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- Friendly: Once upon a time,
not long ago, and not far away,
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there was a friendly village
with crooked streets.
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And on the streets
paraded the animals,
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farm animals in the village.
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How many?
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One, two, three, four, five,
six, counting the duck,
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seven, counting the sheep,
and the little pig is eight.
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A calf and a...
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Nine, ten, eleven,
past the big house, to the boot.
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How many animals?
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Almost more than we could count.
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Now, look up, look way up.
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The streets were filled
with animals.
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A big parade, I think.
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How many?
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Did you count?
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Lots of animals.
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Well, let's go to the castle.
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I'll hurry over first
and go in the back door
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so that I can let the drawbridge
down
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and open the big front door
for you.
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Are you ready?
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Here's my castle.
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[whimsical music]
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Here we are, inside.
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And here's one little chair
for one of you,
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and a bigger chair for two more.
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And another chair.
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Now, look up, look way up.
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I'll whistle for Jerome.
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[whistles]
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[faint whistle]
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Jerome is a long way away,
isn't he?
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We could hardly hear him
whistle.
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He's a long way away.
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I'll whistle again.
[inhales]
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- Hello, Friendly.
- Oh, hello, Jerome.
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How are you?
- Fine, how are you?
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- We thought you were a long way
away
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because we could hardly hear you
whistle.
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- Well, I was a long way away.
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I was way over at the west gate
watching an airplane over there.
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- But you came in so quickly,
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I didn't have a chance
to whistle again.
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- Well, Friendly,
I'm very, very fast.
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- Oh, I see.
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- In fact, I'm fast as that
airplane I was watching.
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Yes!
- Really?
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- Mm-hmm.
- As fast as an airplane.
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- Mm-hmm, yes.
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How are you doing, Friendly?
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- I think maybe you're talking
just a little big.
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- Talking big?
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What do you mean?
- You know what I mean, Jerome.
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- What were you doing, Friendly?
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- We were in the village
before we came here.
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- Oh?
- Looking at all the animals.
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- All the animals?
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In the village?
- All the farm animals,
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dozens and dozens of them.
- Dozens and dozens of them?
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- Parading down the street.
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More animals
than we've seen before.
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- Oh, really, dozens and dozens?
- Mm-hmm.
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- You're sure you're not talking
a little big, Friendly?
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- Well, I didn't stop to count.
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Maybe there weren't quite
so many.
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- Maybe if you'd have counted,
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it wouldn't have come out
to be dozens and dozens.
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- Maybe I was exaggerating.
- Big talk?
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- That's what big talk is,
isn't it?
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Exaggerating, mm-hmm.
- Exaggerating.
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- There's a book about it.
- Oh, that's right.
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- Mm-hmm.
- That's right.
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- You know what the name
of the book is?
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- Uh...
I forgot.
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Oh, I know!
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Big Talk.
- Yes.
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- Big Talk.
- Big Talk.
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- Mm-hmm.
- See?
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And it isn't about a giant
and it isn't about a giraffe.
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It's about a big kangaroo.
- And a little kangaroo.
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- Friendly: A little kangaroo.
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And it's called Big Talk.
- Big Talk.
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- Mm-hmm.
- I remember that a little bit.
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- Let me get over here
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where everyone can see
all of the pictures.
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- I think--
Let's see.
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The little kangaroo says
all kinds of things.
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- Friendly: Don't tell too much,
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Jerome.
- Oh, I'm sorry.
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- Friendly: Because we want
to read the book.
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- That's right, I'm sorry.
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I didn't mean to tell anything.
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- Friendly: Can you see
the pictures now, Jerome?
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- Oh, yes.
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- Friendly: Big Talk.
- Jerome: Oh!
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- Friendly: Big Talk.
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And it's by Miriam Schlein.
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And the pictures
are by Harvey Weiss.
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And it's a William R. Scott
book.
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William R. Scott, it says.
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Now, "A little kangaroo
and a big kangaroo
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were holding a conversation."
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They were talking.
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"'How high can you jump?'
asked the big kangaroo.
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'I can jump as high as the sun,'
said the little one."
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- Jerome: Oh.
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- Friendly: "'How fast can you
run?' asked the big kangaroo.
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'I can run as fast as the wind,'
said the little one."
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Now, that's fast.
- Jerome: That's fast, mm-hmm.
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- Friendly:
"'How much can you drink?'
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'I can drink up the sea,'
said the little one."
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- Jerome: Oh, ho-ho!
- Friendly: That's the ocean.
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Look at the sailor
over here.
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He's rowing in a lifeboat
so that he won't be drunk up.
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"'How much can you eat?'
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'All the grass in the world.'"
- Jerome: Oh!
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- Friendly: That's a lot
of grass.
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- Jerome: That's a lot of grass.
- Friendly: "'Are you brave?'
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'As a lion,'
says the little kangaroo."
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He's scaring away two wild dogs,
wild animals.
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"'Are you tall?'
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'As a tree.'"
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He made himself tall.
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"'Have you a funny face?'"
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That's a funny question.
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"'Have you a funny face?'
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"'Ah,' said the little kangaroo.
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"My face is as funny as a
kookaburra and a koala bear
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dancing in the moonlight."
[Jerome laughs]
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And that's funny, isn't it?
- Jerome: Mm-hmm.
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- Friendly: "'Oh,'
said the big kangaroo.
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"'I'm glad you told me that
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"'because with all those
other things you told me,
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"'I wasn't sure.
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"'But now I know you're my own
little kangaroo.
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"Hop in!'
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"And the little kangaroo hopped
into the pouch.
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"'But you will,'
said his mother.
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"The little kangaroo peeked up.
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"'Will what?'
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"'Will be brave as a lion,
and grow tall as a tree,
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"and jump high as the sun,
and run fast as the wind.'
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"'Will I really?'
asked the little kangaroo.
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"'Oh, yes,' said his mother.
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"'I know.'
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"Ah,' said the little one
sleepily.
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"'I'm glad you told me that
because, you know,
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"I really wasn't so sure about
all those things myself.'
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And he fell sound asleep."
- Jerome: Oh!
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Friendly?
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The little kangaroo was really
talking big, wasn't he?
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- Yes, he was.
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And I think he knew it.
- Oh.
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But I can do some
of those things.
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- You can do--
- That said he could do.
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- You can do some of the things
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that the little kangaroo
said he could do?
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- Well, almost.
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I can jump very, very high.
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- Really?
- Mm-hmm.
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Not as high as the sun,
but very, very high.
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- Have you seen Jerome jump?
- Oh.
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- Show us, Jerome.
- Should I?
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All right.
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Now, I'll get set--
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- We'll see
if you're talking big.
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I'll count to three
and then you jump.
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- All right.
- Ready?
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- I'm ready.
- One, two, three.
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- Oh, my feet weren't right,
Friendly.
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Try it again.
- All right.
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You all ready now?
- I'm ready.
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- One, two-- oh!
- I slipped.
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- One, two, three!
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Oh, up he goes!
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And here he comes.
- Jerome: Ouch!
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- What did you say?
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- I said ouch, Friendly.
- Oh.
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- Oh, I think I could have
jumped higher.
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But I won't try again.
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My feet hurt when I come down.
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- You jump so high that when
you come down, your feet hurt.
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- Mm-hmm.
- Well, you did jump high,
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and I guess you weren't
talking big, were you?
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- And I can run too.
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- Fast as an airplane?
- Fast as an airplane, mm-hmm.
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- We'd like to see that.
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- Well, I think--
- How long would it take you
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to run around the castle?
- Around this castle?
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- Mm-hmm.
- Oh, if you counted to three,
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I'd be around and back.
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- One, two, three.
- One, two, three.
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- Oh, you'd hardly have time
to get started.
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Let me count to ten.
- I'm very fast.
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- Let me count to ten,
and you run around the castle.
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- All right.
- I think an airplane
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could go around the castle
while we counted.
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- You tell me when to start.
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- I'll say one, two, three, go,
and then I'll start to count.
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You ready?
- I'm ready.
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- One, two, three, go.
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One, two, three,
four, five,
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six, seven,
eight, nine.
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Nine and a half.
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Nine and three-quarters.
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Here he comes.
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Ten.
[Jerome gasps]
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You just made it, Jerome.
- Did I make it?
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- Just made it.
- Whew!
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- Just counted to ten
when you came.
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- Well, it's a little farther
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around the castle
than I thought, Friendly.
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- We had to count slowly
at the end.
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- Oh, oh, did you, really?
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Oh, well.
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- You didn't run quite as fast
as an airplane.
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- Well, I ran as fast as the
airplane I was watching before.
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- Really?
- Mm-hmm.
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I think it's still out here.
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There it is.
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- Oh, that kind of an airplane.
- Mm-hmm.
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- That's the kind
Jerome can run as fast as.
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- Yes, I can.
- I see.
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- I think.
- You watch over the castle
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after you're gone and you'll see
the kind of an airplane
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Jerome can run as fast as.
- Ooh.
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- You ready?
- I'm tired, Friendly.
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[gentle recorder music]
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[yawns]
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- Good night, Jerome.
- Good night, Friendly.
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- Friendly: It is late.
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This little chair will be
waiting for one of you,
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and the rocking chair
for another,
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and the big armchair
for two more to curl up in
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when you come again
to our castle.
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Now, I'll close
the big front doors
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and pull up the drawbridge
after you're gone.
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And you watch near the moon.
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Good night.
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Good night.
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[gentle music]