Hey fam! And welcome to another episode of Short Stories for Kids! I'm your host Lucy,

and I'm here to read you exciting adventure pack stories that could take you anywhere

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Hippie, scratchy, and stinky. You may not know this, but hippopotamuses are very busy at night.

They spend their days lazing around in the water and lounging in the mud, but at night time,

the hippos like to come out onto the land. Underneath the stars, they munch on grass,

filling their big round stomachs with as much as they can find. There are once three hippobrothers

that just loved this time of day. Not just because they were chomping down food,

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