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this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org this reading by stuart wills moby dick by herman melville chapters 26 and 27 chapter 26 knights and squires the chief mate of the p quad was starbuck a native of nantucket and a quaker by descent he was a long earnest man and though born on an icy coast seemed well adapted to endure the hot latitudes his flesh being hard as twice baked biscuit transported to the indies his live blood would not spoil like bottled ale he must have been born in some time of general drought and famine or upon one of those fast days for which his state is famous only some 30 arid summers had he seen those summers had dried up all his physical superfluousness but this his thinness so to speak seemed no more the token of wasting anxieties and cares then it seemed the indication of any bodily blight it was merely the condensation of the man he was by no means ill-looking quite the contrary his pure tight skin was an excellent fit and closely wrapped up in it and embalmed with inner health and strength like a revivified egyptian this starbucks seemed prepared to endure for long ages to come and to endure always as now for be it polar snow or torrid sun like a patent chronometer his interior vitality was warranted to do well in all climates looking into his eyes you seem to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life a stayed steadfast man whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action and not a tamed chapter of sounds yet for all his hearty sobriety and fortitude there were certain qualities in him which at times affected and in some cases seemed well-known to over-balance all the rest uncommonly conscientious for a sea man and endued with a deep natural reverence the wild watery loneliness of his life did therefore strongly incline him to superstition but to that sort of superstition which in some organizations seems rather to spring somehow from intelligence than from ignorance outward portents and inward pre-sentiments were his and if at times these things bent the welded iron of his soul so much more did his far away domestic memories of his young cape wife and child tend to bend him still more from the original ruggedness of his nature and open him still further to those latent influences which in some honest hearted men restrain the gush of daredevil daring so often evinced by others in the more perilous vicissitudes of the fisheries i will have no man in my boat said starbuck who is not afraid of a whale by this he seemed to mean not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward i i said stub the second mate starbuck there is as careful a man as you'll find anywhere in this fishery but we shall air long see what that word careful precisely means when used by a man like stubb or almost any other whale hunter starbuck was no crusader after perils in him courage was not a sentiment but a thing simply useful to him and always at hand upon all mortally practical occasions besides he thought perhaps that in this business of whaling courage was one of the great staple outfits of the ship like her beef and her bread and not to be foolishly wasted therefore he had no fancy for lowering for whales after sundown nor for persisting in fighting a fish that too much persisted in fighting him for thought starbuck i am here in this critical ocean to kill whales for my living and not to be killed by them for theirs and that hundreds of men had been so killed starbuck well knew what doom was his own father's where in the bottomless deeps could he find the torn limbs of his brother with memories like...

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section 1 of the rainbow book this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org read by velma karis the rainbow book by mabel henrietta spielman adventures in wizard land chapter one a knock at the red door it's a shame dulce we may not go out just because it's raining a few drops said the boy at the nursery window yes a fearful shame replied his sister she always sympathized with him and gave in to him right or wrong she carefully propped her doll bolt upright on a chair and came to where he stood never mind cyril let's play at something yes but i do mind it's too bad it's always you mustn't this you mustn't that it would be a saving of breath if they just say the few things that we might do are you willing to go on putting up with it i suppose you are as you're only a girl no i don't want to but i've got to mother says it is for our good and we are spoilt i don't think so at all it's very hard lines growled cyril i'm sure the garden isn't a bit wet and the rocks have only a sprinkle certainly the windowpanes had more than a sprinkle trickling down them but the birds were twittering fussily in the bushes and amongst the ivy and the garden was looking its best in the summer shower fitful gleams of sunshine cast loving touches here and there on the roses and the sweet honeysuckle and the tall white lilies never looked fresher or smarter beyond were those tempting rocks with their surroundings of sand which rose so strangely in that part of inland kent telling of former ages and of the vagaries of the sea and river the rocks were the happy playground of these lucky twins who lived in the fine solitary house close by and who were now peering so disconsolately through the window flattening their noses against the glass blurred with a patterning rain they were exactly the same height they resembled one another in feature and being twins were both nine years old and there the likeness ended for his dark hair was short and thick and hers was fair and very long she was timid and gentle though her bright face was very happy he what is termed a handful i know exclaimed dulce after a moment's silence drawing her brother away from the melancholy amusement of tracing down the trailing drops with his finger until they disappeared mysteriously at the bottom of the glass

i know let's play birds beasts and fishes

cyril cast a lingering look at the tiresome dark clouds then with a sigh and a frown turned round in token of consent graciously suffered himself to be settled at the table with paper and pencil and was soon excitedly trying to guess what dulce's bird could be that began with the letter c had four between and ended with an e it's very easy really pleaded dulce burning to tell do you give it up cyril wasn't so easily beaten as that and thought till he grew impatient shall i tell you let me tell you urged his sister if you like he replied magnanimously canary i'm sure it's spelt with a why he said as if he weren't quite certain in spite of his words they argued who should score the mark and settled the point by counting it a draw

she followed it up with a fish which was s two between and an l which puzzled cyril until he found of course that it was soul believing he had lost again he allowed his interest in the game to flag and still restless he ran to the window hooray it's fine now he cried come along we don't want hats ought way to go do you think cyril without asking i'm not going to ask not if i...

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chapter 5 of the phoenix and the carpet this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by k hindel with an advance apology for the butchering of cockney the phoenix and the carpet by e nesbit chapter 5 the temple i wish we could find the phoenix said jane it's much better company than the carpet beastly ungrateful little kids are said cyril no i'm not only the carpet never says anything and it's so helpless it doesn't seem able to take care of itself it gets sold and taken into the sea and things like that you wouldn't catch the phoenix getting sold it was two days after the bazaar everyone was a little cross some days are like that usually mondays by the way and this was a monday i shouldn't wonder if your precious phoenix had gone off for good said cyril and i don't know that i blame it look at the weather it's not worth looking at said robert and indeed it wasn't the phoenix hasn't gone i'm sure it hasn't said anthea i'll have another look for it and thea looked under tables and chairs and in boxes and baskets in mother's work bag and father's portmanteau but still the phoenix showed not so much as the tip of one shining feather then suddenly robert remembered how the whole of the greek invocation song of seven thousand lines had been condensed by him into one english hexameter so he stood on the carpet and chanted oh come along come along you good old beautiful phoenix and almost at once there was a rustle of wings down the kitchen stairs and the phoenix sailed in on wide gold wings where on earth have you been said anthea i've looked everywhere for you not everywhere replied the bird because you did not look in the place where i was confess that that hallowed spot was overlooked by you what hallowed spot asked cyril a little impatiently for time was hastening on in the wishing carpet still idle the spot said the phoenix which i hallowed by my golden presence was the lutron the what the bath the place of washing i'm sure you weren't said jane i looked there three times and moved all the towels i was concealed said the phoenix on the summit of a metal column enchanted i should judge for it felt warm to my golden toes as though the glorious sun of the desert shone ever upon it oh you mean the cylinder said cyril it has a rather comforting feel this weather and now where shall we go and then of course the usual discussion broke out as to where they should go and what they should do and naturally everyone wanted to do something that the others did not care about i am the eldest cyril remarked let's go to the north pole this weather likely robert rejoined let's go to the equator i think the diamond mines of golconda would be nice said anthea don't you agree jane no i don't retorted jane i don't agree with you i don't agree with anybody the phoenix raised a warning claw if you cannot agree among yourselves i fear i shall have to leave you it said well where shall we go you decide said all if i were you said the bird thoughtfully i should give the carpet a rest besides you'll lose the use of your legs if you go everywhere by carpet can't you take me out and explain your ugly city to me we will if it clears up said robert without enthusiasm just look at the rain and why should we give the carpet a rest are you greedy and grasping and heartless and selfish ask the bird sharply no said robert with indignation well then said the phoenix and as to the rain well i am not fond of rain myself if the sun knew i was here he's...

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