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[Assistant] Away in the distance eastward they could now see a line of hills. The highest of them was at the right of the line, and a little separated from the others. It had a conical top, slightly flattened at the summit. That is where the top, said Schreider.


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[Assistant] The old road, which we have left far away to our right, runs to the south of it and passes not far from its foot. We might reach it by noon tomorrow if we go straight towards it. I suppose we had better do so.


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[Assistant] Yes, but hope is faint. If he comes this way at all he may not pass through Bree, and so he may not know what we are doing. And anyway, unless by luck we arrive almost together, we shall miss one another. It will not be safe for him, nor for us to wait there long.


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[Assistant] If the riders fail to find us in the wilderness, they are likely to make full weather top themselves.


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[Assistant] Not all the birds are to be trusted, and there are other spies more evil than they are.


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[Assistant] The hobbits looked anxiously at the distant hills. Sam looked up into the pale sky, fearing to see hawks or eagles hovering over them with bright, unfriendly eyes.


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[Assistant] I think the best thing is to go as straight eastward from here as we can, to make for the line of hills. Not for Weathertop.


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[Assistant] There we can strike a path I know that runs at their feet.


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[Assistant] It will bring us to Weathertop from the north, and less openly.


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[Assistant] All that day they plotted along until the cold and early evening came down.


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[Assistant] The land became drier and more barren, but mists and vapors lay behind them on the marshes.


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[Assistant] A few melancholy birds were piping and wailing until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows. Then an empty silence fell. The hobbits thought of the soft light of the sunset glancing through the cheerful windows of Bag End far away.


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[Assistant] At the day's end they came to a stream that wandered down from the hills to lose itself in the stagnant marshland, and they went up along its banks while the night lasted.


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[Assistant] It was already night when at last they halted and made their camp under some stunted older trees by the shores of this stream.


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[Assistant] Ahead there loomed now against the dusky sky the bleak and treeless backs of the hills.


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[Assistant] That night they set a watch, and Strider, it seemed, did not sleep at all. The moon was waxing.


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[Assistant] And in the early night hours, a cold grey light lay on the land. Next morning they set out again soon after sunrise.


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[Assistant] There was a frost in the air, and the sky was a pale clear blue. The hobbits felt refreshed as if they had a night of unbroken sleep.


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[Assistant] Already they were getting used to much walking on the short commons.


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[Assistant] Shorcha at any rate than what in the Shire they could have thought barely enough to keep them on their legs.


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[Assistant] Considering there is actually a good deal less of me. I hope the thinning process will not go on indefinitely or I shall become a wraith.


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[Assistant] Do not speak of such things," said Strider quickly, in the surprising earnestness. The hills drew nearer.


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[Assistant] Along the crest of the ridge the hobbits could see what looked to be the remnants of green-brown walls and dikes.


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[Assistant] And in the clust there still stood the ruins of old works of stone. By night they had reached the feet of the westward slopes, and there they camped. It was the night of the 5th of October, and they were six days out from Bree.


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[Assistant] In the morning they found, for the first time since they had left the Chetwood, a track plain to see. They turned right and followed it southwards.


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[Assistant] It ran cunningly, taking a line that seemed chosen so as to keep as much hidden as possible from view.


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[Assistant] Both of the hilltops above and of the flats to the west. It dived into dells and hugged steep banks, and where it passed over flatter and more open ground on either side of it, there were lines of large boulders and hewn stones that screamed that travel is almost like a hedge. I wonder who made this path and what for, said Mary.


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[Assistant] As they walked along one of these avenues where the stones were unusually large and closely set. I'm not sure that I like it. It has a, well a rather barrow whitish look. Is there any barrow on weathertops?


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[Assistant] No, there is no barrow on Weathertop, nor on any of these hills, answered Strider. The men of the West did not live here, though in their latter days they defended the hills for a while against the evil that came out of Angmar.


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[Assistant] This path was made to serve the forts along the walls. But long before, in the first day of the northern kingdom, they built a great watchtower and weathertop. A monsool, they called it.


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[Assistant] It was buried and broken, and nothing remains of it now but a tumbled ring, like a rough crown on the old hill's head.


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[Assistant] Yet once it was tall and fair. It is told that Elendil stood there watching for the coming of Gil-Galad out of the west in the days of the Last Alliance.


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[Assistant] The hobbits gazed at Strider. It seemed that he was learned in old lore, as well as in the ways of the wild.


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[Assistant] It was already midday when they drew nearer the southern end of the path, and saw before them in the pale clear light of the October sun a grey-green bank leading up like a bridge on the northward slope of the hill.


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[Assistant] They decided to make for the top at once, while the daylight was broad. Concealment was no longer possible.


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[Assistant] And they could only hope that no enemy or spy was observing them. Nothing was to be seen moving on the hill. If Gandalf was anywhere about, there was no sign of him.


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[Assistant] On the western flank of Weathertop, they found a sheltered hollow.


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[Assistant] At the bottom of which there was a bowl-shaped dell with grassy sides.


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[Assistant] There they left Salmon Pippin with the pony and their packs and luggage. The other three went on. After half an hour's plodding climb, Strider reached the crown of the hill. Frodo and Merry followed, tired and breathless. The last slope had been steep and rocky.


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[Assistant] On the top they found, as Strider had said, a wide ring of ancient stonework, now crumbling or covered with age-long grass.


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[Assistant] But in the center, a carn of broken stones had been piled. They were blackened as if with fire.


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[Assistant] About them the turf was burned into the roots, and all within the ring the grass was scorched and shriveled, as if flames had swept the hilltop. But there was no sign of any living thing.


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[Assistant] Standing upon the rim of the ruined circle they saw all around below them a wide prospect for the most part of lands empty and featureless, except for patches of woodland away to the south, beyond which they caught here and there the glint of distant water.


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[Assistant] There ran like a ribbon the old road coming out of the west and winding up and down until it faded behind a ridge of dark land to the east. Nothing was moving on it.


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[Assistant] Following its line eastward with their eyes they saw the mountains. The nearer foothills were brown and somber.


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[Assistant] There is no water and no shelter, and no sign of Gandalf. But I don't blame him for not waiting if he ever came here. I wonder, said Strider, looking around thoughtfully. Even if he was a day or two behind us at Bree, he could have arrived here first. He can ride very swiftly when need presses. Suddenly he stooped and looked at the stone on the top of the Khan.


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[Assistant] There seems to be a stroke, a dot, and three more strokes, he said. The stroke on the left might be a gerune, with thin branches, said Strider. It might be a sign left by Gandalf, though one cannot be sure.


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[Assistant] The scratches are fine and they certainly look fresh but the marks might mean something quite different and have nothing to do with us. Rangers use runes and they come here sometimes. What could they mean even if Gandalf made them? asked Merry. I should say, answered Strider.


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[Assistant] That they stood for G3. And were assigned that Gandalf was here on October the 3rd. That is three days ago now.


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[Assistant] It will also show that he was in a hurry and danger was at hand, so that he had no time and did not dare to write anything longer or plainer. If that is so, we must be wary.


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[Assistant] Perhaps, says Strider, for myself I believe that he was here and he was in danger.


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[Assistant] And now the light that we saw three nights ago in the eastern sky comes back to my mind. I guess that he was attacked on this hilltop, but with what result I cannot tell.


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[Assistant] He is here no longer, and we must now look after ourselves and make our own way to Rivendell as best we can. How far is Rivendell? asked Merry, gazing around weirdly. The world looked wild and wide from withered tops.


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[Assistant] Some say it is so far, and some say otherwise. It is a strange road, and folk are glad to reach their journey's end, whether the time is long or short. But I know how long it would take me on my own feet. With fair weather and no ill fortune, twelve days from here to the fort of Bruinen, where the road crosses the loud water that runs out of Rivendell.


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[Assistant] They stood for a while silent on the hilltop, near its southward edge. In that lonely place, Frodo for the first time fully realized his homelessness and danger. He wished bitterly that his fortune had left him in the quiet and beloved Shire. He stared down at the hateful road leading back westward to his home.


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[Assistant] Suddenly he was aware that two black specks were moving slowly along it, going westward, and looking again, he saw that three others were creeping eastward to meet them. He gave a cry and clutched Strider's arm.


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[Assistant] Slowly they crawled up to the edge of the ring again, and peered through a cleft between two jagged stones. The light was no longer bright, for the clear morning had faded.


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[Assistant] And clouds creeping out from the east had now overtaken the sun as it began to go down. They could all see the black specks, but neither Frodo nor Merry could make out their shapes for certain.


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[Assistant] It's something told them that there, far below, were black riders assembling on the road beyond the foot of the hill.


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[Assistant] Hastily they crept away and slipped down the north side of the hill to find their companions.


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[Assistant] Salmon Peregrine had not been idle. They had explored the small dell and surrounding slopes. Not far away they found the spring of clear water in the hillside, and near it footprints not more than a day or two old.


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[Assistant] In the dell itself they found recent traces of a fire and some signs of a hasty camp.


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[Assistant] This writer was greatly interested in these discoveries.


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[Assistant] I wish I had waited and explored the ground down here myself, he said, hurrying off the spring to examine the footprints. It is just as I feared, he said when he came back.


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[Assistant] Salmon Pippin have trampled the soft ground and the marks are spoiled or confused.


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[Assistant] Rangers have been here lately. It is they who left the firewood behind. But there are also several newer tracks that were not made by Rangers. At least one set was made only a day or two ago by heavy boots. At least one. I cannot now be certain, but I think there were many booted feet. He paused and stood in ancient's thought.


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[Assistant] Each of the hobbits saw in his mind a vision of the cloaked and booted riders.


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[Assistant] If the horsemen had already found the dell, the sooner Strider led them somewhere else, the better.


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[Assistant] Sam viewed the Hollow with great dislike, now that he had heard news of their enemies on the road only a few miles away.


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[Assistant] Yes, we certainly must decide what to do at once, answered Strider, looking up and considering the time and the weather.


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[Assistant] Well Sam, he said at last, I do not like this place either.


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[Assistant] But I cannot think of anywhere better than we could reach before Nightvault. At least we are out of sight for the moment, and if we moved we should be much more likely to be seen by spies.


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[Assistant] All we could do would be to go right out of our way, back north on this side of the line of hills, where the land is old much the same as it is here.


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[Assistant] They seem usually to have used their noses rather than their eyes, smelling for us. Smelling is the right word. At least in the daylight.


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[Assistant] But you made us lie down flat when you saw them down below. And now you talk of being seen if we move.


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[Assistant] I was too careless on the hilltop, Ernst Strider. I was very interested to find some sign of Gandalf, but it was a mistake for three of us to go up and stand there for so long. For the black horses can see, and the riders can use men and other creatures as spies, as we found at Bree. They themselves do not see the world of light as we do.


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[Assistant] But our shapes cast shadows in their minds, which only the noon sun destroys.


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[Assistant] And in the dark they perceive many signs and forms that are hidden from us. Then they are most to be feared.


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[Assistant] And at all times they smell the blood of living things, desiring and hating it. Senses too there are, other than sight or smell. We can feel their presence.


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[Assistant] There is little shelter or defense here, but fire shall serve for both. Sauron can put fire to his evil uses, as he can all things, but these riders do not love it, and fear those who wield it. Fire is our friend in the wilderness.


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[Assistant] Down in the lower and most sheltered corner of the dell they lit a fire and prepared a meal.


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[Assistant] The shades of evening began to fall and it grew cold.


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[Assistant] They were suddenly aware of great hunger, for they had not eaten anything since breakfast, but they dared not make more than a frugal supper.


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[Assistant] The lands ahead were empty of all savebirds and beasts, unfriendly places deserted by older races of the world. Rangers passed at times beyond the hills, but they were few and did not stay. Other wanderers were rare and of evil sort. Trolls might stray down at times out of the northern valleys of the Misty Mountains. Only to the road would travelers be found. Most often dwarves, hurrying along.


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[Assistant] We have been careful enough in the last few days, and this supper is no feast, but we have used more than we ought. If we have two weeks still to go, and perhaps more, there is food in the wild, says Strider. Berry, root, and herb. And I have some skill as a hunter at need.


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[Assistant] You need not be afraid of starving before winter comes, but gathering and catching food is long and weary work. And we need haste.


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[Assistant] So tighten your belt, and think with hope of the tables of Elrond's house. The cold increased as darkness came on.


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[Assistant] Puring out from the edge of the dell they could see nothing but a gray land now vanishing quickly into shadow. The sky above had cleared again and was slowly filled with twinkling stars. Frodo and his companions huddled around the fire.


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[Assistant] Wrapped in every garment and blanket they possessed, but Strider was content with a single cloak, and sat a little apart, drawing thoughtfully at his pipe.


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[Assistant] As night fell and the light of the fire began to shine out brightly, he began to tell them tales to keep their minds from fear. He knew many histories and legends of long ago. Of elves and men, and the good and evil deeds of the elder days.


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[Assistant] Said Strider, interrupting, I do not think that tale should be told now with the servants of the enemy at hand.


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[Assistant] If we went through to the house of Elrond, you may hear it there, tolling for.


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[Assistant] I will tell you the tale of Tinuviel, says Strider.


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[Assistant] In brief, for it is a long tale with which the end is not known, and there are none now except Elrond that remember it aright, as it was told of old. It is a fair tale, though it is sad, as are all the tales of Middle-earth, and yet it may lift up your hearts.


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[Assistant] He was silent for some time, and then he began not to speak, but to chant softly. The leaves were long, the grass was green, the hemlock umboes tall and fair, and in the glade a light was seen, of stars and shadow shimmering. Tinuviel was dancing there, to music of a pipe unseen, and light of stars was in her hair, and in her raiment, glimmering.


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[Assistant] There Beren came from mountains cold, and lost he wandered under leaves. And where the elven river rolled, he walked alone and sorrowing.


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[Assistant] He peered between the hemlock leaves and saw in wonder flowers of gold upon her mantle and her steves and her hair like shadow following. Enchantment healed his weary feet.


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[Assistant] And left him lonely, still to roam in the silent forest listening. He heard there oft the flying sound of fleet as light as linden leaves, or music welling underground in hidden hollows quavering.


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[Assistant] He sought her ever, wandering far, where leaves of years were thickly strewn.


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[Assistant] By light of moon and ray of star, in frosty heavens shivering.


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[Assistant] Her mantle glinted in the moon, as on a hilltop high and far she danced, and at her feet was strewn a mist of silver quivering.


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[Assistant] When river passed she came again and her song released the sudden spring like rising dark and falling rain and melting water bubbling.


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[Assistant] He saw the elven flowers spring about her feet and healed again. He longed by her to dance and sing upon the grass untroubling. Again she fled, but swift he came. T'nuviel, T'nuviel. He called her by her elvish name, and there she halted, listening. One moment stood she, and a spell


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[Assistant] As Beren looked into her eyes within the shadows of her hair, the trembling starlight of the skies, he saw their mirrored shimmering. To Nuviel the elven fair, immortal maiden elven-wise, about him cast her shadowy hair, and arms like silver glimmering. Long was the way that fate them bore,


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[Assistant] Er stony mountains cold and grey, Through falls of iron and darkling door, And woods of nightshade morrowless, The sundering seas between them lay, And yet at last they met once more, And long ago they passed away, In the forest singing sorrowless.


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[Assistant] That is called Anthenoth among the elves, but is hard to remember in our common speech. But this is but a rough echo of it. It tells of the meeting of Beren, son of Barahir and Luthien Tinuvio. Beren was a mortal man, but Luthien was the daughter of Thingol, a king of elves upon Middle-earth, when the world was young.


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[Assistant] As the stars above the mists of the northern lands was her loveliness, and in her face was a shining light.


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[Assistant] In those days, the great enemy of whom Sauron of Mordor was but a servant, dwelt in Angband in the north.


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[Assistant] And the Elves of the West, coming back to Middle-earth, made war upon him to regain the Silmarils which he had stolen. And the fathers of men hated the Elves.


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[Assistant] But the enemy was victorious and Barahir was slain and Beren escaping through great peril came over the mountains of terror into the kingdom of Thingol in the forest of Neldoreth. There he beheld Luthien.


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[Assistant] Singing and dancing in the glade beside the enchanted river as Galduin. And he named her Tinuviel. That is the nightingale in the language of the old.


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[Assistant] Many sorrows befell them afterwards, and they were parted long.


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[Assistant] Tenuviel rescued Beren from the dungeons of Sauron, and together they passed through the great dangers, and cast down even the great enemy from his throne, and took from his iron crown one of the three Silmarils. Righteous of all jewels, to be the bride price of Luthien, to tingle her father.


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[Assistant] And at last Beren was slain by the wolf that came from the gates of Anbad. And he died in the arms of Tenuviel. But she chose mortality and to die from the world so that she might follow him.


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[Assistant] And it is sung that they met again beyond the sundering seas, and after a brief time walking alive once more in the green woods, together they passed, long ago, beyond the confines of this world. So it is that Luthien Tanuviel alone of the elf kindred has died indeed and left the world, and they have lost her whom they most loved.


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[Assistant] But from her lineage of the Elflords of old, descended upon men, there live still those of whom Luthien was the foremother, and it is said that her line shall never fail. Elrond of Rivendell is of that kin, for of Beren and Luthien was born Dior, Dior thingol's heir, and of him, Elwing the White, whom Erendil wedded.


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[Assistant] He that sailed his ship out of the mists of the world into the seas of heaven with the Silmaril upon his brow, and of air and ill came the kings of Numenor at his westernness.


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[Assistant] As Strider was speaking, they watched his strange, eager face, dimly lit with the red glow of the wood fire. His eyes shone, and his voice was rich and deep. Above him was a black, starry sky. Suddenly a pale light appeared over the crown at Weathertop behind him.


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[Assistant] And the stars above the hilltop faded. The story ended. The hobbits moved and stretched. Look, said Mary. The moon is rising. It must be getting late.


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[Assistant] The others looked up. Even as they did so, they saw on the top of the hill something small and dark against the glimmer of the moonrise.


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[Assistant] It was perhaps only a strange stone or jutting rock shown up by the pale light. Sam and Mary got up and walked away from the fire. Frodo and Pippin remained seated in silence. Strider was watching the moonlight on the hill intently. All seemed quiet and still.


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[Assistant] That Frodo felt a cold dread creeping over his heart. Now that Strider was no longer speaking, he huddled closer to the fire. At that moment Sam came running back from the edge of the dell.


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[Assistant] With their backs turned to the wood fire, each gazing into the shadows that encircled them.


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[Assistant] Over the lip of the little dell, on the side away from the hill, they felt, rather than saw, a shadow rise. One shadow or more than one.


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[Assistant] They strained their eyes, and the shadows seemed to grow. Soon there could be no doubt. Three or four tall black figures were standing there on the slope, looking down on them.


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[Assistant] He felt Sam looking at him as if he knew that his master was in some great trouble, that he could not turn towards him.


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[Assistant] With their white faces burned keen and merciless eyes. Under their mantles were long grey robes upon their grey hairs were helms of silver.


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[Assistant] The third was taller than the others. His hair was long and gleaming, and on his helm was a crown. In one hand, he held a long sword, and in the other, a knife.


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[Assistant] With a last effort Frodo, dropping his sword, slipped the ring from his finger, and closed his right hand tight upon it.


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[Assistant] The MLG opener 2006 was such a big deal because everyone knew how big MLG was now. They knew it was gonna be bigger, so they didn't want to be like, oh I'm gonna win, I'm gonna win.


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[Assistant] Melee was starting to get huge. That might have been like the biggest year of Melee's growth was 06.


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[Assistant] I actually told him a trick to use to get out of the chain grab as Fox, just cause Chew was, you know, West Coast at that point and I really didn't want to see Chew and Ken just split all the winnings as usual.


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[Assistant] PC was just pulling out all kinds of new tricks that we hadn't seen before.


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[Assistant] It was really, really hype. I mean, since there were so many people, like a lot of people were watching and you know, everyone got really into it. Wes was obviously talking a lot of smack.


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[Assistant] Came down to the last match too, like the very last match was the second set.


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[Assistant] It's hot filthy breath had already poisoned me and I was hard


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[Assistant] Not because he had torn away my beauty, but because he had not torn away my life.


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[Assistant] I do think there's a curse because you can't get that close that many times and fail.


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[Assistant] I was babysitting my new niece, Amanda, and I went crazy. I woke her up and she was screaming, and uhm, but I told her it was all for a good cause.


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[Assistant] They get to one strike away, not once, not twice, but three times.


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[Assistant] The whole world slowed down for me. It stopped time.


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[Assistant] It really was an hour and a half after the game ended before I could even move.


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[Assistant] It's about caring about something. This passion is so ingrained in me for so many years that I'm never gonna feel differently. It reminds you of home. It reminds you of your childhood. It just fills you.


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[Assistant] I woke up and looked over at Catherine. She was holding her belly with both hands.


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[Assistant] I rushed over to the phone and dialed the doctor's number. He asked me how often she felt pain.


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[Assistant] Catherine said that the pain seemed to come every 15 minutes or so.


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[Assistant] The doctor suggested that we get to the hospital as soon as possible.


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[Assistant] I had one of the hotel workers call a taxi for us and then gathered together all of Catherine's things to take to the hospital.


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[Assistant] I helped her get to the elevator then out the hotel entrance. She was in a very good mood.


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[Assistant] After we exited the taxi, I accompanied Catherine to the front desk of the hospital and arranged for a room to be prepared for her. They took both of us up right away.


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[Assistant] The nurse gave Catherine some clothes to change into and asked me to wait outside in the hall. A few minutes later, I was told that I could go in and see her. She was having greater pains now. She still seemed happy and excited.


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[Assistant] She insisted that I go, for she could not concentrate with me in the room.


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[Assistant] Alright, I said. Do you know where I can get a bite to eat, nurse?


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[Assistant] She answered, At the cafe I ordered some wine and bread. After I finished eating I went back out and walked the streets for a while.


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[Assistant] I saw a dog trying to get food from inside a garbage can.


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[Assistant] I walked over to help him but found nothing inside for him to eat. He left me disappointed and I then returned to the hospital. When I got to Catherine's room she was gone. I asked the receptionist where she had been taken and she led me to the room used for giving birth.


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[Assistant] Through the window in the door, I could see Catherine lying on a table with several people around her.


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[Assistant] The nurse then gave me clothing to change into so that I could go in and provide support for Catherine during the delivery. When I entered, I saw the doctor put a mask on Catherine's face. She took a deep breath and then pushed the mask away.


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[Assistant] Are you her husband, the doctor asked me? Yes. How is she? She's doing just fine.


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[Assistant] We're giving her a little gas to ease the pain a little, he said.


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[Assistant] Nine hours later, Catherine was still struggling to have the child. Still, she remained very excited and positive.


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[Assistant] After a while, the doctor asked me to go back out into the hallway.


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[Assistant] He needed to look at Catherine more closely for a few minutes. He said that he would call me back in when he was finished. I went out and had a look at that day's newspaper. It was beginning to darken outside. A long time passed and I started to get anxious. Why had the doctor not asked me to return? Was something wrong? I decided to wait ten more minutes and then I would go back.


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[Assistant] It seemed a horrible thing to have to suffer through just because you loved someone. She had had an easy nine months. Rarely did she ever get ill. Now, however,


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[Assistant] I could see that God was saving the worst for the big moment. He was throwing everything at her all at once now.


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[Assistant] Could this kill her? Shut up. Don't think such things. She'll be fine. But what if she is not fine? Stop! Really, everything will work out fine. Soon Catherine and I will be joking about this day. Then the doctor came toward me down the hallway.


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[Assistant] For some reason, the baby's not coming out. We're going to need to perform surgery.


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[Assistant] If you don't want that, we could always use another method. However, I would not recommend it. It can hurt both the baby and the mother. Jesus, she could die. Then please perform the surgery, I said. I'll begin preparations immediately. We should be ready to begin in about an hour. I went back into the room to see Catherine.


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[Assistant] She looked terribly white and tired. The gas no longer had any effect on her.


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[Assistant] She then squeezed her eyes and let out a small cry.


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[Assistant] I turned the gas on high for a second and she suddenly calmed down.


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[Assistant] Then, after a few seconds, she reawakened.


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[Assistant] No. If I do it too much you would die, I said.


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[Assistant] Of course you are. Very soon this will all be over and done with.


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[Assistant] The doctor then came into the room with several other doctors and


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[Assistant] After having her placed on a stretcher, pushed Catherine out and down the hall to the surgery room.


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[Assistant] The nurse told me that I could watch the surgery from the room next door.


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[Assistant] It was a window separating the rooms and it looked down over the surgery table. I refused and remained in the hallway, walking back and forth from one end to the other. Soon a doctor came out of the surgery room.


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[Assistant] He held something in his hands It looked dead.


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[Assistant] I followed him and then looked through the window of the room he entered to see what he was doing. He held a tiny child upside down by its feet. Is everything fine? I asked. Just perfect, he shouted with a smile. Come, have a look at your new baby boy. No, thanks, I said.


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[Assistant] I was angry with the baby for having put Catherine's life in danger. I returned to the room next to the surgery area and looked through the window at Catherine. She was still lying on the table. She seemed lifeless to me.


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[Assistant] There was no color in her face, and she did not move a single muscle.


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[Assistant] The nurses came and pushed her down the hall to a room where she could rest more comfortably. I went in to see her. She was just waking up at that moment. She looked at me and smiled.


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[Assistant] The nurse told her to get some rest, but I went ahead and answered her.


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[Assistant] It's a boy, and he's really big. His face looks like he's eight years old.


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[Assistant] I then left the room and asked the nurse if I could have a word with her.


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[Assistant] I went and took a seat in the hallway. So the little guy was dead. How long had he been dead? I wondered.


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[Assistant] For a moment I wished that the same thing had happened to me when I was still inside of my mother.


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[Assistant] Then I would not have to be here to see everyone dying all around me. I would not have to see Catherine die. She would surely die.


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[Assistant] Just like Amo and now Rinaldi with his sex disease.


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[Assistant] I put a piece of wood onto a fire we had going outside. There were hundreds of little ants on the wood.


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[Assistant] I saw them all start running, first toward the center of the fire, then back toward the cooler end of the stick.


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[Assistant] Eventually the stick broke and they all fell into the flames and burned to death. I could have saved them at any moment but I did nothing. A little while later


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[Assistant] I began to see nurses running in and out of Katherine's room. I stopped one of them and asked what was going on.


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[Assistant] Catherine was going to die. There was no question about it now. I would lose her.


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[Assistant] After a while the doctors let me go in to see her. She seemed extremely weak.


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[Assistant] She said, smiling as she saw me. Hello. How do you feel? I asked.


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[Assistant] Tears came to my eyes and I gently touched her hand. It seemed painful to her to be touched. I quickly removed my hand.


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[Assistant] You won't die, darling, I said. Stop talking that way.


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[Assistant] The doctor then interrupted us and suggested that I go back out into the hallway, for Katherine needed to rest as much as possible.


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[Assistant] I kissed her gently on the forehead and then walked toward the door.


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[Assistant] I then left the room and returned to my seat in the hallway.


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[Assistant] It was not long before the doctor called me back into her room. She was at death's door. I sat with her until the end. It did not take very long. She was sleeping when she went. The doctor offered to accompany me to my hotel.


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[Assistant] He felt bad for me and promised me that he had done everything he could to save her. I told him that I knew he had.


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[Assistant] The nurses would not allow me to re-enter Catherine's room.


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[Assistant] I demanded to be allowed to sit with Catherine for a few moments alone.


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[Assistant] I pushed past them and shut the door behind me. However, it was useless. I could not tell her goodbye. She was nothing more than an empty body. She was like a stone.


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[Assistant] A little later I exited the room and then the hospital and slowly made my way back to the hotel in the pouring rain.


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[Assistant] The Red Sox couldn't do anything wrong. The Yankees couldn't do anything right.


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[Assistant] McNamara comes out, it signals for the bullpen, the gate opens up, and out comes Stanley, and I screamed.


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[Assistant] To this day, it actually physically hurts to look at. It's like staring at the sun.


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[Assistant] It's not some evil force or some curse. There's always an incident you can point at. Bill Lee did not throw the right pitch.


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[Assistant] She made the mistake out there. Now curse, nothing overtook Billy's body, though I do believe aliens might have at one time.


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[Assistant] Over the years they have been this big, slow, lumbering type of team.


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[Assistant] They'll never steal a bass. They can't go from first to third on a bass set.


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[Assistant] My brother picks up the telephone and starts dialing my uncle in New Jersey, who's the big Mets fan. The second, the last out is May and they rush the field and the champagne comes out. His phone's gonna ring, it's gonna be us rubbing it in his face. My brother was just dialing.


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[Assistant] Sheraldi's expression was like me in algebra class when I was called for my homework. My brother kept dialing.


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[Assistant] My brother hung up the phone and there was a sense of, this game's lost.


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[Assistant] First of all, the death toll in New England will be catastrophic. There are so many old people saying, I can't die until I see them win the World Series. They're all gonna die. It's gonna be worse than the black play.


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[Assistant] There's no pictures. It's like so beyond. You know, the universe goes in infinity. Where is it in? I don't know. What would be there? I can't get to that. I don't think of a scenario. It's so like abstract.


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[Assistant] I just wondered why of all our very talented young men, you chose-


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[Assistant] Your majesty. Escort this wench to the Spanish border. Spain? Oh, but your mother... And if ever you said put in France again, I'll have your head. Take her away.


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[Assistant] Princess of Spain does not bestow her smiles upon a stranger. Especially a commoner. Commoner or nobleman.


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[Assistant] The forces that will prevent your marriage are desperate and will stop at nothing. We shall proceed seeing no one, speaking to no one.


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[Assistant] Dona Clara, please, may I not even say goodbye? You will even know, it'll be easier that way.


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[Assistant] At the half, the 49ers trailed 35-7. Led by a second year quarterback, no one knew what to expect.


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[Assistant] One game after punching offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride, Ryan hoped to knock out the 37 year old Montana, who appeared to be on his last legs.


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[Assistant] Like all the great Montana games on the countdown, our choice for number nine didn't make the list for how it began, but for how it ended.


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[Assistant] In our number eight Montana game, Miami took a 10-7 lead at the end of the first quarter. But in the second quarter, Joe Cool heated up.


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[Assistant] While Moreno struggled, Montana thrived, leading the 49ers to a 28-16 halftime advantage.


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[Assistant] The domination continued in the second half, and Montana led the 49ers to a 38-16 Super Bowl victory.


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[Assistant] Sorry, Niner fans, but our choice for number seven is staying put. The reason for including such a devastating loss on our list that hit by Leonard Marshall marked a turning point in the history of Montana, the 49ers and the NFL.


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[Assistant] San Francisco entered the game feeling pretty good about their chance to become the first franchise to win three straight Super Bowls.


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[Assistant] But no hit had a bigger impact than the one delivered by Leonard Marshall.


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[Assistant] A game that was billed as a quarterback battle turned into a one man show. Montana threw from five touchdowns in 297 yards and only three quarters.


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[Assistant] Montana's 23.4th quarter comeback outside in those frigid conditions was impressive. But the reason this game made our list has more to do with the temperature inside Joe's body.


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[Assistant] Our number four Montana game featured the 49ers as a seven point favorite, despite the Bengals having a better record.


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[Assistant] His counterpart was left with a much more sour taste in his mouth.


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[Assistant] In the first half, Montana was sacked six times.


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[Assistant] In the fourth quarter alone, Joe passed for four touchdowns and accounted for 246 total yards.


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[Assistant] What is often forgotten about our number one Montana game is that Joel's career masterpiece was clearly a work that could only be appreciated after viewing.


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[Assistant] And it's classic Montana, man, coming back late in the game to lead his troops to victory in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] I'm pretty sure though this is a celebration of Montana and all of his greatness. Uh, yeaah, I would leave this off.


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[Assistant] It changes that game. It ends the three-peat.


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[Assistant] I don't know how we're celebrating this as a Montana moment, but it's a significant moment nonetheless in his career.


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[Assistant] Wait, here comes 10 minutes of me getting crunched by Leonard Marshall from behind. See ya, gonna go make a sandwich.


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[Assistant] Right there is a hit, Leonard Marshall coming from the backside.


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[Assistant] And he was developing that mindset that he was going into battle, he was going to war.


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[Assistant] There's so many great Joe Montana moments to choose from, the catch is number one.


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[Assistant] You can't anticipate greatness. You can't really define it, I suppose. It's something that, that, that God, every once in a while, sticks in somebody. And uhm, and because it comes from God, uhm, the gift can't be ignored. And it can't be defeated. And the great athletes use it, even if they're not human.


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[Assistant] You know, step over a guy with a heart attack so they don't get shut out at the window betters, okay? But also with people who are at that track who are not gamblers.


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[Assistant] Who was the kids because of his secretariat? This was the people's horse.


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[Assistant] We're so beaten and so battered by this horse. It was the confederate army.


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[Assistant] Staggering home after Appomattox. I mean, these are all flowery, ridiculous things and you could say, hey, it's nothing but a horse race. I'm sorry. This horse was an athlete.


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[Assistant] This is more than the story of a single horse or the story of the great American horse as athlete. This is the story of one of the great American teams.


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[Assistant] He had that star quality about him. Sort of like the movie stars arriving on the red carpet at the Academy Awards. He would look over, give you the perfunctory, it's me, good to see ya, gotta go.


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[Assistant] I'd love to be with you. We'll always be together, right?


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[Assistant] You wouldn't be able to help me much if you were here anyway.


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[Assistant] You promised me that you were not going to worry, didn't you?


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[Assistant] Just take care of yourself out there. Don't let anything else happen to you.


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[Assistant] Just a little wound. Nothing too serious, please.


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[Assistant] I have found that most of what people think lead to a long, healthy life is misguided or just plain wrong.


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[Assistant] And these secrets can help every one of us to get every good year we can get out of this body of ours.


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[Assistant] He was not a failure at stud, he was a useful stallion, but he...


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[Assistant] You'd have to say that Secretary, it was a bit of a disappointment.


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[Assistant] But was soon interrupted by the arrival of Mr Grimwig, an old friend of Mr Brownlow's.


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[Assistant] Mr. Grimwig was a fierce old gentleman and very fond of arguments.


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[Assistant] Oliver bowed politely and was introduced by Mr Brownlow.


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[Assistant] Tea was then brought in, and during the meal Mr Grimwig stared so hard at Oliver that the boy felt rather confused.


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[Assistant] Eventually, Mr Grimwig whispered to Mr Prownlow,


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[Assistant] It is finally here. Oh yes, the Republican plan to replace Obamacare is public.


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[Assistant] It seems dead on arrival. They're calling it a stinking pile of


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[Assistant] The proposal provides tax credits to help pay for premiums. Someone under the age of 30 would get $2000. Someone 60 and older would get $4000. Okay.


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[Assistant] And Bow would come down the line. His responsibility was taking the quarterback on the option. He tackled the quarterback.


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[Assistant] Quarterback would pitch the ball, bow would get up and run down to pitch man and tackling for a one yard loss.


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[Assistant] Our principal called all seniors in the library right after that.


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[Assistant] I kept the athletes downstairs in the locker room and both said, coach, I want to go to the library.


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[Assistant] He saw the opportunity to not only make a future for himself.


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[Assistant] But to help his mom out who had been just working herself to death to raise those kids and to give him everything. And so he really got focused and knew that he had a chance to be something special.


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[Assistant] I get a collect phone call on Saturday afternoon, you know, a couple hours after a game and coach this boat.


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[Assistant] But I don't wanna go to any of that stuff. You know, I don't go to parties. I got homesick.


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[Assistant] Welcome to the Late Show, I'm your host Stephen Colbert. I hope everyone is staying safe and warm tonight. Because we are expecting a huge blizzard. I'm hearing up to 18 inches of snow from what the Weather Channel has dubbed Winter Storm Stella. For the latest on the storm, let's go to the Weather Channel's Jim Cantore.


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[Assistant] In fact, I have as much authority to name things as they do. So, because we're expecting 18 inches of snow, even though just last week it was 60 degrees, I'm calling this Winter Storm Crazy Balls. Yeah.


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[Assistant] That's much more likely. Pretty crazy. Pretty crazy. Speaking of crazy balls.


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[Assistant] Uh, so far, it is popular with everyone except, uh, doctors, hospitals, the insurance industry, patients, the elderly, Democrats, Republicans, and, uh, what's the word, mortals.


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[Assistant] Uh, and this just happened. Uh, this afternoon, the Congressional Budget Office released its official analysis of the GOP's healthcare bill, and they found that 24 million Americans will lose coverage under the plan. No.


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[Assistant] Yesterday, Speaker of the House and personal trainer who high fives way too hard.


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[Assistant] So anyway, a lot of people could end up losing their healthcare. Speaking of losing it,


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[Assistant] Well, today is the deadline set by Congress for Justice Department to hand over anything that might exist. So far, brace yourself.


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[Assistant] Then, uh, Shawnee, uh, got a little spicy.


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[Assistant] He always throws that on the end, right? Bazinga. And...


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[Assistant] But, uh, Conway's microwave comment heated up online, so today she explained to CNN's Chris Cuomo why her claims may have been a little off.


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[Assistant] Who has that evidence job? Cuz it's certainly not Paul Ryan, or Tom Price, and it would be nice to know if Obama was spying on everyone through the popcorn setting on our microwaves. Oh, excuse me, my hot pocket's done.


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[Assistant] By the way, President Obama,


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[Assistant] Now, I wanna talk about, uh, Donald Trump here, but not the president. I'm talking about the one that looks like he's wet all the time.


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[Assistant] You know, a lot of people have been worried about conflicts of interest because, uh, Donald Trump Sr. owns the Trump Organization. Now, he's turned it over to his son, and Don Jr. assured the crowd that since his dad took office, quote, I basically have zero contact with him at this point. Aww. Thank you. A little late, but thank you. Poor Don Jr., you know, reminds me that


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[Assistant] When you're coming home, Dad, I can't tell you, son. It violates the emoluments clause, son.


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[Assistant] There was an article this week that talked about how you can surveil someone through their phones, through their, certainly through their television sets, any number of different ways, and microwaves that turn into cameras.


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[Assistant] to spy on the Trump campaign. However, I have, I'm not in the job of having evidence.


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[Assistant] We saw this magnificent stone of a baseball player that needed to be cut, that needed to be polished, that needed to be refined. And when it was, it would be the crown jewel. And that's the way it became.


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[Assistant] I think we all felt the same way. Why Bo? Why? Why? Why? You've got a chance to be the ultimate superstar in this game. Why turn your back on that?


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[Assistant] You know, you don't do things to, you know, to try to get recognized for doing something great. You do it because you really enjoy it and you love it and you like it, but you don't have to make such a big deal out of it.


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[Assistant] There are a lot of conspiracy theories, and I think people sometimes, we really like conspiracy theories, but in this instance, I don't think there are.


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[Assistant] Religion sometimes breeds amongst people some extremes.


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[Assistant] And I do remember my dad telling this story, I guess, he used to return punts, and I guess in high school, and he didn't like returning them. I guess he would let them bounce in front of him, or he, you know, he wouldn't catch them, uh, you know, out of the air.


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[Assistant] My grandpa Sanders, I guess, told him, you know, you can't play this game with, you know, fear of failure. You just gotta, you know, let the chips fall where they make. And especially in the game of football, you are going to make so much


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[Assistant] Well sir, I'd like to become the welterweight champion of the world.


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[Assistant] Okay.


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[Assistant] Friday, ask Pakia to look after Dog Spirit.


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[Assistant] With new moon, many, many warriors will come. Want your magic? Well, we can't fight them all.


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[Assistant] This island of dead people. Aye, well, we will be if we stay here.


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[Assistant] Right name, Juan Matapit. White man, call it Noah Britton.


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[Assistant] My father told me about white men long ago. Not good. White men, they take much everything, not give back. Take land, take people, tanger people. Make people slaves.


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[Assistant] You're not white man, master. You're good man.


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[Assistant] You gave life. I cannot kill you. Better I go kill myself.


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[Assistant] Uh, no time to build new boat. Moon nearly big. They must come. Many, many warriors.


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[Assistant] Dying not important. All men die. What matters is how you die.


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[Assistant] Many times, white men come and take many warriors, many young men for slave. Take my son.


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[Assistant] Eva Morgan, three pounds seven. David Morgan, two pounds five.


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[Assistant] Owen Morgan, two pound five. Young Willie Morgan, one pound ten.


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[Assistant] It is the same all over South Wales it is. Father.


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[Assistant] In Cardiff, the men are standing in line to have bread from the government. Not for us. Eh, lad?


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[Assistant] We will have our share of the box. And go, if you please, sir.


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[Assistant] Dai Bando is going to teach you to box, Hugh. To fight first? Too many call themselves boxers who are not even fighters. Boxing is an art, is it? It is, it is.


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[Assistant] I'm afraid you will never make a boxer. No aptitude for knowledge.


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[Assistant] I'll, I'll go ahead and take it and I'm honored to be sitting here by, uh, the, the president of the Tremont Baker Bro chapter.


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[Assistant] I think is one thing that you look, I'm a big fan of history. Uhm, so you look back at history and you try to figure out what guys do and what other similar situations have there been. And so my thing is when you look at Baker Mayfield,


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[Assistant] There was no other prior situations to this. I think one of the things that really helped Baker identify with this community was


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[Assistant] He was the rebound, right? And we've been rebounding from the Browns leaving in 1995. He's the rebound girlfriend, right? Listen, I got married on a rebound. Great metaphor. I got married on a rebound.


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[Assistant] But you look at it, and the thing that Baker gave you, he gave you confidence, right? He gave you that swag, that thing in your stomach that says, hey, we got a guy too. And he made you


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[Assistant] Wanna wear your colors and not apologize for being a Browns fan. He said, yo, I'ma come out here, I'ma come out here and be brash. I'm gonna be, I'm gonna be charismatic. I'm gonna take it to everybody else.


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[Assistant] And for so many years the people in Cleveland felt like we didn't have a representative of what the city meant. We got that backlash all the time. We got that hate. And so Baker came in and personified


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[Assistant] That, that, that angst, that energy level, and then on top of it, he delivered it on the field. He played with that same, he delivered it.


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[Assistant] I think you look at it like this. This is, it's just, it's like, you could look at the social construct of humanity, right? You got people at the top, people in the middle, people at the bottom. When you're used to being on the bottom, right? And you, people are used to making fun of you, right?


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[Assistant] Forget that man. Don't be afraid to say we got a quarterback and y'all gonna have to deal with this now.


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[Assistant] Okay, do it. And learn from the people in front of you. Hugh Jackson didn't have his quarterback. He never eventually got to get his own quarterback, right? That wasn't a plan. You said that's a perfect thing. We have to realize Baker Mayfield was here.


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[Assistant] Baker Mayfield is going to do to the Carolina Panthers. Yes, he might not know the playbook, but one of the things he's going to be playing fast and free.


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[Assistant] He's gonna be playing pissed off. And one of the things that we cannot deny is Baker has infectious energy. When he comes into your locker room, it's gonna be a night and day premise from what they saw in Sam Darnold to Baker Mayfield. There's gonna be some guys that rally around him.


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[Assistant] And at the top of the game too, you gotta look at who's in that division. He's gonna play against Jameis Winston twice. He's gonna play against Marcus Mariota twice. Obviously Tom Brady. But if you look at the NFC,


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[Assistant] And you look at what the AFC is, I think the ceiling for, for the Carolina Panthroo is playoffs.


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[Assistant] Yes. Sealing for the Browns is, is.


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[Assistant] Would Jacoby Brissetta hold here? Eight, nine wins maybe? So I'd take the ceiling for the Caroline.


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[Assistant] First of all, let's get the chat gang involved. Hey, let me see the ones if you like Cam Newton. Put the ones in the chat if you like Cam Newton. Two, if you say hell no. Two, you don't want no parts of it.


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[Assistant] Number ones, if you like Cam Newton. Now for me, I look at it in terms of what Tyrus said.


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[Assistant] I've been looking at his arm strength not only last year, but the year before that. I look at his year that Baker in 2018 played. And he, I just didn't recognize the velocity is it. It's almost like he shot putting the ball. He doesn't have that same like kick. Any chance that could come back? No, no.


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[Assistant] Well, I have a little information about how it gets that bad.


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[Assistant] So you go back, there's a couple of events that happen and we look at it and people kinda forget about it. I think one of the first things was,


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[Assistant] He started, he talked about Duke Johnson's bag of money. Yes. Duke Johnson was up for a contract. He said he needed to get here. He's either in or he's out. A lot of veterans after that had to pull him aside and say, hey, hey, hey, hey, we're not going to do that. I criticize him for that. The fans killed me. Fans killed me for that. And the second thing that, that hurt him, the Odell Beckham Jr. thing hurt him very badly.


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[Assistant] People in the locker room loved Odell. People felt like after that, that, you know, his dad's whole thing there, somebody told me, some source told me that they was upset that Baker acted like that was a, that was the craziest thing. They, they say he could have easily squashed it and just said, you know what? Yeah.


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[Assistant] That, that's whatever. It's, it's my job to get Odell to football. And then the sec, the third thing that I think was, was the most damning of it all was at the end of the day, he said, he said, I'm going to play injured. I'm playing injured. Last game of the season comes.


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[Assistant] He says, I'ma talk to my family and my team, and I know for a fact everybody in the locker room said...


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[Assistant] Well, when we came out and you, and we just won with Case Keenum against Denver.


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[Assistant] The rest of the team for his contract. And then in the last game of the season said, I'm going to talk to my family. That was almost saying I'm going to take my talents to South Beach.


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[Assistant] Leroy, Leroy, and I'ma just throw this in so you can comment on it. When he said, when they put that microphone in his face, he hadn't had no time to talk to Miles Garrett, he could've waited till after it was over. And he said, we can't have that.


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[Assistant] Fast forward a little bit. Okay. We gotta get personal here. Uhm. Oh boy. Gotta get personal here.


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[Assistant] No, no, you're good. We're not going that route. We're good. We take a look at this.


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[Assistant] Baker Mayfield is now, Jay talked about this is the best and worst thing that has ever happened to the Cleveland Browns because they get the chance to play Baker and he's excited to see the AMS awesome. For me.


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[Assistant] I'm just gonna say it now. There is no way that Cleveland Browns can afford to lose this game.


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[Assistant] Under no circumstances can Kevin Stefanski come out here and lose the game to Baker Mayfield because for me,


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[Assistant] That would be an indictment on Kevin Stefanski because I believe


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[Assistant] That the main proponent or the main person that stood against Baker Mayfield moving forward was Kevin Safanski because he said, listen, I can't run what I want to run here. He has limitations. And so that means he chose.


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[Assistant] To move on from Baker and he told you that he could do it with, with, with Jacobi Berset or Dobbs or even, uh, or, or even with Deshaun Watson.


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[Assistant] I really do. And to your point, you said something and I used to always get mad at people who were in the media that say this.


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[Assistant] Like, come on, y'all gotta do better, man. Stop rolling out of bed saying this stuff. We- Odell and- they just can't- I don't know what it is, they just can't get on the same page.


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[Assistant] No, you just talked about what pros do. Listen, Odell, I don't care if I gotta live with you. We gonna be out here two, three hours after practice. I gotta get Kevin Stefanski. I show up and say, Coach, look, what are we gonna do this week? I need him to get the ball eight times. That's what the quarterback does.


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[Assistant] If you say something long enough in this life, it just becomes true. And like, people don't even, why would you, and then there's the text message out here where a person, one of the women reach out to Deshaun Watson after the alleged stuff happened and said, I'm sorry, I was very unprofessional. That's not like that.


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[Assistant] They have text, text messages. And so what I get upset is you, if you're going, if you're going to post this stuff, if you're going to be a media member, do the homework, at least give a little bit of like, cause that's pertinent to the conversation.


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[Assistant] Now you, now you've been in the locker room and you have a good working relationship with people in the locker room, right? Now, have you ever had a situation, I'm sure this has happened, where you talk to a player and you say, hey man, I'm thinking about hanging it up. I really got it no more.


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[Assistant] Or you talk to a guy, hey man, after this season, I'm looking at Atlanta. I'm looking like, you know, my people's is down there. I might do that. So you get a little inside information. So you hear it, but you don't, you don't tip your hat to nobody. You just keep that under your hat and you just, that's just locker room code. He just letting you know.


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[Assistant] Now, if I could believe that that happens with players, right? Why would it be a giant leap to think that that don't happen with owners in the league?


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[Assistant] If I'm going to spend $230 million and give him an upgraded contract, do you not think that Jimmy and Dee Hazlem don't say, hey, uhm, let me talk to you real quick. Now we want to do this move.


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[Assistant] So for me, this move signified not only did the Browns like Jacoby Brissette, I think it always already signifies the fact that they know a little more than they was letting on about this whole Deshaun Watson. And to them, a season or indefinite was never on the table, but they can't say that to us. What are your thoughts?


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[Assistant] Miles Garret is the leader in the locker room now. Miles Garret really wants him to be back on the team. He already done put it on Instagram.


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[Assistant] I'm the number one receiver trying to get to football. These people be playing checkers, not this chess, bro.


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[Assistant] I gotta shake it up? That's as far as you should go. Hold on, first of all, let's not, let's be the culturally savvy people we are. It's not possible for you. That's what I'm saying.


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[Assistant] Watch, watch, watch this, De'Quel. This is kind of off the beaten trail a little bit, but you, you know, they just confirmed the narrative. Baker, he was heard, he could be comeback player of the year, and I'm here to say it. I don't care how well Deshaun Watson plays.


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[Assistant] Dope. Make sure you hit that like button too, man. Listen, this is the hottest thing smoking on the internet right now. Listen, we need you to hit that like button so everybody can get our content. And by the way, we can set a, we need to set a goal. We need a time frame. We need to be at 10,000 by win, McNuggets.


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[Assistant] I don't, I don't go to like the, I guess, you know, the emotional route where it was magical or anything. I think...


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[Assistant] I've watched every single throw Baker made in college and then I've watched every single throw he's made in the pros, right?


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[Assistant] When you look at his throws and you look at the mechanics and you look at the accuracy and you look at, the first thing that jumps off is, it wasn't the, I think it was the Philly special where he threw the ball back and he caught it. That was the splash, that was the splash play. But the play earlier in the drive was, it was a third and I believe eight or something and he threw this, this frozen rope down the hash.


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[Assistant] And it was in between, uh, uh, uh, safety and a corner all over Jarvis Landry. It was like a back shoulder throw. And I mean, the ball goes millimeters by each of their hands. He fits it in. And the first thing that I thought to myself is,


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[Assistant] There's nobody, Colt McCoy, Brian Hoyer, Derrick Anderson, uh, Brady Quint, Johnny. It didn't matter. Like, that was the first...


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[Assistant] Cleveland quarterback, no disrespect to Bernie Kozar, that can fit that ball in that place.


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[Assistant] That was a throw Aaron Rodgers, the big arm guy's throw, the balls that you, you like, wow, there's no way you could do that. He threw that rock and I was just like, okay, we might got something here. Like, cause that was the skill set, right? And then he was accurate his first year, you know, he had big time throws. If you're going to look at PFF and pro football focus, they'll say,


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[Assistant] Big time throws, throws that are 25 yards where there's guys that are all over people. He had the most big time throws according to Pro Football Focus. And so everybody fell in love with the swag.


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[Assistant] But he had the game too to match it and you saw this rookie year and unfortunately those type of throws were few and far between as his career went on and I can just remember that year having a feeling like dang the Browns really actually got somebody that can deliver like that.


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[Assistant] Yep. Incredible performance. Donovan Peoples Jones caught that long touchdown. He was on Jarvis Landrieu had a touchdown.


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[Assistant] And by the way, they did number 23. I still don't say your name number 23. And by the way, wow, by the way, the best celebration in the last five years, you know, you got the Hollywood Higgins walking the red carpet and Baker Mayfield running and sliding taking them pictures like this on his deal. That was sweet. Fire. It was sweet.


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[Assistant] We gotta go back and, and we, we have to second guess, you know, with Dorsey, like, would you take that back? I asked him, because even he had an opportunity to get him with the Lions and he said, no. All right, Mike, time for good


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[Assistant] Well, you know, Baker, I'll tell you what, man.


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[Assistant] Sometimes you get people, right? And I talk about relationships like sometimes you get people and they just really not the person for you long term. They just good for that time period, right?


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[Assistant] It just works out well, right? There's a lot of people, there's a lot of people I've dated or come across that have contributed good, bad or indifferent to who I am today. Maybe they thought I wasn't going to be nobody.


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[Assistant] Maybe they just thought, you know, hey, I should be doing more with my life. Well, that's awesome too. But there's always people that come in your life and they're there for a specific reason for a specific season. And Baker was that way with the Cleveland Browns.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Baker had his purpose. Baker was here to give us what I would call a little encouragement and a shot of courage to say, look, Cleveland.


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[Assistant] We can do things too. He was the first person we got an opportunity to see on commercials. He's the first person we had an opportunity to get prime time games like Monday night, Thursday night. We were always a 12 o'clock game.


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[Assistant] Baker Mayfield came along and gave us what we needed at that time. And he gave us that, that, that enthusiasm, that exuberance, and that, that attitude back to say, listen,


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[Assistant] Cleveland is just not a place you stop and just take a dump on. Cleveland is actually here and we got some stuff too. I will tell you this, Baker, hey, you served your purpose. Shout out to you because I will say this, Cleveland is a better place after you, after you left it, but you did your thing and we salute you.


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[Assistant] Chapter 7 A Day with the Beavers


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[Assistant] While the two boys were whispering behind, both the girls suddenly cried, Oh! and stopped. The robin, cried Lucy, the robin, it's flown away.


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[Assistant] It's still there. It's just gone behind that big tree. What is it?


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[Assistant] Ask Lucy, trying very hard not to sound nervous.


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[Assistant] Whatever it is, said Peter, it's dodging us. It's something that doesn't want to be seen. Let's go home, said Susan. And then, though nobody said it out loud,


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[Assistant] Everyone suddenly realized the same fact that Edmund had whispered to Peter at the end of the last chapter. They were lost. What's it like, said Lucy. It's, it's a kind of animal, said Susan. And then, look, look quick, there it is. They all saw it this time.


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[Assistant] A whiskered furry face which had looked out at them from behind a tree. But this time, it didn't immediately draw back. Instead, the animal put its paw against its mouth.


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[Assistant] Just as humans put their finger on their lips when they are signalling to you to be quiet, then it disappeared again. The children all stood holding their breath. A moment later the stranger came out from behind the tree, glanced all round.


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[Assistant] As if it were afraid, someone was watching, said,


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[Assistant] Said Lucy. Yes, but how do we know? Said Edmund. Shouldn't we have to risk it? Said Susan.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's no good just standing here, and I feel I want some dinner.


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[Assistant] At this moment the beaver again popped its head out from behind the tree and beckoned earnestly to them. Come on, said Peter, let's give it a try. All keep close together.


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[Assistant] We ought to be a match for one beaver if it turns out to be an enemy.


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[Assistant] So the children all got close together and walked up to the tree and in behind it. And there, sure enough, they found the beaver. But it still drew back, saying to them in a hoarse throaty whisper,


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[Assistant] Only when it had led them into a dark spot where four trees grew so close together that their boughs met.


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[Assistant] And the brown earth and pine needles could be seen underfoot because no snow had been able to fall there. Did it begin to talk to them?


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[Assistant] Are you the sons of Adam and the daughters of Eve? It said. We're some of them, said Peter.


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[Assistant] You know who I mean. And it nodded its head several times.


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[Assistant] If it comes to talking about sides, said Edmund, how do we know you're a friend?


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[Assistant] Not meaning to be rude, Mr. Beaver, added Peter, but you see, we're strangers. Quite right, quite right, said the Beaver. Here is my token. With these words, it held up to them a little white object.


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[Assistant] They all looked at it in surprise, till suddenly Lucy said,


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[Assistant] Of course! It's my handkerchief! The one I gave to poor Mr. Tumnus.


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[Assistant] Here the beaver's voice sank into silence, and it gave one or two very mysterious nods.


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[Assistant] And now, a very curious thing happened.


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[Assistant] None of the children knew who Aslan was any more than you do.


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[Assistant] But the moment the beaver had spoken these words, everyone felt quite different. Perhaps it'll sometimes happen to you in a dream that someone says something which you don't understand. But in the dream, it feels as if it had some enormous meaning.


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[Assistant] Either a terrifying one which turns the whole dream into a nightmare, or else a lovely meaning, too lovely to put into words.


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[Assistant] Which makes the dream so beautiful that you remember it all your life and are always wishing you could get into that dream again. It was like that now, at the name of Aslan.


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[Assistant] Each one of the children felt something jump in its insides.


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[Assistant] Edmund felt a sensation of mysterious horror. Peter felt suddenly brave and adventurous.


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[Assistant] Susan felt as if some delicious smell or some delightful strain of music had just floated by her.


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[Assistant] And Lucy got the feeling you have when you wake up in the morning and realize that it is the beginning of the holidays or the beginning of summer.


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[Assistant] No one except Edmund felt any difficulty about trusting the beaver now.


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[Assistant] And everyone, including Edmund, was very glad to hear the word dinner.


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[Assistant] They therefore all hurried along behind their new friend who led them at a surprisingly quick pace and always in the thickest parts of the forest for over an hour. Everyone was feeling very tired and very hungry.


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[Assistant] And found themselves looking down on a fine sight. They were standing on the edge of a steep narrow valley at the bottom of which ran, at least it would have been running if it hadn't been frozen, a fairly large river.


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[Assistant] Just below them a dam had been built across this river.


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[Assistant] And when they saw it, everyone suddenly remembered that of course beavers are always making dams, and felt quite sure that Mr Beaver had made this one.


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[Assistant] They also noticed that he now had a sort of modest expression on his face.


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[Assistant] The sort of look people have when you are visiting a garden they have made, or reading a story they have written.


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[Assistant] So it was only common politeness when Susan said, what a lovely dam. And Mr. Beaver didn't say, hush, this time, but,


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[Assistant] Merely a trifle, merely a trifle, and it isn't really finished.


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[Assistant] Above the dam, there was what ought to have been a deep pool.


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[Assistant] But was now of course, a level floor of dark green ice.


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[Assistant] And below the dam, much lower down was more ice.


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[Assistant] But instead of being smooth, this was all frozen into the foamy and wavy shapes in which the water had been rushing along at the very moment when the frost came.


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[Assistant] And where the water had been trickling over and spurting through the dam,


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[Assistant] There was now a glittering wall of icicles, as if the side of the dam had been covered all over with flowers and wreaths and festoons of the purest sugar.


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[Assistant] And out in the middle and partly on the top of the dam was a funny little house, shaped rather like an enormous beehive, and from a hole in the roof smoke was going up, so that when you saw it, especially if you were hungry,


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[Assistant] You at once thought of cooking and became hungrier than you were before. That was what the others chiefly noticed, but Edmund noticed something else.


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[Assistant] A little lower down the river, there was another small river which came down another small valley to join it. And looking up that valley, Edmund could see two small hills.


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[Assistant] Must be her palace. Oh, near Miloff or less.


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[Assistant] And he thought about Turkish delight, and about being a king.


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[Assistant] And I wonder how Peter will like that, he asked himself. And horrible ideas came into his head. Here we are, said Mr. Beaver.


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[Assistant] And it looks as if Mrs. Beaver is expecting us.


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[Assistant] I'll lead the way, but be careful and don't slip.


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[Assistant] The top of the dam was wide enough to walk on, though not for humans. A very nice place to walk, because it was covered with ice.


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[Assistant] And though the frozen pool was level with it on one side, there was a nasty drop to the lower river on the other.


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[Assistant] Along this route, Mr. Beaver led them in single file.


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[Assistant] Right out to the middle where they could look a long way up the river and a long way down it. And when they had reached the middle, they were at the door of the house. Here we are Mrs. Beaver, said Mr. Beaver. I've found them.


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[Assistant] Here are the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve. And they all went in.


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[Assistant] The first thing Lucy noticed as she went in was a burring sound.


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[Assistant] And the first thing she saw was a kind looking old she beaver sitting in the corner with a thread in her mouth working busily at her sewing machine. And it was from it that the sound came. She stopped her work and got up as soon as the children came in.


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[Assistant] So, you've come at last, she said, holding out both her wrinkled old paws.


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[Assistant] Those are on boiling and the kettle singing, and I dare say, Mr. Beaver, you'll get us some fish. That I will, said Mr. Beaver, and he went out of the house. Peter went with him.


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[Assistant] Then suddenly, shot in his paw, and before you could say Jack Robinson had whisked out a beautiful trout.


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[Assistant] Then he did it all over again until they had a fine catch of fish.


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[Assistant] Meanwhile the girls were helping Mrs. Beaver to fill the kettle and lay the table and cut the bread and put the plates in the oven to heat and draw a huge jug of beer for Mr. Beaver from a barrel which stood in one corner of the house and to put on the frying pan and get the dripping hot.


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[Assistant] Lucy thought the beavers had a very snug little home, though it was not at all like Mr. Tumnus's cave.


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[Assistant] There were no books or pictures, and instead of beds there were bunks, like on board ship, built into the wall.


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[Assistant] And there were hams and strings of onions hanging from the roof. And against the walls were gum boots and oil skins and hatchets and pairs of shears and spades and trowels and things for carrying mortar in and fishing rods and fishing nets and sacks.


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[Assistant] And the cloth on the table, though very clean, was very rough.


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[Assistant] Just as the frying pan was nicely hissing, Peter and Mr Beaver came in with the fish, which Mr Beaver had already opened with his knife and cleaned out in the open air.


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[Assistant] You can think how good the New Court fish smelled while they were frying.


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[Assistant] And how the hungry children long for them to be done.


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[Assistant] And how very much hungrier still they had become before Mr. Beaver said, Now, we're nearly ready.


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[Assistant] Susan drained the potatoes and then put them all back in the empty pot to dry on the side of the range.


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[Assistant] While Lucy was helping Mrs. Beaver to dish up the trout.


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[Assistant] So that in a very few minutes, everyone was drawing up their stools.


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[Assistant] It was all three-legged stools in the beaver's house except for Mrs. Beaver's own special rocking chair beside the fire and preparing to enjoy themselves. There was a jug of creamy milk for the children. Mr. Beaver stuck to beer.


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[Assistant] And a great big lump of deep yellow butter in the middle of the table.


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[Assistant] That there's nothing to beat good freshwater fish if you eat it when it has been alive half an hour ago and has come out of the pan half a minute ago.


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[Assistant] And when they had finished the fish, Mrs Beaver brought unexpectedly out of the oven a great and gloriously sticky marmalade roll, steaming hot, and at the same time moved the kettle onto the fire, so that when they had finished the marmalade roll, the tea was made and ready to be poured out.


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[Assistant] Said Mr. Beaver pushing away his empty beer mug, and pulling his cup of tea toward him.


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[Assistant] If you'll just wait till I've got my pipe lit up and going nicely.


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[Assistant] Why, now we can get to business. It's snowing again, he added, cocking his eye at the window.


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[Assistant] That's all the better, because it means we shan't have any visitors.


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[Assistant] And if anyone should have been trying to follow you, why, he won't find any tracks.


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[Assistant] Chapter 2 What Lucy Found There


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[Assistant] But the fawn was so busy picking up its parcels that at first it did not reply. When it had finished, it made her a little bow.


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[Assistant] I don't want to be inquisitive, but should I be right in thinking that you are a daughter of Eve?


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[Assistant] My name's Lucy, said she, not quite understanding him.


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[Assistant] But you are, forgive me, you are what they call a girl, asked the phone. Of course I'm a girl, said Lucy.


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[Assistant] Of course I'm human, said Lucy, still a little puzzled.


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[Assistant] To be sure, to be sure, said the fawn. How stupid of me! But I've never seen a son of Adam or a daughter of Eve before. I'm delighted, that is to say.


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[Assistant] Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Tumnus. I'm very pleased to meet you, Mr. Tumnus, said Lucy.


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[Assistant] And may I ask, oh Lucy, daughter of Eve, said Mr. Tumnus, how you have come into Narnia? Narnia? What's that? said Lucy.


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[Assistant] This is the land of Narnia, said the fawn, where we are now.


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[Assistant] All that lies between the lampost and the great castle of Careparavelle on the eastern sea. And you, you have come from the wild woods of the west? I


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[Assistant] I got in through the wardrobe in the spare room, said Lucy.


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[Assistant] Arrrr, said Mr. Tumnus in a rather melancholy voice.


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[Assistant] If only I had worked harder at geography when I was a little foreign. I should no doubt know all about those strange countries. It is too late now.


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[Assistant] But they aren't countries at all, said Lucy, almost laughing. It's only just back there. At least, I'm not sure. It is summer there.


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[Assistant] Meanwhile, said Mr. Tumnus, it is winter in Narnia and has been forever so long and we shall both catch cold if we stand here talking in the snow.


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[Assistant] Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare, um, where eternal summer rains round the bright city of Wardrobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me? Thank you very much, Mr. Tumnus, said Lucy, but I was wondering whether I ought to be getting back. It's only just round the corner, said the Fawn.


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[Assistant] If you will take my arm, daughter of Eve," said Mr. Tomness, I shall be able to hold the umbrella over both of us. That's the way. Now off we go.


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[Assistant] And so Lucy found herself walking through the wood, arm in arm with this strange creature, as if they had known one another all their lives.


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[Assistant] They had not gone far before they came to a place where the ground became rough and there were rocks all about and little hills up and little hills down.


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[Assistant] At the bottom of one small valley, Mr. Tumnus turned suddenly aside as if he were going to walk straight into an unusually large rock.


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[Assistant] It was a little dry clean cave of reddish stone with a carpet on the floor and two little chairs. One for me and one for a friend, said Mr. Tumnus, and a table and a dresser and a mantelpiece over the fire, and above that a picture of an old fawn with a grey beard.


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[Assistant] In one corner there was a door, which Lucy thought must lead to Mr Tumnus's bedroom, and on one wall was a shelf full of books.


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[Assistant] Lucy looked at these while he was setting out the tea things.


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[Assistant] They had titles like The Life and Letters of Silenus, or Nymphs and Their Ways, or Men, Monks and Gamekeepers, a study in popular legend, or Is Man a Myth?


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[Assistant] No, daughter of Eve, said the fawn. And really it was a wonderful tea.


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[Assistant] There was a nice brown egg, lightly boiled for each of them.


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[Assistant] And then sardines on toast, and then buttered toast, and then toast with honey, and then a sugar topped cake.


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[Assistant] And when Lucy was tired of eating, the fawn began to talk.


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[Assistant] He had wonderful tales to tell of life in the forest.


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[Assistant] He told about the midnight dances and how the nymphs who lived in the wells and the dryads who lived in the trees came out to dance with the fawns.


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[Assistant] About long hunting parties after the milk white stag who could give you wishes if you caught him.


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[Assistant] About feasting and treasure-seeking with the wild red dwarfs in deep mines and caverns far beneath the forest floor.


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[Assistant] And then about summer, when the woods were green, and old Silenus on his fat donkey would come to visit them. And sometimes Bacchus himself.


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[Assistant] And then the streams would run with wine instead of water, and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end.


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[Assistant] Not that it isn't always winter now, he added gloomily.


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[Assistant] Then to cheer himself up, he took out from its case on the dresser a strange little flute.


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[Assistant] That looked as if it were made of straw and began to play.


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[Assistant] And the tune he played made Lucy want to cry and laugh and dance and go to sleep all at the same time.


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[Assistant] It must have been hours later when she shook herself and said,


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[Assistant] I'm so sorry to stop you, and I do love that tune. But really, I must go home. I only meant to stay for a few minutes.


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[Assistant] It's no good now, you know," said the fawn, laying down its flute and shaking its head at her very sorrowfully.