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Hello, there. How are you today?

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Salty and I have a tale or two to tell you about this beach,

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and the rockpools,

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and all the magical things that happen here.

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# Come with me

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# We're off to the sea to where I used to play

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# Looking back when I was a boy

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# And the fun we had each day

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# Over the cobbles and through the streets, playing in the sun

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# Friends to meet with games and treats

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# Adventures just begun

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# Stories from a magical world washed in by the sea

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# Meet the rockpool creatures there

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# It's amazing what you see

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# Looking back, when I was a boy

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# Shrimps and starfish, crabs and snails

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# In twinkly Rockpool Tales

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# Those lovely Rockpool Tales. #

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Ernie looks busy on the beach today.

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I think he's... He's looking for fossils!

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Yeah, I love fossils, I do.

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Yeah, got one here, somewhere. Where is it? Oh, there you are.

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What about that, Salty?

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That's a fossil. Yes, it is.

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Can you...can you see the pattern in the stone? Can you?

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That's the shape of a creature that lived here on Earth

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millions of years ago, and I found it on the beach in Staithes.

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I'll tell you the story, if you like.

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Yeah, it all happened when I was a boy,

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in a twinkly time, long, long ago.

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I used to run down to the beach as often as I could,

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meeting up with my best friends, Little Ernie and Little Sailor Sue.

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-Want to borrow my magnifying glass?

-Yes, please.

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Little Sailor Sue's mother had lent her a magnifying glass

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so that we could play fossil hunters on the beach.

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SALTY BARKS

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Salty wants you to know that if you want to look for fossils too,

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you've got to be safe, right?

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Don't go near any cliffs where rocks might fall, right.

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Well, we started our search on the beach,

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looking carefully at every stone.

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This one's small and orange.

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I'm just clearing this one, and it's full of holes.

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And we had brushes, too, for brushing the dirt away,

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and crayons, and paper, to make rubbings.

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When we looked at the rocks,

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we found some very interesting-looking patterns.

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-I don't think there's any fossils here.

-No.

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But none that we thought were fossils.

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So, we wandered over to our favourite rockpool.

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And as we gazed deep down into the glittery green water,

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a magical world appeared before our eyes.

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On this particular day,

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Sidney the Snail was making his way across the rockpool floor,

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very slowly.

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"It's not easy carrying your whole home on your back," he grumbled,

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and he let out a long sigh.

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Just then, he spied something unusual in the wet sand.

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It was an X-shape.

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Just as Sidney was wondering what it was, Sally the Starfish appeared.

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"Look at this, Sally! What does it mean?"

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"That's a letter X," she said.

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"If you see one of those on the ground,

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"it usually means there's buried treasure underneath it."

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"Ooh," said Sidney. "Oh, whoopee, let's dig it up!"

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"Leave it to me," said Sally.

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Well, she rushed off and she got the longest,

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scoopiest shell in her shell collection, and she started to dig,

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and Sally dug, and she dug, and she scooped out the sand.

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"Phew, very hard work," and she huffed and she puffed,

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and she started to go quite red in the face.

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"Oh, it's hard work!"

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And then suddenly... Clunk!

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"Is it treasure?" asked Sidney.

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"I hope so," said Sally,

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wiggling her shell to try to get it underneath.

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But just then... Oh, disaster!

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Sally's longest, scoopiest shell had somehow got utterly stuck

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and it didn't matter how hard she tried to wriggle it and jiggle it,

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it would not come free.

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"It will not budge, Sidney.

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"What...what shall I do?"

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"I think it's best to get help to pull it out," said Sidney.

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Suddenly, Belinda the Blenny appeared.

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"Ah, Belinda, help," cried Sally.

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"I was digging for treasure but now my shell is stuck

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"and I can't pull it out."

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"Treasure?" said Belinda, imagining shimmering silver.

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"Of course I'll help. I'm a very strong fish."

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Belinda held on to one of Sally's arms

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and they both pulled together.

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"Heave!

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"Heave!"

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But they couldn't pull the shell out.

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It was utterly stuck.

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Sheena the Shrimp swam up.

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"Can you help us pull out my shell, please, Sheena?

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"We might find treasure," called Sally.

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"Oh, yes, how exciting," said Sheena,

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imagining glittering gold.

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So she grabbed hold of Belinda's tail.

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"Heave!"

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But that shell would not move.

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It really was utterly stuck.

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When Bertrum the Butterfish found out what was going on,

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he helped out too, holding on to Sheena's tail with both fins.

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"Heave!"

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But the shell still wouldn't move.

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"I never thought this would be so difficult," said Sally.

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Then Buster the Crab came sidling along.

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"Snappers!" he said when he heard about the treasure.

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"Let's get pulling."

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But every time Buster tried to clamp onto Bertrum's tail,

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Bertrum said, "Ow!

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"Buster, stop it, you're nipping me with your claws."

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"Sorry, can't help it," Buster snapped.

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"I am a crab, and claws are what crabs have."

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Sally and Buster swapped places so that Buster was at the front

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and he couldn't accidentally pinch anyone.

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"One, two, three."

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"Heave!"

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They all heaved together.

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And, suddenly....

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"Whoa! Watch it.

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"Ouch!"

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..the shell came loose,

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and all the creatures toppled,

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falling backwards in a big pile.

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All the creatures except Sidney.

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At the same time, a rather large stone

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shot up out of the hole and high into the air.

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BOOF!

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The stone came down just in front of Sidney's nose,

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and he peered at it.

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"Is this our treasure?" he said.

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Everyone gathered around the stone.

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"It isn't silver," said Belinda.

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"Or gold," said Sheena.

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"But it's the best treasure of all," said Buster,

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gently brushing the sand with one of his claws.

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"Look at that pattern.

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"It's a fossil.

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"Fossils aren't ordinary stones," explained Buster.

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"They are very precious because you can see

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"the remains of creatures in them,

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"creatures that have lived here

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"in the sea a long, long, long,

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"long, long, long time ago."

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All the creatures gasped.

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"Look, Sidney," said Sally, examining the pattern on the rock.

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"This creature had a shell

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"a bit like yours."

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"Oh.

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"A creature a bit like me lived in the sea

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"a long, long, long,

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"long, long, long, long, long, long, long, long time ago,

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"and it had a swirly shell a bit like mine," said Sidney.

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And Sidney felt very proud of his shell.

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And he started to hum -

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a hum-hum hummity-hum-hum sort of tune.

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"I wonder if the fossil creature liked to sing, too,"

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Sidney mused.

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And he hummed happily for the rest of the day.

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We looked up from the rockpool

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and headed down to the beach to continue our fossil hunt.

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I was so busy looking on the ground

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that I bumped into Ernie, and we both went flying.

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OLD JACK LAUGHS

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That's when I saw it,

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right under my nose.

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What's this?

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We'd found our first-ever fossil.

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We've found a fossil!

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We all took turns to hold it.

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It felt cool and magical,

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as if you were holding time itself.

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Let's be dinosaurs.

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THEY ROAR

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And then we had great fun imagining

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we were weird and wonderful creatures

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all those millions of years ago,

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when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

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Well, we played for the rest of the day until the tide came in

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and covered the rockpool,

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like a great, seaweedy blanket.

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And that is the tale

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of the wonderful and fascinating fossil.

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Very precious treasure, indeed. Yes.

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WOOF!

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It's not as precious as you, though, Salty.

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Come on, let's go and see if Ernie's found any today, shall we?

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You fancy that?

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Oh, come back soon for some more Rockpool Tales, won't you?

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Goodbye.

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Come on, girl. Are you coming?

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HE LAUGHS

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