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Narrator 🎙 Abbe Opher
Author ✍️ Gillian Rogerson
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Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome back to Cocos Sleep. I hope you're
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Speaker 1: enjoying this brand new podcast of original children's bedtime stories
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Speaker 1: and sleep meditations designed to make bedtime a dream. If
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Speaker 1: you love Coco Sleep, please ask your adult to leave
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Speaker 1: a rating and a review, as this will help others
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Speaker 1: be able to find it too. With that in mind,
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Speaker 1: our story tonight is one where kindness and sharing takes
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Speaker 1: center stage. We will follow Theodore, a brave little monkey,
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Speaker 1: as he sets off on an adventurous quest to find treasure,
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Speaker 1: with only an old, faded treasure map to help him.
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Speaker 1: Before I start, let's settle down and get ready for us.
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Speaker 1: Hop into bed, pull up your douvet, your blankets and
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Speaker 1: close your eyes. Take a few deep breaths in and out.
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Speaker 1: Wiggle your fingers and toes. Now, snuggle down and gently smile.
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Speaker 1: It's time to relax your busy body and charge up
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Speaker 1: your imagination. Imagine sailing across thousands of miles of ocean.
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Speaker 1: Imagine landing on the island of a thousand smiles. Imagine
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Speaker 1: searching for hidden treasure and what it could be. And
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Speaker 1: now I'll begin. A Most Charitable Monkey by Gillian Rogerson
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Speaker 1: under the shade of a mango tree. A regal looking
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Speaker 1: lion addressed the animals in front of him, as he
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Speaker 1: was the king of the jungle. The animals listened carefully
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Speaker 1: to every word he said. The king told them about
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Speaker 1: a quest which involved traveling many miles over land and
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Speaker 1: sea to various islands in search of treasure. The only
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Speaker 1: help available would be an old, faded treasure map, which
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Speaker 1: the king had found inside a hollow tree. He wasn't
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Speaker 1: sure the map was real, but he thought that wouldn't
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Speaker 1: stop the adventurous animal who would be brave enough to
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Speaker 1: take up the challenge. He waited for someone to step
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Speaker 1: up to the challenge. No one moved. The elephants didn't
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Speaker 1: like the idea of traveling over the sea. The rhinos
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Speaker 1: had never been brave in their life and they weren't
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Speaker 1: about to start now, and the jaguars thought the king
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Speaker 1: should go himself. The king continued to wait for someone
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Speaker 1: to volunteer. Under his stern gaze. The animals bowed their
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Speaker 1: heads and looked away and still the king waited. Her
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Speaker 1: voice from the back called out, I'll do it. I'll
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Speaker 1: be the brave adventurer. The animals turned around to look
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Speaker 1: at the one who had spoken so foolishly. It was Theodore,
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Speaker 1: the smallest monkey in the jungle. The animals told Theodore
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Speaker 1: he was too little for an adventure. Even Theodore's family
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Speaker 1: shook their heads at him. The Theodore ignored them. He
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Speaker 1: puffed his little chest out and repeated, I'll do it.
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Speaker 1: I'll be the brave adventurer. I accept. The King announced loudly,
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Speaker 1: thank you, Come forward, little one and collect the treasure map.
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Speaker 1: Theodore's bravery suddenly vanished. Now you want me to look
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Speaker 1: for the treasure now, the king nodded in answer. The
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Speaker 1: animals in front of Theodore stepped to the side to
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Speaker 1: allow him through. Theodore moved towards the king on legs
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Speaker 1: that shook a little. When he was close enough, the
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Speaker 1: King gave him a rolled up piece of parchment. Before
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Speaker 1: you go, the King said, let me give you some advice.
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Speaker 1: Theodore waited expectantly. The King said, don't come home without
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Speaker 1: the treasure, and don't drink the sea water. It's full
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Speaker 1: of salt. With these confusing words, the King swiftly turned
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Speaker 1: around and strode away. When Theodore was alone with his family,
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Speaker 1: they tried to talk him out of his quest, lifting
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Speaker 1: his chin. Theodore replied, I can do this, I know
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Speaker 1: I can. Trying to look as if he knew where
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Speaker 1: he was going, he walked away. Theodore reasoned that if
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Speaker 1: he was traveling over land and sea, he would need
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Speaker 1: a boat at some point. He made his way to
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Speaker 1: the beach and was surprised to see an old wooden
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Speaker 1: ship bobbing in the sea not far from shore. The
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Speaker 1: captain of the ship was a walrus. He waved a
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Speaker 1: flipper at Theodore and told him to come aboard. Theodore
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Speaker 1: had swum in the jungle rivers before, but never in
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Speaker 1: the sea. He waded into the water and felt the
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Speaker 1: current pushing him back and forth. The captain continued to
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Speaker 1: wave and told Theodore to hurry before the tide took
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Speaker 1: the ship away. Holding the treasure mapp aloft, Theodore quickly
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Speaker 1: swam towards the ship as the captain helped him onto
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Speaker 1: the vessel. He told Theodore the ship was two hundred
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Speaker 1: years old. With a chuckle, the walrus added, I hope
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Speaker 1: this fine ship of mine doesn't sink anytime soon. Where
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Speaker 1: are we going, my fine young friend. Theodore open the
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Speaker 1: map and looked at the nearest island. He informed the
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Speaker 1: captain they should head to the island of a thousand smiles.
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Speaker 1: The captain said he knew where that was, and it
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Speaker 1: would take a full day and night to get there.
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Speaker 1: The ship sailed away, leaving the familiar sight of the
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Speaker 1: jungle behind them. Theodore wondered if he was doing the
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Speaker 1: right thing, but it was too late now. He settled
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Speaker 1: himself onto a wooden crate behind the captain and tried
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Speaker 1: his very best to be brave. The captain sang sea
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Speaker 1: shanties as he steered the ship further and further away.
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Speaker 1: His voice was deep and melodic, and Theodore found himself relaxing.
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Speaker 1: A little before too long day he gave way to night,
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Speaker 1: and twinkling stars appeared in the sky. The captain suggested
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Speaker 1: Theodore go to sleep in the hammock below deck. With
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Speaker 1: a little bit of difficulty, Theodore climbed into the hammock.
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Speaker 1: He didn't think he'd fall asleep, but the gentle rocking
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Speaker 1: of the ship and the distant voice of the singing
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Speaker 1: walrus had a soothing effect on him. He fell into
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Speaker 1: a deep slumber. When he awoke, a sunbeam was streaming
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Speaker 1: through a porthole and covering Theodore in its warming light.
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Speaker 1: Theodore rolled out of the hammock and went in search
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Speaker 1: of the captain. The captain was still steering the ship.
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Speaker 1: He gave Theodore a cheery welcome before telling him the
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Speaker 1: island he was looking for was straight ahead. The captain
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Speaker 1: sailed as close to the island as he could. He
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Speaker 1: wished Theodore good luck before telling him to jump overboard
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Speaker 1: and swim to the island. He wished Theodore good luck
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Speaker 1: before telling him to jump overboard and swim to the island,
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Speaker 1: making sure the map stayed dry. Theodore set off swimming.
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Speaker 1: As he got closer to the island, he saw a
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Speaker 1: group of smiling lemurs waving to him. Theodore reached the
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Speaker 1: shore and was soon surrounded by the happy creatures, who
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Speaker 1: seemed delighted to see him, with huge smiles on their
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Speaker 1: little faces. The lemurs waited for Theodore to speak. He
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Speaker 1: told them about his quest. He showed them the treasure
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Speaker 1: map and pointed to their island. He asked them if
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Speaker 1: there was any treasure on the island that his king
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Speaker 1: might like. The lemurs never stopped smiling as they discussed
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Speaker 1: the matter between themselves. They concluded the treasure must be
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Speaker 1: the everlasting pomegranate, which was located on the highest branch
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Speaker 1: of the tallest tree. The lemurs said no one had
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Speaker 1: ever been brave enough to climb that high, and if
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Speaker 1: Theodore made it up the tree and picked the fruit,
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Speaker 1: he was welcome to keep it. When Theodore asked why
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Speaker 1: the pomegranate was so valuable, an old lemaur said, the
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Speaker 1: legend says, the everlasting pomegranate makes the most delicious pies
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Speaker 1: a creature could ever hope to be. And what's more,
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Speaker 1: the fruit continually renews itself over and over again, like magic.
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Speaker 1: You can eat as much as you like, and you
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Speaker 1: will never run out of it. Theodore thought the everlasting
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Speaker 1: pomegranate sounded like something the king of the jungle would like,
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Speaker 1: so he asked the lemurs to take him to the tree.
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Speaker 1: Once there, Theodore climbed the tree and located the orange
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Speaker 1: skinned fruit. It was enormous, and it was with some
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Speaker 1: difficulty that he plucked it from the branch and carried
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Speaker 1: it back to the waiting lemas. The lemurs gazed at
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Speaker 1: the fruit in silent wonder, their smiles growing wider by
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Speaker 1: the second. Theodore gave the pomegranate to the nearest leama
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Speaker 1: so that it could be passed around. The precious fruit
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Speaker 1: was moved silently from poor to poor until it came
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Speaker 1: back to Theodore. One of the lemurs said to him,
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Speaker 1: he must take this back to your king. He will
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Speaker 1: be most impressed. Tell him he should make a pie
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Speaker 1: with it. Perhaps you could return here one day and
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Speaker 1: let us know if the king enjoyed the pie. Theodore
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Speaker 1: looked at their friendly faces. They hadn't stopped smiling from
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Speaker 1: the moment he had first seen them. He made a decision, said,
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Speaker 1: you must keep this fruit. It belongs to you and
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Speaker 1: this island. The lemurs shook their heads, but Theodore insisted,
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Speaker 1: and when he started to say he should leave, they
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Speaker 1: asked him to stay for pomegranate pie. It was an
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Speaker 1: offer Theodore couldn't refuse. Theodore chatted to the lemurs while
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Speaker 1: the pie was being made. It took hours, but it
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Speaker 1: was worth the weight because the pomegranate pie was utterly delicious.
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Speaker 1: Every bite melted in Theodore's mouth. The sky turned darker,
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Speaker 1: and Theodore said he should be leaving. He glanced towards
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Speaker 1: the sea, and he wondered how he was going to
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Speaker 1: travel to the next island. The Leamas noticed his dismay
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Speaker 1: and invited him to stay for the night. They said
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Speaker 1: a friend of theirs would take him onto the next
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Speaker 1: part of his journey in the morning. Again, it was
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Speaker 1: an offer Theodore couldn't refuse. The Leamas made a bed
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Speaker 1: of palm leaves for him to rest on. He lay
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Speaker 1: down and looked up at the moon. For a moment,
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Speaker 1: he wondered if his family were looking at the moon too.
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Speaker 1: He hoped his mum wasn't worrying too much about him.
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Speaker 1: The Leamas settled down nearby and began to sing a
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Speaker 1: soft lullaby. Even though Theodore couldn't see their face, he
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Speaker 1: knew they were smiling. The thought made him smile too.
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Speaker 1: The sound of the sea moving back and forth along
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Speaker 1: the shore sent feelings of comfort over his little monkey body.
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Speaker 1: Theodore fell asleep with a smile still on his face.
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Speaker 1: Theodore woke up bright and early the next morning. After
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Speaker 1: consulting the treasure map, he saw his next port of
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Speaker 1: cool was a place named the Isle of Quiet Chestnut Trees.
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Speaker 1: Theodore asked the Leamas if they knew where it was.
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Speaker 1: They pointed to the sea and said their friend was
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Speaker 1: waiting for him, and he might know where the island was.
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Speaker 1: Theodore looked at where they were pointing. He saw a
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Speaker 1: small island, which he hadn't noticed before. When the island
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Speaker 1: raised its head and smiled over at Theodore, he realized
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Speaker 1: it wasn't an island at all. It was a giant
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Speaker 1: sea turtle, and it was moving closer to the shore.
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Speaker 1: The turtle reached the sand and told him to climb
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Speaker 1: aboard his shell. Before he left the island, the leamas
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Speaker 1: gave Theodore a slice of pomegranate pie wrapped in a leaf.
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Speaker 1: As the monkey and turtle moved away from the Island
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Speaker 1: of a Thousand Smiles, Theodore kept waving to the limas
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Speaker 1: until he couldn't see them any longer. The turtle headed
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Speaker 1: towards the Isle of Quiet Chestnut Trees. When Theodore asked
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Speaker 1: him if there was any treasure on the island, the
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Speaker 1: turtle said he should talk to the silent sycamore. Theodore
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Speaker 1: wasn't sure how he could talk to a tree who
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Speaker 1: was silent, but he kept that thought to himself. Some
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Speaker 1: time later they reached the Aisle of Quiet Chestnut Trees.
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Speaker 1: The sea turtle took Theodore to the beach and lowered
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Speaker 1: his back to allow Theodore to slide off with a
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Speaker 1: wave of his enormous flipper. The turtle turned around and
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Speaker 1: sunk beneath the waves. Theodore looked at his map. There
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Speaker 1: was no mention of a sycamore tree, but he would
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Speaker 1: do his best to find it. He set off through
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Speaker 1: the chestnut tree. Their leaves rustled as if they were
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Speaker 1: whispering to each other. He stopped when he came to
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Speaker 1: the last of the chestnut trees. He stared out at
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Speaker 1: a field in front of him and spotted something in
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Speaker 1: the distance. It looked like a tree of some sort.
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Speaker 1: Theodore set off walking. As he got closer to the tree,
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Speaker 1: he saw it was a solitary sycamore tree. Remembering the
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Speaker 1: sea turtle's words, when Theodore reached the tree, he began
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Speaker 1: to talk to it. He told the tree about his
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Speaker 1: quest and the happy lemurs. He soon fell silent, feeling
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Speaker 1: a little foolish because he was talking to a tree.
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Speaker 1: A deep voice came from within the tree. You are
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Speaker 1: having quite the adventure, little monkey. It has been a
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Speaker 1: long time since anyone has spoken to me. Would you
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Speaker 1: mind talking some more? Please tell me all about yourself
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Speaker 1: Theodore told the tree about his family and all the
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Speaker 1: animals who lived in the jungle. The tree asked him
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Speaker 1: questions now and again. When Theodore had finished talking, he
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Speaker 1: asked the tree why he was out here on his
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Speaker 1: own alas the farmer who planted me here moved away
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Speaker 1: from the island before he could plant any more sycamores.
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Speaker 1: A thought came to Theodore, and he asked, do you
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Speaker 1: know if the farmer left any sycamore seeds behind? The
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Speaker 1: tree didn't, so Theodore decided to explore the island. It
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Speaker 1: took him a while, but he finally came across a
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Speaker 1: small shed. Inside he found a bag of sycamore seeds.
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Speaker 1: Theodore wasn't sure if the seeds would be any good,
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Speaker 1: but he took them anyway. He went back to the
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Speaker 1: tree and showed him the seeds. Next, the monkey planted
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Speaker 1: them around the field. He collected some water from a stream,
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Speaker 1: and he gave the seeds a good watering. Night fell.
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Speaker 1: In his deep voice, the sycamore tree sang a soothing
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Speaker 1: lullaby to the seeds. The sound of the tree's voice
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Speaker 1: made Theodore fall asleep too. Theodore stayed on the island
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Speaker 1: for a few days, he watered the seeds every day
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Speaker 1: and chatted with the tree. The slice of everlasting pomegranate
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Speaker 1: pie was more than enough food for the little monkey.
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Speaker 1: Before too long, the green shoots of many trees began
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Speaker 1: to show. The sycamore tree said to Theodore, thank you
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Speaker 1: for planting these new trees. I shall soon have plenty
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Speaker 1: of company. Now it's time for you to continue you
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Speaker 1: on your journey. The giant sea turtle was waiting by
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Speaker 1: the shore to take Theodore away. As they set off,
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Speaker 1: Theodore realized he hadn't looked for any treasure on the island,
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Speaker 1: but somehow it didn't seem important anymore. The next island
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Speaker 1: Theodore visited was inhabited by bears who were no higher
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Speaker 1: than Theodore's knees. When he asked them if there was
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Speaker 1: any treasure on the island, they took him to a
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Speaker 1: cave and told him about a rainbow crystal which was
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Speaker 1: tucked away down a tunnel. The bears said no one
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Speaker 1: was brave enough to go into the tunnel, but if
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Speaker 1: Theodore had the courage to do so, he could keep
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Speaker 1: the gem. Their looks were so hopeful that Theodore agreed
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Speaker 1: to look for the gem. Immediately. It didn't take him
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Speaker 1: long to find the beautiful item. When he showed the
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Speaker 1: crystal to the bears, their faces were full of delight
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Speaker 1: and wonder. One of them told Theodore about the legend
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Speaker 1: of the rainbow crystal, and if it was placed in
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Speaker 1: a certain tree just before the moon rose, the moon
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Speaker 1: would shine on the gem, casting thousands of rainbow colored
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Speaker 1: moonbeams across the sand. A thought came to Theodore. With
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Speaker 1: help from the bears, he found the right tree, climbed it,
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Speaker 1: and placed the gem in the correct place. While waiting
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Speaker 1: for the moon to appear, he shared his never ending
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Speaker 1: pomegranite pie with the bears, who agreed it was the
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Speaker 1: most delicious pie they had ever eaten. Not long after
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Speaker 1: the moon had appeared, its light hit the rainbow crystal,
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Speaker 1: sending colored beams of many hues cascading across the sands
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Speaker 1: and out over the sea. Theodore and the bears lay
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Speaker 1: on the sand and let the magical sight of the
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Speaker 1: dancing moonbeams send them to sleep. Theodore visited more islands
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Speaker 1: before finally returning home. He made many friends along the way.
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Speaker 1: The animals of the jungle were waiting for him, along
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Speaker 1: with the king. When the king asked him where his
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Speaker 1: treasure was, Theodore held his empty hands out and said
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Speaker 1: he didn't have any. The King looked into Theodore's eyes
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Speaker 1: and asked him to think again. Theodore did. Then he said,
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Speaker 1: I discovered the journey is the best part of any adventure. Also,
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Speaker 1: I'm braver than I thought, and making friends is more
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Speaker 1: valuable than any treasure. The King of the Jungle smiled. Indeed,
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Speaker 1: friends are the real treasure. You have been successful in
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Speaker 1: your quest, little monkey, And with those wise words, the
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Speaker 1: brave little Monkey returned home with his family. He fell
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Speaker 1: asleep in familiar surroundings, which now seemed more precious to
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Speaker 1: him than ever before.