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12 - The Meeting

In The Merry Anne

Read by Betsie Bush

Samuel Merwin and Samuel Merwin, Sr.

This 1904 maritime adventure is set in the Great Lakes region, upon water and in wood. Our hero is caught in a smuggling scheme and may lose…

Jazz Fantasia - Read by BB

In Jazz Fantasia

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Carl Sandburg

As our weekly poem of 30-July-2006, “Jazz Fantasia” was a special challenge because it isn’t just about jazz, it IS jazz. The rhythm is cent…

Priscilla, from The Courtship of Miles Standish

In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Collection Vol. 001

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A collection to celebrate Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 200th birthday, on 27th February, 2007.

The Iconoclastic Rustic and the Apropos Acorn

In Fables for the Frivolous

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Guy Wetmore Carryl

One of the earliest works by the American parodist, Guy Wetmore Carryl, these fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine’s original writing…

Salads

In Rhymed Receipts for Any Occasion

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Imogen Clark

In addition to being amusing, recipes written in a poetic form were easy to remember and used as learning tools for the young housekeeper. M…

Solander's Radio Tomb

In Short Story Collection Vol. 035

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Ellis Parker Butler

A collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain chosen and read by a group of LibriVox members.

English Walnuts

In Insomnia Collection Vol. 001

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Walter Fox Allen

Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. Ho…

Dog and the Sparrow, The

In Grimms' Fairy Tales

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Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of f…

Chapter 3

In The Getting of Wisdom

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Henry Handel Richardson

The Getting of Wisdom tells the story of Laura Rambotham, a 12-year-old girl who is just starting at her boarding school. This is based on H…

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