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    "title": "Pip's Ten Hens",
    "text": "Pip had ten red hens.\nBut the hens ran and ran. Pip had to get them in the pen.\nHe ran to get the hens, but the hens did not stop.\nA hen ran in the wet sod.\n\"Get in the pen!\" Pip said.\nThen, Pip had a good thing to do. He got a tub of wet mud.\nHe put his leg in the mud. He bent his leg.\nWet mud got on the hens! The hens did not like it.\nPip got them back to the pen. He set a peg on the pen.",
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    "wed",
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    "a",
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    "was",
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    "on",
    "his",
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