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Have you ever experienced envy that

that someone else has.

Maybe you envied a friend for a really cool toy they were playing with,

or you envied the other team when they won the kickball game. playing with

or you envied the other team when they won the kickball game.

It's natural to feel green with envy as the expression goes.

But in today's story, we'll meet a character who isn't exactly green with envy.

He's polka dotted.

I'm Rebecca Sheer and welcome to Circle Round where story time happens all the time.

Today our story is called The Pocodotted Pigeon.

We found versions of this tale from the southern European country of Portugal.

Some really great people came together to bring you our version of this folk tale, including Adam Goldberg, whom you

grown-ups may recognize from the Equalizer on CBS. So circle around everyone for

the Pocah dotted pigeon.

On a tall rooftop in a bustling city there was a coop of pigeons. The pigeons were

owned by a man who rented the birds out as couriers. A courier is like a messenger and

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