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Favorite Prayers Collection 1:5 (Pluralistic and Multilingual) Ave Marie Free Audiobook

A Japanese Boy by Shigemi Shiukichi 3 Free Audiobook Biography Tale Teller Book Clubs.
chapter 3 of a japanese boy by shigemi shiokichi this librivox recording is in the public domain chapter 3 the kitchen dinner food when just from school our faces and hands were as black as demons with ink on my reaching home my mother would take care of the copy books and send me straight to the kitchen to wash before i sat down to the table the vessel corresponding to the basin is made of brass we have not learned to use soap old folks believe that it would turn our black hair red like that of the foreigners there is no convenience of faucet or pump each house has its own well in the backyard even in the city hence no waterworks no gas works and no fuss about plumbing the housewife must proceed to the well for water rain or shine and struggle back to the kitchen with a pail full of it every time she needs it the kitchen itself is not often floored the range of clay and of different appearance from that which is used here and the sink stand directly on mother earth under a shed like roof which has been darkened by smoke the range has no chimney not coal but wood is burned in it and all the smoke escapes from the front opening or mouth and fills the entire kitchen causing the dear black eyes of the amiable housewife to suffuse with tears she has the small japanese towel wrapped around her head to protect the elaborate coiffure from the soot of years that has accumulated everywhere in falls and gentle flakes snow fashion on things universally she works her pair of lungs at the fire blowing tube a large bamboo two or three feet long opened at one end for a mouthpiece and punched at the other for a narrow orifice the imprisoned volumes of smoke in the kitchen must crowd out through a square aperture in the roof if it is to be closed on a rainy day they must escape through windows or crevices the best they may the water when brought in from the well is emptied into a deep heavy earthen reservoir of reddish hue standing near the sink with a wooden ladle i would dip out the water into the brass basin sheet brass not solid and wash myself without soap in the most rapid manner possible yearning eagerly for dinner the towel is a piece of cotton dyed blue with designs left undyed or dyed black i grumbled i confess when my mother sent me back for a more thorough washing but with the utmost alacrity i always saluted the very sight of vions often time i was late and was obliged to eat a late dinner alone but when all of our family sat down together enough of life was manifested at one end my witty young brother provoked laughter in us with stuff and nonsense next to him sat my younger sister quiet and good i assumed my position between my sister and my father and mother who sat together at the head of the row

i forgot to mention that my elder brother whose place must be next above me had been ordered to keep peace in the region of my merry little brother my sister-in-law or my elder brother's wife took her stand opposite us surrounded by a rice bucket a cast iron cooking pot a teapot a basket of rice bowls saucers etc she it was who had to cook and serve dinner and wash dishes and take care of her babies it is this that renders a young married woman's lot in life very hard in japan the principal weight of daily work devolving upon her after all this if parents-in-law are not pleased with her she is in immediate danger of being turned off like a hired servant however affectionate she may be toward her husband and the husband feels it is his duty to part with her despite his deep attachment so sacred is regarded the manifestation of filial piety fortunately for my sister-in-law my mother who has four daughters living with their husbands relatives made every household task as light and easy as she could for her and express sympathy when needed knowing that her own daughters were laboring in the like circumstances we do not eat at one...

The Children's Book of Christmas Stories 1 Dickens Fezziwigs Warehouse Free Audiobooks.
story number one of the children's book of christmas stories 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 elisa mccaslin may 2012 the children's book of christmas stories by various artists christmas at fizzy wigs warehouse by charles dickens yoho my boy said fuzzy wig no more work tonight christmasy dick christmas ebenezer let's have the shutters up cried old fezzy wig with a sharp clap of his hands before a man can say jack robinson hilly ho cried old fezziwig skipping down from the high desk with wonderful agility clear away my lads and let's have lots of room here hilly ho dick cheer up ebenezer clear away there was nothing they wouldn't have cleared away or couldn't have cleared away with old fezziwig looking on it was done in a minute every moveable was packed off as if it were dismissed from public life forever more the floor was swept and watered the lamps were trimmed fuel was heaped upon the fire and the warehouse was as snug and warm and dry and bright a ballroom as you would desire to see on a winter's night in came a fiddler with the music book and went up to the lofty desk and made an orchestra of it and tuned like 50 stomachaches in came mrs fezziwig one vast substantial smile in came the three mrs fezziwig beaming and lovable in came the six followers whose hearts they broke in came all the young men and women employed in the business in came the housemaid with their cousin the baker in game the cook with her brother's particular friend the milkman in came the boy from over the way who was suspected of not having bored enough from his master trying to hide himself behind the girl from next door but one who was proved to have had her ears pulled by her mistress in they all came anyhow and every how away they all went twenty couple at once hands half round and back again the other way down the middle and up again round and round in various stages of affectionate grouping old top couple always turning up in the wrong place new top couple starting off again as soon as they got there all top couples at last and not a bottom one to help them when this result was brought about the fiddler struck up sir roger de coverley then old fizzy wigs stood out to dance with mrs fezziwig top couple too with a good stiff piece of work cut out for them three or four and 20 pairs of partners people who were not to be trifled with people who would dance and had no notion of walking but if they had been thrice as many oh four times as many old fezziwig would have been a match for them and so would mrs fezzywig as to her she was worthy to be his partner in every sense of the term if that's not high praise tell me higher and i'll use it a positive light appeared to issue from feziwig's calves they shone in every part of the dance-like moons you couldn't have predicted at any given time what would become of them next and when old fezziwig and mrs fezzywig had gone all through the dance advance and retire both hands to your partner bow and curtsy corkscrew thread the needle in back again to your place fuzzy wig cut cut so deftly that he appeared to wink with his legs and came upon his feet again with a stagger when the clock struck 11 the domestic ball broke up mr and mrs fezziwig took their stations one on either side of the door and shaking hands with every person individually as he or she went out wish them or her a merry christmas end of christmas at fezzawig's warehouse by charles dickens

Child Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle 2 Children's Dress Babyhood Free Educational Audiobooks.
chapter 2 of child life in colonial days by alice morse earl this librivox recording is in the public domain children's dress quote man's earthly interests are all hooked and buttoned together and held up by clothes from

thomas carlyle 1833

of the dress of infants of colonial times we can judge from the articles of clothing which have been preserved till this day perhaps i should say that we can judge of the better garments worn by babies not their everyday dress for it is not their simpler attire that has survived but their christening robes their finer shirts and petticoats and caps linen form the chilling substructure of their dress thin linen low necked short sleeve shirts and linen even formed the underwear of infants until the middle of this century these little linen shirts are daintier than the warmest silk or fine woolen underwear that have succeeded them they are edged with fine narrow thread lace hem stitched with tiny rows of stitches and sometimes embroidered by hand i have seen a little shirt and a cap embroidered with the coat of arms of the luxe and johnson families and the motto god blessed the babe these delicate garments were worn in infancy by the revolutionary soldier governor johnson of virginia in the essex institute in salem massachusetts are the baptismal shirt and mittens of the pilgrim father william bradford second governor of the plymouth colony who was born in 1590 all are a firm close woven home spun linen but the little mittens have been worn at the ends by the active friction of baby hands and are patched with colored chinny or calico a similar colored material frills the sleeves and neck a pair of baby mitts of fine lace also may be seen at the essex institute these are wrought in the 16th century and the stitches and work are those of the antique flanders laces i have seen many tiny mitts knit of silk and mittens of fine linen hem stitch worked in drawn work or embroidered and edged with thread lace and also a few mitts of yellow nanking which must have proved especially irritating to the tiny little hands that wore them i have never seen a woolen petticoat that was worn by an infant of pre-revolutionary days it may be argued that woolen garments being liable to ruin by mods would naturally not be treasured this argument scarcely is one of force because i have been shown infants cloaks of wool as well as woolen garments for older folk that have been successfully preserved also beautifully embroidered long cloaks of chamoy's skin i think infants wore no woolen petticoats their shirts petticoats and gowns were of litten or some cotton stuff like dimity warmth of clothing was given by tiny shawls pinned round the shoulders and heavier blankets and quilts and shawls in which baby and petticoats were wholly enveloped the baby dresses of olden times are either rather shapeless sacks drawn in at the neck with narrow cotton ferret or linen bobbin or little straight waisted gowns of state all were exquisitely made by hand usually a fine stuff but the babies in pioneer settlements a century ago had to share in wearing homespun it is told of one in a log cabin in a new hampshire clearing that when the grandmother rode out 80 miles on horseback to see her son's first baby she shed bitter tears at beholding the child but a few months old clad in a gray woolen homespun slip with an apron or tire a blue and white checked linen the mother a frontierlass dressed the infant according to the fashions she was accustomed to nothing could show so fully the costume of children in olden times as their portraits and a series of such portraits of successive dates will be given in these pages many of them are asserted to be by the three well-known artists of colonial days blackburn smibbert and copely a few are by peel trumbull and stewart i have accepted all family traditions as true...

Our Cats and All About Them
by Harrison Weir
Our Cats and All About Them by Harrison Weir 3 Free Audiobooks Family Friendly Pet Lovers.
section 3 of our cats and all about them this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org our cats and all about them by harrison weir habits before attempting to describe the different varieties i should like to make a few remarks as to the habits and ways of the domestic cat when judging i have frequently found some of the exhibits of anything but a mild and placid disposition some have displayed a downright ferocity others on the contrary have been excessively gentle and very few but seem to recognize their position and submitted quietly to their confinement this is easily accounted for when persons are accustomed to cats they know what wonderful powers of observation the cat possesses and how quickly they recognize the why and the wherefore of many things take for instance how very many cats will open a latch door by springing up and holding on with one foreleg while with the other they pressed down the latch catch and so open the door and yet even more observant are they than that as i have shown by a case in my animal stories old and new in which a cat opened a door by pulling it towards him when he found pushing it of no avail the cat is more critical in noticing than the dog i never knew but one dog that would open a door by moving the fastening without being shown or taught how to do it cats that have done so are numberless i noticed one at the last crystal palace show a white cat it looked up it looked down then to the right and then a little to the left paused seemed lost in thought when not seeing anyone about it crept up to the door and with its paw tried to pull back the bolt or catch on getting sight of me it retired to a corner of the cage shut its eyes and pretended to sleep i stood further away and soon saw the paw coming through the bars again this cat had noticed how the cage door was fastened and so knew how to open it many cats that are said to be spiteful are made so by ill treatment for as a rule i have found them to be most affectionate and gentle and that to the last degree attaching themselves to individuals although such is stated not to be the case yet of this i am certain having had several in my house at one time i found that no two were the followers of the same member of my family but it may be argued and i think with some degree of justice why was this was it only that each cat had a separate liking if so why why should not three or four cats take a liking to the same individual but they seldom or never do and for that matter there seems somewhat the same feeling with dogs this required some consideration but not that of long duration for i am sorry to say i rapidly came to the conclusion that it was jealousy yes jealousy there was no doubt of it zeno would be very cassidy loving lovable and gentle but when lulu came in and was nursed he retired to a corner and seized the first opportunity of vanishing through the door as soon as zilla jumped on my knee and put her paws about my neck lulu looked at me then at her then at me walked to the fire sat down looked round got up went to the door cried to go out the door was opened and she fled i thought that zilla seemed then more than ever happy though jealousy is one if not the ruling attributes of the cat there are exceptions to such a rule sometimes it may be that two or more will take to the same person as an instance of this i had two cats one a red tabby a great beauty lila a short-haired red and white cat the latter and a white long-haired one named the colonel were great friends and these associated with a tortoise shell in white lizzy none of these were absolutely house cats but attended more to the poultry yards and runs looking after the chicken seeing that no rats were about or other vermin near...

Hallowe'en at Merryvale by Alice Hale Burnett 4 Free Kids' Audiobooks Public Domain.
chapter 4 of halloween at maryvale by alice hale burnett this librivox recording is in the public domain recording by nan dodge the candy pull don't you think the candy's cold by this time whispered fat to toad let's find out suggested toad and the two boys walked over to the table where the pans had been placed to cool very gently placing his fingertips upon the candy fat exclaimed oh it's just right plenty cool enough to pull hey come on everybody shouted toad the candy's ready i'll get some butter offered chuck running off to the kitchen saying as he went wait until it comes it keeps the candy from sticking when he returned the boys all greased their fingers well with butter and set to work pulling the taffy let's see which one can make his the lightest suggested lin i used to be pretty good at this work when i was young he laughed well grandpa i'll beat you this time boasted toad won't somebody help me out of this whaled herbie holding up before him two very sticky hands he had been so anxious to commence pulling his taffy that he had not waited for the butter you're a sad looking sight laughed fat why didn't you wait to see how i did it he chuckled you'd better go and wash it all off suggested father and make a fresh start for there's plenty of taffy herbie took his advice ready what was that the teacher said in school the other day about too much candy being bad for little boys inquired chuck from his corner by the fireplace at which ready laughed come on he said let's see whose taffy's the lightest yes everyone hold out his piece proposed lin oh yours is admitted toad as he saw lin's cream-colored taffy looks like a lock of mary lee's hair observed herbie glancing at lin's piece you're always talking about her teased fat am not denied herbie stoutly his face turning red oh look at that dear little blush cried toad in great glee just dodging a sofa pillow aimed at his head by herbie hopi leaning back comfortably against the side of the fireplace heaved a sigh of contentment got a tummy ache asked ready nope just enjoying myself was the answer as he took another bite from his piece of taffy what do we do next inquired chalk turning to father brown i'm expecting a witch at nine o'clock to tell fortunes was the reply i hope she doesn't disappoint us a witch shrieked fat and a high thin voice making believed to be very much alarmed i hope she won't change me into a snake oh you'd make a better turtle you're so fond of walking slow laugh lin she'll turn herbie into a sleeping prince and mary lee will be the princess who kisses him and wakes him up said chuck teasingly at which all the boys roared with laughter as herbie started off after chuck a merry chase followed which the other boys enjoyed at times holding chuck until herbie was almost upon him and then letting him go only to catch herbie and hold him in turn suddenly in the midst of the uproar there came a sharp wrap on the door one two three hush whispered chuck it's the witch end of chapter four

Star Stories for Little Folks by Gertrude Chandler Warner 4 Taurus Audiobooks Cosmic Faction.
section 3 of star stories for little folks 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 debkay star stories for little folks by gertrude chandler warner taurus the bull you can see this during december the moon is so bright we can't see the stars well now dr laurie had telephoned and it seemed a long time to hell in before they stood once more looking up the bright capella now much higher up in the sky helen what color is capella as the doctor laurie white answered helen all the stars are white hem said the doctor are they though suppose you draw a line through capella and the three kids until it comes to that very bright star in the east what color is that why red said helen in astonishment red is correct said the doctor we have yellow ones green ones blue ones blue ones blueish we say smile here companion that red star is called aldebaran or the bull's eye because it forms the eye and the constellation of taurus the bull you see it is in that v-shaped figure that is the bull's face i don't think it looks much like a bull's face said helen after a moment neither do i agree the doctor all these names were made up about 3000 years ago you see perhaps if we were naming the constellations we might do it differently now just a little higher up do you see a tiny bunch of stars yes three four five tiny ones dr laurie was silent six seven crate helen after a moment bright eyes said the doctor ic72 they are called the pleiades or sometimes the seven sisters you'll find the pleiades mentioned in the bible now see if you can find where before i come again end of taurus the bull recording by debkay

Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson

treasure island by robert lewis stevenson this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org treasure island by robert lewis stevenson read by adrian pritzellis chapter 11 what i heard in the apple barrel no no i said silva flint was captain i was quite a master along with my timbren leg same side i lost my leg old pew lost his daylights it was a master surgeon him that amputated me out of college and all latin by the bucket and whatnot but he was hanged like a dog and sun droid like the rest at corso castle that was robert's man that was and [ __ ] of changing names to their ships royal fortune and so on now what a [ __ ] was christened so let her stay or always says so it was with the cassandra as brought us all safe home from malabar after england took the voice roy of the indies so it was with the old walrus old ship as i've seen a mutt with the red blood and fit to sink with gold ah cried another voice that of the youngest hand on board and evidently full of admiration he was the flower of the flock was flint davis was a man too by all accounts said silva i never sailed along a hymn first with england and with flint that's my story and now here are my own account in a manner of speaking i laid by 900 safe from england and 2 000 after flint they ain't bad for a man before the mast all safe and bank taint earning now it's saving does it you may later that where's all england's men now i don't know where's flint's why most of them are bored here and glad to get the duff been begging before that some of them old pures has lost his sight and might have thought shame spends 1200 pounds in a year like a lord in parliament where is he no well he's dead no and under hatches but for two years before that shivering my timbers the man was starving he begged and he stole and he cut throats and starved at that by the powers well it ain't much use after all said the young seaman take much use for fools you may lay do it that no nothing cried silver but now you look here you're young you are but you're smart as paint i see that when i set my eyes on you and i'll talk to you like a man you can imagine how i felt when i heard this abominable old rogue addressing another in the very same words of flattery he had used to myself i think if i had been able that i would have killed him through the barrel meantime he ran on little supposing he was overheard here it is about gentlemen of fortune they lives rough and they risk swinging but they eat and drink like fighting [ __ ] and when a cruise is done why it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of far things in their pockets now the most goes for rum and a good fling and the sea again in their shirts but that's not the car so i lay or he puts it all away some here some there and none too much anywhere is by reason of suspicion i'm 50 mark you once back from this cruise i set up gentlemen in earnest time enough too says you ah but i've lived easy in the meantime never deny myself and nothing the heart desires and slept soft and eight datey all my days but when at sea and how did i begin before the mast like you well said the other but all the other money's gone now ain't it you didn't show face in bristol after this why where might you suppose it was asked silva derisively bristol in banks and places answered his companion it were said the cook it were when we weighed anchor but my old misses as it all by now in the spy glasses sold leasts and goodwill and rigging and the old girls off to meet me i will tell you where mate for i trust you beard make jealousy among the mates and you can trust your misses asked the other gentlemen of fortune return the cook usually trust little among themselves and right they are you may lay to it but i have a way with me i have when a mate brings a slip...

The Book of Buried Treasure by Ralph Delahaye Paine 3 World Wide Hunt For Vanished Riches
chapter 3 of the book of buried treasure this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org the book of buried treasure by ralph delahay payne chapter 3 captain kidd is treasurer

your captain's brave and bold hear our cries hear a cries you captains brave and bold hear our cries your captain's brave and bold they just seem uncontrolled don't for the sake of gold lose your souls lose your souls don't for the sake of gold lose your souls from the old kid that

the negotiations between kid and the earl of bellamy were no more creditable to the royal governor than to the alleged pirate already the noble partners in england were bombarded with awkward questions concerning the luckless enterprise and bellamont anxious to clear himself and his friends was for getting hold of kid and putting him in boston jail at the earliest possible moment he dared not reveal the true status of affairs to kid by means of correspondence lest that worry bird escape him and he therefore tried to coax him near in a letter sent back in care of emmett that experienced legal advisor of pirates in distress this letter of bellamy was dated june 19 1699 and had this to say captain kidd mr emmett came to me last tuesday night late telling me he came from you oh shy of telling me where he parted with you nor did i press him to it he told me you came to oyster bay in nassau island and sent for him to new york he proposed to me from you that i would grant you a pardon i answered that i had never grant one yet and that i had set myself a safe rule not to grant a pardon to anybody whatsoever without the king's express leave or command he told me you declared and protested your innocence and that if your men could be persuaded to follow your example you would make no manner of scruple of coming to this port or any other within your majesty's dominions that you owned there were two ships taken but that your men did it violently against your will and has used you barrosly and imprisoning you and treating you ill most part of the voyage and often attempting to murder you mr emmett delivered me two french passes taken on a board two ships which your men rifled which passes i have in my custody and i am apt to believe it will be a good article to justify you if the peace were not by the tree between england and france to operate in that part of the world at the time the hostility was committed as i almost confident it was not to do mr hammond also told me that you had to about the value of ten thousand pounds in this loop with you and that you had left the ship somewhere off the coast of hispaniola in which there was to the value of thirty thousand pounds more which you had left in safe hands and it promised to go to your people and that ship within three months to fetch them with you to a safe harbor these are all material particulars i can recollect that pass between mr emma and me only this that you showed a great sense of honor and justice in professing with many aspirations your settled and serious design all along to do honor to your commission and never to do the least thing contrary to your duty and allegiance to the king and this i have to say in your defense that several persons in new york who i can bring to evidence it if there be occasion did tell me that by several advices from madagascar and that part of the world they were informed of your men revolting from you in one place which i am pretty sure they said was that madagascar and that others of them compelled you much against your will to take and rifle two ships i have advised with his majesty's council and showed them this letter this afternoon and they are of opinion that if your case be so clear as you or mr amit for you have said that you may safely come hither and be equipped and fitted out...