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Hey kids, I am so glad you're here listening to children's stories read by Moe Train.
I hope stories make you as happy as they make me.
Always remember that you are special and you are loved.
Now who's ready for a story?
Let's go!
Hey hey hey, everyone out there listening land?
Hi daddy.
Hi buddy, it's me, Moe Train, and as you can hear, I have a very special guest with me today.
Why don't you introduce yourself?
I'm Gagey.
That's right, that's my three-year-old son Gage.
Thank you, tell us a story.
Sure buddy, how about Ferdinand?
Yes daddy.
Well Gagey, I know this is one of your favorite stories so let's tell everyone out in the world the story of Ferdinand.
The story of Ferdinand by Monroe Leaf once upon a time in Spain.
There was a little bull and his name was Ferdinand.
All the other little bulls he lived with would run and jump and buck their heads together.
But not Ferdinand.
He liked to sit just quietly and smell the flowers.
He had a favorite spot out in the pasture under a cork tree.
It was his favorite tree, and he would sit in it shade all day and smell the flowers.
Sometimes his mother who was a cow would worry about him.
She was afraid he would be loaned some all by himself.
Why don't you run and play with the other little bulls and skip and butt your head, she would say?
But Ferdinand would shake his head.
I like it better here where I can sit just quietly and smell the flowers.
His mother saw he was not loaned some, and because she was an understanding mother, even though she was a cow, she let him just sit there and be happy.
As the years went by, Ferdinand grew and grew until he was very big and strong.
All the other bulls who had grown up with him in the same pasture would fight each other all day.
What they wanted most of all was to be picked to fight at the bull fights in Madrid.
But not Ferdinand, he still liked to sit just quietly under the cork tree and smell the flowers.
One day, five men came in very funny hats to pick the biggest, fastest, and roughest bull to fight in the bull fights in Madrid.
All the other bulls ran around snorting and budding, leaping and jumping so the men would think they were very strong and fierce and pick them.
Ferdinand knew they wouldn't pick him, and he didn't care.
So he went out to his favorite cork tree to sit down.
He didn't look where he was sitting, and instead of sitting on the nice school grass in the shade, he sat on a bumblebee.
Well, if you were a bumblebee and a bull sat on you, what would you do? You'd sting him, and that is what this bee did to Ferdinand.
Wow! Did it hurt? Ferdinand jumped up with a snort, he ran around puffing and snorting, budding and pulling the ground as if he were crazy.
The five men saw him, and they all shouted with joy. Here was the largest and fiercest bull ball.
Just the one for the bull fights in Madrid, so they took him away for the bullfight day in a cart.
What a day it was! Flags were flying, bands were playing, and all the lovely ladies had flowers in their hair.
They had a parade into the bullring.
First came the bandierrieros, with long sharp pins with ribbons on them to stick in the bull and make him mad.
Next came the picadores, who wrote skinny horses and made had long spears to stick in the bull and make him madder.
Then came the matador, the proudest of all. He thought he was very handsome and bowed to the ladies.
He had a red cape and a sword and was supposed to stick the bull last of all.
Then came the bull, and you know who that was, don't you?
Ferdinand, they called him Ferdinand the fierce, and all the bandierrieros were afraid of him and the picadores were afraid of him and the matador was scared stiff.
He wouldn't fight and be fierce no matter what they did.
He just sat and smelled and the bandierrieros were mad and the picadores were madder and the matador was so mad he cried because he couldn't show off with his cape and sword.
So they had to take Ferdinand home.
And for all I know, he is sitting there still under his favorite cork tree, smelling the flowers just quietly.
He is very happy.
The End
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Gage your stinky.
Yeah.