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hello this is and

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welcome to storynory we

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are here with an amusing story for

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the in the north of india

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as it happens,

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we are recording this on the 15th

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of august 2022,

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which

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is the 75th anniversary of

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india's independence from britain

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dickies clothes, india, a holding

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parades, and events featuring soldiers

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elephants and dances during

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the lit up in the orange white

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and green the india's

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national flag we

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know we have lots of listeners in india

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who happy independence day

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you may perhaps know that my family come from india

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in fact they come from punjab

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for the stories from anyway

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special tribute to india hi

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vol story noise some the thirty

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the read this story

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the greedy bear

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once upon a time a pool woodman on

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his wife lived in a tiny hut

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close to the orchard of a rich man

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so close that the branches

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of the pear tree on the right down

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over there yard it

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was agreed between the rich man and

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a couple that if any of

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the fruit fell into the yard the

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couple would be allowed to eat it

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though you may imagine with what

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hungry i say watched the

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pears ripening and parade

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for a storm of wind or a flock

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of flying foxes or

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anything that would cause the fruit to

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fool apart from the pears

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the couple did not have a rich choice

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to food to eat but they did

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have plenty of yellow lentils

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d as some spices the

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wife was particularly good at making the disco

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dog was and appetizing

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smell it had to be though the

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woodman gobbled it up as soon as

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it was ready one

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day his wife said

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no no no

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not until you said some dry

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wood off you go

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so off he went into the forest

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and began to hack consumer away at the would

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and with each cut he seemed to

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smell the save for he does

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just the know their came swinging

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by with it's great black nose

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tilted in the yes and it's little

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keen eyes peering about

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for bears though good centers

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on the whole the to read

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fully inquisitive

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these be with you said

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that there and what may

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you be doing with that bundle

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of would

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it is for my wife return

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the woodman the fact he

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is he added confidentially see

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, made sorts of wonderful

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ah for dinner dinner if

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i bring in a good portion of portion

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see is pretty sure to give me a

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plentiful boston oh

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my dear fellow you

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should just smell lot

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the

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this the bears mouse

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began to water for like

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all birds he was

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to read fully greedy

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do you think your

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wife would kill me some to

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if i brought her a bundle of would

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the are anxiously perhaps

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if it was a very big load

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on said the woodman craftily would

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four hundred wheat beer

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though the bear

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i'm afraid and not

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return the woodman shaking his head you

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see dollars and expensive

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this to make you need plenty

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of key and loads of yellow lentils

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and

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would would would be a coded way to

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say half a ton and

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it's a bargain said the woodman

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oh no these are you

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quoted

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the right to bear

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there is saffron in the towel

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remarked the woodman casually which

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wasn't true because saffron is

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terribly expensive

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that licked his lips and his

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little eyes twinkled with greed

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and delights

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the will

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the bog

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give him smaller to should tell your wife to keep

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the dog hot bobby with your window

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the way went the whitman and great lead

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to tell his wife how the bear had agreed

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to bring half a ton of

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would in return for a share of

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the doll that bar

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was surely be three d like

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rollback

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and eat your supper if you aren't

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careful

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this the woodman became quite

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pale in , case

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case had better begin now and

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have and fast start

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there without more a do they sat down

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on the floor with a brass pot full

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of stars between them and they

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can't eat as fast as i could remember

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to be some sort of their said

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the wife to the husband speaking with husband mouth

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crammed full size and they start

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and nice and replied helping himself

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to another handful my

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dear tried to husband a little

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later when his mouth was so full

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that he could hardly speak remember

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, for spare

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myself returned the wife

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take another mouthful and so

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it went on to the was not

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to single grain and less

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in the pot oh

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what is to be done now the

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the would when it's your fault

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for eating too much my for

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recruited his wife scornfully

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you twice as much as

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i

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now i didn't you

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did minute would lead more than

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women know we don't oh you

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do well

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it's no use quarreling about it now

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that would month the towels gone

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and the path will be furious

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that wouldn't matter if we should

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get the would i tell

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you what we must do

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we met lock up everything

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there is the eat in the house

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leave the dog park by the fire

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and hide any

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than know that com he would

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think we have gone out and left

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his dinner for him then

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he will throw down his bundle

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uncommon he

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would run for do little when he finds

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about his employees but he can't do

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much mischief and

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i don't think he will take the trouble of carrying

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the would away

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though they made haste to lock up all

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the food and hide themselves in the attic

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meanwhile the pair had been toiling

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annoying away at his bundle of would

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which took him much longer to collect

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than he expected however

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at last he arrived quite exhausted

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at the would cut his cottage seeing

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the brass don't put by the fire

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states through down his load and went in

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and then mercy wasn't

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then angry when he found

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nothing in it nothing

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even a grain of rice nord

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teeny weeny bit of bit the

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little both the only

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a smell that was so and

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commonly nice that

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he actually cried with rage

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and disappointment steve flew

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into the most dreadful tampa

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though he turned the house topsy

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turvy be could not find

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a most love food finally

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he declared that he would take the would away

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but as the crafty wife

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i did and when it came

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to the task the did not

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care even for the sake of reasons

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to carry such a heavy load

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i woke go away a d

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had did he said to himself seizing

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the doll put me through i caught get

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to taste or less the smell now

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as he left the cottage he

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, sight of the beautiful golden

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pass hanging over into the

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yard yard mouth began

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to water at once for he

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was desperately hungry and

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the pairs with the first of the of

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in a trice he was on the wall up the tree

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and gathering the biggest and ripest

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one he could find and he was just

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putting it into his mouth when a thought

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struck him

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the boy take these pairs

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home i will be able

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to sell them for a first

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two bucks to the other bears

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it it all be able to buy some double

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o o has

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you have the best ball get off the rules

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the saying he began to gather the right

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as as fast as he could and put

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them into the pot

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whenever he came to an unripe

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one he would shake his head and

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say the word

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would bars that your

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teaches of peaches to waste

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though he would pop it into his mouth and eat

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it making right faces as

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it was very sour now

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all this time the woman's wife

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had been watching the bear through a crack

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and holding her breath for fear of discovery

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but it last with the attic

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being rather dusty

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just to support was quite full

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of golden right pass out

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she came with the most tremendous nice

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you ever heard how

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so the bear thinking someone fired a gun

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at him drop to put in the courtyard

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and fled into the forest as fast

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as his legs with terry him whitman

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and his wife got the doll the

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word and a lovely

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pairs but the poor

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bird got nothing

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except a very bad

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doma cake

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i'm eating unripe fruit

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and

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that was the story of the greedy

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bear from the punjab in india

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though perhaps it was the to humans

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who were more greedy in fact

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i feel rather sorry for that hungry bear

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and it just won't give a special

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shout out to sarah from india

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who is visually and hearing impaired

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she reads our stories using a braille display

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called orbit treated twenty so

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sara, i hope you enjoyed the story

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and i'm wishing you a very happy

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independence day oh

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oh my family, both here in back

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in india are very excited about

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75th year of independence we

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want to wish everyone in india happy

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independence day