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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The tail of mister Jeremy Fisher. Once upon a time
there was a frog called mister Jeremy Fisher. He lived
in a little damp house amongst the buttercups, at the
edge of a pond. The water was all slippy, sloppy
in the larder and in the back passage. But mister
Jeremy liked getting his feet wet. Nobody ever scolded him,
and he never caught a cold. He was quite pleased

(00:23):
when he looked out and saw large drops of rain
splashing in the pond. I will get some worms and
go fishing and catch a dish of minnows for my dinner,
said mister Jeremy Fisher. If I catch more than five fish,
I will invite my friends mister Alderman, Ptolemy Tortoise, and
Sir Isaac Newton. The Alderman, however, eat solid. Mister Jeremy

(00:46):
put on a mackintosh and a pair of shiny goloshes.
He took his rod and basket and set off with
enormous hops to the place where he kept his boat.
The boat was round and green, and very like the
other lily leaves. It was tied to a water in
the middle of the pond. Mister Jeremy took a reed
pole and pushed the boat out into open water. I

(01:07):
know a good place for minnows, said mister Jeremy Fisher.
Mister Jeremy stuck his pole into the mud and fastened
the boat to it. Then he settled himself cross legged
and arranged his fishing tackle. He had the dearest little
red float. His rod was a tough stock of grass,
His line was a fine, long white horse hair, and
he tidy a little wriggling warm at the end. The

(01:29):
rain trickled down his back, and for nearly an hour
he stared at the float. This is getting tiresome. I
think I should like some lunch, said mister Jeremy Fisher.
He punted back again amongst the water plants and took
some lunch out of his basket. I will eat a
butterfly sandwich and wait till the shower is over, said

(01:49):
mister Jeremy Fisher. A great big water beetle came up
underneath the lily leaf and tweaked the toe of one
of his goloshes. Mister Jeremy crossed his legs up s
shorter out of reach, and went on eating his sandwich.
Once or twice, something moved about with a rustle and
a splash amongst the rushes at the side of the pond.

(02:11):
I trust that is not a rat, said mister Jeremy Fisher.
I think I had better get away from here. Mister
Jeremy shoved the boat out again a little way and
dropped in the bait. There was a bite almost directly
the float gave a tremendous bobbit A minnow. A minnow.
I have him by the nose, cried mister Jeremy Fisher,
jerking up his rod. But what a horrible surprise. Instead

(02:35):
of a smooth, fat minnow, mister Jeremy landed little jack sharp,
the stickleback covered with spines. The stickle back floundered about
the boat, pricking and snapping until he was quite out
of breath. Then he jumped back into the water. A
shoal of other little fishes put their heads out and
laughed at mister Jeremy Fisher. And while mister Jeremy sat

(02:57):
disconsolately on the edge of his boat, sucking his sore
fingers and peering down into the water, a much worse
thing happened. A really frightful thing it would have been
if mister Jeremy had not been wearing a macintosh. A great, big,
enormous trout came up cripple flop with a splash, and

(03:17):
it seized mister Jeremy with a snap ow ow ow,
and then it turned and dived down to the bottom
of the pond. But the trunk was so displeased with
the taste of the macintosh that in less than half
a minute it spat him out again, and the only
thing it swallowed was mister Jeremy's galoshes. Mister Jeremy bounced
up to the surface of the water like a cork

(03:39):
and the bubbles out of a soda water bottle, and
he swam with all his might to the edge of
the pond. He scrambled out on the first bank he
came to, and he hopped home across the meadow, with
his macintosh all in tatters. What a mercy that was,
naughty pike, said mister Jeremy, fisher, I have lost my
rotten basket, but it does not much matter, for I

(04:00):
am sure I should never have dared to go fishing again.
He put some sticking plaster on his fingers and his
friends both came to dinner. He could not offer them fish,
but he had something else in his larder. Sir Isaac
Newton wore his black and gold waistcoat, and mister Alderman
Poetolemy Tortoise brought a salad with him in a stringed bang,

(04:21):
and instead of a nice dish of minnows, they had
a roasted grasshopper with ladybird sauce, which frogs consider a
beautiful treat, but I think it must have been nasty.
And of the Tale of mister Jeremy Fisher by Beatrix
Potter
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