In tonight's story, we visit the Sleepy Forest hospital, a.k.a the Boo Boo Zoo, where a couple of animals who would usually be awake when the other was sleeping, and sleeping when the other was awake, began a friendship that would change their sleeping habits forever. Relax, get sleepy, and let’s begin!
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Speaker 1: exactly what I mean. And if I'm wrong and you
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Speaker 1: when you first heard it and who told it to you.
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty confident you'll be able to remember because it's
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Speaker 1: so unusual and memorable. Anyway, more of that in a minute. First,
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Speaker 1: please jump into bed if you aren't there already, and
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Speaker 1: get thinking about relaxing. Just relaxing, relaxing your legs and
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Speaker 1: shoulders and arms and back and well everywhere. Really. Just
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Speaker 1: breathe and relax. Breathe and relax. There we go. You
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Speaker 1: keep breathing and relaxing, And I'm going to start this
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Speaker 1: lovely tale. It's set in a hospital in sleepy forest
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Speaker 1: and it's called the Boo Boo Zoo. There are a
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Speaker 1: couple of animals in there who would usually be awake
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Speaker 1: when the other one was sleeping, and sleeping when the
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Speaker 1: other one was awake, and they've begun a friendship that
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Speaker 1: would change their sleeping habits forever. This is Cyrill and
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Speaker 1: Blaze and the Boo Boo Zoo by Jane Thomas. Have
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Speaker 1: you ever noticed that some words are soft and smooth,
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Speaker 1: words like billowing and mellow or moonlight and eyed it down.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if you know what the words mean,
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Speaker 1: it's just that they sound gentle when you hear them.
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Speaker 1: Other words come with a little bit of magic just
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Speaker 1: by saying them. Words like twilight and enchanted or stargazing
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Speaker 1: and milky way they send our minds dancing in new directions,
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Speaker 1: making us remember the beauty of the stars in the
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Speaker 1: sky and the soft glow of a full moon rising
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Speaker 1: slowly above a sleeping world. And there are other words
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Speaker 1: that sound horrible and awkward and sort of out of place,
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Speaker 1: as if their meaning was mixed up with that of
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Speaker 1: another word, And all the dictionaries in the world are
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Speaker 1: filled with mistakes. This story is about one of those words.
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Speaker 1: Only it's such a terrible word. They We're only going
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Speaker 1: to say it just the once to get it out
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Speaker 1: of the way. The meaning of it is extraordinarily beautiful,
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Speaker 1: and that's what makes it such a difficult word to like.
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Speaker 1: I'll try and explain. Did you know that artists have
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Speaker 1: a golden hour? The golden hour comes at both ends
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Speaker 1: of the day, during those moments of dusk and dawn,
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Speaker 1: when the sun is casting a soft light across the world.
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Speaker 1: The golden hour is when everything is at its most beautiful,
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Speaker 1: when the ferns have started unfurling, in the morning, when
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Speaker 1: the dew still glistens on the grass, and in the evening,
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Speaker 1: when the birds know it's time to start returning to
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Speaker 1: their nests. Some animals come out at night, and other
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Speaker 1: animals come out during the day, and yet more animals
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Speaker 1: emerge during these golden hours when the world is dressed
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Speaker 1: in those soft lights of dusk and dawn. And do
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Speaker 1: you know what word is given to these animals. Crepuscular. There,
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Speaker 1: I've said it, that horrible sounding word that doesn't quite
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Speaker 1: belong with its meaning. I'll say it one more time
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Speaker 1: so you can be sure you've heard it, and then
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Speaker 1: I'll never mention it again. Crepuscular. And this is the
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Speaker 1: story of how some animals came to love the hours
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Speaker 1: of twilight, of dusk and dawn, and how they chose
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Speaker 1: to live their lives in the golden hours. The story
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Speaker 1: begins in a hospital set deep in the heart of
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Speaker 1: sleepy forest. It's a beautiful cottage hospital with roses and
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Speaker 1: jasmine outside all the windows, so their scent paws into
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Speaker 1: the rooms and instantly makes everyone within feel a little
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Speaker 1: bit better. All sorts of animals come here to be
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Speaker 1: treated by the wise creatures who work day and night
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Speaker 1: to get them back on their feet. One day, a
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Speaker 1: fox injured his front leg. It was entirely his own fault.
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Speaker 1: He was more than happy to admit that, for he
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Speaker 1: had just been showing off trying to jump from the
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Speaker 1: highest boulder he could only he had climbed too high
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Speaker 1: and landed awkwardly, twisting his leg as his paws met
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Speaker 1: the ground. Who was put in a bed by the
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Speaker 1: window in a long room filled with beds that were
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Speaker 1: in turn filled with different animals. The fox felt very
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Speaker 1: sorry for himself. Indeed, because he was a young fox
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Speaker 1: who loved being outside and playing with his family and friends,
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Speaker 1: he longed to be back in the woods, leaping over
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Speaker 1: fallen trees and hiding in the long grasses. One of
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Speaker 1: his favorite ways to pass a few hours was to
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Speaker 1: find a feather and see how long he could keep
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Speaker 1: it from falling to the ground. He would balance the
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Speaker 1: feather on his nose and push it up into the air,
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Speaker 1: and tap it with his tail to keep it spinning
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Speaker 1: in the air, or pat it with his paw to
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Speaker 1: send it flying up again. The fox could lie on
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Speaker 1: his back and dabble the feather back and forth between
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Speaker 1: his front two paws for longer than any other fox,
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Speaker 1: he knew. Every time he looked at his leg wrapped
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Speaker 1: in a solid cart of gleaming white plaster, he sighed
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Speaker 1: it felt as if he'd been in hospital forever, waiting
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Speaker 1: for his bones to knit themselves back together. The fox
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Speaker 1: had been in the hospital a whole week when the
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Speaker 1: squirrel was installed in the bed opposite. The squirrel had
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Speaker 1: injured one of his arms, and he too was feeling
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Speaker 1: very sorry for himself. In fact, the squirrel felt so
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Speaker 1: sorry for himself that he didn't even notice the fox
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Speaker 1: in the bed across the room. Instead, he just turned
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Speaker 1: his back to the room, his face to the wall,
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Speaker 1: and stared at a mark on the paintwork. It took
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Speaker 1: a hospital food disaster to get them talking. The fox
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Speaker 1: received his bowl of something alarming looking. The chef was
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Speaker 1: normally outstanding and came up with some wonderful concoctions that
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Speaker 1: made the days that little bit more interesting. But this
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Speaker 1: time he'd gone too far. What was it? On the
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Speaker 1: plate outside? Right now? Were the juiciest berries of the
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Speaker 1: year just waiting to be eaten by him? He thought
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Speaker 1: of all the plump blackberries with their deep purple shine
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Speaker 1: pouring from the hedgerows. He thought of the blueberries, their
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Speaker 1: little dusky cases filled to bursting with juice, the pink
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Speaker 1: cut the raspberries, the red of the strawberries, or the
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Speaker 1: hawthorn bushes or the blackthorn bushes. The fox thought of
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Speaker 1: a whole rainbow of colors that he could and should
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Speaker 1: be eating, and he pushed the bowl of gray stodge away.
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Speaker 1: The squirrel was presented with the same bowl of something
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Speaker 1: that looked like nothing he'd ever seen before. It was
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Speaker 1: as if the chef had decided to take a soup
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Speaker 1: for starter, a sandwich for the main course, and an
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Speaker 1: enormous blumonge for the dessert, and poured them all into
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Speaker 1: the same single bowl. The nurse confirmed his suspicions. He's
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Speaker 1: called it the triple triumph, she said, holding back a giggle.
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Speaker 1: Good luck. The squirrel thought of all the nuts he
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Speaker 1: could be gathering right now, piling into holes in the ground,
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Speaker 1: and storing them away for the long winter months. He
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Speaker 1: thought of the delicious, crisp bite of an acorn, and
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Speaker 1: that feeling of finding a shining sweet chestnut that glistened
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Speaker 1: and gleamed with promise. He thought of all the hazel
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Speaker 1: nuts and beech nuts and walnuts his friends and family
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Speaker 1: would be finding right at that very moment, And he
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Speaker 1: groaned to himself as he looked at the something gray
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Speaker 1: and studgy. He too, pushed the bowl away. The hedgehog nurse,
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Speaker 1: who came by for the evening, tutted at both the
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Speaker 1: fox and the squirrel as she picked up their untouched
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Speaker 1: bowls of food. Well, aren't you a pair, she said, kindly,
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Speaker 1: smiling at them both. I'll see if I can find
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Speaker 1: you something else, she whispered, bustling away with her trolley
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Speaker 1: of bowls and spoons and cups and trays, with a
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Speaker 1: wink in her eye and a skip in her step.
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Speaker 1: The fox looked across at the squirrel, and for the
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Speaker 1: first time, the squirrel looked across at the fox. Do
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Speaker 1: you think she'll find something, asked the fox. The squirrel shrugged.
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Speaker 1: Imagine if she found some berries, said the fox his lips.
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Speaker 1: The squirrel sat up a little. Oh, imagine if she
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Speaker 1: found some nuts, said the fox, giving the squirrel a
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Speaker 1: knowing look. The squirrel sat bolt upright and looked intently
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Speaker 1: at the fox. Do you think she might he asked, Well,
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Speaker 1: it will either be nuts and berries, or I reckon,
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Speaker 1: we'll get the same weird thing back with a blob
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Speaker 1: of jam in the middle. My bet is on the jam.
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Speaker 1: The fox said it in such a way that the
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Speaker 1: squirrel couldn't help but laugh. He waved shyly across the
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Speaker 1: space between the beds. I'm Cyril, he said, and then
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Speaker 1: for something else to say, pointed to his bright white
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Speaker 1: arm and said broken arm, my fault. And I'm Blaze,
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Speaker 1: said the fox. Pleased to meet you. He raised his
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Speaker 1: bandaged leg. Broken leg, definitely my fault. Cyril and Blaze
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Speaker 1: laughed at that, and by the time the hedgehog returned
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Speaker 1: with two bowls of triple Triumph, generously covered in a
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Speaker 1: layer of thick raspberry jam that she hoped would work
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Speaker 1: as an adequate disguise, the two were so deep in
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Speaker 1: conversation they barely noticed what was on their spoons as
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Speaker 1: they ate and talked, ate and talked. The hedgehog smiled
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Speaker 1: to herself as she trotted away, relieved that the two
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Speaker 1: creatures had at last stopped feeling sorry for themselves and
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Speaker 1: had remembered there was more to life than a broken
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Speaker 1: arm or leg. It turned out that Cyril and Blaze
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Speaker 1: lived very close to each other in Sleepy Forest, but
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Speaker 1: of course they had never met before because Cyril spent
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Speaker 1: his nights sleeping and his days having fun, whereas Black
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Speaker 1: spent his days sleeping and his nights out, enjoying himself.
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Speaker 1: By the time the head nurse, a very gentle rabbit
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Speaker 1: named Sister Lola, came to do the final rounds for
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Speaker 1: the day and read the room full of young animals
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Speaker 1: a bedtime story. Cyril and Blaze were jumping from bed
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Speaker 1: to bed and seeing who dared jump the highest. Back
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Speaker 1: in your beds, Sister Lola said, only a little bit sternly,
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Speaker 1: because she was so pleased to see that they had
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Speaker 1: last made friends. Did you learn nothing from breaking your
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Speaker 1: arm and your leg? Already? Come back in your beds,
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Speaker 1: she smiled as she tucked them into their crisp white
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Speaker 1: sheets and turned off the bedside lamps. And when she'd
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Speaker 1: done this for all the animals in the room, she
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Speaker 1: took up her place on the rocking chair right in
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Speaker 1: the middle and told them a wonderful, magical story all
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Speaker 1: about how the stars found their places in the sky,
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Speaker 1: and how they learned to sparkle and shimmer to light
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Speaker 1: the way for anyone venturing out on even the darkest night.
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Speaker 1: Cyril and Blaze soon learned to spread a little chaos
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Speaker 1: in the hospital, playing hide and seek and climbing up curtains,
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Speaker 1: and sitting with their feet hanging over the edge of
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Speaker 1: window ledges. They looked out at the hedgerows and the
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Speaker 1: trees and longed to be allowed to go back into
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Speaker 1: the wild. Just look at those berries, Blaze said, miserably
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Speaker 1: one day. They're perfect for eating right now, and I
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Speaker 1: can't get to them. Cyril looked at where Blaze had
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Speaker 1: pointed and saw the shining blackberries, purple and plump. He
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Speaker 1: licked his lips. He could almost taste the sweet juice
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Speaker 1: and feel the purple running down his face, and hear
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Speaker 1: his mother tutting at his purple stained paws. Wait there,
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Speaker 1: said Cyril, and Blaze watched as the squirrel leapt from
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Speaker 1: windowsill to window sill, landing with his two good legs
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Speaker 1: and his one good arm, and finally making it all
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Speaker 1: the way to the ground. Cyril looked up at Blaze
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Speaker 1: and gave him a wave, and the fox waved cautiously back,
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Speaker 1: glancing over his shoulder to check that neither the hedgehog
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Speaker 1: nor the rabbit were watching the room and would see
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Speaker 1: that Cyril was missing. Cyril hopped awkwardly over to the hedgerow,
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Speaker 1: feeling strange without the use of one of his arms
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Speaker 1: and feeling as if he was going in something of
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Speaker 1: a zigzag fashion. But then there he was, right at
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Speaker 1: the base of the BlackBerry book bush, and there were
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Speaker 1: the blackberries, just waiting to be picked and eaten. He
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Speaker 1: reached up and pulled one with his teeth, pushing it
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Speaker 1: to the side of his mouth, before doing the same
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Speaker 1: again and again and again until he had five whole
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Speaker 1: blackberries stuffed into his mouth. Cyril knew that if he
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Speaker 1: bit into the berries, he would be the one who
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Speaker 1: would taste them and feel the juice dribble down his chin.
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Speaker 1: But no, these were for Blaze, and he made his
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Speaker 1: way back to the window where his friend still sat,
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Speaker 1: swinging his legs, hopping up the wall, and shimmying the
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Speaker 1: final few inches along the rose bush. Then, one by
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Speaker 1: one he carefully popped the blackberries onto the ledge, finishing
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Speaker 1: with a beaming smile as he presented them to Blaze.
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Speaker 1: With the first berry he ate, Blaze felt himself come
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Speaker 1: back to life a little more. By the time he'd
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Speaker 1: had three berries, the brush on his tail was waving
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Speaker 1: slowly back and forth, swishing through the air, and when
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Speaker 1: he'd finished all five berries, licking the last of the
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Speaker 1: juice from his lips. He was in heaven once more,
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Speaker 1: asked Cyril, and Blaze nodded greedily, watching as his friend
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Speaker 1: once more let down the window sills and wabbled awkwardly
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Speaker 1: across the garden towards the hedgerow. The hedgehog wondered why
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Speaker 1: they were suddenly much happier to be eating the gray
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Speaker 1: stodgs she served up each evening, but she put it
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Speaker 1: down to the power of friendship and the distraction each
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Speaker 1: animal offered the other. She felt a little sad that
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Speaker 1: they would soon leave the hospit and no doubt never
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Speaker 1: meet again. For the hedgehog knew that the fox had
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Speaker 1: only changed his ways for his time in her care,
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Speaker 1: and once back in the wild, he would sleep during
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Speaker 1: the day and forage at night. It seemed to her
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Speaker 1: such a shame that the squirrel and the fox could
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Speaker 1: never really be friends, and she delayed them leaving the
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Speaker 1: hospital as long as she could, finding excuses to keep
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Speaker 1: them back by a day here and a day there.
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Speaker 1: But finally there were no excuses left, and Cyril's bones
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Speaker 1: in his arm had knitted back together just as they
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Speaker 1: needed to, and Blaze's bones in his leg had done
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Speaker 1: the same, and it was time for them to leave.
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Speaker 1: They walked back towards their corner of Sleepy Forest in
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Speaker 1: a difficult silence. Because they both knew that this would
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Speaker 1: be the last time they would spend together, neither of
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Speaker 1: them knew how to say goodbye. Look, said Blaze, at last,
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Speaker 1: you brought me so many blackberries, and it was so
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Speaker 1: kind of you, and really, I want to do something
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Speaker 1: for you. It doesn't work that way, said Cyril. I
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Speaker 1: didn't do it so you would help me out. I
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Speaker 1: just wanted to get the berries to cheer you up.
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Speaker 1: It's o kay. Really. The two went back to walking
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Speaker 1: in silence, the fox thinking over the squirrel's words. Slowly,
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Speaker 1: an idea started to come to him. All that time
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Speaker 1: you've been in the hospital, Blaize said, you haven't been
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Speaker 1: able to gather nuts for the winter, have you. Cyril
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Speaker 1: supposed that he hadn't, but didn't say anything. So really
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Speaker 1: I could help you, couldn't I said Blaze. I could
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Speaker 1: help you dig holes and find nuts and bury them.
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Speaker 1: And with both of us working together, that would make
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Speaker 1: up for the lost time, wouldn't it. Cyril thought of
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Speaker 1: the long winter months he had a head and how
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Speaker 1: he'd miss having handfuls of nuts to snack on, colored
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Speaker 1: up by the fire. But you only come out at night,
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Speaker 1: and I only come out in the day, he said,
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Speaker 1: a little bit sadly, I wouldn't have where to find
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Speaker 1: the nuts you buried. The two fell into silence again.
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Speaker 1: Blaize played with an idea in his mind. What if
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Speaker 1: he said, slowly, what if we met at dusk and
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Speaker 1: dawn in the twilight. You would need to wake up
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Speaker 1: a little bit earlier, and I would need to go
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Speaker 1: to sleep a little bit later. But we could make
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Speaker 1: it work. Don't you think you'd do that for me,
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Speaker 1: said Cyril. Blaze threw back his head and laughed that
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Speaker 1: and a whole lot more. And there and then the
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Speaker 1: animals agreed that they would meet beneath the oak tree
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Speaker 1: in those moments before the sun has come over the horizon,
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Speaker 1: before the full strength of its beams have reached into
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Speaker 1: the day, and together they would find the nuts for
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Speaker 1: Cyril and bury them in places he could remember, and
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Speaker 1: then they would meet again, just as the sun started
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Speaker 1: to slip away, and the sky was a mass of
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Speaker 1: purples and pinks and the soft, soft colors of dusk.
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Speaker 1: When a few eager stars are already finding their places
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Speaker 1: in the sky, and just as the birds head home
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Speaker 1: to their nests. And that is the story, which is,
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Speaker 1: as with most things in the world, as true as
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Speaker 1: you would like it to be, of how the foxes
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Speaker 1: and the squirrels came to be the creatures that live
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Speaker 1: most of their lives during the golden hours, when the
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Speaker 1: artists pour colors onto their canvases and paint the most
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Speaker 1: beautiful pictures that can ever be painted, When the murmurations
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Speaker 1: of starlings fill the sky in black, swooping curves that
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Speaker 1: rise and fall and smooth this way and that as
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Speaker 1: waves upon the shore, When the dew still glistens on
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Speaker 1: the grass and makes the berries and the flowers shine,
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Speaker 1: when the world is filled with magic and possibility, and
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Speaker 1: the willow, the wisps, and the fireflies danced everywhere to