In tonight’s bedtime story for kids, we have a specially selected Koko rewind where we will travel off to a faraway land and meet a little snow bear called Snowbelle. One day, Snowbelle’s grandmother tells her a story about a friendly Yeti who she met years ago but has never seen since. Snowbelle hopes she will be lucky enough to meet a yeti one day, and to her surprise and delight, it’s not long before that happens. Relax, get sleepy, and let’s begin!
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Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome back to Coco's Sleep, a new podcast
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Speaker 1: of original children's bedtime stories and sleep meditations designed to
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Speaker 1: make bedtime a dream. Please don't forget to press subscribe
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Speaker 1: won't ever miss a story or bonus episode. Twice a
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Speaker 1: week on Sundays and Thursdays, a brand new story will
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Speaker 1: be available to help you settle down for the night
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Speaker 1: and easily drift off. Do you like playing Hide and Seek?
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Speaker 1: I thought so. It's also the game our two main
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Speaker 1: characters want to play when they first meet each other.
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Speaker 1: This is a beautiful story of unexpected friendship which is
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Speaker 1: full of laughter and fun. Snuggle down and let us
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Speaker 1: travel off now to a far away land and meet
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Speaker 1: a little snow bear called snow Bell. One day, snow
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Speaker 1: Bell's grandmother tells her a story about a friendly Yeti
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Speaker 1: who she met years ago but has never seen since.
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Speaker 1: Snow Bell hope she will be lucky enough to meet
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Speaker 1: Yeti one day, and to her surprise and delight, it's
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Speaker 1: not long before that happens. This is The Yeti and
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Speaker 1: the snow Bear by Gillian Rogerson. In a land far
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Speaker 1: far away, there lived a family of snow bears. They
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Speaker 1: looked very much like polar bears, but there was something
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Speaker 1: magical about them. The snow bears had black noses, just
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Speaker 1: slipolar bears, but with a blink of their dark eyes,
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Speaker 1: they could make their noses turn white, and once that happened,
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Speaker 1: the snow bears became invisible. The magical bears loved making
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Speaker 1: themselves invisible, which probably explains why hardly anyone has ever
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Speaker 1: seen them. They weren't the only animals who were hard
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Speaker 1: to find, As the youngest snow bear of the family,
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Speaker 1: Snowbell was about to find out. The snow Bear family
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Speaker 1: had been out swimming all afternoon, and when they returned home,
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Speaker 1: they decided to snuggle up together inside their beautiful snowhouse
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Speaker 1: and tell each other's stories. Snowbell loved listening to stories,
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Speaker 1: especially ones told by her grandmother because she knew all
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Speaker 1: the best ones. Inside the snowhouse, snow Bell's father made
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Speaker 1: everyone a hot mug of cocoa and then asked who
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Speaker 1: wanted to tell the first story. To snow Bell's delight,
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Speaker 1: her grandmother said she would start the storytelling session. Snow
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Speaker 1: Bell wrapped her paws around her hot drink and waited
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Speaker 1: for her grandmother to begin. Snow Bell's grandmother gazed dreamily
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Speaker 1: out of the window. She said, it was on a
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Speaker 1: day like this when I met a Yetti. I was
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Speaker 1: about your age, snow Bell. The snow was falling in
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Speaker 1: the same fluttering kind of way as it is now,
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Speaker 1: and the wind was brisk, and it blew some of
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Speaker 1: the snow into small hills. As you all know, I
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Speaker 1: love going for a long walk through the snow. I
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Speaker 1: can walk for miles and miles somedays. On that day
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Speaker 1: long ago, my family and I were out for a walk.
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Speaker 1: I saw a snow hill ahead of us, and I
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Speaker 1: just had to run up to it. So up I went.
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Speaker 1: When I got to the top, I sat down and
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Speaker 1: slid down the other side. When I reached the bottom,
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Speaker 1: I saw the Yeti. Snowbell had never heard of a
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Speaker 1: yeti before and asked her grandmother what it was. Her
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Speaker 1: grandmother explained that the Yeti looked a bit like a
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Speaker 1: human being, but also like an animal who lived in
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Speaker 1: the snow. He had gray fur and was about her size.
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Speaker 1: He looked so friendly that they started to chat. They
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Speaker 1: played in the snow together for a while, but then
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Speaker 1: her family called out for her from the other side
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Speaker 1: of the snow hill. She ran half way up the
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Speaker 1: hill called back to them to let them know where
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Speaker 1: she was. When she looked back, the Yetti had gone.
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Speaker 1: He'd left his footprints behind in the snow, but the
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Speaker 1: snow started to fall and quickly covered them up. Snowbirll's
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Speaker 1: grandmother smiled softly at the memory. She said, I'll never
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Speaker 1: forget the YETI and how friendly he was. And I'll
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Speaker 1: never forget what his footprints looked like either. They were
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Speaker 1: like ours, but his toes were longer. I look out
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Speaker 1: for them every time I go for a walk, but
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Speaker 1: I've never found them again. Maybe one day I will,
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Speaker 1: or maybe you will. Snowbell. The thought of seeing the
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Speaker 1: mysterious YETI made the little snowbar smile. She very much
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Speaker 1: hoped she would see one. She asked the rest of
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Speaker 1: her family if they'd ever seen a yety. No one had,
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Speaker 1: but Little snow Bell had a feeling she would see
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Speaker 1: a YETI one day. That day came sooner than she thought.
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Speaker 1: Two days later, snow Bell was out walking with her family.
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Speaker 1: The snow had fallen thickly earlier, and the brisk wind
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Speaker 1: had blown some of the snow into little hills. Her
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Speaker 1: family decided to take a rest from their stroll and
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Speaker 1: to enjoy the picnic they had brought with them. Whilst
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Speaker 1: the food was being unpacked, snow Bell started to explore
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Speaker 1: the nearby area and she saw a snow hill. She
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Speaker 1: ran up it, and when she got to the top,
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Speaker 1: she sat on her bottom and slid down the other side.
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Speaker 1: It was great fun. Snow Bell was about to slide
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Speaker 1: down the hill again, but then she spotted something peculiar
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Speaker 1: in the snow footprints. They were about her size, but
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Speaker 1: the tow prints were longer. Snow Bell looked closer and
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Speaker 1: wondered if they had been made by Ayetti. The little
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Speaker 1: bear looked along the snow covered ground and saw more footprints.
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Speaker 1: She followed them and walked towards an oak tree that
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Speaker 1: had branches heavy with snow. When snow Bell reached the tree,
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Speaker 1: the footprint suddenly stopped. Her little fury face wrinkled up
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Speaker 1: in confusion. A small giggle came from above her. Snow
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Speaker 1: Bell looked up at the tree. There was so much
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Speaker 1: snow on it that she couldn't see past the first
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Speaker 1: few branches. Snow Bell cooled out a hello. She waited.
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Speaker 1: No one replied, Perhaps she had imagined hearing a giggle.
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Speaker 1: She looked behind her at the unusual footprints they had disappeared.
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Speaker 1: Snowbell shook her head. She said to herself, what is
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Speaker 1: going on here? Footprints don't disappear like that. There was
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Speaker 1: another giggle above her. Snow Bell heard it. Clearly someone
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Speaker 1: was playing a fun game with her. She smiled, she
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Speaker 1: knew a fun game too. Very loudly, she said, if
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Speaker 1: there's nothing else to see here, I may as well
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Speaker 1: make myself vanish. She turned her black nose white and
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Speaker 1: immediately became invisible. There was a movement in the tree above,
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Speaker 1: and bits of snow fluttered down from the branches, as
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Speaker 1: if someone was moving along them. Snow Bell stayed as
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Speaker 1: still as she could. She heard a soft thud as
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Speaker 1: someone landed next to her. Her voice muttered, where did
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Speaker 1: that polar bear go? She was just here. Polar bears
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Speaker 1: don't disappear like that. Snow Bell tried hard not to giggle,
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Speaker 1: but she couldn't help herself, and a little chuckle came
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Speaker 1: from her. She made her nose turn back to black
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Speaker 1: and became visible again. She said, softly, boo, I'm right
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Speaker 1: here in front of her stood a young creature who
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Speaker 1: looked like a human being but also like an animal.
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Speaker 1: He had pale gray fur and light brown eyes. He
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Speaker 1: had such a kind face that snow Bell knew immediately
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Speaker 1: that she liked him. She asked, oh, are you a
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Speaker 1: YETI He nodded and said, how did you make yourself
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Speaker 1: disappear like that? I didn't know polar bears could do that.
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Speaker 1: Snow Bell told him she wasn't a polar bear, she
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Speaker 1: was a snow bear. The little Yetti shook his head
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Speaker 1: and said there were no such thing as snow bears.
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Speaker 1: His granddad had told him once that he'd met a
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Speaker 1: snowbar when he was young, but no one else had
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Speaker 1: seen the bear, and some yeties thought his granddad had
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Speaker 1: made up the story. The Yetti said, my granddad loves
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Speaker 1: making up stories. Sometimes they're real and sometimes they're not.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to believe his story about the snow bear,
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Speaker 1: but because no one else had ever seen one, I
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Speaker 1: didn't think they were real. He smiled at snow Bell
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Speaker 1: and said, I'm glad you are real. My name is Littlefoot.
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Speaker 1: What's yours? Snow Bell told him. She said her grandmother
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Speaker 1: had met a Yeti when she was young, and perhaps
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Speaker 1: she had met Little Fittz's granddad. Maybe they did meet
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Speaker 1: each other, Little Fritz said, with a smile. Snowbell pointed
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Speaker 1: to the snow and asked why his footprints had disappeared.
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Speaker 1: Littlefoot shrugged and said it was just something his footprints did.
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Speaker 1: It happened with all yetties. He asked how she'd made
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Speaker 1: herself invisible, and Snowbell shrugged and said it was just
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Speaker 1: something snowbears did. Littlefoot asked her to do it again,
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Speaker 1: so Snowbell did so. Then she asked him to make
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Speaker 1: his footprints disappear again. Littlefoot raced around the oak tree
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Speaker 1: ten times as fast as he could. He left behind
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Speaker 1: dozens of footprints. Snow Bell watched in amazement as each
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Speaker 1: yetty footprint completely vanished and the snow was smooth again.
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Speaker 1: Littlefoot grin and said they should play a game together,
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Speaker 1: and he knew the perfect one. Snowbell said she did too.
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Speaker 1: At the same time, they both said hide and seek.
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Speaker 1: They agreed Snowbell should hide first. Littlefoot turned his face
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Speaker 1: to the tree, closed his eyes and began to count.
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Speaker 1: Snowbell moved over to the snow hill, changed the color
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Speaker 1: of her nose had made herself invisible. When Littlefoot had
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Speaker 1: counted to ten, she saw him walking through the snow
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Speaker 1: and muttering to himself, wondering where she'd gone. She tried
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Speaker 1: very very hard not to giggle, but she couldn't help herself.
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Speaker 1: Littlefot heard her game and ran over to her. She
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Speaker 1: became visible again and smiled at him. He said, found
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Speaker 1: you were very good at hiding. My turn now. Snowbell
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Speaker 1: turned around, closed her eyes, and counted to ten. When
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Speaker 1: she turned back around, she saw little Foot's prints in
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Speaker 1: the snow. He would be easy to find, she thought,
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Speaker 1: But before she could follow his prince, they started to vanish.
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Speaker 1: In seconds, they were all gone. Snow Bell began to
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Speaker 1: search for him. She hadn't been looking for long before
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Speaker 1: she heard little Foot's giggle. He was a funny giggle,
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Speaker 1: and it made her laugh too. She followed the noise
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Speaker 1: and found the little yette hiding behind a fallen log.
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Speaker 1: Snowbell said, found you. I don't think we should play
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Speaker 1: this again because we keep laughing. You've got a funny laugh.
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Speaker 1: Littlefoot chuckled and said, Snowbell had a funny laugh too.
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Speaker 1: They began to laugh more and more, and hearing the
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Speaker 1: other one laugh made them giggle and chuckle over and
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Speaker 1: over again. They held onto their tummies as they laughed.
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Speaker 1: Littlefoot laughed so much that he fell over and landed
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Speaker 1: softly on his back in the thick snow. He kicked
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Speaker 1: his little legs happily in the air. Seeing him like
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Speaker 1: that made Snowbell gig or more until she fell over.
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Speaker 1: To the snow Bear and the Yetti kicked their legs
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Speaker 1: joyfully in the air and laughed and laughed. When all
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Speaker 1: their laughter had come out for the time being at least,
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Speaker 1: Snowbell asked Littlefoot if he knew any other games. Littlefoot
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Speaker 1: asked if she'd ever made rainbow snowballs before. She hadn't,
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Speaker 1: and asked her new friend how to make them. The
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Speaker 1: young Yetti got up. He held his hand out a
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Speaker 1: snowbell and helped her to her feet. He said, we
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Speaker 1: have to find the rainbow snow first. When snowfalls during
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Speaker 1: a full moon, the moonbeams magically turn it into different colors,
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Speaker 1: But when the sun shines on the snow in the morning,
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Speaker 1: the snow turns back into its normal color. Snowbell said, Oh,
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Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Can you only find the magic
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Speaker 1: snow at nighttime. Then the Yetty whispered. Sometimes the rainbow
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Speaker 1: snow gets covered up with the other snow before the
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Speaker 1: sun reaches it. If you're quick enough and know where
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Speaker 1: to look, you'll find it. I know where to find some.
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Speaker 1: Would you like to see it? Snow Bell didn't know
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Speaker 1: why little Foot was whispering, but she felt like she
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Speaker 1: should too. In a low whisper, she said, I would
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Speaker 1: love to see the rainbow snow. Little Foot told snow
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Speaker 1: Bell to follow him. As they walked along, snow Bell
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Speaker 1: stepped in the Yeties' footprints. Their feet were the same sighs,
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Speaker 1: but their toes were different. Snowbell pointed the double prince
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Speaker 1: out to her new friend, and they stopped for a
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Speaker 1: moment to look at them. The Yeties prince disappeared, leaving
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Speaker 1: only snowbells behind. Littlefoot smiled at the snow bear and said,
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Speaker 1: my prince will always be there with yours, even if
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Speaker 1: we can't see them. Snowbell smiled and said that was
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Speaker 1: a lovely thought. They reached a large rock. Littlefoot knelt
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Speaker 1: next to it and began to scoop some of the
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Speaker 1: top snow away. Snow Bell knelt next to him and
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Speaker 1: did the same. As they scooped the snow away, the
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Speaker 1: little bear started to sing a song her grandmother had
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Speaker 1: taught her. The yetty looked at her in surprise and
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Speaker 1: said he knew that song too, his granddad had taught
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Speaker 1: him it. They decided their grandparents must have met all
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Speaker 1: those years ago, and imagined them singing together as they
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Speaker 1: played in the snow. Littlefoot and snow Bell sang together
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Speaker 1: happily and continued clearing the snow away. Snow Bell was
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Speaker 1: having such a good time that she quite forgot what
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Speaker 1: they were looking for, until Littlefoot started to whisper again.
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Speaker 1: Snow Bell, look there it is. Snow Bell gazed down
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Speaker 1: in wonder at the rainbow snow beneath her paws. A
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Speaker 1: wide line of snow was colored in bright shades of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo,
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Speaker 1: and violet. Snow Bell said it looked like a rainbow
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Speaker 1: who drifted from the sky and was having a peaceful
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Speaker 1: sleep in the snow. Littlefoot said he'd never thought about
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Speaker 1: the rainbow snow that way before, but agreed with snow
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Speaker 1: Bell that it did look like a sleeping rainbow. Snow
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Speaker 1: Bell gently put her paw into the tea colored snow.
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Speaker 1: She giggled and said, if this is is it supposed
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Speaker 1: to do that? Littlefoot nodded. He said you should see
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Speaker 1: what else it does. Let's make some rainbow snowballs together
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Speaker 1: and I'll show you what to do with them. The
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Speaker 1: friends made as many snowballs as they could carry. The
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Speaker 1: little yetti covered the special snow back up in case
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Speaker 1: they needed some more. Later, Littlefoot walked away from the
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Speaker 1: rock and asked Snowball not to move. He said he
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Speaker 1: was going to throw a rainbow snowball at her tummy,
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Speaker 1: but she wasn't to worry because it wouldn't hurt at
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Speaker 1: all and something magical would happen. When the snow snowball
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Speaker 1: landed on her, Snowbell nodded, put her snowballs down and
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Speaker 1: said she was ready. Littlefoot through his first rainbow snowball.
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Speaker 1: It aarked gracefully through the air before flying towards snow Bell.
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Speaker 1: The snow landed gently on her tummy and began to
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Speaker 1: pop like bubbles in a bath. Pop pop pop. With
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Speaker 1: a giggle, the snow bear said it tickles. Throw another one,
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Speaker 1: Littlefoot did, and every time a magical snowball landed on Snowbell.
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Speaker 1: She chuckled and chortled because it tickled so much. When
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Speaker 1: Littlefoot had thrown his last snowball, the little Snowbar said
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Speaker 1: she would throw one at him. Snow Bell threw her
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Speaker 1: first one his sword towards Littlefoot and knocked him over.
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Speaker 1: He fell backwards on to the soft snow and started
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Speaker 1: to laugh. Snow Bell ran over to him and said sorry,
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Speaker 1: she didn't know she was so strong. The yetty said
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Speaker 1: there was no need to apologize because it didn't hurt
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Speaker 1: at all and it was fun to fall on to
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Speaker 1: the snow. He told her to throw more at him
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Speaker 1: and see if she could knock him over again. Snow
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Speaker 1: Bell did knock him over again and again, and every
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Speaker 1: time he fell down. Littlefoot would laugh loudly because the
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Speaker 1: popping snow would pop and tickle his tommy. Hearing him
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Speaker 1: laugh made snow Bell giggle too. The Little snow Bear
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Speaker 1: soon ran out of rainbow snowballs, so she returned to
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Speaker 1: the big Rock with her friend, gathered more snow, and
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Speaker 1: made plenty more. Littlefoot said they could do more amazing
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Speaker 1: things with the magical snow. He stood away from the
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Speaker 1: bear and told her to watch him. He collected a
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Speaker 1: handful of snowballs and began to juggle them. As he
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Speaker 1: did so, tiny rainbow colored snowflakes drifted from the snow
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Speaker 1: and floated upwards. When they got higher, the snowflakes joined
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Speaker 1: together and made a huge floating rainbow. Rays of sunlight
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Speaker 1: shone down through the rainbow and made it glimmer and shimmer.
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Speaker 1: The colors slowly faded from it, and the snowy rainbow
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Speaker 1: turned silver before completely disappearing. Littlefoot told snow Bell to
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Speaker 1: do some juggling too. She said she'd never done it
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Speaker 1: before and wasn't sure she'd be any good. Of course
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Speaker 1: you will, Littlefoot said, I wasn't very good when I
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Speaker 1: first started, but I kept practicing until I could do it.
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Speaker 1: Watch what I do again, and copy me. Snow Bell
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Speaker 1: watched the yetty carefully. When she thought she was ready,
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Speaker 1: she began to juggle the snowballs. She dropped a few
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Speaker 1: at first, but she soon got better, and before long,
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Speaker 1: tiny rain colored snowflakes drifted upwards from the snow and
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Speaker 1: made a snow rainbow in the sky. Littlefoot told snow
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Speaker 1: Bell she was an excellent juggler, and she replied he
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Speaker 1: was an excellent teacher. The yetty had something else to
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Speaker 1: show snow Bell. He took her over to the oak
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Speaker 1: tree and showed her how to throw the special snowballs
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Speaker 1: on to the branches so that they would stay there
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Speaker 1: and not fall off again. She copied his movements exactly.
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Speaker 1: The snow Bear and the yetty concentrated on throwing the
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Speaker 1: snowballs up onto the tree, where they rested lightly on
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Speaker 1: the branches. When all the snowballs had been thrown, Littlefoot
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Speaker 1: took Snowbell by the poor and asked her to stand
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Speaker 1: beneath the tree with him. The two friends stood under
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Speaker 1: the tree. Littlefoot looked up through the branches as if
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Speaker 1: waiting for something to happen. Snow Bell looked up too,
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Speaker 1: even though she didn't know what they were waiting for.
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Speaker 1: A few seconds later, something magical happened. Rainbow colored snowflakes
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Speaker 1: began to fall from the tree, and not just from
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Speaker 1: the branches where the snowballs had landed, but from every
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Speaker 1: branch on the tree. Down and down, the flakes fluttered silently.
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Speaker 1: They fell from every twig and branch and surrounded the
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Speaker 1: tree like a rainbow waterfall. Snowbell looked at the falling
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Speaker 1: flakes in complete wonder. Each snowflake was different to the
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Speaker 1: one next to it. The bright colors sparkled in the
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Speaker 1: light of the sun red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.
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Speaker 1: Snowbell turned slowly around and watched the flakes falling like
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Speaker 1: a sparkling curtain of color. She said to Littlefoot, I
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Speaker 1: feel like I'm inside a magical rainbow. He's beautiful. Thank
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Speaker 1: you for showing me this. Littlefoot smiled and said she
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Speaker 1: was very welcome. They watched the falling snow in silence.
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Speaker 1: As the flakes landed on the ground, they sparkled brightly
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Speaker 1: and then turned into white snowflakes. The last of the
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Speaker 1: rainbow snow fell. Snowbell yawned and said watching all those
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Speaker 1: beautiful snowflakes that made her tired. She said, I might
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Speaker 1: have to go back to my snow house soon and
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Speaker 1: get into my bed. Littlefoot gave her a puzzled look
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Speaker 1: and asked what a snow house was. It's where I live,
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Speaker 1: snow Bell explained, don't you live in houses. Littlefoot shook
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Speaker 1: his head and said he lived in a cave at
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Speaker 1: the top of the mountains. All the yetties lived in caves.
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Speaker 1: He asked more about her snow house and what it
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Speaker 1: looked like. Snow Bell said, would you like to make
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Speaker 1: one with me? We can make a small one and
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Speaker 1: it won't take long. Littlefoot said he would love that,
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Speaker 1: and together, the snow Bear and the yetty built a
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Speaker 1: cozy snow house, complete with two windows and an open doorway.
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Speaker 1: They snuggled down inside it and smiled at each other.
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Speaker 1: Snow Bell said, I'm glad we met. We two, Littlefoot replied.
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Speaker 1: The two new friends smiled again, and then closed their
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Speaker 1: tired eyes. The youngsters fell asleep. A minute later, another
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Speaker 1: snowbar slid down the same hill that snow Bell had
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Speaker 1: gone down earlier. It was snow Bell's grandmother. She was
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Speaker 1: looking for her granddaughter when she saw snow Bell and
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Speaker 1: her new friend fast asleep in the little snow house.
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Speaker 1: Her heart filled with love. She was glad snow Bell
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Speaker 1: had met. She gazed at them with love. Someone moved
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Speaker 1: over to her and looked at the sleeping infants too.
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Speaker 1: It was Littlefoot's grandfather. He smiled at Snowbell's grandmother and
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Speaker 1: said it was wonderful to meet her again after all
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Speaker 1: these years. The rest of snow Bell's family slid down
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Speaker 1: the hill, and the other members of Littlefoot's family walked
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Speaker 1: out from behind the trees. Once they'd made sure the
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Speaker 1: little ones were sleeping soundly, they introduced themselves to each
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Speaker 1: other and began chatting about many things. The yetties told
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Speaker 1: the snow bears about the magical rainbow snow and showed
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Speaker 1: them what it did. The snow bears talked about their
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Speaker 1: snow homes and then helped the yetties to make some
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Speaker 1: The families chatted happily with each other, and whilst they
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Speaker 1: had their differences, they had lots in common to especially
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Speaker 1: how much they loved their children. The sky grew darker
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Speaker 1: and stars appeared. The families talked a bit more quietly
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Speaker 1: and said, now that they'd met each other, they would
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Speaker 1: make sure they would meet again very soon. They placed
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Speaker 1: some markers on trees and rocks so that they would
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Speaker 1: know where to find each other in the future. The
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Speaker 1: full moon appeared, and dancing sheets of green, blue, and
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Speaker 1: purple weaved back and forth across the dark sky. The
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Speaker 1: two families sat down in the snow together and watched
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Speaker 1: the magical dancing lights. One by one, they began to yawn.
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Speaker 1: They decided a night under the stars with their new
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Speaker 1: friends would be quite wonderful. The snow bears and the
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Speaker 1: yetties lay down on the snow, said good night to
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Speaker 1: each other, and fell into a peaceful slumber. Near By,
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Speaker 1: Snowbell and her new friend Littlefoot was still fast asleep.
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Speaker 1: The little snow bear dreamed about her new friend with
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Speaker 1: the kind face. Littlefoot dreamed about the smiling snow bear
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Speaker 1: who could make herself invisible. The two friends sighed happily
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Speaker 1: and drifted into a deeper sleep.