Speaker 1: Did you ever think you were right but you were
Speaker 1: wrong because you didn't have all the information. Welcome to Lingo. Listen.
Speaker 1: Story Time today is about something just like that. In
Speaker 1: this story you'll learn why sometimes it helps to look
Speaker 1: and listen to the world around you. Subscribe or follow
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Speaker 1: is a young horse who lives in a small house
Speaker 1: with a small yard and a very big tree. One morning,
Speaker 1: Dana was on her back porch looking at her small,
Speaker 1: shady yard. Meg, her neighbor, came out of her house.
Speaker 1: It took her a few minutes. She was a very
Speaker 1: old horse. Morning, neighbor, you look worried, dear. Is something wrong, morning, Meg?
Speaker 1: Nothing's wrong. It's just I'd love a flower garden, but
Speaker 1: my yard is too shady. Flowers need sun. It's that tree,
Speaker 1: said Meg, and she told Dana that her son, Theo,
Speaker 1: could come to cut the tree down with his power
Speaker 1: saw Nay, said Dana in thanks. The next evening, when
Speaker 1: Dana came home from work, the tree was still there,
Speaker 1: so she went to ask Meg about it. Hi, Meg,
Speaker 1: it looks like your son didn't cut the tree, oh,
Speaker 1: dear po. Meg was surprised that her son hadn't done
Speaker 1: the job, so she called him on the phone. Hello more, look, THEO.
Speaker 1: A promise is a promise, and I promised Dana you'd
Speaker 1: cut down that tree. Moh, you won't believe it, said THEO.
Speaker 1: As soon as I turned on the saw a crazy
Speaker 1: bird flew down and atop me. Meg wasn't sure she
Speaker 1: believed him. What crazy bird. She told him to try
Speaker 1: again tomorrow and no more horsing around. Meg was sure
Speaker 1: THEO would do the job right this time. But the
Speaker 1: next evening, when Dana galloped home, there's a note on
Speaker 1: my door. Dana opened the note and it said, Miss Dana,
Speaker 1: you've got one mean robin. What a fighter. It swooped
Speaker 1: down and pecked my head. Get rid of that bird
Speaker 1: before you get hurt, Sincerely THEO. Why would a robin
Speaker 1: be so mean? I'm going to find out for myself,
Speaker 1: said Dana. So she walked over to the tree as
Speaker 1: quietly as she could on her four hoofs and took
Speaker 1: a close look. I see movement in the branches, and
Speaker 1: I hear something. Huh, it's the robin, and I think
Speaker 1: I see what do you think? She saw? Lingo listeners
Speaker 1: a nast and four hungry baby birds. Oh, Robin, you're
Speaker 1: not a mean bird. You are a mama bird. Dana
Speaker 1: had discovered the truth. Just then her neighbor came over,
Speaker 1: looking very disappointed. Meg felt sad that her son had
Speaker 1: not cut down the tree as promised. You can lead
Speaker 1: a horse to water, but you can't make him drink,
Speaker 1: she said. Dana only pointed up to the nest. Hold
Speaker 1: dear horses. Meg mystery solved. The robin was protecting her babies. Well,
Speaker 1: Thank goodness. The horsey neighbors were very happy that the
Speaker 1: robin was such a fighter. They would have felt terrible
Speaker 1: if her nest had fallen. They decided to save the
Speaker 1: birds and the tree. When the baby birds got old
Speaker 1: enough to fly away, they could cut down just a
Speaker 1: few branches. That way there would be more sun for
Speaker 1: the garden and a nice tree for their fierce little neighbor,
Speaker 1: the robin. We hope you liked the story. Lingo listeners,
Speaker 1: how do you use your eyes and ears to solve
Speaker 1: a mystery? Think about it? Goodbye until next time,