The Seven Sleuths' Club by Carol Norton 2 Adventure Detective Teens Audiobook Podcast.
chapter 2 of the 7th sleuths club this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org the 7th sleuths club by carol norton chapter two snow maidens the picturesque village of sunnyside had one main road wide elm shaded which began at a beautiful hill encircled lake and which from there climbed gently up through the business part of the town to the residential past the orphanage the fine old seminary for girls and the even older academy for boys and then led through the wide open spaces fertile farms other scattered villages and under dorchester a large thriving city 40 miles away mary lee's father was a builder and contractor whose offices were in dorchester but whose home was a comfortable old colonial house in the main thoroughfare in the village of sunnyside the large square library of the lee home was warm and cheerful on that blustery blizzardy saturday afternoon a log was snapping and crackling on the hearth and a big slate colored persian cat was on the rug peering happily its content a long lad half reclining on a window seat was reading a detective story and making notes surreptitiously now and then at a wide front window mary lee stood drumming her fingers on the pain and peering out the whirling snow a chiming clock announced the hour was three and i told the crowd to be here by 2 30 at the latest although the girl had not really been addressing him the boy glanced up to remark might as well give up sis girls wouldn't venture out in a storm like this they are like cats they like to stay in where it's warm and comfy hey muff the puss upon hearing its name opened one sleepy blue eye looked at the boy lazily and then dozed again suddenly there was a peel of merry laughter oh jack his sister exclaimed gayley do look out to the window did you ever before see such a funny procession jack looked and beheld coming in at the front gate five maidens so covered with snow that it was impossible to tell which was which mary will to defy her brother now sir you see girls aren't afraid of a little blizzardy weather i'm certainly glad that they came i'd burst if i had to keep my secret any longer secret jack's voice held a rising inflection and he looked up with interest but mary was on her way to open the front door that katie the maid did not need be summoned by the bell a gust of wind and a flurry of flakes first entered then what a stamping as there was outside on the storm porch hail hail the gang's all here mary sang out but quickly added oh don't mind about the snow come on in katie put matting over the carpet then she looked from one ready laughing face to the other the hostess exclaimed but you aren't all here what's the matter with rose why didn't she come then before anyone could reply mary guessed oh i suppose her lady mother was afraid her precious darling would melt or be blown away i don't see how rose ever gets to school in the winter her mother coddles herself drives my dear as you know perfectly well but it seems that today the snowplow hasn't been along willow bend lane and her mother won't adhere to having the horses taken out rose tried to call you up but your phone is on the blink so she called me peg paused for breath then went on she's simply heartbroken she said she'd give us all the chocolates we could eat and a nice hot drink if we'd beg borrow or steal a sleigh somewhere and hold on meeting out there to her house mary's face brightened say that's a keen idea i was wondering how i could divulge my secret with jack hanging around in the library and i couldn't turn him out very well as it's about the only warm spot in the house except for the kitchen what's more i'm crazy to go for a [ __ ] in this snowstorm wait till i get my leggings and overshoes they had not long to wait for in less than five minutes mary reappeared from...

Behind the Green Door by Mildred A. Wirt-Benson 2 Free Teens Children's Audiobooks Library.
behind the green door by mildred a wort benson this is a livervox recording all liverbox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org reading by cheryl adam skowhegan maine 2015 chapter 2 a rival reporter penny presently edged the sedan into a parking space across the street from the riverview hotel as she switched off the ignition her father said better come along with me and wait in the lobby it's cold out here penny followed her father into the building the hotel was an elegant one with many services available for guests she noticed a florist shop a candy store a dry cleaning establishment and even a small brokerage office opening off the lobby oh yes said mr parker as penny called his attention to the brokerage maxwell hasn't overlooked anything the hotel has a special leased wire which i've been told gives him a direct connection with his other places walking over to the desk mr parker mentioned his name and asked the clerk if he might see harvey maxwell mr maxwell is not here replied the man with an insolent heir when will he be at the hotel mr maxwell has left the city on business he does not expect to return until the end of next month mr parker could not hide his annoyance let me have his address then he said in a resigned voice i'll write him the clerk shook his head i have been instructed not to give you mr maxwell's address if you wish to deal with him you will have to see his lawyer gorman s rayleigh so maxwell was expecting me to come here to make a deal with him demanded mr parker well i've changed my mind i'll make a deal all right but it will be in court good day angrily the newspaperman strode from the lobby penny hurried to keep pace with him that settles it he said tersely as they climbed into the sedan again this libel suit will be a fight to the finish and maybe my finish at that oh dad i'm sure you'll win but it's a pity all this had to come up just when you had planned to find vacation mrs downey will be disappointed too yes she will penny and there's mrs weems to be thought about i promised her a two weeks trip while we were gone they drove in silence for a few blocks as the car passed the sedel residence penny's father said thoughtfully i suppose i could send you out to pinetop alone penny or perhaps you might be able to induce your chum louise to go along would you like that it would be far more fun if you went also that's out of the picture now if everything goes well i might be able to join you for christmas weekend i'm not sure louise could go said penny doubtfully but i can find out right away after dinner that night she lost no time in running over to the sedel home at first louise was thrown into a state of ecstasy at the thought of making a trip to pinehop and then her face became gloomy i would love it penny but it's practically a waste of words to ask mother we're going to my grandmother's farm in vermont for the holidays and i'll have to tag along since grade school the two girls had been inseparable friends between them there was a perfect understanding and they made an excellent pair for louise exerted a subduing effect upon the more impulsive excitable penny inactivity bored penny and wherever she went she usually managed to start things moving when nothing better offered she tried her hand at writing newspaper stories for her father's paper several of these repertorial experiences had satisfied even penny's deep craving for excitement three truly big stories had rolled from her typewriter through the thundering presses of the riverview star the tail of the witchdoll the vanishing houseboat and danger at the drawbridge even now months after her last astonishing adventure friends like to tease her about a humorous encounter with a certain mr kippenberg's alligator pine top won't be any fun without you lou penny complained oh yes it will...

Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling 4 How the Leopard Got His Spots Free Children's Audiobook.
how the leopard got his spots 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 kara shallenberg the just so stories by rudyard kipling how the leopard got his spots in the days when everybody started fair best beloved the leopard lived in a place called the high veldt remember it wasn't the low veldt or the bushveldt or the sourvelt but the sclusively bare hot shiny highveld where there was sand and sandy colored rock and exclusively tufts of sandy yellowish grass the giraffe and the zebra and the eland and the kuru and the heart beast lived there and they were exclusively sandy yellow brownish all over but the leopard he was the sclusivest sandiest yellowish brownest of them all a grayish yellowish catty-shaped kind of beast and he matched the exclusively yellowish-grayish-brownish color of the high veldt to one hair this was very bad for the giraffe and the zebra and the rest of them for he would lie down by exclusively yellowish grayish brownish stone or clump of grass and when the giraffe or the zebra or the eland or the kudu or the bush buck or the bontabuk came by he would surprise them out of their jumpsome lives he would indeed and also there was an ethiopian with bows and arrows exclusively grayish brownish yellowish man he was then who lived on the high veldt with the leopard and the two used to hunt together the ethiopian with his bows and arrows and the leopard exclusively with his teeth and claws till the giraffe and the eland and the kudu and the quagga and all the rest of them didn't know which way to jump best beloved they didn't indeed

after a long time things lived forever so long in those days they learned to avoid anything that looked like a leopard or an ethiopian and bit by bit the giraffe began it because his legs were the longest they went away from the high veldt they scuttled for days and days and days till they came to a great forest exclusively full of trees and bushes and stripy speckly patchy blachy shadows and there they hid and after another long time what with standing half in the shade and half out of it and what with the slippery sliding shadows of the trees falling on them the giraffe grew blotchy and the zebra grew stripey and the e land and the kudu grew darker with little wavy grey lines on their backs like bark on a tree trunk and so though you could hear them and smell them you could very seldom see them and then only when you knew precisely where to look

they had a beautiful time in exclusively speckly spicy shadows of the forest while the leopard and the ethiopian ran about over the exclusively grayish yellowish reddish high veldt outside wondering where all their breakfasts and their dinners and their teas had gone at last they were so hungry that they ate rats and beetles and rock rabbits the leopard and the ethiopian and then they had the big tummy ache both together and then they met bavian the dog-headed barking baboon who is quite the wisest animal in all south africa said leopard to bavian and it was a very hot day where has all the game gone and bavion winked he knew said the ethiopian tubavian can you tell me the present habitat of the aboriginal fauna that meant just the same thing but the ethiopian always used long words he was a grown-up and bavion winked he knew

then said bavian the game has gone into other spots and my advice to you leopard is to go into other spots as soon as you can

and the ethiopian said that is all very fine but i wish to know whether the aboriginal fauna has migrated then said bavian the aboriginal fauna has joined the aboriginal flora because it was high time for a change and my advice to you ethiopian is to change as soon as you can that puzzled the leopard and the ethiopian but they set off to...

The Clue of the Silken Ladder by Mildred A. Wirt Benson 2 Free Daily Stories Teens Kids Library.
chapter 2 of the clue of the silken ladder by mildred a wort benson this liverbox recording is in the public domain reading by sheryl adam skowhegan maine 2016 chapter 2 a rope of silk even as penny spoke she felt a hard warning tug on her skirt quickly she turned around in the doorway stood the old japanese his smile was not pleasant to behold we we were just looking at this rope penny stammered trying to carry off the situation with dignity i hope you don't mind the japanese shopkeeper gazed steadily at the girl his face an emotionless mask since he spoke no word it became increasingly evident that he regarded her with anger and suspicion may i ask what use is made of this silk rope penny inquired do you sell it for a special purpose the japanese coldly ignored the direct questions so very sorry to have kept you waiting he said softly your change please penny knew that she deserved the rebuke accepting the package in coins she and louise hastily left the shop not until they were some distance away did the latter speak penny you would do a trick like that one of these days your curiosity will get us into serious trouble at least i learned what was hidden behind the counter chuckled penny but that man didn't seem very eager to answer my questions can you blame him it certainly was none of our affair what he kept inside the box perhaps not lou but you must admit he acted strangely when we first entered the shop you know as if we had surprised him in a questionable act he naturally was startled we came in so quietly all the same i'm not one bit sorry i looked behind the counter penny maintained i like to learn things i agree with you there lou what purpose do you suppose silk ladders serve who uses them and why now why should i know penny you ask enough questions to be master of ceremonies on a radio quiz program i can't ever recall having seen a silk ladder before penny resumed undisturbed by her chum's quip would acrobats use them do you think not to my knowledge louise answered if i were in your shoes i should worry about more serious matters than those connected with a mere silk ladder the world is filled with serious things side penny but mystery one doesn't run into it every day you do said louise brutally if a stranger twitches his ears twice you immediately suspect him a villainy nevertheless being of a suspicious nature won me a new car penny defended herself don't forget dad gave it to me for solving a mystery for telling his newspaper readers what was going on behind the green door oh your curiosity has paid dividends louise admitted with a laugh take for instance the time you trailed the vanishing houseboat and again when you lowered the kippenberg drawbridge to capture a boatload of crooks those were the days white well in the past lou now take this affair of the silk ladder i'm afraid you'll have to take it louise interrupted do you realize it's nearly four o'clock in exactly 10 minutes i am supposed to be at the auditorium for orchestra practice hello you can't desert me now penny protested quickly how will i get lena home i need you to steer her thanks but i don't trust your toe rope at least go as far as the star office with me once there maybe i can get one of the reporters to help me the rest of the way oh all right louise consented but the star office is my absolute limit deciding not to take time to telephone her father penny once more climbed into the maroon sedan posting louise behind the wheel of the coop at a cautious speed the two cars proceeded along the street coming presently to a large corner building which housed the riverview star no parking space being available on the street penny pulled into the newspaper plant's loading dock say you shouted a man who was tossing stacks of freshly inked papers into a truck you can't park that caravan here penny's eyes danced mischievously oh it's quite...

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Young Adult Short Works Collection 1:9 Big Thaw Free Kids' Audiobook Library Tale Teller Book Club.

this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org today's reading by tom hackett djhackett.newground

year of the big thaw by marion zimmer bradley you say that matthew is your own son mr emmett yes reverend down and a better bond never stepped if i do say it i shouldn't i've trusted him to drive team foreign since he was 11 and you can't say more than that for a farm boy way back when he was a little shaver so high when the war came on he was bound and he was gonna sail with this admiral farragut you know boys that age like runaway cults i couldn't see no good in his being cabin boy on some tarnation navy ship and i told him so if he wanted to sail out on a whaling ship i'll allow i'd but martha it's the boy's mom took on so that matt stayed home yes he's a good boy and a good son we'll miss him a powerful lot if he gets this scholarship thing but i allowed it'll be good for the boy to get some learning besides what he gets in school here it's right kind of you reverend to look over this application thing for me well if he is your own son mr emmett why did you write birthplace unknown on the line here reverend doon i'm glad you asked me that question i've been turning it over in my mind and i've just about come to the conclusion it wouldn't be know how fair to hold it back i didn't lie when i said matt was my son because he's been a good son to me and marty but i'm not as paul and martha ain't as ma so could be i stretched the truth just in mind reverend doane it's eternal funny yarn but i'll walk into the meeting house and swear to it on a stack of bibles as thick as a quart of wood you know i've been farming the old corning place these past seven years it's good flat connecticut bottomland but it isn't like ireland up in hampshire where i was born and raised my pot called at the hampshire grants and all that was kingsland when his paw came in there and started farming at the foot of scottic mountain that's engine for fires folks say because the engines used to build fires up there in the spring for some of their heathen doodads anyhow up there in the mountains we see eternal power of queer things you caught a mind the year we had the big thaw about 12 years before the war you mind the blizzard that year i heard tell it spread down most of york and at fort orange the place they call albany now the hudson froze right over so they say but those york folks do a side of exaggerating i'm told anyhow when the ice went out there was an almighty good thaw all over when the snow run off scudic mountain there was a good-sized hunk of farmland and our valley went underwater the creek on my farm flowed over the bank and there was a foot of water in the couch yet and down on the swimming hole in the back pasture wasn't nothing but a big gullet 50 foot more cross rushing through the pasture deep as a lake and brown as the old cow you know fresh at floods full up with sticks and stones and old dead trees and some of this old shed floating down the middle and i swear to goodness parson that stream was run along so fast i saw four inch cobblestones floating and bumping along i tied the cow and the calf and kate she was our white mary you mind she went lame last year and i had to shoot her but she was just a young man and skittish is all get out she was a good little man anyhow i tied the whole kitten caboodle of them in the woodshed up behind the house where they'd be drive and i started to get the milk pail right then i heard the gosh awfulest screech i ever heard of my life sounded like thunder and a fresh [ __ ] and a forest fire all at once i dropped the milk pails i heard martha scream inside the house and i run outside martha was already there in the yard and she points up in the sky and yell look at me we stood looking up...

Uncle Wiggily's Adventures by Howard R.Garis 5 Free Audiobooks Tale Teller Club Collection.
story 5 of uncle wiggly's adventures this librivox recording is in the public domain uncle wiggly's adventures by howard r garris story 5 uncle wigley does some tricks when those two savage ducks oh i mean foxes when those two savage foxes jumped out of the bushes at uncle wiggly long ears and fido flip-flop as i told you in the other story the rabbit and the poodle doggy didn't know what in the world to do run this way called fido starting off to the left no hop this way said uncle wiggly hopping to the right stand right where you are ordered the two foxes together and with that one made a grab for uncle wiggly but what did that brave rabbit gentleman do but stick his red white and blue crutch out in front of him and the fox bit on that instead of on uncle wiggly right into the crutch the fox's teeth sank and for a moment uncle wigley was safe but not for long ah you fooled me that time but now i'll get you cried the fox and letting go of the crutch he made another grab for the rabbit but at that instant fido flip-flop who had been jumping about keeping out of the way of the fox that was after him cried out quite loudly look here everybody but uncle wiggly and as for you shut both your eyes tight now the old gentleman rabbit couldn't imagine why he was to shut his eyes tight but he did so and then what do you suppose fido flip-flop did why he began turning somersault so fast that he looked just like a pinwheel going around or an automobile tire whizzing along faster and faster did fido flip-flop turn around and then all of a sudden he began chasing his tail making motions just like a merry-go-round in a circus until those two foxes were fairly dizzy from watching him stop stop cried one fox yes do stop we're so dizzy that we can't stand up cried the other fox staggering about stop no i'll not answered fido flip-flop and he went around faster than ever faster and faster and faster until those two bad foxes got so dizzy izzy that they fell right over on their backs with their legs sticking straight up in the air like clothes posts and their tails were wiggling back and forth in the dirt like dusting brushes oh but they were the dizzy foxes though now's your chance run run uncle wiggly run called fido flip flop open your eyes and run so the old gentleman rabbit opened his eyes took up his belize which he had dropped and hopping on his crutch he and the poodle doggie ran on through the woods leaving the two surprised and disappointed foxes still lying on their backs wiggling their tails in the dust and too dizzy from having watched fido flip-flop do somersaults and chase his tail to be able to get up why did you want me to shut my eyes asked uncle wiggly when they were so far away from the foxes that there was no more danger that was so you wouldn't get dizzy from watching me do the flip-flops answered the doggy my but that was a narrow escape though have you had many adventures like that since you started out to seek your fortune yes several answered the rabbit but turning flip-flops is a very good thing to know how to do i wonder if you could teach me so that when any more foxes or alligators chase me i can make them dizzy by turning around can you teach me i'm sure i can said fido here this is the way to begin and he did some flip-flops slow and easy-like then uncle wigley tried them and though he couldn't do them very well at first he practiced until he was quite good at it then fido showed him how to stand on one ear and wiggle the other and how to blink his eyes while standing on the end of his little tail and then uncle wiggly thought of a new trick all by himself i'll stick my crutch in the ground like a clothespole he said to fido and then i'll hop up on it and sing a song which he did sing a song that went like this did you ever see a rabbit do a flipper flopper flap if not just kindly watch me as i wear my baseball cap...

My Doggie and I by Robert Michael Ballantyne 12 Free Animal Kids Audiobook Fiction Books.
chapter 12 of my doggy and i by robert ballentine this librivox recording is in the public domain recorded by alison hester chapter 12 begins with love hope and joy and ends peculiarly it may not perhaps surprise the reader to learn that after lily blyth's return to town i did not prosecute my studies with as much enthusiasm as before in fact i divided my attentions pretty equally between lily and chemistry now i am not prone to become sentimentally talkative about my own affairs but as courtship and love and that sort of thing are undoubted and important elements in the chemistry of human affairs and as they influenced me and those around me to some extent i cannot avoid making reference to them but i promise the reader to do so only as far as appears necessary for the elucidation of my story first then although i knew that my prospects of success as a partner of dr mctoogle were most encouraging i felt that it would be foolish to think of marriage until my position was well established and my income adequate i therefore strove with all my might to check the flow of my thoughts towards miss blight as well might i have striven to restrain the flow of niagara true love cannot be stemmed in my case however the proverb was utterly falsified for my true love did run smooth more than that it ran fast very fast indeed so much so that i was carried as it were on the summit of a rushing flood tide into the placid harbor of engagement the anchorage in that harbor is with many people uncertain with lily and me it was not so the ground tackle was good it had caught hold of a rock and held on it happened thus after many weeks of struggling on my part to keep out of miss blight's way and to prevent the state of my feelings from being observed by her struggles which i afterwards found to my confusion had been quite obvious to her i found myself standing alone one sunday afternoon in the doctor's drawing room meditating on the joys of childhood as exemplified by thunderous blows on the floor above and piercing shouts of laughter the children had been to church and were working off the steam that culminated there suddenly there was a dead silence which i knew to be the result of a meal the meal was i may add the union of a late dinner with an early tea it was characteristic of sundays in the mcdougall nursery the thought of this union turned my mind into another channel just then miss blythe entered she looked so radiant that i forgot myself forgot my former struggles my good resolutions everything except herself and proposed on the spot i was rejected of course more than that i was stunned hope had told me many flattering tales indeed i had felt so sure from many little symptoms that lily had a strong regard for me to say the least that i was overwhelmed not only by my rejection but by the thought of my foolish self-assurance i don't wonder that you look upon me as a presumptuous vain contemptible fella said i in the bitterness of my soul but i do not regard you in that light said lily with a faint smile and then hesitatingly she looked down at the carpet in what light do you regard me miss blithe said i recovering a little hope and speaking vehemently really dr mellon you take me by surprise your manner so abrupt so oh never mind manner dear miss blythe said i seizing her hand and forcibly detaining it you are the soul of truth tell me is there any hope for me can you care for me dr mellon she said drawing her hand firmly away i cannot should not reply you do not know all the these circumstances of my life my poverty my solitary condition in the world my my miss blithe i exclaimed in desperation if you were as poor as a a church rat as solitary as as adam before the advent of eve i would count it my chief joy and

hello melon hi i say where are you shouted the voice of the doctor at that moment from below stairs here's dumps been in...

The Phantom Town Mystery by Grace May North 7 Young Adult Novels Audiobook Adventure
chapter 7 of the phantom town mystery this is the librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org

the phantom town mystery by carol norton chapter seven middle of the night it was midnight when mary moore awoke with a start and sat up staring about her wild eyed where am i where am i her terrorized cry low though it was wakened dora who's sitting up caught her friend in a close embrace mary she whispered reassuringly mary you're here with me we're in bed in your very own room did you have a nightmare in the dim starlight dora saw how pale and startled was the face of her friend mary's big blue eyes looked about the room wildly as though she expected to see someone lurking in the dark corners there's no one here dora assured her see i'll prove it to you she reached for her flash which she had left on a small table near her head the round disc of light danced from corner to corner of the dark room the pale blue muslin curtains waving in the breeze at open windows looked like ghosts perhaps but mary knew what they were still she was not satisfied dora she whispered clinging to her friend's arm are you sure the window at the top of the outside stairway is locked terribly sure of course i locked at the last thing but i'll get up and see dora slipped out of bed and crossed the room the long door-like window was securely fastened the other two windows were open at the top only no one could possibly have entered that way try the hall door mary pleaded and would you mind awfully if i asked you to look in the clothes closet dora had no sense of fear as she was convinced that mary had been dreaming some wild thing and she didn't much wonder after the gruesome story that they had heard the night before now are you satisfied dora climbed back into bed and replaced the flash on the table i suppose i am mary permitted herself to be covered again with the downy blue quilt but it did seem so terribly real and yet now that i come to think it didn't have anything at all to do with this room we were in some bleak place i had never seen before it was the clearest dream dora in the beginning you and i went out all alone for horseback ride the road looked familiar enough it was just like the road from gleason down to the douglas valley highway we were cantering along oh just as we have lots of times when suddenly the scene changed you know the way it does in dreams and we were in the wildest kind of a mountain country it was terrifyingly lonely we couldn't see anything but bleak grim mountain ranges rising about us for miles and miles around some of them were so high the peaks were white with snow i remember one peak especially it looked like a huge woman ghost with two smaller peaks like children ghosts clinging to her hands the sand was on earthly white and covered with human skeletons as though there had been a battle once long ago we rode around wildly trying to find an opening so that we could escape then a terribly uncanny thing happened one of those skeletons rose up right ahead of us and pointed directly toward that mountain with the three ghost-like snow-covered peaks but our horses wouldn't go that way they were terrorized when they saw that hollow-eyed skeleton waving his bony arms in front of them they reared then whirled around and galloped so fast we were both of us thrown off and that's when i woke up gracious goodness dora exclaimed with a shudder that was a nightmare for cricket's sakes let's talk about something pleasant so that when you go to sleep again you won't have another such awful dream now let me see what shall we talk about do you know dora mary's voice was tense with emotion i keep wondering and wondering about that poor little bodel if she were carried off by a robber what do you suppose he would do with her well it all depends on what...