In tonight's story, we’re going to go back in time with Potato and Beans, travelling to the wild west, when there were cowboys roaming the desert, and their diner was a saloon, owned by two cats by the names of Chilli and Biscuit. Relax, get sleepy, and let’s begin!
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Speaker 1: I know hundreds of you will be delighted to hear
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Speaker 1: that Susannah has written another story featuring your two favorite felines. Yep,
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Speaker 1: the roller skating diner. Cats, Potato and Beans are back,
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Speaker 1: and tonight we're going to head back in time with them.
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Speaker 1: We're soon going to head off on a time traveling
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Speaker 1: and adventure to the wild West when there were cowboys
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Speaker 1: roaming the desert and their diner was a saloon owned
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Speaker 1: by two cats by the names of Chili and Biscuit. Okay,
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Speaker 1: let's get ready for this big trip. And as ever,
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Speaker 1: if you fall asleep, don't worry. You can always listen
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Speaker 1: again tomorrow. So take a deep breath in and importantly
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Speaker 1: lead it out. Close your eyes and imagine a shimmering,
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Speaker 1: hot sunny day in the middle of nowhere. There are
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Speaker 1: wide open skies and not much more than some rocks,
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Speaker 1: and a road snaking off into the distance. Oh, and
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Speaker 1: a little building with a tall lit up sign outside it.
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Speaker 1: This is Potato and Beans in the Wild Wild West
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Speaker 1: by Susannah mcgloughlin. One hot sunny day in the middle
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Speaker 1: of nowhere, Potato and Beans were wiping down tables, pouring coffee,
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Speaker 1: an expertly carrying wobbly trays stacked high with milkshakes, never
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Speaker 1: spilling a thing. Despite their roller scapes. They had been
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Speaker 1: a busy morning, and now they were enjoying the relative
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Speaker 1: quiet of brunch time, that sleepy moment in between breakfast
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Speaker 1: and lunch, where there were a few customers eating eggs
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Speaker 1: and reading papers, but no cues snaking from the counter
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Speaker 1: or plates of food piling up at the service window.
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Speaker 1: Potato and Beans were enjoying the music on the radio
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Speaker 1: and cleaning the coffee machine with little raggedy toothbrushes. When
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Speaker 1: the diner door swung open and then clicked to a close,
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Speaker 1: the familiar slow click clack of cowboy boots announced a
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Speaker 1: visitor's arrival. From the door over to the counter, and
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Speaker 1: a friendly southern drawl wished the cats a good morning.
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Speaker 1: Potato and Beans put down their brushes and gave warm hellos,
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Speaker 1: turning to see the face of a gentleman they knew well. Oh,
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cassidy, a human who lived on a ranch overlooking
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Speaker 1: the canyon, came to the diner once in a while
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Speaker 1: to chat with the regulars about the good old days,
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Speaker 1: eating cheese and grits and bowls of chili. Dallas always
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Speaker 1: had a hat on his head and boots on his feet,
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Speaker 1: and a shirt embroidered with stars tucked into his blue
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Speaker 1: jeans because Dallas was a cowboy. Other than his trips
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Speaker 1: to the diner, he spent his days on the open plains,
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Speaker 1: riding horses and herding his cows, and going on adventures
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Speaker 1: into the mountains and across the cactus studded desert. Potato
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Speaker 1: and Beans thought he was really cool and perhaps a
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Speaker 1: little magical. He seemed to have walked out of a
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Speaker 1: history book. After all, there weren't many cowboys like him
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Speaker 1: left in these parts, and he was the only person
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Speaker 1: to park a horse in the parking lot rather than
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Speaker 1: a car. Potato and Beans waved to Dallas. His horse,
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Speaker 1: now missus Pig, was already tending to him, putting down.
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Speaker 1: A large bucket of porridge, and a bowl of apple
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Speaker 1: was at his feet. Dallas took his place on one
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Speaker 1: of the stools at the counter and ordered a milkshake.
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Speaker 1: As Beans began whizzing one up in the blender, Potato
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Speaker 1: chatted with Dallas. It's hot today, isn't it, Dallas, she said,
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Speaker 1: fanning herself with the menu. Dallas nodded, I haven't known
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Speaker 1: as some of this hot since eighteen seventy three. Potato
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Speaker 1: murmured her agreement. Dallas always said peculiar things like this,
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Speaker 1: but the cats for the most part ignored them, thinking
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Speaker 1: it was just his way of joking. He was old, yes,
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Speaker 1: but he couldn't be one hundred and fifty. I bet
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Speaker 1: they didn't have air conditioning in eighteen seventy three, Potato said.
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Speaker 1: Dallas shook his head. Nope, he said, the dinah was
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Speaker 1: insufferable in the summer. Potato looked at him quizzically. Which dinah,
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Speaker 1: she asked, There is one, Dallas said, although it wasn't
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Speaker 1: called a diner then it was called a saloon. An
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Speaker 1: it wasn't in the middle of nowhere. There was a
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Speaker 1: little town here back then home the cowboys and gold miners.
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Speaker 1: Now people live all the way out in the city,
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Speaker 1: but the diner is still here. Beans put Dallas's milkshake
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Speaker 1: down on the counter and asked, is that really true.
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Speaker 1: Dallas nodded, I've seen it, he said. Beans laughed. He
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Speaker 1: was just joking again. No, really, Dallas said, I can
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Speaker 1: and show you. Potato and Beans looked at one another.
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Speaker 1: Beans had one eyebrow raised in an as if sort
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Speaker 1: of expression. Potato, on the other hand, had a look
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Speaker 1: of awe on her fluffy little face. It seemed she
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Speaker 1: believed every word. Go on. Then Bean said, show us.
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Speaker 1: Dallas put his foot up on his neighboring stool and
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Speaker 1: took the silver star shaped spur on the back of
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Speaker 1: his cowboy boot in his fingers. He turned it anticlockwise once,
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Speaker 1: twice three times. As the spur turned, the diner began
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Speaker 1: to shimmer, as if the air around them was filled
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Speaker 1: with magic. Then it began to swirl, and the customers
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Speaker 1: began to move backwards, as if they were on a
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Speaker 1: rewinding video. Then everything was a blur apart from the
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Speaker 1: three of them, until with a pop, they found themselves
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Speaker 1: standing in the diner once more, except it wasn't their diner,
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Speaker 1: with its checkered floor and leathered booths and neon signs.
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Speaker 1: It was their diner, but it wasn't too. The walls
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Speaker 1: and floor were made of wood. For one, the glass
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Speaker 1: door was replaced with swinging gates, and the tables around
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Speaker 1: them were filled with laughing, chatting animals in the strangest
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Speaker 1: old timey dress. Most people were dressed like Dallas in
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Speaker 1: full cowboy gear, from some of the women who were
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Speaker 1: wearing big skirts and feathered hats, and some townsfolk wearing
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Speaker 1: old fashioned suits. Behind the counter, now a wooden bar
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Speaker 1: covered in old metal bowls and plates and glasses that
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Speaker 1: looked like the ones Beans's grandma had in her antique's
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Speaker 1: cabinet were two cats who looked not so different to them,
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Speaker 1: apart from their frilly aprons and lack of roller skates.
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Speaker 1: The cats set their friendly helloes to Dallas in the
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Speaker 1: same drawling accent that he speaks in, before turning to
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Speaker 1: Potato and Beans. Why howdy, they said, Who are you?
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Speaker 1: And where did you get those most peculiar clothes? Beans
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Speaker 1: looked down at her stripey jumper apron and pink roller skates. Ah,
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Speaker 1: the future, I guess, she said. The two cats giggled, well, welcome,
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Speaker 1: weary time travelers to Biscuit and Chilly's saloon. Potato grinned
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Speaker 1: she felt like she was looking back in time at herself.
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Speaker 1: Beans's mouth was hanging open in awe. They took seats
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Speaker 1: at the counter, and Biscuit placed a tall glass of
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Speaker 1: creamy milk in front of each of them. Chili put
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Speaker 1: down plates of bread and cheese and fruit, which the
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Speaker 1: cats tucked into, whilst Dallas, Chilly and Biscuit chatted and
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Speaker 1: caught up. Potato and Beans looked around the saloon, pointing
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Speaker 1: things out to one another in whispered giggles. That boar
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Speaker 1: over there looks like missus Pig, Potato said, but she'd
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Speaker 1: never wear that frilly bonnet. There were groups of cows
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Speaker 1: playing cards and sheep singing songs, and a band of
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Speaker 1: dogs and raccoons in the corner played music on old instruments.
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Speaker 1: One strummed a banjo, one scraped up and down on
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Speaker 1: a washboard, and another blew into a clay jug. A
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Speaker 1: couple of mice were dancing in the small space in
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Speaker 1: front of the band, twirling one another around and jiggling
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Speaker 1: their feet. Soon Beans began to tune back into Dallice's conversation.
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Speaker 1: Chilly was telling him about a new bootique out on
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Speaker 1: Main Street. Main Street, Beans asked, where's that biscuit giggled, Why?
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Speaker 1: Just outside, Silly, she said, may be we should take
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Speaker 1: you shopping. Those wheeled boots look pretty fun, but they
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Speaker 1: won't help you out in the dusty desert. Potato and
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Speaker 1: Beans immediately said, yes please. If they were spending the
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Speaker 1: day in the wild West, they may as well look
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Speaker 1: the part. Once their milk had been drunk and nibbles
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Speaker 1: had been nibbled. Chili and Biscuit led Potato and Beans
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Speaker 1: out onto main street, leaving Dallas in charge of the saloon.
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Speaker 1: It was much brighter out on the street, and the
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Speaker 1: cats blinked as their eyes got accustomed to the change. Outside,
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Speaker 1: it was bustling in place of the long road that
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Speaker 1: crossed the empty plains. Outside Potato and Beans's diner was
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Speaker 1: a line of wooden buildings and a dusty street. The
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Speaker 1: air was golden, with desert dust being kicked up by
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Speaker 1: the big, shaggy horses that wished them a good afternoon
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Speaker 1: as they headed by. A grizzly bear in a bonnet
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Speaker 1: and long dress walked from one store to another, arm
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Speaker 1: in arm with a similarly dressed badger. A gopher in
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Speaker 1: a waistcoat saunted by looking at a pocket watch. Biscuit
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Speaker 1: and Chilly began giving their tour of the tiny town.
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Speaker 1: At the top was the general store, a small barn
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Speaker 1: like structure, outside of which a frog in dungarees was
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Speaker 1: swaying in a rocking chair, chewing on a piece of
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Speaker 1: wheat and reading an old, yellowed newspaper. Inside were wooden shelves,
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Speaker 1: stocked with bread and cheese and potatoes, ears of corn,
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Speaker 1: and packets of sugar and flour. Behind the desk, manned
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Speaker 1: by a smiling cow, were huge buckets of milk ready
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Speaker 1: to be ladled into glass bottles. Next there was a
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Speaker 1: hardware store owned by a horse in a suede waistcoat.
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Speaker 1: He sold saddles and harnesses, ropes, and all the bits
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Speaker 1: and bobs you might need around the ranch. There were
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Speaker 1: little boxes of mixed buttons and screws, and odd little
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Speaker 1: pieces of wood and metal whose functions weren't obvious. It
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Speaker 1: had everything a horse and cowboy duo would need here
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Speaker 1: in the wild wild West. The horse stacking the shells
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Speaker 1: greeted his own cowboy with a high five as he
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Speaker 1: entered the store and took his place counting coins at
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Speaker 1: the cash desk. Next there was a shop selling cowboy booze.
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Speaker 1: They were led inside. Biscuit called cooee, and a goat
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Speaker 1: appeared from a back room carrying crates of shoes and
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Speaker 1: polish and brushes. She called hello to the cats. Hey, chilly, hey, biscuit.
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Speaker 1: You don't need new boots already, do you? You girls
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Speaker 1: work too hard? The cats shook their heads. Your boots
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Speaker 1: are strong enough to last a lifetime, they told the goat,
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Speaker 1: introducing potato and beans and showing her their roller skates.
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Speaker 1: The Goat's eyes nearly popped out of her head when
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Speaker 1: she saw their wheeled shoes. Well, those are simply marvelous,
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Speaker 1: she said. I'll have to make some. They'll cause quite
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Speaker 1: the stir on the next line dancing a vent at
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Speaker 1: the barn. But they are hardly practical day to day
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Speaker 1: here in the desert. We'll have to get you some boots.
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Speaker 1: The goat introduced herself as Betsy and explain and she
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Speaker 1: was the best boot maker for hundreds and hundreds of miles.
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Speaker 1: In fact, she was the only boot maker for hundreds
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Speaker 1: of miles. But she truly was very good at it.
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Speaker 1: Betsy pulled the dust sheets from the shop shells, revealing
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Speaker 1: row after row of gleaming cowboy boots. They had them
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Speaker 1: in every size, shape and color. Biscuit and Chilli began
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Speaker 1: pulling pears from the shells for the cats to try.
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Speaker 1: They picked better than the cats could have picked themselves, somehow,
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Speaker 1: guessing their sizes and favorite colors. Potato and Beans poured
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Speaker 1: on each pair and strutted across the store in them,
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Speaker 1: showing them off on the catwalk. Finally they made their selections.
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Speaker 1: Beans went for a pale blue pair embroidered with spoons
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Speaker 1: and forks and milkshake glasses in gleaming white thread. Potatoes
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Speaker 1: were creamy white and decorated with brown thread in shapes
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Speaker 1: of stars and moons and clouds. She said the color
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Speaker 1: combination reminded her of hot chocolate and cream. Thanking Betsy
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Speaker 1: and their cowboy counterparts, Biscuit and Chilly. The cats walked
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Speaker 1: out into the street, strutting their stuff in their new shoes.
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Speaker 1: We are going over the street now, Chili said to
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Speaker 1: the hat sharp, if you don't want to burn your
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Speaker 1: ears in this sun. The group headed into the hat shop,
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Speaker 1: an elegant cream cabin with green painted shutters. They were
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Speaker 1: greeted by a whirlwind of a hare named Hattie, who
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Speaker 1: was picking out hats and putting them on their heads
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Speaker 1: before they could even introduce themselves, announcing that they looked darn,
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Speaker 1: root and toot. She immediately picked out a wide, sandy
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Speaker 1: colored cowboy hat for Beans, which Beans was ecstatic about,
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Speaker 1: but had picked a flowery bonnet for Potato. Potato eyed
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Speaker 1: Beans's hat. Jealously and politely declared that she wanted to
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Speaker 1: be a cowboy too. Hattie obliged and picked her out
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Speaker 1: a turquoise cowboy hat, tied with a string around the
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Speaker 1: chin and decorated with little gemstones. That's more like it,
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Speaker 1: Potato said, looking at her reflection approvingly. They paid for
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Speaker 1: their hats and headed back out onto main street. The
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Speaker 1: four cats strolled by the sheriff's office, where an opossum sheriff,
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Speaker 1: who looked suspiciously similar to the sheriff of Potato and
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Speaker 1: Beans knew well, was polishing his badge. They passed the
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Speaker 1: town hall and church, and a schoolhouse where a gaggle
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Speaker 1: of kittens and puppies and baby raccoons and badgers and
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Speaker 1: gophers were sitting on a carpet listening to the words
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Speaker 1: of their Mountain Lion teacher, mister Boone. At the end
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Speaker 1: of the street, between a shop full of dusty old
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Speaker 1: furniture and the dance hall are the stables where horses
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Speaker 1: are relaxing in the shade, chatting and playing games around
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Speaker 1: glasses of lemonade. You know what every cowboy needs, biscuit grins,
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Speaker 1: A trust is steed. You want to see if one
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Speaker 1: of the horses will take you on a ride. The
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Speaker 1: cat's nod. Chilli claps her paws. Let's go see, she says,
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Speaker 1: trotting over to the stable doors excitedly. A group of
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Speaker 1: horses wave them over as they arrive, greeting the cats
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Speaker 1: with friendly howdies. We would just hurry it out for
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Speaker 1: a ride, if you'd like to come along, said the
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Speaker 1: biggest horse, a silky chestnut color with a toothy smile.
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Speaker 1: The cats grinned and nodded. He rode with Biscuit, and
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Speaker 1: a slightly smaller cream colored horse rode with Chili. A friendly,
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Speaker 1: shiny maned pony named Peach rode with Potato, and a
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Speaker 1: splodgy gray horse named Bow took Beans. The cats took
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Speaker 1: a while getting their boots into the stirrups and hoisting
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Speaker 1: themselves up on the horse's back. They and the horses
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Speaker 1: were in fits of giggles. When it was Potato's turn,
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Speaker 1: she could hardly get herself off the ground. In the end,
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Speaker 1: Peach sunk to the floor so that Potato had less
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Speaker 1: distance to climb, and Beans pushed her on by the
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Speaker 1: When the cats were finally sitting in their saddles, the
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Speaker 1: four cowboys and steeds rode out into the desert. The
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Speaker 1: wind blew through their fur, and the cats meowed happily
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Speaker 1: as they headed out into the sunny desert, past cacti
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Speaker 1: and boulders, up hills and down into valleys. Before long,
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Speaker 1: they found themselves no longer in view of town. If
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Speaker 1: Potato and Beans didn't know they'd traveled back in time,
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Speaker 1: they'd have thought they were in the present day. Not
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Speaker 1: much had changed. The desert was as beautiful in the
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Speaker 1: past as it was in the future. Soon they came
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Speaker 1: up to the edge of a ranch where a cluster
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Speaker 1: of cows were laying in a field, enjoying the peace
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Speaker 1: and quiet during on wheat and chatting languidly with their friends.
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Speaker 1: Several of them waved a friendly hello in the cowboy
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Speaker 1: and horses direction. A group of young cows trotted over
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Speaker 1: to them, grinning excitedly. Do you guys want to play?
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Speaker 1: The youngest asked, who could play lassu? The horses nodded
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Speaker 1: their large heads. It seemed they played this often. Peach
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Speaker 1: called back to Potato and Beans, asking them if they
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Speaker 1: wanted to play. The cats said yes. They never turned
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Speaker 1: down an invitation to play Peach and Bow told them
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Speaker 1: the rules. They had to take the reeled up rope
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Speaker 1: from their saddle bag and tie it into a lassou.
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Speaker 1: Then the cows would run rampant and the cowboys would
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Speaker 1: ride the horses to try and catch them with the lasou.
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Speaker 1: Then'd swap and the cows would try lassoo the cowboys,
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Speaker 1: Potato and Beans giggled. This sounded fun. They prepared their lassoos,
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Speaker 1: tying them exactly how Biscuit and Chili showed them, and
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Speaker 1: waited for the game to begin. The cows finished their stretches,
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Speaker 1: and once everyone was ready, an old cow on the
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Speaker 1: sidelines counted them in three, two, one go. The cows
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Speaker 1: began running this way and that, weaving between rocks and
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Speaker 1: sprinting past the horses. The horses were hot on their tails,
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Speaker 1: switching direction just like that, tails swishing from side to side.
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Speaker 1: The cows weren't easy to catch. Potato and Beans looked
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Speaker 1: at each other, laughing, they were clinging onto the horses.
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Speaker 1: Is not to fall off, How could they lassoue? Biscuit
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Speaker 1: and Chili eventually caught their cows and helped Potato and
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Speaker 1: Beans chase theirs, thinking she was close enough to catch
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Speaker 1: her cow. Potato began to wave her lassoo around her
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Speaker 1: head again and again until she became completely tangled up
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Speaker 1: in it. Beans managed to throw hers and thought she'd
00:24:28
Speaker 1: caught her cow, only to see it caught around the
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Speaker 1: neck of a large prickly cactus. Eventually they stopped, and
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Speaker 1: the remaining two cows were pronounced champions, as were Biscuit
00:24:42
Speaker 1: and Chili for catching a cow each. Potato and Beans clapped.
00:24:48
Speaker 1: When it was the cowboys turn to get chased. They
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Speaker 1: were rounded up within five minutes. The cows had obviously
00:24:55
Speaker 1: been practicing. When the sun began to lower in the
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Speaker 1: sk the cowboys and their steeds bade goodbye to the cows,
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Speaker 1: who flopped onto their hay bales and prepared for a snooze.
00:25:10
Speaker 1: The four cats rode their horses back to town and
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Speaker 1: left them starting a game of snap back at the stables.
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Speaker 1: They said a sincere thank you for the journey before
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Speaker 1: heading back to Biscuit and Chili saloon. Dallas was still
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Speaker 1: behind the counter, pouring drinks and chatting with the animals.
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Speaker 1: How did you enjoy your day in the wild West,
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Speaker 1: He asked Potato and Beans. They gave him sleepy smiles,
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Speaker 1: and told him that they absolutely loved it. Dallas grinned
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Speaker 1: he could see they were exhausted from their adventure and
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Speaker 1: asked if it might be time to go home. The
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Speaker 1: two cats nodded. They wrapped Biscuit and Chilly and hugs
00:26:05
Speaker 1: and thanked them for everything. Asking if they might visit
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Speaker 1: them again in the future or they supposed in the past,
00:26:14
Speaker 1: the two cats said, of course, and promised they'd come
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Speaker 1: and visit Potato and Beans's diner one day too. Then
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Speaker 1: Dallas turned the spur on his boot clockwise one, two,
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Speaker 1: three times, and the world began to move a little
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Speaker 1: quicker around them. Everything turned to a blur before suddenly,
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Speaker 1: with their gentle pop, they were home. The diner was
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Speaker 1: dark now, and Missus Pig grinned at them from behind
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Speaker 1: the counter, complimenting their hats and boots. She asked them
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Speaker 1: if they had had a fun adventure, and the cats
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Speaker 1: promised they would tell her and Ozzie all about it
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Speaker 1: in the morning. For now they had to go to bed.
00:27:08
Speaker 1: Wishing good night to Missus Pig and Dallas, the sleepy
00:27:12
Speaker 1: cats climbed the stairs to their apartment. They brushed their
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Speaker 1: little white teeth and each had a warm, bubbly bath.
00:27:23
Speaker 1: They took turns to make their furs soft and fluffy
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Speaker 1: with the hair dryer before settling into their beds in
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Speaker 1: their favorite pajamas. Potato Bean said, you can't sleep in
00:27:39
Speaker 1: your cowboy hat. It won't be comfy at all. Potato
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Speaker 1: sighed and took off her hat, putting it on her
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Speaker 1: side table so she could easily reach it in the morning.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for coming on an adventure with me, Bean said.
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Speaker 1: Potato told her that she hoped they could go on
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Speaker 1: a hundred more adventures together, and Beans agreed. Good night.
00:28:11
Speaker 1: Potato Bean said, good night, Beans, Potato said. Outside their window,
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Speaker 1: a million twinkling stars and a full moon shone down
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Speaker 1: on the desert and the cozy diner where once stood
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Speaker 1: an old saloon and a town full of cowboys, Now
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Speaker 1: it was home to Potato and Beans and welcomed thousands
00:28:42
Speaker 1: of passers by every day, although just over the canyon
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Speaker 1: there still lived one last cowboy by the name of Dallas.
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Speaker 1: Potato and Beans drifted into sea, dreaming of riding horses
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Speaker 1: through the stars, chasing cows amongst the galaxies.