big were the piles that they seemed to Brownie almost
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: as high as a mountain. There were other piles of
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: candy and nuts, and fruits and toys, and dolls. These piles, too,
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: were ever so big, and there were hundreds of Brownies
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: working away and making thousands of other toys. Brownie passed many,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: many piles of toys. Then he asked, what are you
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: going to do with all these? The earth is large,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: said the Brownie, And everyone in Santa Claus lay and
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: must break until there is at least one toy for
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: every boy and every girl, and none for the little cottontails.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: Brownie asked, Oh, yes, said the Red Brownie. There must
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: be one for every little cottontail boy and girl too.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: Just then they came to a door marked Santa Claus.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: Only children may enter. The Red Brownie swung the door open,
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: and Brownie saw a white haired man sitting in a
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: large chair at a large death. When the old man
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: saw Brownie, he turned about in his chair. I'm glad
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: to see you, he said, won't you have a chair.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: Then they talked. When Brownie saw how old Santa Claus was,
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: he said, I suppose that this year you will send
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: one of your helpers to deliver the Christmas presents. It
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: will make you too tired to do it yourself. I
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  Speaker 1: am sure. No, no, said Santa Claus. My helpers attend
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: to the workshop. But I must deliver the presence myself.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: What would the children think if Santa Claus did not come?
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: Then his face grew bright and rosy, and oh how
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: young he seemed. I am no older today, said Santa Claus,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: than I was when your mother was a little girl. Indeed,
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: I am as young now as when your great great
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: grandmother was a baby. Hen to show Brownie how young
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: he really was, Santa Claus went out into the yard
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: and caught each of his eight reindeer by the horns.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: He had the Brownies hitch them to his sleigh, and
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: he took the little rabbit for a long ride. Brownie
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: spent the night with Santa Claus, and in the morning
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  Speaker 1: the Brownies filled the sleigh and Santa's back with toys
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  Speaker 1: and candy. Now they were ready to start on their
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: long journey to the earth. How swiftly the reindeer galloped,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: and how happy Santa Claus was now that he was
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: off to take his toys and his good cheer everywhere
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: he went. Soon he would be scrambling down the chimneys
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: to fill the stockings that hung in rows by the fireplaces.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: They were already on top of a large high building
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: that must have been the home of many families. The
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: reindeer were going very fast. The two that led the
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: rest seemed not to notice how near the edge of
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  Speaker 1: the roof they were. Then over they went, but say
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: Santa Claus toys and all. They were going down, down, down.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: Suddenly there was a heavy thump on the floor. Brownie
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: woke up. He had fallen out of bed. This was
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: only a dream, and he had had it because he
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: had eaten too much on Thanksgiving Day. End of section
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  Speaker 1: nine read by Cassandra A. M. Section ten of Nixy
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  Speaker 1: Bunny in Holidayland by Joseph Sindelar. This LibriVox recording is
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: in the public domain. The real Christmas story, happy is
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: the morn of Christmas, saying the children gay. Happy is
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: the morn saying Birdie in his rondelis. Why should you
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: be happy, asked the children of the bird happy, I said,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: he because I heard a happy word. The next morning,
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Brownie told Nixy and Grandma Cottontail and Molly of the
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: dream he had had, and oh how they all laughed.
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  Speaker 1: Then Mollie asked, do you know any Christmas stories? Grandma?
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: Only one said Grandma a Santa Claus story, asked Brownie. No,
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: said Grandma, the story I know is the real Christmas story. Oh,
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: how I should like to hear the real Christmas story,
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: cried Molly. Tell it to us, Grandma. Not until the
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: night before Christmas, said Grandma. The little Cottontails could hardly wait.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: Each day, they would ask, will tonight be the night
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: before Christmas? At last, the night for the story came first.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: Grandma made the two little bunnies promise to go to
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: bed as soon as the story was told. Then she
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: began her real Christmas story. Here it is many many
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: years ago a carpenter named Joseph lived in a little
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: town called Nazareth. Nazareth was in a small country called Palestine,
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  Speaker 1: which is across the sea and far away. Joseph was
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  Speaker 1: born in Bethlehem, another little town of Palestine. This country
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: of Palestine was a small part of a very great
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: land over which one man ruled. This ruler wished to
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: find out how many people lived in his land. And
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: how do you suppose he did it? He made all
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: the people go to the towns in which they had
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: been born to be counted. As Joseph had been born
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: in Bethlehem. He and Mary, his wife, had to go
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  Speaker 1: there to be counted. Nazareth was not so very far
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: from Bethlehem. It was only about eighty miles away, But
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: there were no fashion trains or electric cars in those days.
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  Speaker 1: Some people traveled on horses, some on camels, and others
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  Speaker 1: on donkeys. Joseph was too poor to own horses or camels,
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  Speaker 1: and he had but one donkey. How were he and
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  Speaker 1: Mary to get to Bethlehem. He made up a small
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: bundle of food and clothing and got his donkey ready.
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  Speaker 1: Then early one morning he helped Mary a mount on
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: the donkey's back. She should ride and he would walk
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: beside her. So they started for Bethlehem and traveled for
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: four days. They were very tired. When at last they
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: reached the town, they found the inn or hotel full
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: of people. The innkeeper said there was no room for them,
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: not even for Mary. You may go into the stable
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: and sleep there in the hay, the innkeeper said. Joseph
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: and Mary were thankful for even so much. And there
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: in the stable, with the all around, a little baby
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: was born that night. He was a very wonderful child.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: Mary named him Jesus. But we often call him the
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: Christ Child. Then they racked little Christ Jesus up and
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: laid him where do you suppose? There was no cradle,
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: nor bed, nor crib and wish to put him. So
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: they laid this wonderful baby in a manger, a box
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: from which the cattle ate their food. All the stars
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: shone very brightly that night. The angels sang in heaven.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: They knew about the wonderful Child, and they knew that
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: he had come to help the people on earth to
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: be good by and by. Many people came to see
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: Little Jesus, for they had heard that a wonderful child
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: was to be born in Bethlehem. Even the shepherds left
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: their sheep and went to see the child. The Christ
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: Child grew strong and beautiful. He loved everybody, and most
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: of all little children, and he taught the whole world
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: how people should love one another. He was the best
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: Christmas present this world has ever had. This is the
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: reason we love Christmas Day so much, and this is
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: why we try to make other people happy. When Grandma
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: Cottontail finished her story, the two little Cottontails went to bed,
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: just as they had promised. They had never heard the
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: real Christmas story and they hadn't known before what Christmas
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: really meant. They made up their minds always be kind
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: to everybody.
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: They meant to help other.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: People and love other people more. The little bunnies thought
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: so many things that they forgot about Christmas presents. They
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: forgot to hang up their stockings. So when Santa Claus
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: came in the nights and found no stockings, what do
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: you suppose he did? He laid the presents right on
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: their beds. Wasn't that kind of him? And how surprised
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: the little Cottontails were when they awoke the next morning.
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: They dressed quickly and ran downstairs. Merry Christmas, Grandma. They shouted,
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, Grandpa, just see what we found on our beds.
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: Then Brownie climbed on Nixy's knee and hugged him. Molly
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: climbed into Grandma's lap and hugged her. They hugged so
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: tight that Grandma and Grandpa could hardly say Marry Christmas
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: to the little bunnies. Mollie said, I love you, Grandma,
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: I love Grandpa Nixy too, and I love my Mama
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: and my Papa and Brownie and everybody else, And so
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: you should said Grandma. End of section ten right by
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: Cassandra A. M. Section eleven of Nixy Bunny and Holidayland
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: by Joseph Similar. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: A Happy New.
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: Year, Happy new Year, A happy new year to all.
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  Speaker 1: People, tall, children, small, and animals in the wood. Wish
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: for everything good for the new year. The two little
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: cottontails put on their cloaks and their mittens. We are
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: going to the woods, they said, to wish all the
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: animals a happy new year. Grandma and Grandpa Cottontails smiled
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: at that. Grandma said, don't be long buns, and don't
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: you get lost. Jack Frost had put snow on the
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: ground and ice on the pond. He had painted pictures
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: on the windows of all the houses. As they went
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: along the road, Brownie and Mollie could see the pictures.
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: The snow on the road was hard under their feet,
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: but that in the woods was soft and nice. In
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: the snow, the Cottontails could see the footprints of animals
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: and many tiny bird tracks. They followed the tracks. These
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: led to an open space among the trees. Over this
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: open space, the tree tops came together like a canopy.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: Before Brownie and Molly reached the open space, they heard voices.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: It sounded as though a great many animals were talking.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: All of them were talking at once, and each animals
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: talking in his own way. The noise was like that
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: of a circus. As Brownie and Molly came to the
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: open space, they stopped. Sure enough, a great many animals
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: and birds were gathered there. The little rabbits called happy
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: New Year, a happy new year to all. The other
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: animals turned and looked at them. What do you mean
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: by that, asked the fox. You would think that anyone
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: as sigh as a fox would know, But he didn't,
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: and none of the other animals had ever before heard
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: of New Year's Day. Why why, Brownie said, didn't you
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: hear the bells ringing last night for a glad new year?
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: I heard the bells ringing, said the fox, But what
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: has that to do with the new year? Brownie and
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: Molly really did not know. They were wondering what to
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: say when they heard a sort of swish, and a
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: white winged fairy stood before them. The fairy said, the
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: bells were ringing to say that today would be the
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: birthday of a new year. It brings us a new winter, spring, summer,
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: and autumn. Each season in turn, seems lovelier than the rest.
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: The new year brings us twelve new months. January is
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: the first month. New Year's Day is the first day.
• 56:48
  Speaker 4: It is also a holiday. It is followed by a
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: whole year of days.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: Each day brings something new, and each day brings a
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: birthday to someone. January is a happy fella. His eyes
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: sparkle like diamonds. They do, said the snowbird, and snowbirds
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: ought to know. Then, the fairy said January is a
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: good leader too. On the first day of the year,
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: New Year's Day, he says, to the months and days
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: that follow him, I will show you the way to
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: better land, where everyone tries hard to do better than
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: he has ever done before. There, work is like play
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: because it is so willingly and cheerfully done. There, every
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: little boy and girl does his or her best, make
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: other people happy, Smiles fly about like little birds. No
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: cross words are spoken, and no naughty things are done.
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: January says to all children, if you will go to
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: better land, you must begin today to be good. You
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: must speak kindly and behave well on New Year's Day,
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: Because those who are good on New Year's Day, find
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: it easier to be good a whole year through. Then
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: before anyone knew it, the fairy was gone, Brownie and
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: Molly faced the birds and animals. Now do you know
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: what New Year's Day means? They ask? And are you
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  Speaker 1: glad that it is here? If you are see happy
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: New Year? Then all the animals shouted.
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  Speaker 4: Happy New Year, Happy New Year.
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  Speaker 1: Such a noise as they made was never before heard
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: in the woods. And I believe they meant every word
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  Speaker 1: of what they said, which is more than people always do.
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  Speaker 1: End of Section eleven read by Cassandra A. M. Section
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: twelve of Nixey Bunny and Holidayland by Joseph Sindelar. This
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording is in the public domain. A slave very.
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: If you had a wish, and you had but one for,
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: what would you wish for? A doll or a gun?
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: If I had a wish, or I had three, Like
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: Abraham Lincoln, I'd wish to be late. One evening, the
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: Cottontails were sitting before the fire when someone knocked at
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: the door. It was their friend January. He had come
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: to bid them goodbye. He was going away, not to
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: be back for a whole year, but he had brought
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: with him a little fellow named February. February said he
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: would show the Cottontails through his part of holiday land.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: When the two months had left. Mollie said, isn't February little?
• 59:50
  Speaker 1: He is?
• 59:51
  Speaker 5: Little?
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: Said Nixy, He is the shortest of the months, but
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: one of the brightest of all the year. And it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't long before the Cottontails found how true this was.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: It was the twelfth of the month when February called
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: for the Cottontails in his sleigh. He was going to
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: give them a ride. Where are we going? Brownie asked?
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: Whose birthday is? It? Asked February, But I am shamed
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: to tell you. Neither of the little Cottontails knew. Grandma
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: had to tell them that it was Abraham Lincoln's birthday,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: and Abraham Lincoln was a very great man. She said,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: we are going to visit some places that new Lincoln,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: said February. The merry bells tinkled, and the horses almost
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: flew across the snow. Faster and faster and faster they went.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: They stopped at a little log cabin on a small,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: lonely farm in Kentucky. February said this is where a
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: little poor boy named Abraham Lincoln was born. What a
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: very poor house, said Nixy Yes, said February. There was
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: no glass in the one little square window, and no
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: door in the doorway. Over both of these openings, skins
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: were sometimes hung to keep out the cold in the wind.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: There was no floor except the hard earth. And did
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: he always live here? Said Brownie. No, said February. When
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: Abraham was seven years old, his family moved from Kentucky
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: to Indiana. Then February cracked his whip, and off they
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  Speaker 1: started for Lincoln's second home. We travel so fast, said February,
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  Speaker 1: But we shall be there in a few minutes. But
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: it took the Lincoln family almost a week to go
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  Speaker 1: from the old home to the new, and poor little
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: Abraham had to walk most of the way. As they
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  Speaker 1: reached the spot, February said. Here in the woods, far
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: away from any one, Abraham's father built his second log cabin.
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  Speaker 1: It was sort of a shed and had only three sides.
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  Speaker 1: The fourth side was open, and there was nothing to
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: keep out the cold and the rain and the snow.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: In this hut, the family lived through the winter. The
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: father was busy cutting down trees and getting logs ready
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: for a better cabin. Before the next winter the new
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: home was ready. This cabin had four sides to it.
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  Speaker 1: You see. It was much like the little old cabin
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  Speaker 1: in which Abraham Lincoln was born. It had a wide
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 1: fireplace at one end, with the chimney built against the
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  Speaker 1: outside of the house. The furniture in it was home made.
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  Speaker 1: Abe's father split a large log and made a table
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  Speaker 1: by driving into it four stout sticks for legs. Then
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: he made some three legged stools. These were used in
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  Speaker 1: the place of chairs. Little Abe helped as much as
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: he could. He was growing tall and strong, and he
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  Speaker 1: could use an axe almost as well as a man.
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  Speaker 1: There was a loft in the cap, and Abraham slept
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  Speaker 1: in one corner of this law And do you know
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: what kind of bed he had? Even Grandpa Nicksey didn't
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  Speaker 1: know and couldn't guess. He had a big bag of
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: dry leaves for a bed, said February, how would you
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: like to have such a bed? Little Cottontails Brownie said,
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe I should like it. I am quite
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  Speaker 1: sure I shouldn't like it at all, said Molly. End
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  Speaker 1: of Section twelve, read by Cassandra A.
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  Speaker 5: M Section number thirteen of Naxy Funny and holiday Land.
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  Speaker 5: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 5: the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 5: visit LibriVox dot org. Read by Mamma Fish, Nixy Bunny
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  Speaker 5: and holiday Land by Joseph Sindelar. How Abraham grew up.
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  Speaker 5: February turned his horses about, and soon they were galloping away.
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  Speaker 5: Where are we going now, asked Molly. If you cannot guess,
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  Speaker 5: I will not tell you, said February, Where do you
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 5: suppose they were going? It seemed by the twinkling Grandma's
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  Speaker 5: in Grandpa's eyes that they must know. If they did know,
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  Speaker 5: they didn't say a word, as we have a long
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  Speaker 5: way to go, said February. I will tell you. How
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  Speaker 5: Abraham loved to study. There were very few schools in
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  Speaker 5: the part of the country in which Abe lived. The
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  Speaker 5: one nearest his home was almost five miles away. It
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  Speaker 5: was kept open for only a few months of each year.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 5: Abe went to this school as often as he could,
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  Speaker 5: but he had to help his father on the farm,
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  Speaker 5: so he could not go to school very often. Here
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 5: he learned to read and write a little, but he
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  Speaker 5: wished to know more. His mother helped him with his
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  Speaker 5: studies when she could. When the rest of the family
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 5: had gone to bed, Abe would sit up and study
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 5: by the light of the log fire. He did not
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 5: have many books, so he borrowed all the books he
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 5: could find in the neighborhood. He would read each one
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 5: over and over again. Once a neighbor lend him a
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 5: story of the life of George Washington. He read it
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  Speaker 5: day and night and carried it to bed with him.
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  Speaker 5: At night, he would put the book between the logs
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 5: of the cabin wall beside his bed. He wanted it
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 5: where he could get it the first ding in the morning.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 5: One night, it rained hard and the book got whit.
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  Speaker 5: It was spoiled.
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  Speaker 1: What was Abe to do?
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  Speaker 5: He was frightened. He took it back to the neighbor.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 5: I am very sorry about your book, he said, but
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 5: it got whit. What can I do to pay for it?
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  Speaker 5: The neighbor said, if you will come and work for
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  Speaker 5: me in the cornfield for three days, you may keep
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  Speaker 5: the book. It made Abe so happy to have a
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  Speaker 5: book of his own that he did not mind the
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  Speaker 5: hard work. He liked to do sums in arithmetic and
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  Speaker 5: to write almost as much as he liked to read.
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  Speaker 5: His father was too poor to buy paper and pens,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 5: so Ape had to do without them. He did his
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 5: sums on the back of a wooden fire shovel. For
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  Speaker 5: a pencil, he used a burnt stick or a piece
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  Speaker 5: of charcoal. Whenever he read anything he liked very much,
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 5: he would copy it into a blank book. Sometimes he
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 5: wrote little pieces of his own about things which interested him.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 5: This is one of them good boys who, to their
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 5: book supply will all be great men. By and by
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 5: you can see how true Abe's copy was. For when
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 5: he grew up he became a great lawyer. People went
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 5: to him when they were in trouble. He was a
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 5: good man, and everyone who knew him well loved and
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 5: trusted to him. He was so honest and fair in
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 5: all his work that he was called Honest Abe. The
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 5: people of our country thought so much of him that
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 5: they made him President of the United States. And the
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 5: little boy who was born in a log cabin went
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 5: to live in the White House. The White House, you know,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 5: is what we call the beautiful, stately old mansion in
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 5: which our president always lives. As February said this, he
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 5: stopped his horses. And here it is, he added, to
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  Speaker 5: be sure, here they were before the White House. How
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 5: surprised the Cottontails were. The merry bells tinkled, and again
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 5: the proud horses sprang into the air. Before the clock
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 5: struck ten, the cottontails were safe in their beds. And
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  Speaker 5: of section thirteen Section fourteen of Nixy Bunny and holiday Land.
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  Speaker 5: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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• 1:08:36
  Speaker 5: and Holidayland by Joseph Sindelar Saint Valentine's Day, will you
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 5: be my Valentine? Smile on me and rain or shine
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 5: play with me, and I shall be happy, quite and
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 5: full of glee. The next morning, Grandpa Nixy said to
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 5: Brownie and Molly tomorrow we'll be Satan Valentine's Day. You
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 5: must send valentines to your Mamma and Papa. Where shall
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 5: we get them? Asked Molly? And what are they? Asked Brownie.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 5: Why every baby knows what a Valentine is, said Nixy,
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 5: But these two little bunnies don't, said Grandma. You know
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 5: lost Saint Valentine's Day came before they were born. That's so,
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 5: isn't it, cried Nixy. Well, I had forgotten, and I
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 5: suppose they have never heard the Valentine story. Of course not,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 5: said Grandma. Then Nixy took a bunny on each knee
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 5: and told them how there happened to be a Saint
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 5: Valentine's Day. This is the story, just as Nixy told it.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 5: A long time ago, there lived a priest named Valentine.
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  Speaker 5: Everyone knew him because of the many kind things he did.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 5: He nursed the sick, He gave clothes and food to
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 5: the poor. He grew flowers and gave them to the children,
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 5: whom he dearly loved. Then the a kind priest grew
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 5: too old to go among his people. This made him
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 5: feel very sad. He wished to help them in some way,
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 5: so he began writing loving messages to those who were
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 5: sick and in trouble. Soon his friends began to watch
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 5: for the kind words of the good man. The messages
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 5: made them feel happy. Even the little children would say,
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 5: when they were sick, I think Father Valentine will send
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 5: me a letter to day, and after a time no
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 5: more letters were received. The good old man had died.
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 5: Then everyone said that such a man was good enough
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 5: to be called a saint, and from that day to
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 5: this he has been known as Saint Valentine. People remembered
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 5: how much he had done to make others happy and
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 5: wished they might be more like him. So they began
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 5: to celebrate his birthday by sending gifts and messages of
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 5: love to their friends. These were called Valentines. This all
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 5: happened years ago, but good Saint Valentine is still remembered
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 5: on the fourteenth day of each February. So now, if
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 5: you are ready, said Grandma, I will show you how
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 5: to make Valentines to send to your Mamma and Papa.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 5: She gave each of the bunnies a pair of scissors
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 5: and a sheet of white paper. Then she showed them
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 5: how to cut the heart out of the white paper
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 5: and gave them little red hearts to paste around the
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 5: edges of the big white heart. Next, Grandma gave Molly
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 5: a picture of a little bunny girl to paste on
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 5: her Valentine, and to Brownie she gave a picture of
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 5: a little bunny boy to paste on his Valentine. At last,
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 5: the valentines were made. Then Grandma said, now each of
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 5: you may write whatever you wish on your Valentine. And
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 5: what do you suppose the bunnies wrote. Molly thought hard
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 5: for a while, then she wrote, Dear Mamma mine, let
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 5: me be your Valentine. I wish, Papa, dear that you
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 5: were here. I love you both. Brownie waited until Molly
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 5: had finished her Valentine. He wished to see what she
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 5: had writen, and to write something better on his if
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 5: he could, so, he wrote on his Valentine, I love you, Mama,
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 5: you are my star shining afar. I love you, Papa,
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 5: you are my moon. I'll be home soon. Of course
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 5: this lost seemed very funny, and everyone laughed. But don't
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 5: you feel sure that Brownie's and Molly's Mama and Papa
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 5: thought both Valentine's very nice?
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 3: And of Section fourteen, Chapter fifteen of Nixy Bunny and
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 3: holiday Land. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 3: are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
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  Speaker 3: please visit LibriVox dot org. Read by Lea Lollo. Nixy
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 3: Bunny in holiday Land by Joseph Charles Sindler, Chapter fifteen February,
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  Speaker 3: the twenty second chief of our heroes, and best of
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 3: them all, our first president One's. He too was small.
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 3: Tingle tinkle, tinkle, came a sound of bells. Brownie ran
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 3: out to see who was coming. Then he ran in again.
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 3: It's February, he said, come on, hurry. Molly looked out
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 3: the window. It is February, she cried, Oh goody. February
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 3: had come to give the cotton Tails another ride. This
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 3: time he had a large white sleigh drawn by four
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 3: white horses. It was piled high with soft cushions and
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 3: robes of fur. The horses had bows of red, white
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 3: and blue ribbon in their mains and tails. The lines, too,
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 3: were wound with ribbons of red, white and blue. As
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 3: the cotton Tails came out, February said, I'm glad to
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  Speaker 3: see you again. Jump in. I think you'll find the
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 3: seats nice and soft, and there are plenty of covers
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  Speaker 3: to keep you warm. Then crack went the whip, tinkle
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 3: went the bells, and over the snow they sped. Presently,
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  Speaker 3: the horses stopped at a large plantation or farm on
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  Speaker 3: the bank of a great river. We're here in Virginia now,
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 3: said February. The great river is the Potamac here in
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 3: the house on the bank George Washington was born. But
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 3: where is the house, asked Molly. The house burned down
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 3: when George boy was a little boy, said February. But
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 3: do you see the large stone there that tells us
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 3: that George Washington was born here on the twenty second
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  Speaker 3: of February, many years ago, So it does, said Nixy.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 3: And where did he live after that?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 3: On another plantation, said February, only a short distance away.
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  Speaker 3: And in a few moments there they were. This house
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 3: had stood near another beautiful river, right down this path,
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 3: said February. Little George used to go to the river
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 3: to fish and swim. He was a tall, strong boy,
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 3: and he used to run races and jump fetces like
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 3: other boys. Yeah, the pretty pony too, that he loved
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 3: very much. He called the pony Hero, and he used
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 3: to write about the plantation. Didn't George Washington ever go
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 3: to school, asked Brownie. Yes, indeed, said February. If he
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 3: hadn't gone to school, he couldn't have grown to be
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 3: the wise man he was. George went to a small schoolhouse,
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 3: which stood on his father's land. He and a few
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 3: other boys were the only scholars. George learned to read
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 3: and write all at this school. He used to like
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 3: to write, and one of his writing books he copponed
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 3: many good rules and sayings. One of them was always
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 3: speak the truth. He also wrote to be careful, to
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 3: keep your promise, and always do your best. But of
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 3: course little George was not always copying good sayings. He
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 3: liked to play games and have all sorts of fun.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 3: Best of all games he liked to play was being
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 3: a soldier. The boys liked to have George for their captain.
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 3: He gave his soldiers corn stocks and broomsticks for guns
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 3: and swords. Then they pretended to fight with the Indians.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 3: But where is the cherry tree? Brownie asked? What cherry tree?
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 3: Asked February. Oh, I suppose Brownie is thinking of the
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  Speaker 3: story of the hatchet in the cherry tree, said Grandma,
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  Speaker 3: tell us about it. Grandpa said, Molly, this is how
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 3: Nixy told the story. Once George's father gave him a nice, bright,
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  Speaker 3: sharp little hatchet, and of course George was very proud
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  Speaker 3: of it. He went around trying it on everything, and
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 3: seeing how well it could cut. At last he went
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 3: into the orchard. He saw there a young cherry tree.
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  Speaker 3: He said, to that cherry tree, get out of my way,
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  Speaker 3: or I will cut you down with my nice, bright,
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  Speaker 3: sharp little hatchet. The tree waved its saucy branches at
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  Speaker 3: him and said, you can't cut me down. But little
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  Speaker 3: George did cut it down, and then he felt very sorry.
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  Speaker 3: His father was angry, of course, but George told the
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  Speaker 3: truth about it, and his father said he would rather
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  Speaker 3: lose a thousand cherry trees than have his son tell
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  Speaker 3: a lie. Then Grandma said, George Washington was a good
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 3: son to his mother, and he always was polite and
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  Speaker 3: thoughtful of others. He was, said February. When he grew up,
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 3: he became a great soldier. He led out our armies
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  Speaker 3: in the Great War with England. He made America free
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  Speaker 3: from English rule. After the war was over and Washington
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  Speaker 3: had made America free, the people chose him for president.
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  Speaker 3: He was the first president of the United States. People
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  Speaker 3: called him the father of his country because he did
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  Speaker 3: so much for us and helped make our country great.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 3: Then February turned his horses about and started for home.
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  Speaker 3: But he said we must stop on the way to
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  Speaker 3: see the beautiful house in which Washington lived with his wife,
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  Speaker 3: Martha Washington. So they did. It was called to Mount Vernon,
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  Speaker 3: and here's a picture of it. End of chapter fifteen.
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 3: Chapter fifteen of Nixy Bunny in holiday Land. This is
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  Speaker 3: a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
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  Speaker 3: Read by Leah Lahng.
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  Speaker 5: Section sixteen of Nixy Bunny and holiday Land. This is
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  Speaker 5: Nixybunny in holiday Land by Joseph Sindelar. Mister Easter Rabbit.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 5: Pretty are the colored eggs, and the Easter flowers bloom
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 5: in spite of chilly winds, and the snowflake showers. Pretty
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 5: are Dame Nature's ways, interesting her habits. But oh, what
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 5: would our Easter be without the Easter Rabbits. It was
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 5: almost the end of March when the cotton tails started
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 5: for Easter Town, and the wind was blowing, blowing, blowing.
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  Speaker 4: Ooh, oOoOO youo oooo oohoo.
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  Speaker 5: It was blowing. Is it saying something, asked Mollie. I
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 5: believe it is, said Grandma. Listen. Then Mollie and Brownie
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  Speaker 5: and Grandma and Nixy all listened, and this is what
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 5: they heard the wind saying. Ooh you you, ooh you
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 5: be tea full flowers. Wake up, Wake up, ooh you
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 5: ooh you easter lilies, you violets, and you tulips, wake up.
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  Speaker 5: Wake up, ooh you you trees and grasses and buds,
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  Speaker 5: Wake up you oo ooh, you sleeping butterflies in your cocoons.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 5: Wake up, you little chicks in the eggs. Wake up,
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 5: you s girls and bears. You have been sleeping long
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  Speaker 5: enough you ooh ooh, the sun is here and so
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 5: is the rain. They are calling you back to life.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 5: Wake up, wake up. Ooh oo ooh you ooh, that
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  Speaker 5: is glad news. The wind is blowing, said Nixy, and
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 5: we should be thankful to hear it. I have heard
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 5: my grandfather speak of a time when the wind was
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 5: telling a different story. Please tell us the story, said Brownie.
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  Speaker 5: It was about mister Easter Rabbit, said Nixy. And this
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 5: is the way Nixy's grandfather used to tell it once
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 5: in that far off country, no rain had fallen for
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 5: many months. Only a few of the seeds planted by
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 5: the farmers came up. The sun was very hot. The
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 5: few seeds that did raise their heads above the earth
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 5: were soon and burned to the ground. Everything was dead.
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 5: There were no flowers, no fruits, no vegetables, no grains.
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 5: This greatly troubled the fathers and mothers in that far
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 5: off country. The people still had enough to eat, but
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 5: they had to be very saving of the things that
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 5: had been left from the year before, and no one
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 5: had any money. When Christmas came, few gifts were received
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 5: by the children, but the children did not miss them,
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 5: as in this country, Easter was the holiday when prisons
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 5: were mostly given. As Easter drew near, the fathers and
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 5: mothers grew more and more troubled. How could they buy
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 5: presents for the children when there was no money. It
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 5: was hard to get even coarse bread now. But as
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 5: the weather grew warmer, the hens began to lay more
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 5: eggs than the mothers. Had a meeting, one of them
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 5: said we can give the children eggs for presents, but
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 5: said another these the children have every day, eggs would
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 5: be no treat. So they went back to their homes
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 5: more unhappy than ever. They said, the children will be
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 5: very sad, but we cannot help it. Easter Sunday must
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 5: come and go like any other Sunday. But that night
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 5: one mother thought of a way to surprise her children.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 5: She could hardly wait until morning to tell the rest
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 5: of the mothers about it. Before the next night, all
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 5: the mothers knew and were happy, but not one of
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 5: the children knew. When Easter Sunday came, the people all
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 5: went to church. After church, the fathers and mothers said
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 5: they would go to the woods, and the children should
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 5: go with them, For, said one mother, the early spring
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 5: flowers may be in bloom. At last, all the fathers
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 5: and mothers and children reached the woods. Suddenly shouts were
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 5: heard from the children. See what I have found? A
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 5: red one, a.
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  Speaker 6: Yellow one, a blue one.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 5: They ran to their mothers to show what they had found.
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  Speaker 5: Each child had a hatful of colored eggs. Who laid
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 5: them there? Asked the children, they can't be birds eggs,
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 5: for they are too large. And who ever heard of
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 5: hens laying red and yellow and blue eggs? Just then
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 5: a large rabbit jumped out from among the bushes and
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 5: ran away. It must have been the rabbit who laid
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 5: the pretty colored eggs, cried the little girl. And her
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 5: mother said, perhaps it was mister Easter rabbit. And all
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 5: the children cheered, hurrah for the rabbit. They cried, Hurrah
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 5: for mister Easter rabbit. End of section sixteen. Red by
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  Speaker 5: Mamma Fish, San Antonio, Texas, April third, two thousand twenty five.
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: Section seventeen of Nixy Bunny and Holiday Land. This is
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 2: a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
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  Speaker 2: For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 2: Read by Lisa Rose. Nixy Bunny and Holiday Land by
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: Joseph Sindelar. The trees and the birds sing, sing of
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 2: what shall I sing? Sing of days that are here,
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 2: sing of those that are near, sing, sing, sing of everything, sing,
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 2: sing of what shall I sing? Sing of birds, sing
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 2: of trees, sing of flowers. All of these sing, sing,
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 2: sing of everything, the trees and the birds. Brownie and
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: Molly thought Nixey's story a very good story. Indeed, the
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 2: cotton tells reached Eastertown only a few days later, and
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 2: on Easter Sunday, the two little bunnies got their share
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 2: of colored Easter eggs. Then one day Brownie looked out
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: at the window. His head came just above the window sill.
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 2: Far away, he could see green trees waving and birds
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 2: flying about. Oh, Grandma, he said, let us go to
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 2: the place where all the trees are waving. And so
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 2: Grandpa and Grandma and Brownie and Mollie went out. They
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 2: went where the trees were waving and where the birds
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 2: were flying about. Among the trees, they saw little schoolhouse,
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 2: all white and green. There were boys and girls in
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 2: the schoolyard. They were planting little green trees near the
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 2: big trees, which were waving their branches. See, said Nixy.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 2: The boys have dug holes in the ground. They have
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 2: made the holes just large enough to hold the roots
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 2: of the little trees. Then the cotton tails watched. One
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 2: of the boys held a little tree in place. Other
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 2: boys and some of the girls spread out the roots
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 2: in the hole and covered them with soil. Why are
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 2: they planting the tree, asked Mollie. Because it is April,
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 2: said Grandma Cottontel. And to day is Arbor Day. Arbor
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 2: Day is the trees Holiday. By and by the tree
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  Speaker 2: was planted, the children formed in a circle around it
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  Speaker 2: and sang a prettiest tree song. They thanked them for
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 2: the shade they gave in summer. They thanked the trees
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  Speaker 2: for their fruits, and for the wood they gave. One
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  Speaker 2: of the big trees said, oh, I am glad that
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 2: the pleasant days have come again. Soon the robins and
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 2: the bluebirds will sit among my branches and sing. Little
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 2: girls with yellow curls will make a playhouse in my shade.
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  Speaker 2: The boys will climb my limbs and laugh and shout.
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  Speaker 2: Wouldn't you like to be a tree and have all
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  Speaker 2: this merry company. Just then a pair of birds flew
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 2: up into the branches of the big tree. One of
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 2: them said, the trees are full of leaves. Now we
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 2: can build our nest. Then he began to sing. The
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 2: other bird listened. Both of them were happy because they
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  Speaker 2: had found a pleasant place in which to build their nest.
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 2: The tree asked, what are you singing about, little bird?
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 2: And the bird answered everything nothing. It is because missus bird,
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  Speaker 2: and I are so happy that I sing. This tree
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 2: was our home last year. We had four little speckled
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 2: eggs in our nest. Then four little birds were hatched,
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 2: I remember, said the tree. Then you sang louder and
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: more sweetly than ever, and worked harder too, said missus Bird.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 2: We had to work to keep our little ones from
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 2: being hungry, but no one was happier than we were.
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 2: That is why we have come back again this year.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 2: I hope you may be as happy here as you
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  Speaker 2: were last year, said the tree. All the boys who
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 2: come to this school know how much good the birds
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 2: can do. They never harmed the birds. The little girls
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 2: loved the sweet songs of the birds. They love their
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 2: pretty feathers. As for myself, I am glad to have
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  Speaker 2: you make your home in my branches. Thank you, mister tree,
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 2: said mister bird. I know we shall be happy here.
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 2: So that the children might learn to remember the trees
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 2: and the birds. There came to be two more holidays,
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  Speaker 2: said Nixy. What to asked Molly, Why Arbor Day and
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 2: Bird Day? Of course, said Nixy And of section seventeen.
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  Speaker 6: Section eighteen of Nixy Bunny in holiday Land. This is
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  Speaker 6: Read by Shrimpfish Nixy Bunny in holiday Land by Joseph
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  Speaker 6: Sindelar The two may Queens. We are going out to
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 6: play for today's first of May, and our may Queen
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  Speaker 6: must be crowned, and our may pole danced around. But
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 6: there'll come another day that one too, belongs to May.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 6: Best of all, the month has seen birthday of our
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 6: mother Queen. Itwas the day after the Cottontail's visit to
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 6: the Waving Trees and the Singing Birds. Grandpa and Grandma
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 6: and Brownie and Mollie were sitting in their room at
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 6: the hotel. Suddenly Brownie ran up to Nixy and whispered
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 6: something into the old gentleman's ear. Mollie heard what Brownie whispered,
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 6: and she cried, me too, me too, Grandpa. What do
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 6: you suppose it was all about? I will tell you.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 6: Brownie had said he wished he were at home with
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 6: his mamma and his papa, And that is why Mollie said,
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 6: me too. Then Nixy said, we shall soon be at home.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 6: Look at the map. See our next visit is to
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  Speaker 6: May day And home is just a little way beyond.
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 6: It was on the first day of May that the
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  Speaker 6: cotton Tails reached May Day. The morning was bright and warm,
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 6: and the Cottontails thought they would go to the woods
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 6: to see if they could find some wildflowers. In the woods,
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  Speaker 6: they could see little spring flowers peeping their heads up out.
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  Speaker 5: Of the ground.
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  Speaker 6: See the blossoms, said Grandma. Here is one, there is another,
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  Speaker 6: And there everywhere there seemed to be little violets and
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 6: beautiful mayflowers. The wind was still chilly, but the spring
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 6: flowers are brave little things, and they blossom in spite
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 6: of cold weather. Suddenly, Brownie and Mollie came running to
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 6: where Nixy and Grandma Cottontail were. Look Look, they cried.
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 6: Look at all the boys and girls. They too are
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 6: picking flowers, said Nixy. And what are they going to
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 6: do with them? Asked Mollie. Let us watch and see,
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 6: said Grandma. As the Cottontails watched, they know notice that
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 6: each child carried a basket on his arm. It was
• 1:31:03
  Speaker 6: a little basket made of dainty colored paper. It was
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 6: called a May basket. The children picked all the flowers
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 6: they wished. Then one little girl said, now, let us
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 6: go and dance around the may pole. So all the
• 1:31:18
  Speaker 6: boys and girls ran to a grassy place where there
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 6: were no trees. There, in the center of the open
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 6: space stood a tall pole. Ribbons of every color were
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 6: hanging from the top of it. Each child took hold
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 6: of the end of a ribbon. Then all the children danced.
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 6: They skipped round and round and in and out, until
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  Speaker 6: all the ribbons were twined around the may pole. Then
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 6: one little boy said, we must make a crown of
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 6: flowers and choose the fairest maiden for queen of the may.
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 6: They chose the prettiest little girl and led her to
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 6: the stump of a tree. They made her sit down,
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 6: and on her head they placed a wreath of flos
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 6: They called the stump her throne. The wreath of flowers
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 6: they called her crown. The children sang little songs and
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 6: danced around their queen. Have ye ever seen so lovely
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  Speaker 6: a queen as our may Queen? They said, she looks
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 6: like a real queen. Then a little brown eyed boy said,
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  Speaker 6: yet she is not so beautiful as my mother. I
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 6: think my mother is like a queen. And then all
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 6: the children, even the little may queen, cried, in mine.
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 3: In mine.
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  Speaker 6: So let us keep our baskets of flowers and give
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  Speaker 6: them to our mothers, said the brown eyed boy. Let
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  Speaker 6: us run and do that right away, said the may Queen. Yes,
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 6: said the brown eyed boy. And a week from today
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 6: we must come to the woods again to gather more
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 6: flowers for our mothers. Why must we come a week
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  Speaker 6: from today, asked another child, Because, said the brown eyed boy,
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  Speaker 6: awake from tomorrow is the second Sunday in May. The
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  Speaker 6: second Sunday in May is Mother's Day. We must be
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  Speaker 6: sure to give flowers to our mothers on Mother's Day.
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  Speaker 6: Won't they be happy to know that we remembered that day.
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  Speaker 6: Then all the children cried hurrah for Mother's Day and
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  Speaker 6: hurrah for the brown eyed boy. End of section eighteen.
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  Speaker 7: Section nineteen of Nixy Bunny and Holiday Land. This is
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  Speaker 7: Read by Thomas Murphy, do you ever shut your eyes
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  Speaker 7: and go sailing through the skies to the pleasant land
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  Speaker 7: of dreams? Their weell is fair, it seems, where their
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  Speaker 7: great piece Angel dwells, and the eagle to us tells
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  Speaker 7: how in peace the king shall live, and to all
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  Speaker 7: their friendship, give such a land there is where you
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  Speaker 7: see the shining star way up in the sky, so
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  Speaker 7: high you can see it if you try. The Peace
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  Speaker 7: Angel in the Eagle Part one. On the eighteenth day
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  Speaker 7: of May, the Cotton Tails visited Peace Valley to celebrate
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  Speaker 7: Peace Day. Peace Valley was a pleasant place, and Nixy
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  Speaker 7: and Grandma and Brownie and Molly had a delightful time,
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  Speaker 7: but they were all very tired when they got back
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  Speaker 7: to the hotel. Grandma put Brownie and Molly to bed
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  Speaker 7: as soon as supper was over. Nixy sat down in
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 7: a big rocking chair and fell fast asleep. And while
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  Speaker 7: he slept, he had this dream. One day, the Peace
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  Speaker 7: Angel sat on top of a high mountain. She was weeping.
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 7: The American Eagle was flying by, and he saw her.
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  Speaker 7: Why do you weep, good Angel, he asked. I weep,
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 7: said the angel, because to day is Peace Day, and
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  Speaker 7: there is so little peace in the world. Nearly all
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  Speaker 7: the nations of the world are at war with one another.
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  Speaker 7: Do not weep, said the eagle. Nothing worth while has
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  Speaker 7: ever been done by crying. But I have done all
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  Speaker 7: that I can, said the Peace Angel. The nations will
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  Speaker 7: not listen to me. Still, do not give up, said
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  Speaker 7: the eagle. Perhaps I can help you. Meet me here
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  Speaker 7: again in a month. Then the eagle flew away. On
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  Speaker 7: the same day of the next month, he returned again.
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 7: He found the Peace Angel weeping. Dry your eyes and
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  Speaker 7: come with me, said the eagle. I have brought the
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  Speaker 7: rulers of all the fighting nations together. Perhaps they will
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  Speaker 7: listen to you now. So the Peace Angel and the
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  Speaker 7: American Eagle sailed away through the air. They flew far
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 7: across the ocean to a large building called the Palace
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  Speaker 7: of Peace. Here were gathered the rulers of the nations
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  Speaker 7: that were at war with one another. The Angel and
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  Speaker 7: the eagle flew into the building. As they entered, they
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  Speaker 7: heard one of the rulers say, who started this war?
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  Speaker 7: I didn't, nor I nor I said to all the
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  Speaker 7: other rulers. But one cannot quarrel by oneself, said the
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  Speaker 7: Peace Angel. No matter who started the war, you are
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  Speaker 7: all to blame for it. Don't you know that it
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  Speaker 7: is both wrong and stupid to fight. Fighting is not
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  Speaker 7: the right way in which to settle anything. But we
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  Speaker 7: must fight, said the ruler, whose army was the largest.
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  Speaker 7: Do you suppose I would stop fighting now? Very well,
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  Speaker 7: said the Peace Angel. I have waited long enough. I
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  Speaker 7: will take away from all of you your armies and
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  Speaker 7: your ships, and all the things useful to you in war.
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  Speaker 7: Just one thing will I let each of you have.
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  Speaker 7: That is a gun. If you rulers feel that you
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  Speaker 7: must fight, fight one another, do not make your people
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  Speaker 7: fight for you. If all of you are killed, I
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  Speaker 7: shall not be to blame. No, no, cried all the rulers.
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  Speaker 7: You do not wish to die. Let us go back
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  Speaker 7: to our countries and we will stop the war. You
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  Speaker 7: may go, then, said the Peace Angel, but you must
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  Speaker 7: promise that you will never bring your countries to war
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  Speaker 7: with one another again. We promise, said the rulers. Only
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  Speaker 7: please let us go. Then the Peace Angel touched her
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  Speaker 7: hand to the head of each ruler, and the touch
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  Speaker 7: warmed his heart. I believe it is safe to leave
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  Speaker 7: them now, said the eagle. As the rulers were shaking
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  Speaker 7: hands with one another, the Peace Angel and the American
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  Speaker 7: Eagle flew out of the Palace of Peace and up
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  Speaker 7: up into the air. End of section nineteen, Section twenty
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  Speaker 7: by Thomas Murphy. Grow flowers grow, For here's the month
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  Speaker 7: of May. The springs in green array, and everything is gay.
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  Speaker 7: Grow flowers grow, Come, flowers, Come, Remember the soldier brave
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  Speaker 7: to decorate his grave there where the flag doth wave.
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  Speaker 7: Come flowers come. The Peace Angel and the Eagle Part two.
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  Speaker 7: As they flew through the air, the Peace Angel said
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  Speaker 7: to the American Eagle, it makes me happy to feel
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  Speaker 7: that the world will soon be at peace once more.
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  Speaker 7: And I don't know how to thank you for the
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  Speaker 7: help you have been to me. I feel honored to
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  Speaker 7: have been able to help you, said the eagle. If
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  Speaker 7: people would not get angry so easily, said the Angel,
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 7: or so often, this world would be a pleasanter place
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  Speaker 7: to live in than it is now, and everybody would
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 7: be a great deal happier besides, said the eagle. Then,
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 7: as the Angel looked at the eagle, she noticed that
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 7: the great bird had a small gold band around his neck.
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  Speaker 7: From the band hung a gold medal. On one side
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 7: of it were the words in God we trust. On
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  Speaker 7: the other side was stamped a picture of the Goddess
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  Speaker 7: of liberty, Love and Liberty. Said the Angel, What two
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  Speaker 7: beautiful thoughts your metal bears. I am glad you think so,
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  Speaker 7: said the eagle. Then his sharp eyes grew very bright.
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  Speaker 7: Would you like to know how I received this medal,
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 7: he asked. The Angel said that she would very much
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 7: like to know. Well, I will tell you, then, said
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  Speaker 7: the eagle. My country is called the United States. Once
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  Speaker 7: there was a war there, which we called the Civil
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  Speaker 7: War because it was a war between two parts of
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  Speaker 7: our own country. It was fought while Abraham Lincoln was
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  Speaker 7: President of the United States. The people of the northern
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  Speaker 7: part of the country and the people of the southern
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  Speaker 7: part quarreled. Then they fought.
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  Speaker 8: It was very sad.
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  Speaker 7: The quarrel might have been settled without fighting, and many,
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  Speaker 7: many brave soldiers were killed before the fight ended. The
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  Speaker 7: soldiers of the North were called the boys in Blue
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  Speaker 7: because they wore blue uniforms. The soldiers of the South
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  Speaker 7: were called the boys in Gray because they were dressed
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  Speaker 7: in gray. The war lasted a long time, But at
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  Speaker 7: last it was over. Then, by and by the people said,
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  Speaker 7: we must teach our children to honor the soldiers who
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  Speaker 7: died fighting so bravely. So in many of our villages
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  Speaker 7: and towns and cities, monuments were built, and one day
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  Speaker 7: each year was set apart on which to honor our soldiers.
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  Speaker 7: May thirtieth is the day we call it Memorial Day.
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  Speaker 7: Sometimes we call it decoration Day. On that day, the
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  Speaker 7: grave of each soldier is marked by a flag and
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  Speaker 7: decorated with flowers. That is a pretty custom, said the
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  Speaker 7: peace Angel. I hope that children help decorate the graves.
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  Speaker 7: They do, said the American Eagle. They pick bouquets of
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  Speaker 7: pretty flowers and put them on the graves. But while
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  Speaker 7: the people are laying the flowers on the soldier's graves,
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 7: they pray that there may never be another war in
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 7: our country. They do well, said the Angel. And that
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  Speaker 7: is how I came to get this medal, said the Eagle.
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  Speaker 7: The people said, the eagle is the emblem of our country.
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  Speaker 7: He travels everywhere. Let him carry our message of love
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  Speaker 7: and liberty to all parts of the world. Where there
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  Speaker 7: is love, there is peace, where there is liberty, there
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  Speaker 7: is happiness. So they place this gold band and metal
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  Speaker 7: around my neck. And I have warned them ever since
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  Speaker 7: the words in God we trust mean love and peace.
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  Speaker 7: The Goddess of Liberty means liberty and happiness. I hope
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  Speaker 7: all the children of your country may understand. That, said
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  Speaker 7: the angel. Then the angel in the eagle flew away
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 7: away out of Nixy's dream.
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  Speaker 3: End of section twenty, Chapter twenty one of Nixy Bunny
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  Speaker 3: in holiday Land. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox
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  Speaker 3: Nixy Bunny and holiday Land by Joseph Charles Sindler, Chapter
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 3: twenty one. The flag of the United States tis the
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 3: star spangled banner. Oh long may it wave o'er the
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  Speaker 3: land of the Free. In the Home of the Brave.
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 3: When Nixy awoke, the little Cottontails were fast asleep. Grandma
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 3: Cottontail was still up, but she said it was time
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 3: for Nixy and herself to go to bed. So Nixy
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  Speaker 3: did not say anything about his dream until the next morning. Then,
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 3: when the Cottontails heard it. They said, Oh, what a
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  Speaker 3: beautiful dream that was. And Molly added, I should like
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  Speaker 3: to pick some flowers, red and white and blue and
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  Speaker 3: lay them on the soldier's graves. And I should like
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  Speaker 3: to carry a flag and place it beside the flowers,
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  Speaker 3: said Brownie. Let us all go on Memorial Day to
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 3: pick flowers to lay on the soldier's graves, said Grandma.
• 1:43:17
  Speaker 3: And may we each have a flag, asked Brownie. We may,
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 3: said Nixy, I will get the flags. And so he did,
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 3: and on Memorial Day, the cotton tails picked flowers and
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 3: laid them on the soldier's graves. They stood the little
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 3: flags beside the graves. As they looked around, they saw
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  Speaker 3: a large flag waving at the distance. Brownie said, look, Grandpa,
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 3: the flag is waving for us to come. Let us
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 3: go and see what it wants, said Molly. So they went.
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 3: The large flag was only half way up on the pole.
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  Speaker 3: Is the flag coming down, asked Brownie, And before anyone
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 3: had time to say a word, a strange voice said, no,
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  Speaker 3: I am not coming down. I am hung only half
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 3: way up on the pole. To day, as a sign
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 3: of mourning for the dead soldiers, the Tails looked around
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 3: to see who was talking, but they could find no one.
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 3: Then the same voice said, won't you come to my
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 3: birthday party? On my birthday, I shall fly gaily above
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  Speaker 3: the very top of the pole, and I shall dance
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  Speaker 3: and be merry. When is your birthday and who are you?
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 3: Asked Brownie. I am the flag of the United States,
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 3: said the strange voice. And my birthday is the fourteenth
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  Speaker 3: day of June. Oh, said Brownie. I am glad to
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 3: meet you.
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  Speaker 1: How old are you, mister.
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  Speaker 3: Flag, asked Molly. I am over a hundred years old,
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  Speaker 3: said the flag. At one time, our country had no
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  Speaker 3: flag that was really its own. The people in different
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  Speaker 3: parts of the country use any flag they wished, so
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  Speaker 3: there were many kinds of flags. Then General Washington drew
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  Speaker 3: a picture of a flag they would do for all
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  Speaker 3: the people. Are you that flag, asked Nixy. Not exactly,
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  Speaker 3: said the flag of the United States. That flag had
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  Speaker 3: on it thirteen stripes, seven red ones and six white ones,
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  Speaker 3: just as I have now. But it had only thirteen
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  Speaker 3: white stars in the blue field in the corner. You
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  Speaker 3: have many more stars than that, said Grandma Cottontail. That
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  Speaker 3: is because there is a star for each one of
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  Speaker 3: the states that make up the United States, said the flag.
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  Speaker 3: When the first flag was made, there were only thirteen states,
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  Speaker 3: and now there are forty eight. If you will count
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  Speaker 3: my stars, you will find that I have just forty eight.
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  Speaker 3: There are six rows and eight stars in each row.
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  Speaker 3: Who made the flag that George Washington Drew asked Molly.
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  Speaker 3: A lady named Betsy Ross, said the flag of the
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  Speaker 3: United States. She made the first flag. Oh how the
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  Speaker 3: soldiers of our country loved the new flag, and the
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  Speaker 3: little boys and the little girls they loved it too,
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  Speaker 3: And I am glad they did. Because the red in
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  Speaker 3: the flag means be brave, the white means be pure,
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  Speaker 3: and the blue means be true. There are many flags
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  Speaker 3: in many lands. There are flags of every hue. But
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  Speaker 3: there is no flag, however, grand like our own red, white,
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  Speaker 3: and blue of Chapter twenty one Chapter twenty two of
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  Speaker 3: Nixy Bunny and holiday Land by Joseph Charles Sindler, Chapter
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  Speaker 3: twenty two, The Flag's Party. There are many flags in
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  Speaker 3: many lands. There are flags of every hue, but there
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  Speaker 3: is no flag. However, grand like our own red, white,
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  Speaker 3: and blue. Brownie and Molly were happy bunnies as they
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  Speaker 3: said goodbye to the Flag of the United States. They
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  Speaker 3: liked the story the flag had told them, and they
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  Speaker 3: are glad because of that. But they were gladder still
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  Speaker 3: because the Flag of the United States had invited them
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  Speaker 3: to his party. Uncle Sam always celebrates the Flag's birthday
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  Speaker 3: on the fourth teenth day of June. Of course, Nixy
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  Speaker 3: and Grandma Cottontail also were invited to the party, and
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  Speaker 3: you may be sure that they went. At the party,
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  Speaker 3: they met the flags of other countries, but there was
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  Speaker 3: none so handsome as the flag of the United States.
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  Speaker 3: Then as the flags of other countries shook hands with
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  Speaker 3: the flag of the United States, they said, how do
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  Speaker 3: you do old glory? That is, some of them said that,
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  Speaker 3: the others said, long live the stars and stripes. What
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  Speaker 3: do they mean by old glory and stars and stripes,
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  Speaker 3: asked Molly, Oh, those are just pet names for the
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  Speaker 3: flag of the United States, said Nixy. How many flags
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  Speaker 3: of the United States are here today? Nixy asked Uncle Sam.
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  Speaker 3: Why couldn't say exactly, said Uncle Sam, but there must
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  Speaker 3: be several millions of them. Every schoolhouse in the land
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  Speaker 3: has sent its flag to the party, and so has
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  Speaker 3: many a home. Just then a great many little boys
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  Speaker 3: and girls came marching along, and each of them carried
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  Speaker 3: a flag too. You should seeing the children, how proudly
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  Speaker 3: they marched along. As they came to where stood to
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  Speaker 3: the flag whose party it was, they raised the right
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  Speaker 3: hands and said, we give our heads and give our
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  Speaker 3: hearts to God. In our country, one country, one language,
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  Speaker 3: one flag. It was a pretty sight. When the party
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  Speaker 3: was over, good Uncle Sam came to shake hands with
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  Speaker 3: the Cottontails. He gave each of them a flag and said,
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  Speaker 3: we are going to have another party on the fourth
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  Speaker 3: of July. Then is the birthday of our country. You
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  Speaker 3: must be sure to come, And of course the Cottontails
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  Speaker 3: said they would be very glad to end of section
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  Speaker 3: twenty two.
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  Speaker 8: Section twenty three of Nixy Bunny in holiday Land. This
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  Speaker 8: liverbox dot org. Read by Larry Johnson, City, Tennessee. Nixy
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  Speaker 8: Bunny in holiday Land by Joseph Sindlaire the fourth of July,
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  Speaker 8: hats off along the street. There comes a blare of bugles,
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  Speaker 8: a ruffle of drums, a flash of color beneath the sky.
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  Speaker 8: Hats off, the flag is passing by. The Cottontails did
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  Speaker 8: not forget Uncle Sam, you may be sure of that.
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  Speaker 8: Of course, he was not a real Uncle Uncle Sam
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  Speaker 8: was only a pet name for him. His right name
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  Speaker 8: was United States. But he was so good and the
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  Speaker 8: people loved him so that they all called him Uncle Sam.
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  Speaker 8: On the fourth of July, the Cottontails went to his party.
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  Speaker 8: And such a party it was. Who were the guests?
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  Speaker 8: Why there were mister Independence Hall, Miss Liberty Bell, mister
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  Speaker 8: bell Ringer, the Honorable bugle Master, Firecracker, and many many others.
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  Speaker 8: Uncle Sam had a regular program at his party. And
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  Speaker 8: this is how it was, Uncle Sam. Today is the
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  Speaker 8: birthday of our country. We call it the fourth of July,
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  Speaker 8: but its right name is Independence Day. I will tell
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  Speaker 8: you why, a great many years ago this country was
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  Speaker 8: not free. It was not the United States. The King
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  Speaker 8: of England was our king, but he made unjust laws,
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  Speaker 8: and the people would not obey them. They said, we
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  Speaker 8: will not have him for our king. We will make
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  Speaker 8: our own laws. But the King said, I will send
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  Speaker 8: soldiers to your country and they will make you obey
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  Speaker 8: my laws. Bugle tu, tut tut. We won't obey your
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  Speaker 8: laws because they are not just drum rub a dub
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  Speaker 8: rub rub rub a dub dub. Follow me, soldiers. We
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  Speaker 8: will fight the King's army. Firecracker, I am only a firecracker.
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  Speaker 8: But this is the way the guns sounded when the
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  Speaker 8: soldiers were fighting to free our country. Bang Bang Bang
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  Speaker 8: Independence Hall. Here comes the leaders. They will meet in
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  Speaker 8: my hall to plan what shall be done. The king
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  Speaker 8: is sending new armies to fight our soldiers. One of
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  Speaker 8: the leaders. Here is a paper I have written. It
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  Speaker 8: is called the Declaration of Independence. It tells the world
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  Speaker 8: that our country means to be free from England. Will
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  Speaker 8: you sign it? Other leaders, we will. We think it
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  Speaker 8: is the best thing to do. Little boy. This is
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  Speaker 8: the fourth of July. The Declaration of Independence is signed.
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  Speaker 8: Ring ring, Grandpa ring the bell for liberty, bell ringer.
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  Speaker 8: I have been waiting a long time for this glad
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  Speaker 8: news to tell the people they are to be free
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  Speaker 8: liberty bell Bing Blum, being Blum. This is the happiest
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  Speaker 8: day of my life, being Blum. This is the news
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  Speaker 8: that will be welcome everywhere, being Blum people, Our country
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  Speaker 8: is to be free. Hooray for the fourth of July.
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  Speaker 8: Hooray for the birthday of our country. End of chapter.
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  Speaker 9: Section twenty four of Nixy Bunny in holiday Land. This
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  Speaker 9: by Joseph Sindelar. Home again, Now we know what the
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  Speaker 9: fourth of July really means, said Brownie and Molly. Then
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  Speaker 9: the Cottontails hurried away to the train, and the train
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  Speaker 9: hurried them away toward home. The next morning they reached
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  Speaker 9: Nixy's farm and found mister and missus Spotty and Bunny
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  Speaker 9: Girl and Thumpy waiting for them. And oh, how glad
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  Speaker 9: they were to be at home again. My how you
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  Speaker 9: have grown, said Papa and Mama's Botty Cottontail to Brownie
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  Speaker 9: and Molly. The two little rabbits could not talk fast enough,
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  Speaker 9: they tried to tell their Papa and Mama about everything
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  Speaker 9: they had seen. Mister and Missus Spotty were glad to
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  Speaker 9: hear all that, Brownie and Molly told them. What made
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  Speaker 9: them happiest, though, was to have the children with them
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  Speaker 9: once more. We will never let you go away again,
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  Speaker 9: said Mamma Spotty. No, indeed, cried their papa. We miss
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  Speaker 9: you too much. Then, as Nixy settled down in his
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  Speaker 9: cozy chair, he said, after all, there is no place
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  Speaker 9: like home, but we never, never shall forget the happy
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  Speaker 9: times we had in holiday Land, said Brownie and Molly.
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  Speaker 9: End of Section twenty four and of Nixey Bunny in
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  Speaker 9: holiday Land by Joseph Sindelar