In tonight’s bedtime story for kids, we return to Potato & Beans' diner, where a dalmatian detective is in need of some help. He soon recognises the detecting talents of the two rollerskating diner cats, and brings them along to solve a mystery. Relax, get sleepy, and let’s begin!
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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Coco Sleep, your podcast of
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Speaker 1: original children's bedtime stories and meditations designed to make bedtime
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Speaker 1: a dream. Tonight's story features are wonderfully named feline friends
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Speaker 1: Potato and Beans, the roller skating Diner Cats, and so
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Speaker 1: I'm doubly delighted to welcome two cats into the Cocoa
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Speaker 1: Club tonight. What perfect timing. So here's a mighty big
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Speaker 1: meal to cat listeners Nat Show and Darth and their
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Speaker 1: human Stella, and also a warm welcome to siblings Luella
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Speaker 1: and Arbor, Genesis and Gabriel, Declan, Wyatt, Rosie and Randy.
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Speaker 1: We love having you in the club and hope you
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Speaker 1: enjoy listening to all the extra hours of stories, either
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Speaker 1: on your own or cuddled up with your pa too.
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Speaker 1: So let's settle down in bed now and get relaxed
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Speaker 1: and comfy ready to listen to tonight's story. There have
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Speaker 1: been some unusual things going on down near the diner,
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Speaker 1: and we'll soon meet a detective Dalmatian by the name
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Speaker 1: of Hash Brown who's hot on the case. The more
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Speaker 1: relaxed you are, the easier it will be to listen,
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Speaker 1: and who knows you might solve the mystery. Or you
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Speaker 1: might fall asleep before the end, but that's also fine.
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Speaker 1: You can catch up anytime. Let's now join our friends
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Speaker 1: and begin. Potato and Beans help Detective Hash Brown by
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Speaker 1: Susannah McLaughlin. It was a hot, sunny summer's day, and
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Speaker 1: two roller skating diner cats by the names of Potato
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Speaker 1: and Beans were opening their shutters. Although tumbleweed rolled on
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Speaker 1: the breeze, bobbing and floating across the desert, the diner
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Speaker 1: itself was far from deserted. The first customers had already
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Speaker 1: streamed in, and before Potato had even flipped the sign
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Speaker 1: to open, an eclectic bunch of animals were reclining on
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Speaker 1: plush stools and sofas with a steaming mug of coffee
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Speaker 1: in hand. Beans put the jug of coffee down on
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Speaker 1: the counter with a satisfied smile. Another day had begun.
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Speaker 1: Missus Pigs skated through the saloon doors of the kitchen,
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Speaker 1: placed her trotters on her hips, and smiled. There'd be
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Speaker 1: plenty of pancakes to flip this morning. Missus Pig and
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Speaker 1: the two cats swirled and twirled around the diner, ducking
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Speaker 1: and gliding between one another, sliding under tables and whirling
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Speaker 1: around corners, collecting orders from every animal in the place.
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Speaker 1: Then missus Pig collected the tickets together and zoomed into
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Speaker 1: the kitchen as the saloon doors one closed behind her.
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Speaker 1: A satisfying sizzle hissed through to the diner as she
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Speaker 1: cracked the first egg onto her hot plate. Beans smiled.
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Speaker 1: What a team they made. They whiled away the morning,
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Speaker 1: feeding animals from the middle of nowhere and the outskirts
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Speaker 1: of everywhere, raccoons, opossums, a skunk or two, the usual crowd,
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Speaker 1: and a few not so usual. Around ten am, a
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Speaker 1: poodle with a curly boufont and a frilly outfit pushed
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Speaker 1: a fluffy litter of puppies in a pram, making everybody
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Speaker 1: cool and babble at their cuteness. At eleven, a hedgehog
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Speaker 1: named Prickles ordered tater tots and popped a couple on
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Speaker 1: the end of his longest spines to ensure he didn't
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Speaker 1: spike anyone pushing. At lunchtime, a friendly giant squid slid
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Speaker 1: into the diner and asked to try on Ozzy, the
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Speaker 1: dishwashing octopus's roller skates. The two practiced skating in the
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Speaker 1: parking lot and quickly became fast friends. In the afternoon,
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Speaker 1: when the sun was moving towards the west, hanging hot
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Speaker 1: and golden in the sky, the diner was quiet. Potato
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Speaker 1: and Beans had busied themselves with the task of taste
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Speaker 1: testing missus pigs mud Pie. The two cats had put
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Speaker 1: their faces to their plates, and soon their fur was
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Speaker 1: covered with chocolate all the way up to their eyebrows.
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Speaker 1: At this time, Detective Brown walked through the door. Unusually,
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Speaker 1: such a scene would make the Dalmatian laugh. He often
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Speaker 1: took delight in Potato and Beans's silliness when he popped
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Speaker 1: in for his afternoon tea and slice of peach pie,
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Speaker 1: but today he looked troubled. He ordered an omelet with
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Speaker 1: a side of gravy. Potato and Beans soon wiped their
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Speaker 1: faces and paws clean and stood up straight. This was
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Speaker 1: most unusual. Detective Hash Brown never ordered a full meal
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Speaker 1: at the diner. He always said no meal could beat
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Speaker 1: the kibble sandwich that his wife prepared for him every morning,
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Speaker 1: because she always made it with love. Potato and Beans
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Speaker 1: had never argued. They knew that there was nothing more
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Speaker 1: delicious to dogs than dog biscuits, especially when prepared by
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Speaker 1: the one they loved most. What is it, Detective Beans asked,
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Speaker 1: you look sad. Where is your kibble sandwich? Hash Brown
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Speaker 1: shook his head perplexedly. I don't know, Beans, he said.
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Speaker 1: I put it in the fridge at the police station
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Speaker 1: when I arrived, but it was gone by the time
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Speaker 1: I got hungry. I was out on patrols, and I
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Speaker 1: thought I would come here instead. Nothing beats a kibble sandwich,
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Speaker 1: but Mama Pig's omelet is just the next best thing.
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Speaker 1: Beans and Potato turned their heads slowly to look at
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Speaker 1: each other a missing sandwich. It sounded like there was
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Speaker 1: a mystery to solve. Maybe the diner cats could help.
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Speaker 1: The two of them rolled back and forth, back and
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Speaker 1: forth for a while, tapping their chins and stroking their whiskers.
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Speaker 1: This was a lunch mystery, and they knew lunch. Beans
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Speaker 1: said that they should make a list of everything unusual
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Speaker 1: that had happened that day. Potato began to reel off
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Speaker 1: things that could be clues. Most of them were silly.
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Speaker 1: Beans was sure. It didn't matter that the road tripping
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Speaker 1: raccoon socks didn't match, or that Ozzy the dishwasher had
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Speaker 1: been caught enjoying some cheesy pop music rather than his
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Speaker 1: usual rock and roll when Mumma Pig was out on
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Speaker 1: a break. But there was one thing that made the
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Speaker 1: cogs in beans head spin. Sheriff Opossum had come to
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Speaker 1: the diner earlier, which was far from unusual, but the
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Speaker 1: interesting thing was that she ordered a strawberry milkshake instead
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Speaker 1: of her usual vanilla. She had asked for extra extra
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Speaker 1: strawberry and seemed rather rushed. Beans caught grew Mama Pig
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Speaker 1: from the kitchen. She was wise and could probably help.
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Speaker 1: Mamma Pig entered the diner and smiled at Beans, Potato
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Speaker 1: and Detective hash Brown with her kind, warm eyes. She
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Speaker 1: was a little pink in the cheeks and grinned as
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Speaker 1: she stood under the fan, saying it was very hot
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Speaker 1: in the kitchen. She had been sitting in front of
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Speaker 1: the oven, watching her bread rolls rise and turn crispy.
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Speaker 1: She chuckled and said that it was so hot that
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Speaker 1: Ozzie had popped a few ice cubes in his dish washer.
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Speaker 1: She smiled even brighter as she mentioned Ozzy. She and
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Speaker 1: the octopus were good friends, spending all that time together
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Speaker 1: in the kitchen. Beans asked Mama Pig whether she'd been
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Speaker 1: watching the diner when Sheriff of Possum came in. She nodded.
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Speaker 1: I had just cooked the fluffiest pancakes you've ever seen,
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Speaker 1: and I was very pleased with myself. I was watching
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Speaker 1: through the kitchen door window as I wanted to see
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Speaker 1: the customer take the first bite. She smiled. Well, when
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Speaker 1: I started nosyin it's hard to stop, and I saw
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Speaker 1: the sheriff enter an order her milkshake. She looked very rushed.
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Speaker 1: She drank the milkshake in one and the whole time
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Speaker 1: she was making a yucky face as if she didn't
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Speaker 1: like it at all. This surprised me, as I saw
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Speaker 1: you prepare the drink, Beans an, I know you made
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Speaker 1: the most delicious milkshakes in the hole of the valley.
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Speaker 1: Beans continued to pace whilst Potato sat on a chair
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Speaker 1: looking confused. Suddenly Beans had an idea. Maybe Sheriff for
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Speaker 1: Possum took your kibble sandwich by misteak, she said to
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Speaker 1: the detective. Only dogs enjoy dark biscuit sandwiches. Maybe she
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Speaker 1: had tucked into the sandwich whilst on patrol, thinking it
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Speaker 1: was her own, only to get a mouthful of kibble.
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Speaker 1: She wouldn't have liked that and would have rushed to
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Speaker 1: find something delicious to wash the taste out of her mouth,
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Speaker 1: like a strawberry milkshake with extra strawberries. Potato. Almost fell
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Speaker 1: off her chair, she was so in awe of being smarts.
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Speaker 1: The two cats touched their front paws together and bounced
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Speaker 1: around in a circle, as they always did when they
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Speaker 1: solved a puzzle. Mamma Pig gave them both a proud
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Speaker 1: squeeze before hurrying back into the kitchen to make sure
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Speaker 1: her cookies didn't burn. Detective Hash Brown picked up his
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Speaker 1: radio and called out to the sheriff. Before long, the
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Speaker 1: possum answered and confirmed the cat's theory. She said the
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Speaker 1: sandwich looked just like her own, except when she took
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Speaker 1: a bite, she tasted dry, crumbly dog biscuits. She immediately
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Speaker 1: headed to the diner to wash away the taste with
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Speaker 1: a delicious milkshake. She apologized to Detective Brown and promised
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Speaker 1: she'd be more careful when grabbing her lunch and future
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Speaker 1: for both of their sakes. Detective Brown put down his
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Speaker 1: radio and gave the two cats a proud smile. Hey
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Speaker 1: he said, You cats aren't bad detectives. What do you
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Speaker 1: say to h helping me out this afternoon? Ozzie peeked
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Speaker 1: his head out of the kitchen. I can look after
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Speaker 1: the diner, Detective Potato and Detective Beans, he said excitedly.
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Speaker 1: The two cats unlaced their skates, took off their aprons,
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Speaker 1: and padded out into the midday sun, where Detective Brown's
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Speaker 1: car gleamed in the parking lot. As they hopped in,
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Speaker 1: Detective Brown rolled down the roof, put on his shades,
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Speaker 1: and ran the engine. The car purred to life, harmonizing
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Speaker 1: with the purs of the two excited cats in the
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Speaker 1: back seats. Where do we start, Detective Beans asked? Up there,
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Speaker 1: Hash Brown said, pointing towards a mountaintop with his paw.
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Speaker 1: Detective Brown began to drive, telling the cats that he
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Speaker 1: had been given a case to investigate. Sandy. The skunk
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Speaker 1: had a secret helper, and she wanted to find out
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Speaker 1: who it was. Sandy spent her days traveling the wilderness
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Speaker 1: on her motorbike, gathering wildflowers and herbs to turn into
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Speaker 1: sweet smelling perfume. Recently, however, something unusual had been happening
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Speaker 1: a little closer to home. Sandy's own garden was unusually
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Speaker 1: bare of flowers and herbs. She was so busy gathering
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Speaker 1: wild ones she didn't have time to water, pot, plant
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Speaker 1: and prune. However, one by one over the last few weeks,
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Speaker 1: potted plants seemed to be walking themselves over to her
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Speaker 1: front porch, not walking, actually floating. Sandy was close to
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Speaker 1: having a full garden of beautifully looked after succulents, cacti,
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Speaker 1: and tropical flowers, but she had no idea who to thank,
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Speaker 1: so she put Detective hash Brown on the case and
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Speaker 1: Deputy Potato and Deputy Beans. Detective Brown added the two
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Speaker 1: cats were wide eyed mysterious floating plants. This was a
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Speaker 1: mystery indeed. Around the hill, through the gorge, and up
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Speaker 1: on the ridge line they went until they found themselves
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Speaker 1: outside Sandy's shack. The shack was made of wood, carved
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Speaker 1: with flowers and engravings of twirling vines. Its shutters were
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Speaker 1: painted a deep green, and a rocking chair gently rocked
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Speaker 1: in the breeze on the creaky porch. The shack looked
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Speaker 1: out over the rolling planes, dotted with cacti here and there,
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Speaker 1: and a glimmering oasis to the eas. In front of
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Speaker 1: the shack was a small sea of potted plants orchids
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Speaker 1: burst from the soil in flashes of white and pink
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Speaker 1: and ALOVERA stood proudly with its juicy shoots pointing to
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Speaker 1: the sky. There were small palm trees and papaya plants,
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Speaker 1: peach trees, and pea shoots, to name a few. Sandy
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Speaker 1: emerged from the cabin and greeted them with sweet smelling hugs,
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Speaker 1: enveloping them in her mint and petunia scented perfume. The
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Speaker 1: cats took in long sniffs and sighed softly. Sandy thanked
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Speaker 1: them for coming and pointed her bushy black and white
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Speaker 1: tail at her new garden. Can you believe it, she said,
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Speaker 1: It's so beautiful, isn't it. The cats and the dog
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Speaker 1: nodded and murmured in agreement. Sparkles of water glimmered against
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Speaker 1: waxy green leaves in the sun. I'm not even the
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Speaker 1: one who waters them, Sandy said. Every afternoon, the watering
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Speaker 1: can floats in the air and pours water on whichever
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Speaker 1: plants need it. Potato and beans mulled this over. Potato
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Speaker 1: spoke first. It must be magic, she said, Matter of factly,
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Speaker 1: have you ever heard about the elves and the shoemaker.
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Speaker 1: My mom used to read that to me when I
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Speaker 1: was a kitten. The shoemaker works so hard that some
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Speaker 1: elves decide to come at night and make his shoes
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Speaker 1: for him. Sandy, you work so hard on your business,
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Speaker 1: maybe someone wanted to do something nice for you too.
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Speaker 1: Beans shook her head. It's a very clever theory, Potato,
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Speaker 1: she said, kindly, But there are no elves in these parts.
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Speaker 1: Around Christmas, maybe, but not in the height of summer.
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Speaker 1: Potato considered this must be fairies, then, she said, with
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Speaker 1: a decided nod. Detective Brown suggested that they explore the
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Speaker 1: area for clues. Beans and Potato said they would inspect
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Speaker 1: the garden whilst Detective Brown interviewed Sandy. The two cats
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Speaker 1: went from pot to pot, looking at each plant. They
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Speaker 1: dug their paws in the soil and stroked each silky
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Speaker 1: smooth leaf. They measured the stems and tapped on the pots.
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Speaker 1: There was one pot that Potato was particularly interested in.
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Speaker 1: She thought it may contain a clue. It was a
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Speaker 1: tropical plant with a big red flower with five wide,
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Speaker 1: soft petals and a yellow, powdery center. Bean said that
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Speaker 1: when Detective hash Brown was looking for clues, he often
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Speaker 1: followed his nose. He could often be seen sniffing at
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Speaker 1: something or other, and he seemed to make excellent discoveries
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Speaker 1: that way. Potato nodded and placed her little pink nose
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Speaker 1: on the center of the flower and took a big,
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Speaker 1: deep sniff. The golden, dusty pollen rushed into Potato's little nose,
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Speaker 1: and she let out the loudest sneeze she had ever sneezed.
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Speaker 1: The sneeze was so powerful, in fact, the Potato was
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Speaker 1: thrown back onto one leg, where she tried to balance,
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Speaker 1: wind milling her arms, before landing on her bottom with
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Speaker 1: a giggle. Another giggle emanated from the pot beside them,
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Speaker 1: or at least the cats thought it came from the pot,
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Speaker 1: But plants can't laugh. The cats looked around in befoddlement.
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Speaker 1: Who was that? Potato asked beans in shock. In front
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Speaker 1: of their eyes, a creature appeared slowly, as if by magic.
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Speaker 1: He was like a lizard, but much bigger, with large,
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Speaker 1: friendly eyes and a tale that curled up into a spiral.
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Speaker 1: He was bright green with a gentle, bashful smile. I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: he said, I didn't mean to startle you. I usually
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Speaker 1: don't talk to new animals. HOWM a little shy at first.
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Speaker 1: Do you see, Potato and Beans beamed at the creature
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Speaker 1: a chameleon. Could he be the one behind the mysterious garden.
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Speaker 1: Don't worry, we all get shy sometimes times, Potato and
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Speaker 1: Beans told the chameleon. Meeting new people can be hard.
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Speaker 1: The comeleon looked around the sea of pop plants and nodded.
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Speaker 1: This garden is proof of that, he said. The detecting
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Speaker 1: diner cats asked him what he meant. The comeleon explained
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Speaker 1: that he had just moved into the cabin not far
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Speaker 1: from Sandy's shack. He pointed to a collection of trees
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Speaker 1: and shrubs along the ridge in the distance. His house
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Speaker 1: was nettled in a nook there as Sandy's new neighbor.
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Speaker 1: Every day since he had moved in, he had come
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Speaker 1: to introduce himself with a gift balanced on his back,
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Speaker 1: a potted plant. But every time he got near he
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Speaker 1: found himself changing color and blending into the surroundings. He
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Speaker 1: was so shy he would turn invisible. He would put
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Speaker 1: down the plant and come back the next day. Soon
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Speaker 1: the plants began turning into a garden. He said he
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Speaker 1: thought Sandy deserved a nice garden anyway. He'd heard what
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Speaker 1: a kind skunk she was and was sure she was
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Speaker 1: going to be the best neighbor in the hole of
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Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere. By this time, Detective Hash Brown
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Speaker 1: and Sandy had wandered over to the cats, wondering what
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Speaker 1: they had discovered. As they rounded the bushy palm tree
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Speaker 1: that was obscuring their view, the chameleon disappeared with a flash.
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Speaker 1: Potato and Beans each put out a paw to pat
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Speaker 1: the chameleon on the shoulder. Come on out, they said,
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Speaker 1: there's nothing to be afraid of. The comeleon slowly came
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Speaker 1: into view once more, starting with his shiny eyes, then
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Speaker 1: his long curly tail, then his feet and his body,
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Speaker 1: and last of all, his charming, bashful smile. He wished
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Speaker 1: Sandy hello and meekly introduced himself as herb. With the
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Speaker 1: cat's encouragement, he explained the situation to Sandy. She soon
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Speaker 1: wrapped him in a friendly hug, thanking him for her
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Speaker 1: beautiful garden. Herb's skin turned bright pink. Sandy invited him
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Speaker 1: in for a glass of sweet tea, and he nodded enthusiastically.
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Speaker 1: Sandy said she could tell already that the two were
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Speaker 1: destined to be good friends. As the two new friends
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Speaker 1: went into Sandy Shack, Detective hash Brown turned to Potato
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Speaker 1: and Beans. There's another case solved. He said, you two
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Speaker 1: cats should consider joining the squad. You guys have talent.
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Speaker 1: Potato and Beans thanked him for the compliment, but said
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Speaker 1: no thank you to his kind offer. They had a
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Speaker 1: diner to run, and there was no job in the
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Speaker 1: world they would rather be doing. The two cats and
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Speaker 1: the detectives slid into the car, and hash Brown began
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Speaker 1: the descent towards the diner. The sun was beginning to
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Speaker 1: descend too gently, floating towards the horizon. Dusky trails of
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Speaker 1: pink surrounded it, and the sky took on an orange shoe,
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Speaker 1: which perfectly complimented the vivid, dusty plains that reached as
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Speaker 1: far as the eye can see. From up top on
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Speaker 1: the ridge, the sky looked endless. Potato rested her head
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Speaker 1: on Beans's shoulder, and Beans closed her eyes and enjoyed
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Speaker 1: the warm breeze tickling her whiskers and blowing through her
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Speaker 1: fur as the car zigged and zagged down the mountainside.
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Speaker 1: The two cats drifted off into their cat naps. Satisfied
00:24:35
Speaker 1: with the day's work well done, they stirred. Not long later,
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Speaker 1: when Detective hash Brown pulled into the parking lot of
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Speaker 1: the diner. They stretched and yawned and stretched again before
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Speaker 1: getting out of the car and thanking Detective Brown for
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Speaker 1: such a wonderful afternoon. I always wanted to try being
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Speaker 1: a detective, Potato said, and now I have solved a
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Speaker 1: case for my friend Sandy too, and my new friend Herb. Well,
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Speaker 1: it has been wonderful to see you cats in action.
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Speaker 1: Hash Brown replied, you too, are magic. He wished them
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Speaker 1: a good evening and zoomed off on a long road
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Speaker 1: towards town. When Potato and Beans entered the diner, Missus
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Speaker 1: Pig and Ozzy were sitting in a booth with a
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Speaker 1: giant squid, mister Hogg, Barbara the Sheep, and a couple
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Speaker 1: of giggling wilderbeast. There was a stack of books on
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Speaker 1: the table. Missus Pig welcomed the cats home and told
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Speaker 1: them that the group were busy picking a novel for
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Speaker 1: their new book club. She said she and Ozzie would
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Speaker 1: take care of the diner and the two cats should
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Speaker 1: head up for an early night. It had been a
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Speaker 1: busy day for them, after all. The two cats thanked
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Speaker 1: her and wished everybody a good night before heading to
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Speaker 1: their cozy home above the diner. First, Beans brushed her teeth,
00:26:30
Speaker 1: then Potato brushed hers. Next, Beans took her bubble bath,
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Speaker 1: and then Potato took hers. The two stood under their
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Speaker 1: warm hair dryers together and then took turns brushing one
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Speaker 1: another's fur. Finally, Beans put on her purple spotted pajamas
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Speaker 1: and Potato put on her yellow onesie. They settled into
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Speaker 1: their blankets, wrapped their tails around themselves, and gazed out
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Speaker 1: of the window at the emerging stars. Good night, Potato
00:27:12
Speaker 1: said to one brightly glistening star. Then she thought they'd
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Speaker 1: better say good night to every star, so Beans joined in.
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Speaker 1: They wished good night to as many stars as they
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Speaker 1: could spot. Once the last star had been wished sweet dreams,
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Speaker 1: the two roller skating detecting diner cats drifted off to
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Speaker 1: a deep, dream filled sleep.