In tonight’s bedtime story for kids, we meet a big round orange cat named Pumpkin. Pumpkin is ready for her catnap, but she just can't get comfy! So, she heads out on an adventure to find a fluffy pair of pyjamas that will make her warm and cosy ready for a snooze. Relax, get sleepy, and let’s begin!
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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome back to Cocoa Sleep, a new podcast
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Speaker 1: of original children's bedtime stories and meditations designed to make
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Speaker 1: bedtime a dream. Hey Coco Club members, especially our newest
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Speaker 1: ones Georgie, Lydia, Aria, Leah, and a little labrador called Hugo.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to the club, all of you and the pup.
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Speaker 1: We're so glad to have you. I just wanted to
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Speaker 1: let you know that on Wednesday, we'll be revisiting our
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Speaker 1: friends Katie and Bobby as they return from the Magical
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Speaker 1: Toy Library. This time, the children find themselves magically transported
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Speaker 1: to a ginormous supermarket run by dragons. They will drive
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Speaker 1: a car made of pizza, ride in a jangling trolley train,
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Speaker 1: and help one kind dragon find the most magical products
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Speaker 1: you've ever heard of. But let's get back to tonight.
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Speaker 1: We're about to meet a new character, a charismatic cat
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Speaker 1: called Pumpkin. The only thing is Pumpkin has a bit
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Speaker 1: of a problem. In fact, it's more than a problem,
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Speaker 1: it's a catastrophe. That's sorry. Our lovely, big, round, fluffy
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Speaker 1: cat fancies a cat nap, but she just can't get comfy. Thankfully,
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Speaker 1: she bumps into a wise hedgehog, and with her help,
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Speaker 1: Pumpkin realizes the wors she needs is her own set
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Speaker 1: of fluffy pajamas, so she heads off on an adventure
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Speaker 1: to find some. Get comfy in your bed. Now, wriggle
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Speaker 1: around a little, and take some nice deep breaths right
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Speaker 1: down into your tummy and si out and again, deep
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Speaker 1: breath down into your tummy and cy it out lovely.
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Speaker 1: Right now, it's time for me to begin. The Cat's
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Speaker 1: Pajamas by Susannah McLaughlin. In a tall, thin house sandwich
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Speaker 1: between two other long, thin houses, there lived a cat.
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Speaker 1: This cat was very orange and very round, so the
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Speaker 1: little girl who owned her called her Pumpkin. Pumpkin would
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Speaker 1: spend her days mewing at birds, nibbling at bits of string,
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Speaker 1: and sometimes, when she had nothing better to do, she
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Speaker 1: would try and climb the curtains. Dad didn't like it
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Speaker 1: when she did that. They said she was too heavy
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Speaker 1: and she would surely pull them down, But Pumpkin would
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Speaker 1: just rub against their ankles and purr, and soon they
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Speaker 1: would forget all about it. Most of Pumpkin's time was
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Speaker 1: spent taking long, lazy catnaps, or she loved snoozing and
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Speaker 1: stretching and curling up in a ball. She would capnap
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Speaker 1: anywhere once. The humans laughed when they returned home and
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Speaker 1: found Pumpkins snuggled up on the highest shelf in the kitchen,
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Speaker 1: between the dried pasta and the cans of babyans. He
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Speaker 1: couldn't imagine how she got up there. Sometimes, if there
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Speaker 1: was a human around, Pumpkin would doze off on their lap,
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Speaker 1: reaching her paws over her head and thrusting her big
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Speaker 1: belly into the air, demanding tickles and pats. Pumpkin loved
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Speaker 1: both of the humans in her house, but her very
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Speaker 1: best human was Flow, the little girl who lived there.
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Speaker 1: Flow and Pumpkin had so much fun together. They played
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Speaker 1: with a bunch of feathers tied to a long piece
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Speaker 1: of string. Having Flow bobbed the feathers up and down
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Speaker 1: and dragged them across the floor as Pumpkin pounced and
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Speaker 1: skiddered along trying to catch them. They played with ping
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Speaker 1: pong balls, felt mice toys, and balls of yarn too.
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Speaker 1: Pumpkin would spend a lot of her time in Floes room,
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Speaker 1: brushing against her ankles and getting in the way whilst
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Speaker 1: Flow was dancing, sulking in the laundry basket to Flow,
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Speaker 1: ever trod on her tail. Whenever that did happen, Floe
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Speaker 1: would scoop Pumpkin up in her arms, and the two
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Speaker 1: would waltz around the room together until Pumpkin was purring again.
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Speaker 1: Flow was her very best friend, and she loved spending
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Speaker 1: time with her. Flow was so kind and loving that
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Speaker 1: Pumpkin even let her dress her up however she wanted.
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Speaker 1: She had collected quite the collection of little hats for Pumpkin.
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Speaker 1: A frilly bonnet, a pink cowboy hat, a set of
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Speaker 1: sunshine yellow petals that turned her face into the center
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Speaker 1: of a flower, and a knitted beanie shaped like a strawberry.
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Speaker 1: Each had little slits in them for Pumpkin's ears, and
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Speaker 1: Flow would laugh and laugh when she put them on.
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Speaker 1: Pumpkin felt quite silly in the hats, especially the frilly bonnet,
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Speaker 1: but she put up with it just to hear the
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Speaker 1: tinkling sound of floes giggles. Today, though Flow was at school,
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Speaker 1: Pumpkin could hardly understand why school was so important. The
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Speaker 1: Flow had told her that she loved going to school,
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Speaker 1: playing with her human friends and learning about fizzy science
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Speaker 1: experiments and far away places. Pumpkin thought that since Flow
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Speaker 1: enjoyed school so very much, she would just have to
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Speaker 1: make do and stay home without her. Pumpkin had spent
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Speaker 1: the morning eating kibble and batting the piece of toilet
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Speaker 1: roll that dangled from its holder with her paw. She
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Speaker 1: had walked tightrope along the back of the sofa and
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Speaker 1: played football with a pair of dad's socks for a while.
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Speaker 1: Now it was time to indulge in her favorite activity.
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Speaker 1: It was time to take a cat nap. Pumpkin climbed
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Speaker 1: up onto the squishiest sofa cushion and began her wind
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Speaker 1: down routine. She needed the pillow for a while, stretching
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Speaker 1: and rigging each of her toes and making sure the
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Speaker 1: pillow was plump and pliable. Then she hunched back on
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Speaker 1: her back legs and stretched out her front ones, reaching
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Speaker 1: as far as she could and displaying her paws. Next,
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Speaker 1: she yawned, possibly the biggest yawn any cat has yawned before.
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Speaker 1: With her eyes tightly closed, content, she turned around in
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Speaker 1: a circle and curled up in a little wall, wrapping
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Speaker 1: her extra fluffy tail around her body like a feather.
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Speaker 1: Boa One minute later, she opened her eyes again. Why
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Speaker 1: was she still awake. She closed her eyes. Usually she
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Speaker 1: would be snoring softly by now when dreaming of a
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Speaker 1: land made of kibble, but she just wouldn't drift off.
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Speaker 1: Maybe the sofa wasn't the right place for this afternoon's catnap.
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Speaker 1: Pumpkin stretched her legs, uncurled her tail, and hopped onto
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Speaker 1: the carpet. She click clacked her way into the kitchen
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Speaker 1: and threw to the laundry room. Next to the dryer
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Speaker 1: was a big wicker basket full of fresh laundry. Pumpkin
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Speaker 1: pulled herself up to peer over the rim and sniffed.
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Speaker 1: His smelt like fresh cotton and home. She looked in further.
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Speaker 1: Dad had just washed his fluffy dressing gown perfect. She
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Speaker 1: hunched down on her haunches, and after two practice bounces,
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Speaker 1: launched her round body up and into the basket. Pumpkin
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Speaker 1: twisted herself up in a knot of fluffy laundry and
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Speaker 1: plopped down on her belly. Lovely. It was very comfy
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Speaker 1: and it smelled so clean. But something wasn't quite right.
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Speaker 1: She had waited too long, and the laundry had lost
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Speaker 1: the heat it had held when it first tumbled out
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Speaker 1: of the dryer. Pumpkin laid around in there for a
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Speaker 1: while anyway, enjoying the comfy cocoon of the fresh towels
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Speaker 1: and clean socks. Then she tumbled out of the basket
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Speaker 1: and set out again in pursuit of her cat nap.
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Speaker 1: She trotted through the kitchen and toddled into the sunroom.
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Speaker 1: She weaved through the potted plants and clambered up onto
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Speaker 1: the window set. She passed the family photos fondly, patting
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Speaker 1: a photo would flow on the way by, and reached
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Speaker 1: her favorite spot, in between the potted petunias and the begonias.
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Speaker 1: She flopped down on her belly and stretched out. As
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Speaker 1: she did so, the sun emerged from behind a fluffy
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Speaker 1: cloud and began streaming its golden rays through the sunroom's
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Speaker 1: large windows. Pumpkin side and emitted a deep per as
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Speaker 1: the warmth sunk into her fur in the sun. Her
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Speaker 1: orange fur was lit up in all of its glory,
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Speaker 1: in its many shades of orange, mainly tangerine, peach, and apricot.
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Speaker 1: The smudges of white under her belly and on her
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Speaker 1: chin glowed in the sun. She laid around, enjoying the
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Speaker 1: sun's rays, feeling warm, relaxed and ever so sleepy. But
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Speaker 1: something wasn't quite right. The window sill felt a little
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Speaker 1: too hard to be comfortable to day, and she kept
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Speaker 1: having to roll and wriggle around. Pumpkin rolled back onto
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Speaker 1: her paws and rubbed her eyes. Maybe the walk would
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Speaker 1: tire her a little more. Pumpkin headed to the cap
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Speaker 1: flap and rolled out into the yard. She trotted across
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Speaker 1: the patio and headed into the shed for a while,
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Speaker 1: sniffing at Dad and flows wellies and pouring at the
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Speaker 1: jumbo bag of kibble he kept in there. Try as
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Speaker 1: she might, she just couldn't poke a hole in the
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Speaker 1: bag big enough to extract a cat biscuit. So she
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Speaker 1: shrugged and headed out towards the garden. She sauntered around
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Speaker 1: the grass, poking her head into the flower beds and
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Speaker 1: tasting a few leaves. When she passed a holly bush
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Speaker 1: in the corner, she heard a peculiar noise. It was
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Speaker 1: a tap, tap, tap, and a click clap and the
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Speaker 1: soft hum of a tune. Pumpkin furrowed her brow. Now,
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Speaker 1: what could that be? She poked her head into the bush,
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Speaker 1: and she couldn't believe what she saw. It was Elsie
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Speaker 1: the hedgehog, sitting on her spiky bottom, humming to herself.
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Speaker 1: She had two sticks in her hands connected to a
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Speaker 1: big ball of yarn. She was moving the sticks in
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Speaker 1: a strange pattern, as if doing a little dance with
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Speaker 1: her hands. Hello, Elsie, Pumpkin said, I don't want to
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Speaker 1: be rude, but I don't think that's how you're supposed
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Speaker 1: to play with a ball of wool. You're supposed to
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Speaker 1: roll it and chase it around, sliding across the floor
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Speaker 1: as you go. Elsie chuckled. Hello, Pumpkin, she said, her
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Speaker 1: smile beaming out from underneath her flower top hat. You're
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Speaker 1: quite right, that is how you play with yarn. But
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Speaker 1: I'm not playing. I'm knitting. Elsie peered at Pumpkin with
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Speaker 1: her kind brown eyes, scrunching her pointy little nose. What
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Speaker 1: are you doing out here at this time? Shouldn't you
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Speaker 1: be napping? Usually I see you snoozing on the window
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Speaker 1: sill at this time, or napping in the flower beds.
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Speaker 1: Pumpkin sighed, I just can't drift off to day, Elsie,
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Speaker 1: I just can't get comfortable enough. Elsie smiled kindly. Well, Pumpkin,
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Speaker 1: when my hedgehog children were just we little hoglets, and
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Speaker 1: they were struggling to drift off. We would take a
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Speaker 1: walk and shake out our arms and legs to get
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Speaker 1: rid of any left over energy, and drink some warm milk.
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Speaker 1: Then we would all put on our fluffiest pajamas, take
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Speaker 1: some long, deep breaths, and think of calming thoughts until
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Speaker 1: we all drifted off. Pumpkin frowned. Pajamas. Flow had pajamas.
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Speaker 1: They were yellow and soft, covered with pictures of clouds
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Speaker 1: and little sheep. She would always put them on at bedtime,
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Speaker 1: and she would fall asleep every time. Pumpkin knew this
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Speaker 1: because she always snuggled up next to Flow until she
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Speaker 1: was fast asleep before slinking off to her own bed
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Speaker 1: until the morning. But Pumpkin didn't have any pajamas of
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Speaker 1: her own. Elsie, where can I get my own pair
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Speaker 1: of pajamas, Pumpkin asked. Elsie tapped a knitting needle against
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Speaker 1: her chin as she thought. Well, I don't know where
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Speaker 1: cats pajarmins come from, Elsie admitted, but maybe I can
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Speaker 1: help a little. We'll start with some fluffy socks. I
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Speaker 1: love having toasty feet when I'm napping. Pumpkin beamed at
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Speaker 1: Elsie and said thank you five times. She purred excitedly
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Speaker 1: and held the yarn between her paws, unfurling it gently
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Speaker 1: for Elsie as she clacked away with her needles. She
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Speaker 1: fought against the temptation to throw the yarn in the
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Speaker 1: air and chase it around the garden until it all
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Speaker 1: unraveled into a big pile, waiting patiently whilst Elsie was
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Speaker 1: her magic. Elsie hummed as she worked, and Pumpkin joined in,
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Speaker 1: bobbing her head back and forth. Little by little, the
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Speaker 1: yarn turned into one big fluffy sock, then two, then three,
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Speaker 1: then four. Elsie tied the socks together with a ribbon
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Speaker 1: and attached them to the back of Pumpkin's collar so
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Speaker 1: she could take them back to the house without getting
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Speaker 1: them dirty. Pumpkin did a little jig of happiness as
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Speaker 1: she looked at her new socks and thanked Elsie again,
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Speaker 1: giving her a careful cuddle, making sure not to prick
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Speaker 1: her paws on Elsie's spines. Then Pumpkin emerged from the
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Speaker 1: holly bush and into the sunshine, carrying her new socks
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Speaker 1: on her back. Now all she needed was some fluffy
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Speaker 1: trousers and her comfy shirt. Where would she find those?
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Speaker 1: Pumpkins squeezed through the hole in the back fence and
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Speaker 1: headed out into the world beyond. She trampled over the
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Speaker 1: long grass through the bramble bushes, sampling a delicious BlackBerry
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Speaker 1: or two on her way. The garden backed onto a
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Speaker 1: nature reserve, and it was one of Pumpkin's favorite places
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Speaker 1: to explore. She ambled across the meadow and sniffed at
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Speaker 1: all the flowers, soon finding herself gazing at her reflection
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Speaker 1: in the green, mossy pond. She looked at herself, pondering
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Speaker 1: her next move. Where could she find some cats pajamas?
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Speaker 1: A movement in the reflection caught her eye. She thought
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Speaker 1: it was a cloud at first drifting overhead, but looking
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Speaker 1: up into the sky above her, she realized she was wrong.
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Speaker 1: Bordering the pond, towering over her fluffy head were long
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Speaker 1: grassy reeds. They were a very tall plant, and on top,
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Speaker 1: cream fluff burst out of its stem like the tail
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Speaker 1: of a golden retriever. Pumpkin gently lowered one of the
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Speaker 1: reeds with her paw and felt the material it grew.
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Speaker 1: It was easy to mistake as a cloud, It was
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Speaker 1: the soft, fuzziest thing Pumpkin had ever felt by her
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Speaker 1: own fur, and Pumpkin rubbed her face against it with
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Speaker 1: a rumbling pur She barely even noticed when someone hot
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Speaker 1: to her side. How do you do? Her voice cooled
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Speaker 1: up a Pumpkin, and she looked down with a start
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Speaker 1: at her paws was a little frog. He was a
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Speaker 1: very grand looking frog, standing tall on his long legs,
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Speaker 1: wearing a tweed waistcoat and a flat cap. He had
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Speaker 1: a silk handkerchief around his neck, then a shining brooch
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Speaker 1: pinned to the lapel of his very smart blazer. Pumpkin
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Speaker 1: smiled and greeted the funny little frog. She told him
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Speaker 1: she loved his clothes, especially the silk handkerchief, which reminded
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Speaker 1: her of the ribbon flow woar in her hair on
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Speaker 1: special occasions. The frog bowed his head bashfully and thanked her.
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Speaker 1: He noticed the reed and Pumpkin's poor and smiled. He
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Speaker 1: said they were the softest thing in the whole nature reserve,
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Speaker 1: and that he had used some to carpet his house.
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Speaker 1: The living room rug was now the best place in
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Speaker 1: the world for an afternoon nap. Pumpkin nodded. She told
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Speaker 1: the frog that she loved napping too, but she was
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Speaker 1: having trouble drifting off today. She'd realized that what she
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Speaker 1: was missing was a pair of pajamas, and she wished
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Speaker 1: she could find some as soft as the tufty reed.
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Speaker 1: Where do you find your clothes, she asked the frog.
00:22:04
Speaker 1: He smiled modestly and admitted that he made them himself,
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Speaker 1: sewing with spiders, silk, and a pine needle. Pumpkin gasped
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Speaker 1: and told him he was ever so clever. The frog
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Speaker 1: puffed with pride and told Pumpkin to wait right there.
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Speaker 1: Pumpkin sat frozen on the spot as the frog hopped
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Speaker 1: between the long grass and disappeared. He emerged a minute
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Speaker 1: later with a spool of gleaming silver thread and a green,
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Speaker 1: sweet smelling needle. He told Pumpkin that he believed everyone
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Speaker 1: deserved a pair of fluffy pajamas, especially a kind kitty
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Speaker 1: like her, and he thought he had found them perfect material.
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Speaker 1: Pumpkin beamed and clapped her paws in excitement, thanking the
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Speaker 1: frog over and over again. The pair set to work,
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Speaker 1: with Pumpkin gathering poor fools of fluff and delivering them
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Speaker 1: to the frog, who had stitched them carefully, his long,
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Speaker 1: sticky tongue sticking out in concentration. Soon they had created
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Speaker 1: the most beautiful pair of trousers, as light and soft
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Speaker 1: as the clouds. Pumpkin bounded back over to the reeds
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Speaker 1: and readied herself to pounce for more fluff, but there
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Speaker 1: was none. Pumpkin looked worriedly over to the frog, who
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Speaker 1: chuckled mm hmm. Don't worry. The frog said, it'll grow
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Speaker 1: back very soon, but today there was only enough for
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Speaker 1: your trousers. Pumpkins smiled. They're the best trousers in the world,
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Speaker 1: she said, thank you. She rolled them up tight, and
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Speaker 1: the frog helped her attach them to the back of
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Speaker 1: her collar. She said goodbye to the frog and promised
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Speaker 1: to visit again soon before padding off into the woods
00:24:39
Speaker 1: searching for the last piece of the pajama puzzle. Before long,
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Speaker 1: she emerged into the park, where people were walking their dogs,
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Speaker 1: reading books on the lawn, and playing games like frisbee.
00:24:58
Speaker 1: As she passed, Pumpkin and ran into the game, leaping
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Speaker 1: up with her big paws and catching the frisbee expertly
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Speaker 1: in her mouth. But then she placed it down gently
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Speaker 1: on the grass and shook her head. She couldn't play
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Speaker 1: right now, she was on a very important mission. As
00:25:24
Speaker 1: she passed the play park, a little boy ran over
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Speaker 1: and asked if he could pet her. She was never
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Speaker 1: too busy for that, so she nodded enthusiastically and rolled
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Speaker 1: out on the grass to have her tummy tickled. The
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Speaker 1: boy introduced himself as Percy, chatting to Pumpkin as she
00:25:49
Speaker 1: tickled her ears about spaceships and unicorns and anything else
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Speaker 1: that popped into his mind. Soon person he noticed the
00:26:01
Speaker 1: very important items Pumpkin was carrying. He inspected the fuzzy
00:26:08
Speaker 1: socks and unrolled the trousers, exclaiming that they were the
00:26:13
Speaker 1: coziest trousers he had ever laid his eyes upon. Pumpkin
00:26:20
Speaker 1: smiled proudly. Percy furrowed his brows in thought. You have
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Speaker 1: four cozy socks, he said, and some very fuzzy pajama bottoms.
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Speaker 1: But there's something missing. Percy thought for three more seconds
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Speaker 1: before his eyes lit up like a light bulb had
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Speaker 1: just illuminated in his mind. I know just what you need,
00:26:55
Speaker 1: he said, wait here, Pumpkin again, vowing not to move
00:27:03
Speaker 1: a whisker until Percy returned. Percy ran back into the
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Speaker 1: midst of the playpark to collect his mom, and the
00:27:14
Speaker 1: two of them headed towards the car park, deep in conversation.
00:27:22
Speaker 1: Before long, Percy was back in his hands. He had
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Speaker 1: a soft, light blue jumper that looked as if it
00:27:32
Speaker 1: was made from the lightest candy floss. It was the
00:27:37
Speaker 1: perfect size for Pumpkin. This belongs to my teddy bear,
00:27:44
Speaker 1: Percy said. His name is Charlie. Charlie has so many clothes.
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Speaker 1: I think he would want you to have this. He
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Speaker 1: looked better in purple anyway. Pumpkin purred like a motor
00:28:03
Speaker 1: car and whizzed in figurates around Percy's legs. It was perfect.
00:28:11
Speaker 1: She purred thank you to him, and Percy tucked the
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Speaker 1: jumper into Pumpkin's collar With a hop, skip and a jump,
00:28:23
Speaker 1: and one last purred thank you, Pumpkin headed home. She
00:28:29
Speaker 1: hurried through the park, skipped through the nature reserve, and
00:28:36
Speaker 1: pranced through the garden in excitement. Through her cap flap,
00:28:41
Speaker 1: she squeezed, and she padded through to the sitting room,
00:28:46
Speaker 1: where she flopped down on the sofa. That adventure was tiring.
00:28:55
Speaker 1: Pumpkin undid the ribbon attached to her collar, letting her
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Speaker 1: new pajamas fall onto the cushion. She admired them with
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Speaker 1: a soft smile on her face. Paws clasped to her heart.
00:29:13
Speaker 1: Then she carefully put on each fuzzy sock. They were
00:29:19
Speaker 1: striped in the most vibrant pinks and oranges, which perfectly
00:29:24
Speaker 1: complimented her fur. She curled her toes carefully as she
00:29:31
Speaker 1: put them on, so as not to snag the yarn
00:29:34
Speaker 1: with her claws. Then she sighed in contentment. Her little
00:29:40
Speaker 1: paws was so warm and cozy. She wriggled her toes
00:29:46
Speaker 1: in satisfaction. Then she pulled on her cloudlike trousers, smiling happily,
00:29:55
Speaker 1: letting her tail glide through the specially create and flicking
00:30:02
Speaker 1: it back and forth happily. Finally, she put on Charlie's jumper,
00:30:10
Speaker 1: which wrapped her up like a hug. She felt as
00:30:15
Speaker 1: snugly as a teddy bear, and thought that she was
00:30:19
Speaker 1: so comfortable she could drift into the sky. As she
00:30:27
Speaker 1: admired her pajamas, she heard the familiar sound of the
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Speaker 1: front door. It was Flow and Dad home at last.
00:30:40
Speaker 1: Flow bounded into the hallway, calling out for Pumpkin, Pumpkin,
00:30:47
Speaker 1: You'll never guess what I made for you at school.
00:30:53
Speaker 1: Pumpkin pricked up her ears and turned to the door,
00:30:58
Speaker 1: waiting for Flow to tumble through. Soon, Floe found her
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Speaker 1: and gave her a tight squeeze. She noticed Pumpkin's beautiful
00:31:11
Speaker 1: new pajamas and complimented them profusely. She said it was
00:31:17
Speaker 1: good that Pumpkin had found her pajamas today, as Flow
00:31:22
Speaker 1: had brought the perfect finishing piece to her outfit. From
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Speaker 1: behind her back, she produced a little something made of soft,
00:31:34
Speaker 1: floppy felt. It was a carefully crafted nightcap that drooped
00:31:42
Speaker 1: to a point and ended with a fluffy white pomp
00:31:46
Speaker 1: pump and it was covered with the daintiest embroidery, the
00:31:52
Speaker 1: shape of tiny crescent moons. Flow had made it an
00:31:58
Speaker 1: art class. She put it on Pumpkin's head. It fit perfectly,
00:32:05
Speaker 1: wrapping her fury head snugly, leaving space for her ears
00:32:11
Speaker 1: to poke through so she could still hear Flow's voice.
00:32:18
Speaker 1: Pumpkin's heart glowed. Her pajamas were complete. Before long. Flow
00:32:28
Speaker 1: had put on her own pajamas and curled up on
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Speaker 1: the sofa with her favorite book. Pumpkin curled up contentedly
00:32:40
Speaker 1: on her lap, with her fluffy little ears poking through
00:32:45
Speaker 1: her nightcap, every inch of her body covered in soft,
00:32:52
Speaker 1: fuzzy material. She looked less like a pumpkin and more
00:32:58
Speaker 1: like a cloud. As Flow absent mindedly stroked her ears.
00:33:06
Speaker 1: Pumpkin drifted off into a long, deep catnap, dreaming and
00:33:16
Speaker 1: floating through the starry sky, purring softly.