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Can I get the bill when you're ready
Can I get the bill when you're ready
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Can I get the bill when you're ready
Can I get the bill when you're ready
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Can you cap the pan and ham the man
Can you cap the pan and ham the man
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cap, cup
cap, cup
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centre
centre
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Cheers for the lift home
Cheers for the lift home
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Cheers for the lift home
Cheers for the lift home
- Public domaingeneral-american
Chicken Little
And now an American Children’s Story from VOA Learning English.
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Chicken Little
Today’s story probably had its start long before it was published in Europe long ago. It might have first been known as “Henny Penny.”
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But the story has been told to American children at least since the mid-1800s under a title similar to “Chicken Little.”
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Chicken Little
Generations have heard and thought about the lessons of the little chicken who causes big problems for a group of well-meaning but not-so-thoughtful birds.
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Chicken Little
Today’s version is based on two examples of the story. One is called Remarkable Story of Chicken Little
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Chicken Little
John Green Chandler had it published in the city of Boston, Massachusetts in 1842.
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Chicken Little
Katharine Pyle published her 1918 version in Mother’s Nursery Tales
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Chicken Little
The story has taken on its own American qualities and is a little like a parable, a story that teaches a moral lesson.
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Chicken Little
Later retellings including a few movie versions have made changes to some of the characters or aimed to teach different ideas.
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Chicken Little
Here is the story Chicken Little in VOA Learning English. One day, Chicken Little fell asleep under some flowers.
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Chicken Little
Cow wandered by, reached over the fence and bit off some flowers. The noise wakened Chicken Little just as a flower petal fell on her tail.
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"Squawk! Squawk!” cried Chicken Little, frightened by the petal’s landing.
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“The sky is falling,” she continued, her call rising louder with her terror. “Squawk!
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Squawk!” And, she jumped up and began to run, moving as fast as her two legs would carry her.
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Chicken Little
She did not stop running until she came to the barnyard. There, she found Henny Penny scratching in the dirt of the barnyard.
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Chicken Little
“Oh, Henny Penny, do not scratch—run!” cried Chicken Little.
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Chicken Little
“The sky is falling.” The scratching stopped.
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Chicken Little
Then Hen called out: “How do you know that, Chicken Little?” “I saw it with my eyes, I heard it with my ears, and part of it fell on my tail.
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