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down in the M where the wind in the
middle of a field on the lightning tree
it lims all torn from the day it was
born for the tree was born in a
Thunderstone grow grow the lightning
tree it's never too late for you and me
grow grow the lightning tree never get
into
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we down in the m in the
window the lightning trees come you want
you want then it's up to
you the
lightning too easily lightning tree
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come on ladyb bird room service off you
go come on come
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on do you have to make that blasted
racket oh paron me I'm
sure and if you bust that gate you'll
have to fix it yourself
sir morning your
ladyship peasant number 999 port for
Duty about time to hey you're only 2
hours early you'll have to do better
than that Dora is that kidding or is it
for real it's for real hang about why
because I like having you around
Co how you do you yeah
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the heck do you think you're playing
that sorry I'm sure got to clean up
after you now have we I'll do it haven't
we got enough to do without all this
fooling
about go on is's right clean it up I'll
start schooling the twins will you help
you're the boss
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yeah why don't they get
giddy you've got to go around the other
way as
well
oh oh they're beautiful aren't they I'll
hate it when they go
go go where well they belong to Mr
Colton oh that old
Snoop birthday presents for his
daughters we're schooling them for
him morning Mr the
C watched by the
BDI he thinks I'm too
young everything all right no problems
don't have look around no no of course
not they're very valuable you know to me
anyway she knows what she's doing I'm
sure you're right she should take it Up
full time training I mean there's room
for a good place with the colonel giving
up maor Lewis was asking he's got a
couple of three-year-olds s need
schooling she won't she's got her uh
dropouts maor Lewis is looking for
someone she should think about
it I
no you should you shouldn't why not but
it's not right is it it's my job isn't
it you're doing mine yeah well let's
hope your coffee is better than my
adding up eh problems yeah
yeah there's this feed Bill see now we
got what 17 OES yes uh3 each a
week right yes 5
weeks
255 yeah hey
255 yes oh God blam you here's me
telling him he's overcharged and he Ain
ched
enough they said the better
eh I better stick to making coffee I'm
not much hand at
this something
wrong no no
no a lot salt instead of sugar makes a
nice chains doesn't it
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this young man tells me the dear
Colonel's not here anymore that can't be
right he has to rest oh dear what am I
going to do what's the matter it's a
horse
Dora my dear husband passed away they
slip from us don't they those we depend
on one doesn't know where to turn
I said we can't take anymore but he
promised he always said when tany got
too much he give her a home he promised
Dora there's a reason well if Uncle
promised of course you can bring her and
since she stopped eating stopped eating
yes I was telling this young man I told
her to call the
vet why doesn't she eat she's pining she
misses my husband they were very close
you know he'd never forgive me if
anything happened to
her Steve we have to go and look we
can't keep out of it
Dora
no I'm coming with you see what's
wrong
Ron follow us down will you then you can
bring me back
you've been a naughty boy
then orders his orders me mate you got
to learn to love
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him used to do the milk round when the
new floats came along Harold used those
but he kept tany will'll be Wicked not
to all the years they've been together
can you get some more more run there's a
tap next door in the dairy let it
run it's a chill I suppose she's been
coughing I told the young man coughing
yes short ones
hard how long she been like this about a
week and now she doesn't eat nothing
Ron get the horse box we'll take her
back to Folly foot she's going to be all
right isn't she I don't know what Harold
will say if of course she is Ron tell
Steve to clear the stable in the donkey
pen put the donkeys somewhere else poor
old donks I ain't going to like that Ron
don't argue oh right old ma'am as you
say ma'am sorry I spoke
ma'am the man R across there said she'd
have to be put down Harold would never
forgive me that's where the colonel was
so wonderful while there life there hope
he used to
say a day in the sun that's right that's
what he used to say didn't he oh Harold
did so like him you're carrying on are
you you're not a bit like him I am in
some ways looking after tany because he
promised yes
he'd approve of that
hat what's up you're not bringing that
horse in Dora not till the Vets had a
look at it just a quick checkup better
to be safe than
sorry what's the betting its
flu spreads like wildfire Dora every
horse on a place will get it it's not
flu Steve what is it then
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strangles you spotted this did you yes
you know how infectious it is yes and if
we haven't caught it in time the poor
creature will die anyway I think we're
in time oh you do do you and you're
prepared to put all your animals at risk
for the sake of one horse it's not a
risk I know what to
do of all the DAR things I've ever heard
that takes the biscuit what there's no
risk I know what to do you try telling
carton
that someone had to look after her you
could have left her there and let Mrs
padet watch her
die oh so you haven't caught it in time
eh she's frightened Steve you heard
her look how do you think she'd feel if
a couple of weeks after her husband died
tany died too hardly her
fault she'd have failed
him dor
right he's
dead it's not that
easy
Steve my uncle ran Folly for for 30
years all right he's had to give up move
away does that mean he's nothing to this
place
anymore he's he's in these walls Steve
he's in the stones he's he's in the air
we
breathe he's here still in in what we do
and what we believe
in a distant
voice and everything he stood for I
stand
for everything he wanted I
want everything he
pledged I
pledge I'm serious
Rob come on it let's get them dunk
shifted oh certainly C shove them all in
a field yeah look after them out there
you just worry about p*nsy pan see your
Gess cre pel by any other name
would that's
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sweet help me
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Steve I'll get tany
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great big
germ right between the
eyes oh come on don't take all
day it's crawling with germs mate
whopping great Airy ones I'll give you a
whopping great every one in a minute and
all
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don't be afraid
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morning you lady ship you got trouble
just pass Snoopy cartton coming here
yeah oh
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heavens BL old fast pots early Where's
Dora with tany the blazes do we say
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good morning what's all this well
nothing just uh just giving one of the
horses in what those macintoshes oh we
uh we use them what the hell for what's
going on here looks to me you're
isolating one of the horses we are but
just a precaution don't go in
come on what's up what have you
got it's tany she's
ill something infectious is
it yes well don't you keep that place
clean or something she didn't catch it
here we uh we brought her in what an
infected animal we know what we're doing
do you what about my horses they're okay
they're over there well away now you get
them out put them in the field I'll pick
them up later on but don't you butt me
Miguel you think I'd leave them here
with that what's the matter with it
anyway
strangles my God and your uncle said I
could rely on
you you shouldn't be AOW of
burier now you get those horses out
and if there's anything that matter with
them God help
you I've met some stupidity in my time
wait till the Kel hears about
this
now come on don't let me down eat up and
get
well come on tany you've got to eat
something
just
try look it's
beautiful carrots turnips LM seed all
the things you like what do you
say oh
tany nothing's easy is it
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of course I don't want that ATT F the
infected maybe it can be cleaned off but
I still don't want it cheaper to buy a
new lot come on close this out you can
burn it or do what you like with it
hurry I'll close it
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out thanks
sugar it's better than
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Sal I thought all you had to do was do
what Uncle would have
done but you
can't you have to do what you believe is
right and
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hope hope he believes it's right
too marvelous Flo the colonel one of
those
I never thought there'd be another like
him but there is there's so much of him
in
you it's like starting life all over
again
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colel not here
yet what's he going to say Ron her back
tensy how's she
doing cuz if she pulls through not
guilty if she
doesn't you feel that
too yeah I'm on tral
hello sag
H Uncle oh
Uncle am I so
frightening you looked as though
judgment day had
come hasn't it well we'll see shall
we it's strangles I gather yes far gone
yes glands all swollen yes when do you
think they'll burst tonight tomorrow
it's difficult to say yes it
is the worst will be over then do you
want to see
her looks as though you know what you're
doing
who goes in only you yes do you handle
other horses
no
good it's very
quiet they're all out in the field
except for
ladybird the twins have gone oh yes the
twins Carlton telephoned me you
know said that you were never negligent
and irresponsible shouldn't be allowed a
budger
g
and oh I think you can manage more than
that Uncle
negligent no you've done everything
possible
irresponsible Slugger Colonel dor and
I'll have tea and what' you use the
study for an office
no I feel like a
trespasser it'll still be there when you
come and see us use it Dora it's
yours I want to leave it as it is here
we
are t for two and two for
tea like all times is it except we have
salted our tea
now how is he strong ien on him I love
him yes he's a
rock he says we're
alike now
we please tell me Uncle shouldn't I have
brought tany
here why did
you because Steve said no and I'm
Mistress of
fifoot was that the only reason
no a horse needed help and you'd give
Mrs padet your word which counted
most I don't know then I can't answer
you can
I she wants to say hello to tany how is
she well she's trying but it's so hard
come and see yes I'd love
to just a
minute don't disturb
her she's
eating oh bless her she must be mending
Harold to be so pleased he never would
have forgiven
me she's going to be all right isn't she
yes
yes Colonel did promise such a kind man
you're taking after him I can tell that
now oh bless him he's come to see her
Steve it wasn't because you said
no it was part of it and I'm
sorry but tany eating getting
better that's what really
matters she'll have her day you see her
roll in the meadow just like Uncle
promised that's why I brought
her I know
I'm not irresponsible Steve and you'd
better not
be cuz major Lewis is bringing you two
horses he wants you to school them major
Lewis
how Colonel phoned him before we left
the
cottage he said you were a chip off the
old block and if he'd like what the old
block had done young chip would do it
just as
well he said that
even before he came before he saw
yeah you must have said
something what did you
say that Fifer would never
change that we all believed he was still
here keeping a watchful eye on us
helping us do the right
thing that his voice was
younger and
prettier but it was his voice all the
same
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down in the With The Wind in the west
the lightning tree faed to the T his
heart went s when it took the W the
terrible W of the Thunder CL grow grow
the lightning tree it's never too late
for you and me grow grow the lightning
tree never get too easily
down in the the window
scen the lightning tree dreams come true
when you want them to if you want them
to then it's up to you grow grow the
lightning tree never G to easily
lightning
tree lightning tree
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03x01 - The Distant Voice
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Originally inspired by Monica Dickens' 1963 novel Cobbler's Dream (republished in 1995 as New Arrival at Follyfoot); she later wrote four further books in conjunction with the series—Follyfoot in 1971, Dora at Follyfoot in 1972, The Horses of Follyfoot in 1975, and Stranger at Follyfoot in 1976.
Originally inspired by Monica Dickens' 1963 novel Cobbler's Dream (republished in 1995 as New Arrival at Follyfoot); she later wrote four further books in conjunction with the series—Follyfoot in 1971, Dora at Follyfoot in 1972, The Horses of Follyfoot in 1975, and Stranger at Follyfoot in 1976.