Mrs. Astor's Horse (Rebroadcast) - 4 March 2024
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🗓️ 4 March 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Away with Words, the show about language and how we use it. I'm Grant Barrett. |
| 0:04.5 | And I'm Martha Barnett. Okay, I'm thinking of an animal. It has a head like a cat, feet like a cat, a tail like a cat. It's not a cat, a cat, but it's not a cat. |
| 0:14.5 | Oh, it's not a cat. |
| 0:16.1 | What is it? |
| 0:17.1 | A caterpillar? |
| 0:19.5 | I don't know. |
| 0:21.1 | I don't know what? |
| 0:22.1 | A kitten. Oh oh of course that's from a |
| 0:26.1 | course that's from a book called a rocket in my pocket the rhymes and chance of young |
| 0:31.1 | Americans is from 1948 and I found it on archive.org which as you know is a great resource |
| 0:37.3 | of all kinds of books that you can check out in digital format yeah |
| 0:40.9 | thousands of them yeah it's super cool. I got another riddle or two for you and they're a lot harder. |
| 0:46.7 | I had real trouble with them. |
| 0:49.2 | Red and blue and delicate green, the king can't catch it and neither can the queen. |
| 0:54.0 | Pull it in the room and you can catch it soon. Answer this riddle by tomorrow at noon. |
| 1:00.0 | Wow. Is that bees or the wind? |
| 1:05.0 | Your guesses are better than mine. |
| 1:08.0 | I couldn't figure it out. |
| 1:10.0 | It's a rainbow. |
| 1:11.0 | Catch it in a prism, right? |
| 1:12.8 | Catch it in a prism. |
| 1:13.8 | Okay, nice, okay, that makes a lot of sense. |
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