In tonight's bedtime story for kids, we will be learning about what those garden gnomes you see in people's gardens get up to when no ones looking. Turns out, Gnomes are responsible for collecting and creating good luck charms- so if you come across a four leaf clover, pick it up and thank the gnomes! Now, relax, get sleepy, and let's begin.
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Speaker 1: So do any of you have a precious charm? My
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Speaker 1: daughter likes to wear hers dangling off a silver bracelet
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Speaker 1: sometimes when I'm feeling a bit nervous I put a
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Speaker 1: special polished labradorite stone in my pocket, and yet I've
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Speaker 1: never really thought about the origin of good luck charms,
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Speaker 1: where they come from. Or Tonight we are going to
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Speaker 1: learn the origin of good luck charms and about the
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Speaker 1: secret lives of garden gnomes. Gnomes are magic, you see.
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Speaker 1: Though we usually see them stock still fishing or pulling
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Speaker 1: a wheelbarrow amongst somebody's flower beds, when we aren't looking,
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Speaker 1: they come to life and spread good luck all over
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Speaker 1: the world. You'll never look at a garden gnome the
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Speaker 1: same way again. After this store, set her down into bed,
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Speaker 1: get super comfy, and wagg all those listening ears already right,
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Speaker 1: it's time to begin the good Luck Gnomes by Jane Thomas.
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Speaker 1: If you head to the west side of Sleepy Forest
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Speaker 1: and walk towards the village of Lower Starry Skies, you'll
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Speaker 1: pass Aunt Tillie's cottage. That's the one with the roses
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Speaker 1: that bloom year round. And if she's at home, you'll
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Speaker 1: know because there'll be a soft scent of cinnamon cookies
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Speaker 1: or freshly baked bread lingering in the air, and a
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Speaker 1: sunshine colored van called Yellow Mellow will be waiting outside
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Speaker 1: for the next adventure. Keep going a little further along
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Speaker 1: the lane, and there's a pale, pink cottage where Missus
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Speaker 1: Bumble lives. Have a look over the hedge and see
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Speaker 1: if you can spot her white cat snowballing all soft
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Speaker 1: mounds of fluff and fur. And his favorite place is
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Speaker 1: curled up beneath the star shaped jasmine flowers. He is
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Speaker 1: probably there, And yes, if you look, you can just
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Speaker 1: see his tail rising and falling slowly as he sleeps.
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Speaker 1: And even further along the lane, past Aunt Tillie, and
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Speaker 1: passed Missus Bumble, and past the little wishing well is
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Speaker 1: mister Featherman's home. Mister Featherman's garden is easily the most
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Speaker 1: colorful garden in the whole of Lower Starry Skies. Yes,
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Speaker 1: there are loads of flowers climbing up walls and fences
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Speaker 1: and draping themselves over stones and falling out of flower beds.
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Speaker 1: But more than that, even more colorful than all those flowers,
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Speaker 1: there are the gnomes. Mister Featherman began gathering the gnomes
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Speaker 1: together a long long time ago, and he now has
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Speaker 1: hundreds of them all around his garden. He has teeny
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Speaker 1: tiny gnomes that live underneath the Forget Me Not flowers,
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Speaker 1: and he has bigger nomes as tall as a watermelon
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Speaker 1: that live beneath the shade of the oak and apple trees.
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Speaker 1: Some of these gnomes spend their day fishing in the pond,
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Speaker 1: and others push wheelbarrows of fallen apples, and others hold
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Speaker 1: rakes to help clear up the fallen leaves. Sometimes mister
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Speaker 1: Featherman moves the gnomes around so they can get to
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Speaker 1: see a new corner of the garden. He'll stand them
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Speaker 1: next to new plant pots, or place them on miniature
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Speaker 1: swings he has made, or find them a shaded spot
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Speaker 1: if they've been out in the sun for a while,
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Speaker 1: and a sunny spot if they've been hiding in the shadows.
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Speaker 1: He takes great care of his gnomes and loves that
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Speaker 1: people will come to peer into his garden and see
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Speaker 1: what they're all up to. Each year, in June, he
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Speaker 1: takes time to check each and every one of over
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Speaker 1: a hundred nomes to see if their hats are still
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Speaker 1: clean and their jackets are still smart. He goes around
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Speaker 1: with a little box of paints and make sure they're
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Speaker 1: looking as good as when they arrived in the garden.
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Speaker 1: If he finds that a gnome has fallen over in
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Speaker 1: the wind and damaged themselves, he always takes great care
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Speaker 1: to repair them and make them look just perfect once more.
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Speaker 1: Mister Featherman would say he knows everything about the gnomes
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Speaker 1: and can tell you where each one has spent their
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Speaker 1: life in his garden, and what colored jacket he has
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Speaker 1: had them wear last year, and the year before and
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Speaker 1: the year before that. He knows which ones the sparrows
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Speaker 1: and blue jays spend the most time with, and which
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Speaker 1: ones the butterflies like to land on when they take
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Speaker 1: a rest from fluttering among the flowers. But actually mister
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Speaker 1: Featherman doesn't know so very much at all about his gnomes,
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Speaker 1: because when the evening comes and mister Featherman goes inside
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Speaker 1: and draws the curtains and makes himself all warm and
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Speaker 1: cozy inside his house, the gnomes have a whole other life.
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Speaker 1: They wait until they're absolutely sure that mister Featherman has
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Speaker 1: climbed the stairs and brushed his teeth and pulled on
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Speaker 1: his striped pajamas. They wait until he's definitely underneath the
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Speaker 1: covers and tucked up in his bed with his dog
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Speaker 1: at his feet, and Finally, they wait until they hear
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Speaker 1: his gentle snores drifting out across the garden, and the
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Speaker 1: gnomes know they can stretch their arms and ease their
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Speaker 1: legs out of position, and slowly, ever so slowly, start
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Speaker 1: to move around once more. Of course, the most important
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Speaker 1: thing is to remember where they're positioned at that moment.
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Speaker 1: Since mister Featherman likes to move them around, and mister
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Speaker 1: Featherman remembers absolutely everything about the lives of his nose,
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Speaker 1: they must get back to exactly where they were when
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Speaker 1: the evening began. You might think that noomes only know
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Speaker 1: how to do one thing. That just because they spend
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Speaker 1: all day holding a fishing rod and looking hopefully into
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Speaker 1: a pond, the only thing they can do is hold
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Speaker 1: a fishing rod. But gnomes are incredibly smart little creatures,
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Speaker 1: and they have an incredibly important job to do too.
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Speaker 1: They gather good luck charms. Something can only be lucky
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Speaker 1: if a little magic has been poured into it, and
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Speaker 1: that is exactly what gnomes do. Some lucky charms they
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Speaker 1: leave where they find them, things like four leaf clovers,
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Speaker 1: but others they take back home and store in a
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Speaker 1: huge chest they have buried at the far end of
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Speaker 1: the garden. These charms are extra special ones because gnomes
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Speaker 1: can send them out into the world and find people
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Speaker 1: who are in need of a little more luck in
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Speaker 1: the moment. Have you ever had one of those days
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Speaker 1: where everything falls into place somehow, when you wake up
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Speaker 1: from a really super long sleep, when you had wonderful dreams,
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Speaker 1: when breakfast is your favorite breakfast of all, and when
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Speaker 1: you go to school and all your favorite games are played,
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Speaker 1: and you manage to stretch your hand up high and
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Speaker 1: answer one of the teacher's questions, And then, as if
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Speaker 1: by magic, you get to have your absolute favorite dinner too,
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Speaker 1: perhaps something like pizza with cheese that stretches and stretches
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Speaker 1: further than your arm can reach, and someone reads you
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Speaker 1: your favorite story, when you've climbed into bed and wriggled
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Speaker 1: your way deep beneath the blankets. Those days don't happen
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Speaker 1: all the time, and if they did, they'd soon become
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Speaker 1: very boring, indeed, But when they do come around, it's
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Speaker 1: probably because a gnome has left a lucky charm somewhere nearby.
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Speaker 1: The nomes in mister Featherman's Garden can travel hundreds of
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Speaker 1: miles in a single night to deliver luck to all
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Speaker 1: corners of the world. It's easy to travel great distances
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Speaker 1: when you're full to overflowing with magic. Of course, the
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Speaker 1: gnomes in other people's gardens do the same thing too,
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Speaker 1: so whether you're in the tiniest village nobody else has
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Speaker 1: ever heard of, or in the center of the busiest
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Speaker 1: city which is absolutely full of people, the nomes are
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Speaker 1: able to find you. Even if you've never seen a
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Speaker 1: gnome in real life. They will find you on the
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Speaker 1: days when you need things to go a little bit better.
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Speaker 1: One of the rarest but luckiest things in the world
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Speaker 1: is a four leaf clover. Whole groups of nomes spend
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Speaker 1: hours and hours looking for them so they can pour
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Speaker 1: a little dose of luck into each and everyone. Tonight,
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Speaker 1: it is the turn of the tiny gnomes that live
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Speaker 1: beneath the forget me Not flowers to head to a
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Speaker 1: clearing and sleepy forest in search of four leaf clovers.
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Speaker 1: They work as a team, starting off at one side
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Speaker 1: of the field. There are seven gnomes working tonight, and
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Speaker 1: they all get down on their hands and knees and
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Speaker 1: slowly work their way through the long grass, checking each
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Speaker 1: and every clover they come across and solemnly counting the
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Speaker 1: number of leaves. Their little hats are painted in a
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Speaker 1: rainbow of colours, so on the far left there is
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Speaker 1: a gnome with a red hat. Next to him is
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Speaker 1: a gnome in an orange hat. He's alongside a gnome
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Speaker 1: in a yellow hat, who is alongside a gnome in
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Speaker 1: a green hat. Of course, being a rainbow, the gnome
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Speaker 1: next to him is wearing a blue hat, and he
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Speaker 1: works next to a noome in an indigo hat. At
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Speaker 1: the far end. On the right is the last tiny
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Speaker 1: gnome wearing a violet hat. This perfect rainbow moves forwards
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Speaker 1: inch by inch, high fiving each other when they find
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Speaker 1: one of the special four leaf clovers and taking care
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Speaker 1: to add a dab of good luck to each and
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Speaker 1: every one. This scene is repeated around the world, with
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Speaker 1: hundreds of rainbow hatted teams crawling through fields and gardens,
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Speaker 1: making sure they find every single four leaf clover before
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Speaker 1: a person stumbles across it. Gnomes will always organize themselves
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Speaker 1: into lines that look like a rainbow if they can,
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Speaker 1: because rainbows are in themselves a little bit magical. Some
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Speaker 1: of the bigger nomes are sent out to look for
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Speaker 1: the heavier things that bring a lot of luck. Did
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Speaker 1: you know that horseshoes are lucky? But only if you
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Speaker 1: put them the right way up? The curve has to
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Speaker 1: be at the bottom, otherwise all the luck could easily
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Speaker 1: pour out. Teams of gnomes spend hours checking out stables
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Speaker 1: and fields where horses hang out, looking for discarded horseshoes
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Speaker 1: and making sure they're put the right way up. If
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Speaker 1: you should ever be in Norway, be sure to keep
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Speaker 1: your eyes open for acorns. These are absolutely filled to
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Speaker 1: overflowing with good luck, and the gnomes in Norway have
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Speaker 1: a very busy time in the autumn months checking the
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Speaker 1: ground beneath all the oak trees for fallen acorns and
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Speaker 1: making sure each and everyone gets a little dab of
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Speaker 1: good luck added to it. Sometimes the gnomes like to
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Speaker 1: give people a chance who don't live anywhere near oak
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Speaker 1: trees at all, so they will fill little sacks with
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Speaker 1: the lucky acorns and take them to the middle of
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Speaker 1: cities and drop them off one by one outside schools,
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Speaker 1: or even if the gnomes are feeling particular, pop them
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Speaker 1: into a shoe where nobody's looking. Gnomes around the world
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Speaker 1: love to make things fun for people and they're always
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Speaker 1: hiding doses of good luck in the strangest places. They
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Speaker 1: decided long ago that it would be fun to make
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Speaker 1: pigs lucky in Germany and Austria, and it didn't take
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Speaker 1: long for people to realize that if they had a
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Speaker 1: little China pig around, they had a lot of extra luck.
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Speaker 1: The winter markets in Vienna are filled with stores covered
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Speaker 1: in shining China pigs, each of them carefully brushed by
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Speaker 1: a gnome to ensure it is packed with luck. There
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Speaker 1: is something rather wonderful about wandering around all bundled up
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Speaker 1: in your warmest hat and coat, mittens and scarf, feet
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Speaker 1: buried into the coziest boots, and your nose all pink
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Speaker 1: from being so very warm and cozy, looking at table
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Speaker 1: after table absolutely covered in shining china pigs. It takes
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Speaker 1: time to pick the perfect pig to give as a
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Speaker 1: present to somebody. So there are other stools selling steaming
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Speaker 1: mugs of hot chocolate just to make sure everyone is
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Speaker 1: as snug as they can possibly be, and people drink
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Speaker 1: those along with huge pieces of fresh from the oven,
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Speaker 1: still warm cake. Do you know what the luckiest number
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Speaker 1: in all the world is said to be Some people
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Speaker 1: pick their own lucky number, perhaps using their birthday, or
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Speaker 1: their house number, or the number of cartwheels they can
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Speaker 1: do in a minute as their special lucky number. If
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Speaker 1: a particular number feels special to you, then you're probably
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Speaker 1: absolutely right, and it is surely a little bit of
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Speaker 1: luck that you can take with you everywhere you go.
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Speaker 1: But if you don't yet have a number that feels luckys,
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Speaker 1: she should go with what most people in China think
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Speaker 1: is the luckiest of all. It's the number eight, and
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Speaker 1: that means gnomes across China spend an awful lot of
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Speaker 1: time tracking down every single number eight there is. Imagine
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Speaker 1: all the work they must do finding all those number eights.
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Speaker 1: Every single calendar has loads of number eights in it.
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Speaker 1: Every watch and clock needs to be checked in case
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Speaker 1: it has numbers painted on. Every building that is number
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Speaker 1: eight must get a special bit of nome luck added,
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Speaker 1: and then they need to head inside to see if
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Speaker 1: there's a lift that goes to the eighth floor with
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Speaker 1: a button that can be pressed to take you there.
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Speaker 1: Just imagine all the places you might find a number eight.
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Speaker 1: It is the work of a lifetime for Chinese gnomes
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Speaker 1: to add a little dab of luck to every single one.
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Speaker 1: They're a page number in books, and numbers on classroom doors,
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Speaker 1: numbers on calculators, and on trains and planes and buses.
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Speaker 1: Because they like to do things properly, they've also imagined
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Speaker 1: groups of eight animals and been sure to send a
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Speaker 1: little good luck their way. It's lucky to see eight
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Speaker 1: kittens all curled up in a soft, warm bundle on
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Speaker 1: a sofa. It's lucky to see eight dogs taking a
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Speaker 1: nap together, legs and tails and damp noses all piled
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Speaker 1: together in one big group of gently slumbering, softly snoring dog.
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Speaker 1: And it's lucky to look up into the branches of
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Speaker 1: a tree and see eight owls lined up alongside each other,
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Speaker 1: their eyes closed and their heads bobbing slowly as they
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Speaker 1: sleep their way through a lazy afternoon. The rainbow of
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Speaker 1: gnomes from mister Featherman's garden, the ones who headed out
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Speaker 1: into the field to look for four leaf clovers are
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Speaker 1: starting to head home. In many hours of slowly crawling
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Speaker 1: and checking each and every clover and counting its leaves,
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Speaker 1: they've managed to find five of the four leaf ones,
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Speaker 1: onto which they've added a little dab of good luck.
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Speaker 1: They covered half the field tonight and will head back
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Speaker 1: again tomorrow night to check the other half. Think of
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Speaker 1: a field of rolling green, perhaps like the one the
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Speaker 1: gnomes have been in, that is surrounded by trees on
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Speaker 1: three sides and bushes filled with blackberries on the other.
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Speaker 1: Being very tiny gnomes, they of course went underneath the
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Speaker 1: gate to get into the field, bending low enough that
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Speaker 1: their hats wouldn't get swept off their heads, and always
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Speaker 1: walking in a perfect rainbow line, with the moon bright
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Speaker 1: and lighting the way for them, and the stars doing
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Speaker 1: their best to shine as much as possible and throw
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Speaker 1: a little more light down onto the field. The work
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Speaker 1: was made easy, although they have plenty of magical ways
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Speaker 1: to get back to mister Featherman's garden. In the blink
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Speaker 1: of an eye, they're enjoying the beautiful early morning and
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Speaker 1: walking home. One of them, the gnome in the blue hat,
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Speaker 1: is rolling a coin beside him. He found a penny
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Speaker 1: in the field, and he's decided to take it home,
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Speaker 1: give it a wash in the garden pond, and then
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Speaker 1: pop it into the chest at the bottom of the garden.
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Speaker 1: One day, when they've decided they want to spread a
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Speaker 1: little good luck around, they'll take the penny and drop
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Speaker 1: it off where it can be easily found. Down the
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Speaker 1: backs of old chair a good places for them to
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Speaker 1: slip pennies. And so they walk along the lane together,
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Speaker 1: ready to get back to the garden and spend a
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Speaker 1: whole day of standing perfectly still in exactly the right
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Speaker 1: place beneath the forget me Not flowers, so that mister
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Speaker 1: Featherman will have no idea at all what they've been
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Speaker 1: up to all night. The one with the yellow hat
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Speaker 1: has been counting yellow flowers as they go. He's seen
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Speaker 1: three dandelions and four buttercups so far, and they only
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Speaker 1: have a few more steps to go until they're back
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Speaker 1: at home in the garden, so he's looking high and
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Speaker 1: low for just one more flower. He walks back towards
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Speaker 1: missus Bumble's cottage and peers through the fence to see
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Speaker 1: if she has any yellow flowers in her garden. There
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Speaker 1: are red roses climbing the wall and hanging baskets overflowing
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Speaker 1: with pink and purple flowers, and Snowball has just come
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Speaker 1: home and is settling herself gently beneath the star shaped
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Speaker 1: jasmine flowers. Once more for cats are never able to
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Speaker 1: get enough sleep. The tiny yellow hatted gnome walks further
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Speaker 1: still to Aunt Tillie's cottage and takes a quick peek
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Speaker 1: in there, still searching for yellow flowers, And there it is,
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Speaker 1: right in the middle of a perfect green lawn, is
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Speaker 1: a single yellow buttercup, freshly washed with morning dew. The
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Speaker 1: gnome has found eight yellow flowers, and he feels a
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Speaker 1: special rush of good luck. He'll save that up and
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Speaker 1: share it with the next clover or horseshoe or penny
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Speaker 1: he finds, And so the gnome heads back home and
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Speaker 1: finds the others. Beneath the forget me Not flowers. He
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Speaker 1: picks up a tiny rake that mister Featherman placed in
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Speaker 1: his hands just a few days before, and leans forward
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Speaker 1: as if ready to brush up any petals or leaves
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Speaker 1: that may fall to the ground. He gives his hat
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Speaker 1: an extra little shake to make sure it is pointing
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Speaker 1: in just the right direction, and smiles at the other
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Speaker 1: gnomes who were already in place, armed with their miniature
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Speaker 1: wheelbarrows and buckets and fishing rods. Some bees appear and
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Speaker 1: start buzzing around the flowers, and their gentle noise is
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Speaker 1: a soothing lullaby to the yellow hatted Gnome. The sun
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Speaker 1: feels warm on his face and his eyes slowly start
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Speaker 1: to close as he gently drifts to sleep, seeing if
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Speaker 1: he is able to reach eight sheep in his mind's
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Speaker 1: eye before he starts to dream. Here's the first sheep,
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Speaker 1: a soft, white, fluffy bundle, moving slowly across a field,
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Speaker 1: and the second sheep following in the path of the first.
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Speaker 1: There's the third sheep, head to the ground and eating
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Speaker 1: the grass as it goes. The fourth sheep moving even
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Speaker 1: slower than the others. The fifth sheep appears, taking a
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Speaker 1: moment to pause alongside a gathering of daisies. A sixth
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Speaker 1: sheep comes into view, a seventh sheep, and finally an
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Speaker 1: eighth sheep, fleece as fluffy and white as any of
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Speaker 1: the others, mouth to the ground and working its way
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Speaker 1: along through the grass. Eight lucky sheep are all it
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Speaker 1: takes for the little gnome to fall fast asleep beneath
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Speaker 1: the Forget Me Not flowers, safe in the corner of
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Speaker 1: mister Featherman's glorious garden. Eight lucky sheep to help him
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Speaker 1: drift into a land of dreams, where he finds fields
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Speaker 1: filled to the brim with four leaf clovers, and trips
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Speaker 1: over gleaming pennies eight lucky sheep, all white and fluffy,
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Speaker 1: waiting in the corner of a field to wander through
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Speaker 1: his mind's eye again the next night and help the
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Speaker 1: little gnome have the coziest, snugliest, most wonderful sleep in
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Speaker 1: all the world. Mu