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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to a special taster of our new

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premium only story. We hope you like it. Hell yo, Hello,

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I'm Josephine and this is the Animal Tales podcast, home

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to over four hundred and fifty stories written just for you.

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Our Friday story is especially for our Premium subscribers only.

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Alby is a Premium member from Burwell in the UK

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and he would like a story with a golden eagle

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and a rattlesnake. Don't forget to listen to the animal

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facts after the story to learn more about these creatures.

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For now, it's time to sit back and get comforty,

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because it's time to begin. Give it a go. Helby's

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when Todd was really good at drawing, like really good.

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The little rattlesnake could draw anything from memory, animals, cars, monsters, spaceships.

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He didn't need to copy a picture, it was all

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just in his head. He could draw something quickly like

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a cartoon, or he could spend more time on it

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and create something with beautiful shading and color. Todd was

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the best artist in their whole class, and nobody even

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came close. And Albi, a young golden Eagle, had to

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admit that he was envious. It wasn't that he was jealous.

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He was proud of Todd and all the effort he

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put into his art. But Albe wished that he was

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really good at something too. He wanted his animal classmates

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to stare in amazement at him, wondering how on earth

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did he do that so quickly? Or think I could

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never make something like that. Whenever Todd picked up a

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pencil with his rattlesnake tail and turned a blank piece

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of paper into a work of art, Elbi wished that

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he had a talent like that. So when school broke

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up for a week, Elby decided to see if he

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could find something that he was good at. He spread

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his golden eagle wings and took a short flight into

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the middle of town, finding all kinds of animals bustling

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about under bright orange bunting and flags. What's going on?

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Elbe asked a porcupine in a bright orange T shirt.

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Why it's given a go week, smiled the porcupine. Local businesses, artists,

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and crafts people have opened their doors to let animals

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try out new skills. A young golden eagle like, you

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might find something you like if you just give it

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a go. Wow, this is exactly what I was looking for,

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laughed Elby with delight. It's just what I needed. Surely

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there had to be something here that he would be

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good at. Albi's attention went straight to a nearby artist's studio.

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Through the window, he could see several animals at easels,

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painting onto canvases. They were all painting a bowl of

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fruit in the center of the room. Maybe I'm an

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incredible painter and I just don't know it yet, he said,

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and so headed inside. He was guided to an empty easel,

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where he picked up a paintbrush and got a good

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look at the bowl of fruit. This was going to

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be a piece of cake. He started by mixing his colors,

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a lovely pale blue, a vibrant leafy green, and a warm,

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bright yellow, before dabbing them onto the canvas. When finished,

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Elby stood back to admire his work. His feathers splattered

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in paint. Oh dear, he thought, I don't like it.

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The colors clashed or looked muddy where he'd mix them together.

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The bowl he painted was crooked, and the fruit was splotchy.

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I'm not even sure it looks much like a fruit

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bowl at all, he sighed. Frustrated, Elby wiped himself clean

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and abandoned the studio, painting it would seem wasn't for him.

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Back outside, Elby looked around for something else to try.

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Two doors down was a pottery studio, hadn't Someone told

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him that a cousin of his used to make pottery.

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Maybe the talent for pottery runs in the family, he said,

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and so headed inside. If you'd like to hear more,

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