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Have you ever felt small? Maybe you couldn't keep up with the bigger kids during a game,

or you weren't quite tall enough to go on a ride at the amusement park? We've all been there,

and in today's story, we'll get re-acquainted with a character who doesn't let her tiny

size slow her down. I'm Rebecca Schier and welcome to Circle round, where story time happens

all the time. Today our story is called A TRIO OF TRICKS. Versions of this tale come from the

southeast Asian countries of Malaysia and Indonesia, and feature a character you may remember

from our episode counting crocodiles. Mouse deer, the clever trickster with the body and face

of a mouse and the legs and tail of a deer. Some really great people came together to bring you

our story including Della Sabah from Physical on Apple TV. Della has voiced characters in many

animated movies including Zootopia, Steven Universe, and Ralph breaks the internet to summer listen

for her voice in the Netflix series Kung Fu Panda the Dragon Knight. So circle round everyone

for a trio of tricks. As one of the smallest animals in the forest, mouse deer was always in danger

of one thing, becoming a larger animal's next meal. She knew she couldn't outrun the larger

animals, so instead she had to outwit them. And lucky for mouse deer what she lacked in size,

she made up for in smarts. Because mouse deer was a trickster. And this story is about how she

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