10.25.25 - Part 2

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hello, and welcome to Raio Ice turned Story Hour as
a reminder of radio ace and reading service intended for
people who are blinder of other dispilies that make it
difficult to reprinted material. Today we will be reading from
various books on Halloween. Your reader today is dying. Our
first story is Humbug Witch. It was published by Humbug Books.

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Its copyright is nineteen sixty five to nineteen ninety two
and it was written by Lorna Bay Aileen. There was
this switch, and all of her was little, except her
nose that was very big. She had two crooked teeth
and long, streamy red hair. It was so long she

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kept tripping over it. She wore a slightly squashed, tall
black pointed hat like witches always wear, orange gloves, a
handnit black wolfsh y'all, an old plaid apron red and
white striped stike striped stockings, and funny looking black shoes
with gold buckles on them. She had a good sturdy

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broom and a black cat named Fred.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
You can see for yourself. She was truly a frightening looking,
horrible witchy witch. But when she tried to do things,
they never worked the way they were supposed to for witches,
like when she wanted to laugh wickedly and scare everyone,
and never sounded cockle cackle, cackle. It always sounded giggle, giggle, giggle,

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Or like when she wanted to go to Portugal or
Chicago or to the next door neighbors. She would climb
on her good sturdy room room and say all sorts
of magic words and wait a few minutes, and nothing
would happen. Then she would juggle her good sturdy broom
and say more magical magical words, real loud, and wait

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a long time, and still nothing would happen, nothing at all.
The broom would not move an inch. When she wanted
to turn Fred into an alligator or a hippopotamus or
a candy bar, she would get down on her hands
and knees and look for its square in the eye
and say all kinds of magic words and wait and wait.

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But Fred estayed a cat. When she wanted to cook
up a batch of magic potion, she would dump all
the very best things in her very best kettle, things
like sour milk, paperrika, molasses, prune picks, eggshells, hair, tonic,
apple peelings, pickle juice, cinnamon, genuine rainwater, cough syrup and

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peanut butter, and she would stir it and stir it
and stir it, and sell the magic words she could
think of, and then she would stir it some more.
It sizzled a little, but it never got smoky or
bubbly or exploded like magic potions are supposed to do.
All it did was make Fred terribly sick to his stomach.

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She finally decided it was just no use. She stood
her good, sturdy broom in the corner. She took off
her funny looking black shoes with the gold buckles. She
took off her plaid apron. She took off her handknit
black woolshawl. She took off her slightly squashed, tall black
pointed hat. She took off her orange gloves, and she

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took off her long, streaming red hair. She took off
her mask and went to bed, So did Fred. Our
next book is titled Ghostly Towns and it was published
by Bareport Publishing. It has a copyright year of two

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thoy seventeen and the author is Joyce Mark koe Vics.
Ghostly Towns you see crumbling buildings, swallowed by weeds, shards
of glass, just out of empty windows. The wind whips
up a cloud of dust. There isn't a soul in sight, then,
why does it feel like someone is watching you? Could

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someone or something be living in this eerie town forgotten
by time? Get ready to read four haunting tales about
ghostly towns. Turn the page if you have the nerve.
Forever in Flames, Cinerella, Pennsylvania. Cinterella was once a busy
mining town. Now it's silent and deserted. Why a mysterious

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fire has been burning there for fifty years. In nineteen
sixty two, a fire would start in the town dump
The blaze silently spread below ground. It caused the coinerby
underground mines to burst into flames. Over time, the underground
blaze grew bigger and hotter, toks that gases gush from

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cracks in the earth. Residents were forced to abandon their
homes and town. The fire caused a huge sinko to
open in the town and nearly swallowed a small boy. Today,
the ground is hot to the touch in parts of Cinerella.
Many trees have shriveled and died. Some believe the town
is doomed to burn forever. A wicked sheriff. Bannock, Montana.

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A restless spirit is said to haunt the abandoned town
of Panic could be the ghost of the town's infamous sheriff.
In eighteen sixty two, go was found your Bannock. The
discovery drew thousands of people and a wave of crime.
To fight the crime, the townspeople chose a new sheriff,
Henry Plumber. Unfortunately had a secret, evil past before he

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became sheriff. Henry Plumber had been in jail for murder.
After Henry became sheriff, crime only got worse. Hundreds were
found dead. Henry is thought to be the leader of
a gang of murderers. In eighteen sixty four, he was
hanged by an angry mob. Today's ghost is said to
wonder Bannock's empty streets. The village of Death, Layland, Wales.

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In the sixteen hundreds, a ship sank off the coast
of Wales. Most of the crew died in the icy waters.
However a few survived. They were then rescued by the
villagers of Langland. The villagers tried to nurse the sailors,
but the men soon died. Then, one by one, all
the villagers got sick and died too. The sailors had

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given them the plague. After that, the town fell into ruin.
The plague is a daily disease. It can kill a
person within twenty four hours. On stormy nights near Leyland,
a woman in white has been sobbing. Perhaps she is
cried for all those who died in eerie orb O
cala Oba, Alabama, oh Kalaba was once the capital of Alabama.

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It's now the most famous ghost town in the South.
Many people have been have seen strange things, things that
cannot be explained. On a moonlit nine in eighteen sixty two,
a young couple went to the home of c See Pigs,
a colonel who had recently died. They walked through a
maize in his garden. In the center of the maze,

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they spoiled it a large white ball of light. The
orb floated and then darted around. When they tried to
touch it, it flew away. The couple was filled with fear.
Since that night, many have reported seen the same white orb.
Could it be the lost spirit of the colonel. The
town has been struck by lightning hundreds of times. Some

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call it the curse of Caliba. Our next set of
stories are about national parks. The first one is yellow
Stone National Park and it was published by Children's Press,
an imprint of Scholastic Incorporated. Has a copyright year of
twenty eighteen and the author is Odra Wiless. Welcome to

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Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone was America's first ever national park.
People visit national parks to explore nature. Yellowstone was established
in eighteen seventy two. It is mostly in Wyoming. Parts
of it are also in Idaho and Montana. It has lakes,
forest and mountains. Millions a week ago volcanoes helped form Yellowstone.

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The volcanoes erupted and lava float out. As the lava cooled,
it hardened into rocks. This happened over and over. The
rocks became Yellowstones, mountains, and canyons. Mount Washburn is a
volcano in Yellowstone. It lasts erupted hundreds of thousands of
years ago. Chapter one Steaming Spring red hot magma from

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Yellowstone's volcano still boils right below the park surface. It
creates the hot springs, geysers, and mud pods that make
the park famous. Hot springs are boiling pools of water.
They form when water from rain and snow seeps underground.
Magma heats the water. The hot water bubbles back to
the surface. It rises through hose in the ground. There

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are thousands of hot springs in yellow Stone. The Mammoth
Hot Springs area has many pools of water. There are
a lot of minerals in the water. When the water pools,
the minerals are left behind. The minerals harden. They build
up near the pools. They form layers that look like steps.
The colors of the water come from tiny creatures living

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in it. Two gushing geysers. A geyser is a type
of hot spring, but with a geyser. At times, the
water bursts into the sky like a fountain. They're about
five hundred geysers in Yellowstone. That is more than any
other place on Earth. Steamboat Geyser is the tallest geyser

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in the park. It is also the tallest in the world.
Geysers shoot steam and hot water. They shoot. The Steamboat
Geyser shoots up to three hundred feet in the air.
That is as high as a stack of thirty school buses.
Old Faithful is another famous geyser. It erupts about every

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sixty to one hundred minutes. That is how it is
got its name. The word faithful describes someone or something
you can depend on. In the late eighteen hundred, soldiers
watch their dirty clothes in Old Faithful. Chapter three, Mega
mud puddle puddles. Visit Yellowstone, you may see people holding

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their noses. Why some parts of the park's smell like
rotten eggs. The smell comes from pools of water called mudpots.
Mudpots are brown and goofy and very hot. The water
inside them is mixed with clay gases make the mud
pots bubble. Do not even think about making mud pie

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with this stuff in the mud in some pots is
hotter than one hundred and fifty degrees fahrenheit. The mudpots
have fun names like mud volcano and artists paint pots.
But watch out. Mud pots can explode. Some shoot hot
mud up to fifteen feet in the air. One mudpot

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called Black Dragon's Cauldron burst in nineteen forty eight and
knock down trees and covered a forest in thick mud.
What a miss. Mudpots are well nuddy because they do
not contain a lot of water. Chapter four. That's wild.
Yellowstone is home to many animals and plants, bison, grizzlies,

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and gray wolves are its most famous animals. All of
them were once in danger of dying out, but they
have all made big comebacks in the park. Bison are
the easiest to spot. They are the biggest land animals
in North America. There are sometimes called buffalo, but bison
and buffalo are different animals. Grizzly bears were once found

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across the United States. Today, Yellowstone is one of the
few places where wild grizzlies live. About one hundred gray
wolves proud of the park. A long time ago, people
killed all of the gray wolves in Yellowstone. In nineteen
ninety five, they were brought back to the park. Both
grizzlies and gray wolves hunt elk. Grizzly search for berries

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to gobble up. Most of the trees in Yellowstone are
conifers or evergreens in spring, while flowers fill the landscape
with the rainbow of colors. About four million people go
to the park each year. They gaze at wall flowers
and waterfalls. They hide to mountains in mudpots. They wraft

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down the Yellowstone River. No wonder Yellowstone is such a
hot spot to visit. There's so much to see and
do in Yellowstone. Imagine you could visit Yellowstone, what would
you do there? Here are just some of the incredible
animals that make their home in Yellowstone. Bison, gray wolf,

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prairie dog, grizzly bear, yellowstone cutthroat trout, bald eagle, mountain lion, badger, elk,
red fox, trumpeter swane. Wild Life by the numbers, The
park is home to about two hundred eighty five species
of birds, sixty seven species of mammals, eleven species of

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reptiles and amphibians, sixteen species of fish. Our next book
is titled Great Smoky Mountains National Park and it was
published by Children's Press and Imprint of Scholastic. It's a
copyright year of twenty eighteen and the author is Elisa M. Harrington.

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Welcome to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Great Smoky
Mountains became a national park in nineteen thirty four. People
visit parks like this one takes for nature. This park
is named for the mountains that roll across the land.
It lies on the border between North Carolina and Tennessee.

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This is the most visited national park in the country.
It is easy to see why people are drawn to
its thick forest and gentle streams. They come for its
sparkling waterfalls, beautiful wallflowers, and a amazing animals. This park
gets more than ten million visitors a year. Along the

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train passes under Grotto Falls, it is delivering supplies to
a guest lodge in the park. Chapter one, Misty Mountains.
Can you guess how the Great Smoky Mountains got their name?
Look at the fog hanging over the mountain peaks. Millions
of trees in the era give off water that helps

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form the fog. From a distance, it looks like smoke.
So the mountains are nicknamed the Smokies. They are a
part of the Appalachian Mountain range. The Appalachians room from
Canada to Alabama. Talk about big. This park covers more
than half a million acres. That is an area almost

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the size of Rhode Island. Some of the oldest mountains
on Earth are here. Scientists believe the Smokies used to
be taller, wind water and ice wore down their peaks
over time. The Smokies have gentler peaks in the mountains
in the west. The Little River in Tennessee is sixty
miles long. About one third of it runs through the park.

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Chapter two left six floor. Most people drive through the park.
It has more than three hundred and eighty miles of
scenic roads. A popular spot is Clean and Stone. It's
the highest point in the park. Visitors can climb to
a tower at the top that's great views on clear days.
It is six thousand, six hundred and forty three feet high.

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That is as tall as a stack of twenty two
statues of Liberty. There's a lot took floor on foot
as well. The park is filled with more than eight
hundred and fifty miles of hiking trails. In fall, they
will take you through trees bursting with color and spring.
In summer, colorful wild flowers bloom. The landscape is dotted

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with more than one thousand, five hundred types of flowering plants.
The smokers are sometimes called wild Flower National Park. Chapter three.
From Past to Present. Want to travel back in time?
You can do that as at Cade's Cove is a
valley between the mountains. There you will find log cabins,

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o churches and meals. They show what life was like
for people who lived here long ago. It is a
great place to watch for wildlife. Today people come to
enjoy the mountains in many ways Visitors fish, spike and
right horses that camp under the stars or listen to
a quiet stream. They also enjoy the park's many wonderful waterfalls.

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Ramsey Casscades is the tallest waterfall in the park. It
is as tall as a ten story building. The water
drops one hundred feet into a pool below. Chapter four
Amazing Animals. A black bear skirris up a tree. Another
searches for acorns berries to eat. You are in black

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Bear Country. More than one thousand and five hundred live
in the park. Never approach or try to feed them.
They usually ignore humans if the humans keep their distance
and ignore them. Bears are not the only animals found here. Deer, elk,
and whild turkeys also roam the woods. Perhaps the park's
most unusual creatures are salamanders. More than thirty kinds live here.

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They include lungless salamanders. This park is known as the
salamander Capital of the world. Luneless salamanders breathe through their skin.
Be sure to bring your binoculars. You can scan the
trees for sparrows, woodpeckers, and other birds. You may even
know it's an owl perched on a branch in spring

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fireflies put on a dazzling evening display. Thousands flash their
lights at the same time. It's just one of the
many stunning sites that will leave you in awe of
the Great Smoky Mountains. Imagine if you could visit the
Smoky Mountains, what would you do there? There are just

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some of Here are just some of the incredible animals
that make their home in the Great Smoky Mountains. Bluebird, beaver,
brook trout, flying squirrel, woodpecker, salamander, elk, white tailed beer,
great horned owl, wild turkey, black bear, which is the
symbol of the Smokies wildlife. By the numbers, the park

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is home to about two hundred and forty types of birds,
sixty five types of mammals, eighty two types of reptiles
and amphibians, and sixty seven types of fish. These neack
set of stories are by an author, Daniel era Co.

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The first one that we will read is When do
Hippos Play? And it was published by The Orange Ship
as a copyright ear of two thousand and seven to
twoenty twenty five and it was written by Daniel Rico.

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When do Hippos Play? By the African river known as
the Nile, the sun fell away and it rested a while.
The rhinos had braved all the smoldering heat. They lay
down to sleep as they wiped off their feet. The
elephants marched to their elephant beds, and gently they rested
their elephant heads. The hippoles went bathing in cool, shallow pools,

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thinking the rhinos and elephant's fools. Slowly, the hippos sank
into the river, the water so pold that it gave
them a shiver. Hippos can't swim like the pelicans think.
They also can't float, They could easily sink underwater. They
fell to the soft river bed on darkish green plants

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with a smidgeon of red. They strolled on the botb
and bounced up for air. They did it for hours
without any care. The fish followed closely and woven and
out under their belly and up to their snout. Each
of the hipples came up to the shore to feed
on the grass by the river. Once more, They dried
off their bodies by shaking and stomping, and took bites

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of grass, chewing and chomping. With night fading fast, they
were full from the feast. The sun returned back, rising
up from the east. The hipples crept off to collapse
for the day, when rhinos and elephants got up to play,
enjoying the warmth of the sun and its light, never
knowing the story of hippos at night. Our next story

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is called frog Town. Was published by A Staring Ship
as copyright years of two thousand and seven to twenty
twenty five and the author of the story is Daniel
eric Coe. I once saw frog copping around. I followed
down to the little frog town. It was built in

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a log by a frog crew of frogs. I saw
the frog mayre.

Speaker 1 (22:05):
She wore a large hat.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
It was silver and gold. Can you believe that the
frog school of frogs was also inside, and the bus
driver gave all the young frogs a ride. The frog
police station was next to the school, and when the
bell rang, the frogs hopped to the pool. It was
crowded inside of the public frog pool. Frog stove inside

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off a spotted toadstool. A line of frogs formed. At
the frog movie plex. A bullfrog was waiting and he
was up next. A fancy frog restaurant was opened for lunch.
The signs said their flies had the crunches crunch. The
post of frog office was sending out mail. The delivery

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frogs work in rain, sleet or hail. I even remember
frog barber shop, and old frog hopped out with a
two pay on top. And that's when I saw it,
a small little frog. He was crying inside of the
little frog log. I knelt down beside him and asked

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what was wrong. He said, Other frogs and I don't
get along. That is sad, I replied, with a shake
of my head. They do. They just do not like me,
The little frog said. Those poor frogs, I said, don't
have a clue. What a wonderful friendship they're missing with you.
You feel bad for them, he asked, drying a tear. Yes,

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and some patience is needed. I fear a frog such
as you will have friendship's glore, and no other frog
in the world could want more. Maybe, he said, as
he gave them a glance, I could keep trying and
give them a chance. And the kind little frog took
a hop towards the town, and a tiny frog smile

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was breaking his frown. I saw I once saw some
frogs hopping around. I followed them down to the little
frog town. Our next book is titled I Like to
Go Exploring. It was published by Swaring Ship and it
has copyright year of two thousand and seven to twenty
twenty five. The author of our story is Daniel Erico.

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I went up to the article where a metapolar bear.
You might think she'd be white, that she had purple
yellow hair. I hopped onto a glacier and wrote it
out to seat snow. It's great for sledding, but it's
much too code for me. I like to go exploring
places that I've never been. Take one step and then another,
that's how you begin. I made it to the jungle

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where a Tucan said hello. He made a hat from
branches that he dropped to me. Below high above and
vines were where the lemurs liked to swing. They jumped
around and laughed, and that's when they began to sing.
We like to go exploring places that we've never been.
Take one swing and then another, that's how we begin.

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I headed to the desert where the camels keeps his humps.
He takes them off and puts them on his fuzzy
camel lumps. We stopped in an oasis, such a magic
mystic spot. As soon as I had to leave for
it was getting rather hot. I hit it to the
forest where the trees were made of gum, and if
I come that way again, I'll chew up everyone. I

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hiked up the mountains where the Bobcad had her band.
The goats and mountain lions joined the song that they
had planned. We like to go warning places we have
never been. Take one step and then another, that's how
we begin. You don't believe the words I wrote inside
this song, Take one step and then another, then go
prove me wrong. This concludes the children's story ere for today.

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