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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 Yale, 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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Micah is a premium member for Massachusetts U s A.

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And he would like a story with a puffin, a

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golden eagle, a bison, and a right whale. Don't forget

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to listen to the animal facts after the story to

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learn more about these creatures. For now, it's time to

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sit back and get comfy, because it's time to begin

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the Bison's search for silence. It was ten o'clock at

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night and Micah, a bison, was trying to read his book.

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It was a good one about spaceships and aliens and

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distant planets, and normally he would have raced through a

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book that good, but on this occasion, it wasn't going

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so well for Mica. At that very moment, through the ceiling,

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he could hear his upstairs neighbors snoring. That was very distracting.

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He could also hear cars speeding past outside their engines rumbling.

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Micah could hear groups of animals laughing and talking as

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they made their way home, and then there was the

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continuous hum and clanking of the building's pipes, not to

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mention a slow drip, drip, drip coming from somewhere. The

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bison knew that living in the big city meant some noise,

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but he'd never realized it would be so noisy all

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of the time. He gave up, pulled the covers over

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his head, and tried to sleep. The next morning, at breakfast,

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Micha tried to read a few pages, but was distracted

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by his neighbor stomping around as he vacuumed his flat,

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so he headed out to his favorite corner cafe to

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read with a hot chocolate. This was spoiled by a

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noisy antelope talking loudly on her phone. He tried to

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read on the bus, but the leopard sat next to

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him was constantly bumping against his arm. He got back

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home having barely read a single page. Micah decided that

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he was surrounded by too many animals doing too many things,

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and all of it noisily. He'd had enough if he

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was ever going to read a book again. He was

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going to have to move. I'd like to buy a

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new house, he said to the Ostrich behind the desk

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at the estate agent's. Then you've come to the right place.

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The Ostrich beamed, what sort of property did you have

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in mind? Somewhere far away and very very quiet, Micah replied.

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As it turned out, the bison was in luck. Before

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too long, Micah was packing up his things and saying

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good bye to the big city. He was moving to

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an island. His new house wasn't big or fancy, just

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a cottage, a small garden of grass, and just beyond

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a sandy beach. It was perfect. The island sat just

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beyond the mainland, opposite towering cliffs, separated by a narrow

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strip of water. The only noise was the gentle lapping

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of the waves breaking upon the shore. The first thing

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that Mica unpacked was his book. He took it straight

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out on to the lawn, lay down on the grass,

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and opened his book to read Hello, neighbor. Somewhat startled,

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Mica lowered the book to find himself face to face

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with a smiling puffin. Always good to have a new

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face in the neighborhood. The puffin continued wonderful house you

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have here, very peaceful. It's exactly what I wanted. Micah agreed.

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I lived in the city before, and it was far

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too loud. Oh, I understand, said the puffin, nodding enthusiastically.

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Near my friends, we couldn't do city life. We much

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prefer a sieve view. We live right over there. If

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