Mystery of the Secret Band by Edith Lavell 11 Young Adult Teen Mystery Book Public Domain.
chapter 11 of mystery of the secret band by edith lavelle this librivox recording is in the public domain baal mary louise did not awaken until nine o'clock the following morning a pleasant glow of triumph suffused her she was experiencing her first thrill of professional success but the occurrence of the preceding night was only a partial victory she reminded herself the job was just begun there were more thieves to be caught and valuables to be recovered she decided to ring for a breakfast tray in her room she had often seen this luxury pictured in the movies now was her chance to try it out for herself while it was being prepared she took a shower and dressed ten minutes later the tempting meal arrived it was fun she thought as she poured the coffee from the silver pot to play being a wealthy lady but it would be more enjoyable if jane were with her however she had no time to think of jane or of her friends in riverside she must concentrate all her mental powers upon the mystery she was trying to solve there were the hypotheses she meant to build her case upon 1. pauline brooks and mary greene were two members of a secret band of hotel robbers composed probably of women and girls two pauline's aunt as she called her must be the leader since she went from hotel to hotel 3. the two transient guests who had undoubtedly stolen the silverware and the vase from stoddard house were members of the same gang 4. hauling's aunt had a country place where she probably hid the stolen articles until they could be disposed of now with these facts in mind mary louise had several poignant questions to answer one was this country place at center square and was that woman whom mary louise had seen in the dark pauline's aunt two was margaret detweiler connected with this gang mary louise remembered that mary greene had admitted that she knew margaret and that pauline had instantly contradicted her it was still rather a muddle she decided as she finished her breakfast and left the room she took the elevator to mrs weinberger's floor and hastily told her the story of the previous night's excitement then scarcely waiting for the older woman's congratulations she hurried down to the manager's office the hotel is exceedingly grateful to you for the service you have rendered us miss gay said the man the least we can do is to present you with a receded bill for your room and breakfast mary louise gasped out her thanks she had never dreamed of a reward and what became of the girls she inquired they are being held under 500 dollars bail was the reply they won't have any trouble raising that i'm afraid said mary louise they'll skip and go right on with their old tricks perhaps you're right miss gay is mr hayden here she asked no he has gone home replied the manager but he left this memorandum for you in case you want to visit the girls and see whether you can learn anything more about the case you're working on mary louise put the paper with the address on it in her handbag and hurried back to stoddard house she found mrs hillard in her office on the first floor planning her work for the day i've got great news for you mrs hillard she cried carefully closing the door behind her i've cut two of the thieves and you'll never guess who they are no i won't even try return the other i'm not much good as a detective but hurry up and tell me pauline brooks and mary green hauling brooks repeated mrs hillard in amazement but tell me how you know the detective at the bellevue and i caught them in men's clothing trying to rob another guest at the hotel remember i thought it was a man who stole my watch though he did seem awfully small well it was pauline and she was dressed up the same way last night you're the cleverest girl i ever met mary louise how did you ever come to suspect those girls i'll tell you the whole story later when i have more time mrs hillard i've...

The Phoenix and the Carpet by Edith Nesbit 3 Free Fantasy Audiobooks Young Readers

chapter 3 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 lucy lafaro new south wales australia the phoenix and the carpet by e nesbit chapter 3 the queen cook it was on a saturday that the children made their first glorious journey on the wishing carpet unless you are too young to read at all you will know that the next day must have been sunday sunday at 18 camden terrace camden town was always a very pretty day father always brought home flowers on saturday so that the breakfast table was extra beautiful in november of course the flowers were chrysanthemums yellow and coppery coloured then there were always sausages on toast for breakfast and these are rapture after six days of kentish town road eggs at 14 a shilling on this particular sunday there were fouls for dinner a kind of food that is generally kept for birthdays and grand occasions and there was an angel pudding when rice and milk and oranges and white icing do their best to make you happy

after dinner father was very sleepy indeed because he had been working hard all the week but he did not yield to the voice that said go and have an hour's rest he nursed the lamb who had a horrid cough that cook said was whooping cough as sure as eggs and he said come along kitties i've got a ripping book from the library called the golden age and i'll read it to you mother settled herself on the drawing room sofa and said she could listen quite nicely with her eyes shut the lamb snugged into the armchair corner of daddy's arm and the others got into a happy heap on the hearth rug at first of course there were too many feet and knees and shoulders and elbows but real comfort was actually settling down on them and the phoenix and the carpet were put away on the back top shelf of their minds beautiful things that could be taken out and played with later when a surly solid knock came at the drawing room door it opened an angry inch and the cook's voice said please may i speak to you a moment mother looked at father with a desperate expression then she put her pretty sparkly sunday shoes down from the sofa and stood up in them inside as good fish in the sea said father cheerfully and it was not till much later that the children understood what he meant mother went out into the passage which is called the hall where the umbrella stand is and the picture of the monarch of the glen in a yellow shining frame with brown spots on the monarch from the damp in the house before last and there was cook very red and damp in the face and with a clean apron tied on all crooked over the dirty one that she had dished up those deer delightful chickens in she stood there and she seemed to get redder and damper and she twisted the corner of her apron round her fingers and she said very shortly and fiercely if you please ma'am i should wish to leave at my day month mother leaned against the hat stan the children could see her looking pale through the crack of the door because she had been very kind to the cook and had given her a holiday only the day before and it seemed so very unkind of the cook to want to go like this and on a sunday too why what's the matter mother said it's them children the cook replied and somehow the children all felt that they had known it from the first they did not remember having done anything extra wrong but it is so frightfully easy to displease a cook it's them children there's that their new carpet in their room covered thick with mud both sides beastly yellow mud and sakes a live nose where they got it and all that muck to clean up on a sunday it's not my place and it's not my intentions so i don't deceive you ma'am and but for them limbs which they is if ever there was it's not a bad place though i says it and i wouldn't wish...

The Phoenix and the Carpet 1 by Edith Nesbit Famous Traditional Kids' Audiobooks
chapter 2 of the phoenix and the carpet this is the librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by lucy lofaro new south wales australia the phoenix and the carpet by e nesbit chapter 2 the topless tower the children had seen the phoenix egg hatched in the flames in their own nursery grate and had heard from it how the carpet on their own nursery floor was really the wishing carpet which would take them anywhere they chose the carpet had transported them to bed just at the right moment and the phoenix had gone to roost on the cornice supporting the window curtains of the boys room excuse me said a gentle voice and a courteous beak opened very kindly and delicately the right eye of cyril i hear the slaves below preparing food awaken a word of explanation and arrangement i do wish you wouldn't the phoenix stopped speaking and fluttered away crossly to the cornice pole for cyril had hit out as boys do when they are awakened suddenly and the phoenix was not used to boys and his feelings if not his wings were hurt sorry said cyril coming awake all in a minute do come back what was it you were saying something about bacon and rations the phoenix fluttered back to the brass rail at the foot of the bed i say you are real said cyril how ripping and the carpet the carpet is as real as it ever was said the phoenix rather contemptuously but of course a carpets only a carpet whereas a phoenix is superlatively a phoenix yes indeed said cyril i see it is oh what luck wake up bobs there's jolly balls something to wake up for today and it's saturday too i've been reflecting said the phoenix during the silent watches of the night and i could not avoid the conclusion that you were quite insufficiently astonished at my appearance today the ancients were always very surprised did you by chance expect my egg to hatch not us said cyril and if we had said anthea who had come in in her nightie when she heard the silvery voice of the phoenix we could never never have expected it to hatch anything so splendid as you the birds smiled perhaps you've never seen a bird smile you see said anthea wrapping herself in the boy's counter pain for the morning was chill we've had things happen to us before and she told the story of the symmede or sand fairy ah yes said the phoenix some aids were rare even in my time i remember i used to be called the sumaid of the desert i was always having compliments paid me i can't think why can you give wishes then asked jane who had now come into oh dear me no said the phoenix contemptuously at least but i hear footsteps approaching i hastened to conceal myself and did i think i said that this day was saturday it was also cook's birthday and mother had allowed her and eliza to go to the crystal palace with a party of friends so jane and anthea of course had to help to make beds and to wash up the breakfast cups and little things like that robert and cyril intended to spend the morning in conversation with the phoenix but the bird had its own ideas about this i must have an hour or two's quiet it said i really must my nerves will give way unless i get a little rest you must remember it's 2 000 years since i had any conversation i'm out of practice and i must take care of myself i've often been told that mine is a valuable life so it nestled down inside an old hat box of fathers which had been brought down from the box room some days before when a helmet was suddenly needed for a game of tournaments with its golden head under its wing and went to sleep so then robert and cyril moved the table back and were going to sit on the carpet and wish themselves somewhere else but before they could decide on the place cyril said i don't know perhaps it's rather sneaky to begin without the girls they'll be all the morning said robert impatiently and then a...

The Illiad by Homer 2 Traditional Greek Oral History Storytelling Free Audiobooks Must Reads
section 2 book the second of the iliad of homer this librivox recording is in the public domain recording by stephen carney the iliad of homer by homer translated by theodore alois buckley section two book the second argument jove sends a dream to agamemnon in consequence of which he reassembles the army thirstitis is punished for his insolent speech and the troops are restrained from seeking a return homewards the catalog of the ships and the forces of the confederates follows the rest then both gods and horse-arraying men slept all the night but job sweet sleep possessed not but he was pondering in his mind how he might honor achilles and destroy many at the ships of the greeks but this device appeared best to him in his mind to send a fatal dream to agamemnon the son of atreus and addressing him he spoke winged words haste away pernicious dream to the swift ships of the greeks going into the tent of agamemnon son of atreus utter very accurately everything as i shall command thee bid him arm the long-haired achaeans with all their array for now perhaps he may take the wide-weighed city of the trojans for the immortals who possess the olympian mansions no longer think dividedly for juno supplicating hath bent all to her will and woes are impending over the trojans thus he spake and the dream accordingly departed as soon as it heard the mandate and quickly it came to the swift ships of the greeks and went unto agamemnon the son of atreus but him it found sleeping in his tent and ambrosial slumber was diffused around and he stood over his head like unto nestor the son of nelius him to wit whom agamemnon honored most of the old men to him assimilating himself the divine dream addressed him sleepest thou son of the warrior horse-taming atrius it becomes not a giving man to whom the people have been entrusted and to whom so many things are a care to sleep all night but now quickly attend to me for i am a messenger to thee from job who although far distant greatly regards and pities thee he orders thee to arm the long-haired greeks with all their array for now mayest thou take the wide weighed city of the trojans since the immortals who possess the olympian mansions no longer think dividedly for juno supplicating hath bent all to her will and woes from job are impending over the trojans but do thou preserve this in thy recollection nor let forgetfulness possess thee when sweet sleep shall desert thee thus then having spoken he departed and left him there pondering these things in his mind which were not destined to be accomplished for he foolish thought that he would take the city of priyam on that day nor knew he the deeds which jupiter was really devising for even he was about yet to impose additional hardships and sorrows upon both trojans and greeks through mighty conflicts but he awoke from his sleep and the heavenly voice was diffused around him he sat up erect and put on his soft tunic beautiful new and around him he threw his large cloak and he bound his beautiful sandals on his shining feet and slung from his shoulders a silver studded sword he also took his paternal scepter ever imperishable with which he went to the ships of the brazen mailed greeks the goddess aurora now ascended wide olympus announcing the dawn to jove and the other immortals but he on his part ordered the clear voiced heralds to summon the long-haired ikeans to an assembly they therefore summoned them and the people were very speedily assembled first the assembly of the magnanimous elders sat at the ship of nestor the pilots born king having called them together he propounded a prudent council hear me my friends a divine dream came to me in sleep during the ambrosial night very like unto the noble nester in form in stature and in mean and it stood above my head and addressed me sleepest thou son of the warrior horse-taming atrius it becomes not a...

The Odyssey by Homer 2 Traditional Greek Oral History Storytelling Free Audiobooks for All
this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer visit librivox.org recording by kirsten ferrari the odyssey by homer translated by samuel butler book two now when the child of mourning rosie finger dawn appeared telemachus rose and dressed himself he bound his sandals onto his comely feet girded his sword about his shoulder and left his room looking like an immortal god he at once sent the criers round to call the people in assembly so they called him and the people gathered thereon then when they were got together he went to the place of assembly spear in hand not alone for his two hounds went with him minerva endowed him with a presence of such divine comeliness that all marveled at him as he went by and when he took his place in his father's seat even the oldest counselors made way for him egyptis a man bent double with age and of infinite experience the first to speak his son antifas had gone with ulysses to elias land of noble cites but the savage cyclops had killed him when they were all shut up in the cave and had cooked his last dinner for him he had three sons left of whom two still worked on their father's land while the third eurynymus was one of the suitors nevertheless their father could not get over the loss of antifas and was still weeping for him when he began his speech men of ithaca he said hear my words from the day ulysses left us there has been no meeting of our counselors until now who then can it be young or old that finds it so necessary to convene us has he got wind of some host approaching and does he wish to warn us or would he speak on some other matter of public moment i am sure he is an excellent person and i hope job will grant him his heart's desire

telemachus took this speech as of good omen and rose at once for he was bursting with what he had to say he stood in the middle of the assembly and the good herald pasena brought him his saf then turning to egyptians sir said he it is i as you will shortly learn who have convened you for it is i who am the most aggrieved i have not got wind of any host approaching about which i would warn you nor is there any matter of public moment on which i would speak my grievance is purely personal and turns on two great misfortunes which have fallen upon my house the first of these is the loss of my excellent father who was chief among you all here present and was like a father to every one of you the second is much more serious and air long will be the utter ruin of my estate the sons of all the chief men among you are pestering my mother to marry them against her will they are afraid to go to her father icarius asking him to choose the one he likes best and to provide marriage gifts for his daughter but day by day they keep hanging about my father's house sacrificing our oxen sheep and fat goats for their banquets and never giving so much as a thought to the quantity of wine they drink no estate can stand such recklessness we have now no ulysses to ward off harm from our doors and i cannot hold my own against them i shall never all my days be as good a man as he was still i would indeed defend myself if i had power to do so for i cannot stand such treatment any longer my house is being disgraced and ruined have respect therefore to your own consciences and to public opinion fear to the wrath of heaven lest the gods should be displeased and turn upon you i pray you by jove and themis who is the beginning and the end of councils do not hold back my friends and leave me single-handed unless it be that my brave father ulysses did some wrong to the achaeans which you would now avenge upon me by aiding and abetting these suitors moreover if i am to be eaten out of house and home at all i had rather you did the eating yourselves for i could then take action against you to some purpose and...

Whispering Tongues Story of Friendship and Bullying College Teens Novel Free Audiobook

chapter 2 of whispering tongues by homer green this librivox recording is in the public domain reading by donald cummings chapter 2 the gamma questers parmenter recovered consciousness soon after he was carried to his room after being thrown so viciously by van loan but when the college physician came he declared that there was a fracture of the right clavicle there was also a deep scalp wound where parmitar's head had struck on a sharp edge of the stone pavement and this required stitching and dressing when the bathing and bandaging and plastering had been done the injured man was thoroughly exhausted and weak from loss of blood his bosom friend charlie lee remained to care for him through the night the next morning parmitar awoke refreshed and comfortable by and by the doctor came parmiter gave him hardly time to take off his overcoat before he inquired how long will it be doctor before i shall have the free use of my arm oh three or four weeks was the reply these simple fractures of the clavicle are of no great consequence they heal up quickly parmenter's face fell three or four weeks his injury might indeed have been of no great consequence from the surgeon's point of view but to him it was a serious matter it was likely to block his way to the prize stage at concord college one evening of commencement week was devoted to the delivery of orations by juniors and sophomores in competition for prizes six competitors were selected from each class at a trial contest held about three months before commencement to be appointed to the prize stage was a marked honor and one which parmitar greatly coveted he had worked for it for months the trial speaking was to take place in the college chapel on the following friday and here he was and would be for weeks with a broken collarbone and his right arm in a sling when lee came back from breakfast parmitar exclaimed with a groan it's all up charlie what's all up ask lee advancing an alarm to the bed why the prize stage the doctor says i can't use my arm for a month and here's the trial speaking coming on next friday i hadn't thought of that replied lee sinking into a chair it is a bad business that's so after a minute he added but your voice will be all right fred you can have that as clear as a bell my voice what good is that to me can i make gestures with my voice how can a man do anything with his arm in a sling and his shoulders bound up as if you were a mummy parmenter was excited he felt that hitherto his success on the platform had been largely due to the training he had had in what is called presence and his skill and gestures that effect would now be totally destroyed you might learn to use your left arm suggestedly as a forlorn hope

you know better than that charlie i'm out that's all there's only one redeeming feature about the whole business and that is that you'll carry off first prize now for all the trouble i shall give you for a minute lee was at a loss for an answer he also was a candidate for the prize stage they had agreed that each was to strive to obtain the honor to the best of his ability but the rivalry was so friendly that neither would have accepted an appointment at the expense of the other at the same time it would have been a great pleasure to either to have the other carry off the prize after a while lee said casting his eyes down on his friend's bandage shoulder and plastered head that was a cowardly thing for van loan to do wasn't it dangerous too might just think of it it might have cracked your skull pity it hadn't or al parmeter then there have been no question about my being an idiot as it is well i have two years in which to get even with him i think i can manage to make it up to him in that time after a minute he added did the freshies carry sticks this morning charlie every one of them said lee they all went downtown last night after the...

Mattachins Cello ABRSM Grade 1 Podclass Sarnia Music School Podcast Free Lesson Beginners
hi everybody so welcome to the first uh of the options a1 uh the matasha um or chins for short we call it chins um boisterous boisterous so you're going to be

i would say very slightly um uh staccato it doesn't tell us to be staccato but i think you suddenly need to be quite light to get it around now the trick with these uh deep deeper notes is not to be too quick on the um the speed of the bow as it goes as it plays the note so and

nice and slow do you see

now it says mf we're quite loud anyway so i'd say just a quite an all sort of level that you're kind of used to playing and i'll tell you why because when we when we get to the second half where it speeds up a little

we've got to be louder so we need somewhere to go but look bar 11 to 13

even more loud and then bar 17 very very loud so you've got one two three four different levels of volume that you're going to have to work on so you don't this mf we don't want to be like this

because there's nowhere to go after that okay so that's the first thing i'm going to say every bar starts on a down bow

and this this note at the end um i'm going to suggest uh i'm going to suggest that you do that quite near the frog okay

because you're going to get a really because it's an accented note and it you're going to get a lovely dramatic um um expression okay much easier than if you do it in the middle you uh you you're risking things and it won't be as interesting but if you're near the frog sorry

and a little bit further in between the fingerboard and the bridge

you can get quite a twang i think that's the word i'm looking for we want a twang a nice loud twang so you're going to have to practice that and the twang is a dramatic ending it's really exciting and we'll be doing this with an accompaniment of course i've got the accompaniment so when we start practicing this we'll be doing it with the piano so it's going to be really really helpful for us um you know in terms of timing of course i've slowed it down i'll pop it up on the podcast if it's not already i might have done it i do forget because i have lots of lessons going on all at the same time um so the second section is also faster so it's louder and faster so we've got this sort of energy building so it sounds quite bloody and i think that's why when i first uh saw it

i thought oh that's a bit boring isn't it sounds a bit gruff and boring but of course it it moves somewhere doesn't it so it's quite nice to start off pretending that you know perhaps you're a big fat cat who can't be bothered to do anything but you know cats are always agile even if they're very fat and you know you could imagine it sort of snoring paris and then perhaps as it uh it you know it can start twitching a bit in a dream and then maybe come bar 10 maybe a mouse goes past and it suddenly wakes up do you see you just sort of imagine all these things couldn't you and i think this was actually a dance instruction so you could think up a a dance type theme as well these themes kind of help you and channel a feeling of expression into the piece and the examiner is really looking for that lots of people are going to be able to play this not many people are going to play it well so i would say that if you're an expressive performer and you enjoy the c string this is the piece for you okay now then the last thing we need to do is fingering so get your pencils ready so open and write them on each note open one three three open one three three four four

okay and

i think you can probably do the rest or should i do it for you i'll do it for you three one three open three one three open one one you see i just do it automatically so i have to think about it uh and then we've got open one three three four four again i think you...

Suzuki Cello School 1 With Sarnia D Major Free Podclass Podcast All Welcome How to Play
hi everybody we're doing the first position today let's turn that backing track off for a minute um i wanted to check that everyone's fine and i just just wanted to point out that your bow needs to be as tight as you like it and different cellists have different ideas of their perfect tension in the string i'm going to do a bow um set up in a in a bit because it's it's kind of important but i won't spend too much time on it now but make sure your bow is as tight as you'd like it to be because it makes a very a difference to the sound that you're going to produce okay so let's look at d major now the purpose of this exercise is to teach you the first position for the suzuki method and it's very exciting first position because now that you're doing first position you'll be able to say to other cellists oh i'm doing first position just because it's early in your musical training doesn't mean it's irrelevant it tells people actually if you you know if you're trying to play with other people it tells them where you are in your um repertoire if you like and that's quite important for us for a lot of things but don't be fooled that first position is some kind of [ __ ] position or um position for just beginners and and you won't use it if you're advanced because what first position does is it tells you the shape of things to come because you're going to be using all of the notes that we're learning in first position in other all the other positions in the same mapping the same way so this is really important that we get it right it's fundamental to your future as a cellist okay so let's get on background d major we're going to play i hope you're tuned and i hope you're fed and watered very important and i hope you're glad to be here also very important so open d

and now i want you to put one finger down and i want you to keep it down and i want you to put the next two fingers down and now i want you to put four down

let's do that again

did you see how i did it open one down three down four down so we're keeping all our fingers down as we go up the register so we've got d e f sharp g okay

and now we're going to string cross now check the mirror is your bow straight

remember if you if you're skew you'll squeak so now we're doing an open d a sorry and then we're going to move our hand across and we're going to do exactly the same one down three down four down do you see so

and i've got all four fingers down

grand let's look at the next bit put keep all four fingers down and we're going to do short notes

and you repeat okay as fast or slowly

as you can manage

okay now the next exercise uh is um we start on the a string and we're doing long notes or longer notes i should say so down bow up bow down bow up bow and the same pattern

i'm going to come back down again

okay now those are all the notes that we need for the d major scale how exciting we've we've done so much today already in a short space of time and see how exciting it is when you can play a series of notes we've we've learned eight notes eight notes we've learned an incredible amount of notes today just by understanding where we put our fingers okay so let's look at the d major scale now let me read while playing the upper half of the scale the first and third fingers should remain on the string when you place the third finger place the second down with it so it's almost like they're kind of friends who have to stay together all the time okay so let's try open d

two e's with your first down

put three fingers down and four

swap strings one finger down

two fingers three fingers down and four fingers down i'm going to come back up again and we're going to cross

okay please listen to the source material...

Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin 12 Miller of the Dee Kids Audiobooks Read Aloud
story 12 from 50 famous stories retold by james baldwin read for librivox.org by laura caldwell the miller of the d once upon a time there lived on the banks of the river d a miller who was the happiest man in england he was always busy from morning till night and he was always singing as merrily as any lark he was so cheerful that he made everybody else cheerful and people all over the land like to talk about his pleasant ways at last the king heard about him i will go down and talk with this wonderful miller he said perhaps he can tell me how to be happy as soon as he stepped inside of the mill he heard the miller singing i envy nobody no not i for i am as happy as i can be and nobody envies me you're wrong my friend said the king you're wrong as wrong can be i envy you and i would gladly change places with you if i could only be as lighthearted as you are the miller smiled and bowed to the king i am sure i could not think of changing places with you sir he said now tell me said the king what makes you so cheerful and glad here in your dusty meal while i who am king am sad and in trouble every day the miller smiled again and said i do not know why you are sad but i can easily tell why i am glad i earn my own bread i love my wife and my children i love my friends and they love me and i owe not a penny to any man why should i not be happy for here is the river d and every day it turns my meal and the mill grinds the corn that feeds my wife my babes and me say no more said the king stay where you are and be happy still but i envy you your dusty cap is worth more than my golden crown your meal does more for you than my kingdom can do for me if there were more such men as you what a good place this world would be goodbye my friend the king turned about and walked sadly away and the miller went back to his work singing oh i'm as happy as happy can be for i live by the side of the river d end of story twelve this recording is in the public domain

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Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling 2 How The Camel Got His Hump Free Bedtime Kids Story