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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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Henry is a Premium member from New Zealand and he

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would like a story with a flying squirrel, a flying fish,

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and an orca. 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 comfy,

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because it's time to begin the flying boat. The Gliding

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Glinder was a flying boat. Now, it's quite possible that

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you've never heard of a flying boat, which means it's

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even more possible that right now you're picturing a fishing

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boat sailing through the clouds. Unfortunately, that's not what a

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flying boat is. A flying boat is an aeroplane that

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can land on the water with an underside that is

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shaped a little like a boat's hull. What's helpful about

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flying boats is that they can connect island communities and

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coastal towns that don't have the room for a runway.

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All the flying boat needs is water to land and

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take off from, and that's exactly what the gliding Glinder did.

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What have we got on to day, asked Henry as

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he poked his head out of the flying boat's passenger door.

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Henry was a flying squirrel, and he'd spent the last

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half an hour checking the plane over to make sure

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it was ready to fly. We've got forty crates of

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bananas to take to the mainland, came the reply from

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the wooden pier. This was spoken by Jackie, a flying fish,

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who was checking her paperwork. And one special crate. Not

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sure what's inside, but it's supposedly very important. A crate

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is a crate, as far as I'm concerned, laughed Henry.

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The peer that the flying boat was moored against was

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on a small island, and they had flown the gliding

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Glinda there yesterday with a cargo of essential tools and

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goods that the island couldn't make for itself. Now it

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was time to make the return journey to the mainland,

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and that meant carrying items back the other way. Moments later,

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an iguana and a spider monkey arrived, pushing hand carts

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stacked high with the banana crates. They took them to

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the flying Boat's large rear cargo go door that was

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folded down to make a ramp, allowing them to get

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the bananas inside easily. Working together, they soon had all

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forty crates loaded. Then a gorilla turned up with the

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special crate. It was small enough and light enough to

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be carried. Shall I take that, asked Henry helpfully. Nope,

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said the gorilla gruffly. I'll put it where it needs

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to go. This sounded a bit rude to the flying squirrel,

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but it didn't really matter, just as long as everything

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was loaded properly, so he showed the gorilla to the

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cargo door and where to set the small crate down.

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The gorilla had a quick look around, seemed to decide

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that everything was in order, then left without saying another word.

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Er Henry said, Jackie, poking her head into the cargo bay.

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We're expecting three passes, but someone's turned up. Who's not

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on my list, so said Henry with a frown. There's

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plenty of free seats. What's the problem, you'll see, said

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the flying fish. She tugged Henry's arm and led him

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to the pier where the passenger waited. Where do I

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put my bags? Asked the orca. Henry gulped as he

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took in the size of the animal. The killer whale

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was enormous, much bigger than their regular passengers. Glancing back

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at the passenger door, Henry could tell straight away that

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the orca was never going to fit through it. I'm

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terribly sorry, said Henry, but I don't think we can

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take you as a passenger. You're much too big. Even

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if we could get you through the doorway, our seats

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are too small. How frustrating, said the orca. Of course

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I could swim, but it takes such a long time,

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and what would I do with my luggage. I was

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really hoping I could fly. It would be so much easier.

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Despite the Auca's enormous size, he wasn't threatening in any way,

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leaving Henry feeling quite sorry for his predicament. Surely there

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