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we're ready for today's story. Tonight's Make-Up Story is a request of a listener named Penelope, who's four years old,

and asked for us to make up a story about a lion, a hippo, and the moon. Once upon a time,

a long time ago, there lived a four-year-old girl named Penelope. Penelope grew up in a hut outside in the

savannah. The savanna is a place where there are lots of wild animals including alligators, lions, hippopotamuses, buffalo, Impala, and tons of other animals,

including cheetahs. Well, Penelope grew up in a hut on the savannah, and instead of having a regular

farm next to her hut, she had a hippopotamus farm. Hippopotamuses are very big and very fat animals that love to live in swampy or rivery places,

but they don't like it to live in rivers where the weather goes too fast.

So in Penelope's farm, they had just like a big, humongous pool, even bigger than a regular

grown-up pool, and even bigger than it was longer than like four fire trucks. And they filled

it with mud, and they had hippopotamuses there.

The hippopotamuses that lived on Penelope's farm in the savannah were really silly

because these hippopotamuses knew how to sing.

Now most hippopotamuses that live in the wild, they can't sing. They can make some funny

noises and they could show their big hippopotamus mouths, but when they try to sing, no song

comes out. These hippopotamuses were so silly because they sang, Mary had a little lamb all the time. And they would say,

Mary had a little lamb, a little lamb, a little lamb, a little lamb, Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was

white as snow. Everywhere that Mary went, that Mary went, that Mary went,

that Mary went, everywhere that Mary went,

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