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The Mystery at Dark Cedars by Edith Lavell 8 Free Public Domain Audiobooks Talking Book Library
chapter 8 of the mystery at dark cedars by edith lavelle this librivox recording is in the public domain a confession

it was a little after nine o'clock the following morning that mary louise and jane set off for dark cedars the money was safely hidden in mary louise's blouse and silky was told to come along for protection i'll never leave him home again said mary louise miss grant will have to get used to him but when we tell her about last night i guess she'll think he's a pretty wonderful dog i dreamed about bandits and robbers remarked jane with a shudder no more night adventures for me well it was worth it wasn't it think of the pleasure of clearing elsie of suspicion it won't though her aunt will insist that she took that gold we're going to get that back too asserted mary louise confidently by the way observe jane norman tried to make me promise we drive over to the park with them this afternoon and have our supper there after a swim i said i'd let him know mary louise shook her head we can't make dates jane it's out of the question for we don't know what may turn up i want to investigate the pearsons today that disagreeable kareem may have had a part in the theft i'm sorry now that we promised the boys we'd go on that picnic that picnic's going to be fun you know what marvelous swimming there is down by cooper's woods and don't forget the gypsies i love to have my fortune told yes that's fun i admit but a whole day oh well maybe we'll solve the whole crime today and maybe miss grant will let us take elsie with us now that she has some nice dresses mary louise's eyes brightened that is an idea jane i'll ask miss grant today as a reward for returning her money the increasing heat of the day and the steepness of the climb to dark cedars made the girls long for that swimming pool in the amusement park and jane at least wished that they were going with the boys but one glance at her chum's determined face made her realize that such a hope was not to be fulfilled both girls felt hot and sticky when they finally mounted the porch steps at dark cedars and pulled the old fashioned knocker on the wooden door it was opened almost immediately by hannah who evidently had been working right there in the front of the house the woman looked hot and disturbed as if she had been working fast under pressure good morning said mary louise brightly may we see miss grant hannah i don't know replied the servant she's all of a fluster we're at sixes and sevens here this morning the ghosts walked last night what ghosts asked mary louise trying to repress a smile you know elsie's told you about him the spirits that wanders through this house at night mustn't up things they had a party all over the downstairs last night hannah exclaimed jane you know that isn't possible if there was a disturbance it was caused by human beings burglars the woman shook her head you don't know nothing about it if it was burglars why wasn't something stolen wasn't anything stolen demanded mary louise incredulously not miss grant's bonds nope they're all there safe pictures was taken down old pictures that must have belonged to the spirits when they was alive that old desk in the corner of the dining room the one that belonged to miss maddie's father was rummaged through and all the closets was upset but nothing's missing it looks as if somebody was searching for a will remark jane you know the lost will you so often read about there ain't no will in this house hannah stated miss maddie gave hers to mr john grant to keep long ago no ma'am it ain't natural what's going on here and william and i are moving out what's this what's this interrupted the shrill high voice of the old lady what are you gossiping about hannah and to whom i'm just telling them two young girls the ones that come here before you know well never mind snap the spinster we haven't time...

The Mystery of the Fires by Edith Lavell 6 Free Teens Mystery Books Audio Reading.
chapter 6 of the mystery of the fires by edith lavelle this librivox recording is in the public domain more suspects i told mother we girls would take every other day at the housekeeping said mary louise as she backed the car out of the garage and onto the road behind the cottages that will give her a chance to get some rest from cooking some vacation you don't mind do you jane course i don't mind replied her chum maybe the family will though don't you believe it we're swell cooks if i do say it myself she drove the car along past the backs of the cottages turning at the road beyond ditmar's in the direction of the little village of four corners a place not much bigger than its name implied it was a still hot day all the vegetation looked parched and dried and the road was thick with dust i wish it would rain remarked mary louise if we should have another fire it might spread so that it would wipe out all of shady nook oh let's forget fires for a while urged jane you're getting positively morbid on the subject is this the grocery she asked is her companion stopped in front of a big wooden house it looks more like a dry goods store to me all those aprons and overalls hanging around it's a country store explain the other girl wait till you see the inside they have everything even shoes and the storekeeper looks over his glasses just the way they always do in plays the girls jumped out of the car and ran inside jane found the place just as mary louise had described it a typical country store of the old-fashioned variety hello mr eberhard how are you this summer asked mary louise fine miss gay fine you're looking well too but i hear you had some excitement over to shady nook a bad fire they tell me can you figure out how it happened no we can't replied the girl you see everybody was away at the time at a picnic on the little island down the river looks like spite to me observed the store keeper bet lemuel adams or his good for nothing son did it lemuel adams replied mary louise who is he any relation to hattie adams who always waited on the table at flicks in yup he's her father you ought to know him he's a farmer who lives up that hill about a couple of miles from shady nook well he used to own all his ground around here but he sold it cheap to a man named hunter the one who started the settlement at shady nook yes i knew him said mary louise he was clifford hunter's father but he died not long ago so i heard anyhow this man hunter got fancy prices for his building lots and naturally old lem adams got sore always complaining how poor he is and how rich old hunter got on his land reckon it got under his skin and maybe he decided to take revenge oh mary louise wanted to write the name of lemuel adams into her notebook then and there but she didn't like to should she add hattie's name too had the girl taken any part in the plot what sort of looking man is mr adams she inquired thinking of the [ __ ] whom the boys had mentioned seeing in the woods old man with white hair has a bad leg rheumatism i reckon he walks with a limp explained the storekeeper mary louise sighed this couldn't be the same person then for the boys would surely have noticed a limp here's my list she said handing her mother's paper to mr eberhard do you think you have all those things if i ain't i can get them for you was the cheerful reply the girls wandered idly around the store while they waited for their order to be filled jane had a wonderful time examining the queer articles on display and laughing at the ready-made dresses at last however a boy carried their supplies to the car and mary louise asked for the bill 9.62 cents announced mr eberhard with a grin you folks sure must like to eat we do agreed mary louise i suppose this will mean more business for you or did the flicks buy groceries from you anyhow no they didn't they got most of their stuff from the city yes...

Mentor All About Egypt History Audiobooks Children Family Educational Fun Podcast.
section 3 of the art of music volume 1 the pre-classic periods editor-in-chief daniel gregory mason this librivox recording is in the public domain read by jake militia music and the dance developed side by side music is rhythm plus tone the dance rhythm plus gesture in savage life they are well nigh inseparable the dance among civilized peoples is merely a diversion a form of amusement among savages it is much more rarely so nearly all ceremonies whether of a joyful sorrowful or religious character were accompanied by appropriate dances many of these dances were of a very elementary character consisting merely of certain postures swaying of the body or leaping into the air some dances were imitated from the motions of certain animals even as some of the primitive songs were imitative of animal cries of such nature is the kangaroo dance of the aborigines of australia the men who indulge in the dance imitate the postures and leaps of the kangaroo and also imitate with their voices the sounds made by that animal meanwhile the women sing the following simple tune over and over again and furnish a rhythmical accompaniment by knocking two pieces of wood together

similarly the north american indians have eagle dances dog dances etc while the natives of kamchatka have a bear dance in which says engel they cleverly imitate not only the attitude and tricks of the bear but also its voice there were also war dances love dances funeral dances and various ceremonial dances in a sense all primitive music may be considered as dance music all primitive songs were accompanied by gestures or dances and naturally there was no dance without its accompanying music the head hunting diacs of borneo have a dance in which the gestures indicate the cutting off of heads the north american indians have a scalp dance celebrating the victorious exploits of a war party the maoris of new zealand have a war dance in which all thrust out their tongues at once a gesture which may indicate contempt of the enemy one of the most curious and primitive dances is the corroboree dance of the natives of australia it is thus described by carl engel 20 or more men paint their naked dark bodies to represent skeletons which they accomplish by drawing white lines across the body with pipe clay to correspond with the ribs and broader ones on the arms legs and the head thus prepared they perform the corroboree dance at night before a fire the spectators placed at some distance from them see only the white skeletons which vanish and reappear whenever the dancers turn around the wild and ghastly action of the skeletons is accompanied by vocal effusions and some rhythmical noise which a number of hidden bystanders produce by beating their shields in regular time here is the melody of one of these corroboree dances this melody is from new south wales and has been noted with slight variations by wilkes field and foreign the version of field is given

foreign

but it is perhaps among the american indians of all savage peoples that the dance assumes its greatest importance the very term dance often means a ceremony covering several days the whole consisting of many individual dances recitations and songs and forming a ritual of quasi-religious or pantheistic character their ceremonies are usually appeals to the gods for rain abundant crops luck in hunting or good fortune in war thus there is the great rain dance of the genus the sun dance of the cheyennes and the snake dance of the hoppies the snake dance is an elaborate ceremony of several days duration during which live rattlesnakes are on occasion carried in the hands and even held between the teeth while a dignified and stamping sort of dance goes forward it is primarily an invocation to the gods for rain two melodies used in the snake dance are here given as noted by benjamin ives gilman first melody

Art of Music Primitive Music 2 Free History Audiobook Online College Study Humanities.
section 3 of the art of music volume 1 the pre-classic periods editor-in-chief daniel gregory mason this librivox recording is in the public domain read by jake militia music and the dance developed side by side music is rhythm plus tone the dance rhythm plus gesture in savage life they are well nigh inseparable the dance among civilized peoples is merely a diversion a form of amusement among savages it is much more rarely so nearly all ceremonies whether of a joyful sorrowful or religious character were accompanied by appropriate dances many of these dances were of a very elementary character consisting merely of certain postures swaying of the body or leaping into the air some dances were imitated from the motions of certain animals even as some of the primitive songs were imitative of animal cries of such nature is the kangaroo dance of the aborigines of australia the men who indulge in the dance imitate the postures and leaps of the kangaroo and also imitate with their voices the sounds made by that animal meanwhile the women sing the following simple tune over and over again and furnish a rhythmical accompaniment by knocking two pieces of wood together

similarly the north american indians have eagle dances dog dances etc while the natives of kamchatka have a bear dance in which says engel they cleverly imitate not only the attitude and tricks of the bear but also its voice there were also war dances love dances funeral dances and various ceremonial dances in a sense all primitive music may be considered as dance music all primitive songs were accompanied by gestures or dances and naturally there was no dance without its accompanying music the head hunting diacs of borneo have a dance in which the gestures indicate the cutting off of heads the north american indians have a scalp dance celebrating the victorious exploits of a war party the maoris of new zealand have a war dance in which all thrust out their tongues at once a gesture which may indicate contempt of the enemy one of the most curious and primitive dances is the corroboree dance of the natives of australia it is thus described by carl engel 20 or more men paint their naked dark bodies to represent skeletons which they accomplish by drawing white lines across the body with pipe clay to correspond with the ribs and broader ones on the arms legs and the head thus prepared they perform the corroboree dance at night before a fire the spectators placed at some distance from them see only the white skeletons which vanish and reappear whenever the dancers turn around the wild and ghastly action of the skeletons is accompanied by vocal effusions and some rhythmical noise which a number of hidden bystanders produce by beating their shields in regular time here is the melody of one of these corroboree dances this melody is from new south wales and has been noted with slight variations by wilkes field and foreign the version of field is given

foreign

but it is perhaps among the american indians of all savage peoples that the dance assumes its greatest importance the very term dance often means a ceremony covering several days the whole consisting of many individual dances recitations and songs and forming a ritual of quasi-religious or pantheistic character their ceremonies are usually appeals to the gods for rain abundant crops luck in hunting or good fortune in war thus there is the great rain dance of the genus the sun dance of the cheyennes and the snake dance of the hoppies the snake dance is an elaborate ceremony of several days duration during which live rattlesnakes are on occasion carried in the hands and even held between the teeth while a dignified and stamping sort of dance goes forward it is primarily an invocation to the gods for rain two melodies used in the snake dance are here given as noted by benjamin ives gilman first melody