The Phantom Town Mystery by Grace May North 2 Teen Young Adult Novel Free Audiobook.
chapter 2 of the phantom town mystery this is a 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 2 the ghost town safely outside the wall of rocks the four young people drew their restless horses to a standstill mary's nettlesome brown pony was hard to quiet until jerry reached out a strong brown hand and patted its head mary lifted startled blue eyes jerry what do you make of that she asked we couldn't have imagined that gunshot and surely the horses heard it also jerry's smile was reassuring it was the story that frightened you girls i reckon he said glancing about and up and down the road as he spoke it's hunters out after quail or rabbits mourn like then seeing that mary still glanced anxiously back at the gate in the rock wall dick said sensibly of course you girls know that sven peterson couldn't be in that high house he must have been dead for years if he was old when jerry's father was a boy of course dora less inclined to be imaginative replied then to the cowboy she said in her practical matter-of-fact way hurry along home to your milking jerry and dick don't you bother to come with us now that you're working on the newcomb ranch you ought to be there it's only a few miles up over this sunshiny road to gleason we aren't the least bit afraid to ride home alone are we she smiled at her friend mary not wishing to appear foolishly timid said in as courageous a voice as she could muster of course we're not afraid goodbye boys we'll see you tomorrow turning the heads of their horses up a gently ascending mountain road the girls cantered away at a bend mary glanced back the boys were sitting just where they had left them jerry's sombrero and dick's cap waved then feeling assured that the girls were all right the boys went at a gallop down the road and across the desert valley to the newcomb ranch which nestled at the base of the chirokawa range they're nice boys aren't they mary said i've always wished i had a brother and i do believe jerry is going to be just like one allowed dora replied i have noticed that sometimes he calls you little sister to herself she thought oh mary how blind you are dreamily the younger girl was saying that's because we were playmates when we were little so very long ago oh my how ancient we are dora said teasingly please remember that you are only one year younger than i am and i refuse to be called elderly mary smiled faintly but it was evident that she was still thinking of the past when she had been a little girl with golden curls that hung to her waist a wonderfully pretty wistful little girl when she spoke she said it's only natural that jerry should call me little sister our mothers were like sisters when they were girl brides i've told you how they both came from the east just as we have my mother met dad in bisbee where he was a mining engineer and jerry's mother taught a little desert school over near the nuke home ranch she didn't teach long though for that very first vacation she married jerry's cowboy father after that mother and mrs newcombe were good friends naturally being brides and neighbors dora laughed 25 miles apart wouldn't be called close neighbors in sunnybrook on the hudson where i come from she said mary not heeding the interruption kept on when jerry and i were little we were playmates i spent days at the ranch sometimes her sweet face was very sad as she ended with until mother died when i was eight then you came east to boarding school and became like a sister to me dora said tenderly oh mary when you came west to be with your dear sick dad i wonder if you knew what it meant to me to be allowed to come with you i know what it means to me to have you dodo so i expect it means the same to you was the affectionate reply for a time the girls cantered...

The Phantom Town Mystery by Grace May North 1 Teen Young Adult Novel Free Audiobook.

chapter 1 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 1 lucky loon a whirl of gleaming sand and dust on a cross desert road in arizona the four galloping objects turned off the road horses rearing riders laughing the two eastern girls flushed excited the pale college student exultant the cowboy guide enjoying their pleasure a warm sage-scented wind carried the cloud of dust away from them down into the valley that was glorious sport wasn't it mary dora bellman's olive tinted face was glowing joyfully wouldn't our equestrian teacher back in sunnybank seminary be properly proud of us lovely mary moore delicately fashioned fair as her friend was dark nodded beamingly too out of breath for the moment to speak jerry newcombe in his picturesque cowboy garb blue handkerchief nodded about his neck looked admiringly at the smaller girl i reckon you two want a ride in the rodeo i never saw easterners get saddle broke on cow ponies as quick as you have then his gray eyes smiled at the other boy tall thin pale who was wiping dust from his shell-rimmed glasses dick farley i reckon you've ridden before dick flashed a radiant smile which made his rather plain face momentarily good looking some he said when i was a kid on granddad's farm just out of boston

jerry a little ahead was leading them slowly across soft shimmering sand toward a narrow entrance in cliff-like rocks dora protested mary ought to know how to ride a cow pony since she was born right here on the desert while i have always lived on the hudson river until two weeks ago even so mary retaliated brightly but as you know i left here when i was eight to go east to school and since i have never been back i haven't much advantage over you the cowboy turned in his saddle and there was a tender light in his eyes as he looked at the younger girl i'm sure glad something fetched you back mary though i'm mighty sorry it was your dad's illness that did it dora glancing at the pretty face of her best friend saw the frank friendly smile she gave the cowboy to herself she thought jerry certainly thinks mary is the sweetest thing he ever saw but she only thinks of him as a nice boy who once long ago was her childhood playmate they had reached the narrow entrance in the wall of rocks it was a mysterious looking spot a giant gateway leading the girls knew not wear on the gleaming sand near the entrance lay a half-buried skeleton it looked as though it might have been that of a man rather than a beast the girls exchanged startled glances but as jerry was riding unconcernedly through the gateway they silently followed what a dramatic sort of place dora exclaimed in an odd voice as she gazed about her they were on a floor of sand that was circled about by low mountains grim gray uninviting here and there in crevices a twisted dwarf tree clung its roots exposed there was a death-like silence in the place even the soft rush of wind over the desert outside could not be heard mary shuddered and rode closer to the cowboy jerry she said why have you brought us here is there something you want to show us the cowboy nodded you recollect that dora was saying how she wished there was a mystery she could solve he began when he was interrupted oh jerry dora's dark eyes glowed with anticipation is there really a mystery here in this awfully bleak place what where i don't see anything at all but those almost straight up and down cliffs and there was an exultant exclamation from dick farley perhaps his strong spectacles gave him clearer sight i see a house honest engine i do or something that looks powerfully like one he turned questioning eyes toward the cowboy right oh you're a clever old man jerry newcombe told him don't tell...

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Mystery of the Secret Band by Edith Lavell 3 The Job Young Adult Teen Mystery Book Reading

A Quiz by Toby Lerone No 2 Free Family Fun Entertainment Podcast Free Audiobooks Online.
hello everyone it's toby larone here again no no chocolate jokes please oh dear they've you know they've asked me to do another quiz can you believe it well i don't like to say no well you know i i i can't help it i just have to go along with it anyway i'm going to do a quiz i'm going to ask you 10 questions and i'm going to give you this time make it a bit of a change i'm going to give you some alternative answers four alternative answers so if you don't know the answer well you've got a one in four chance of being right mind you you've got a three and four chance of being wrong i think anyway let's let's crack on question one which of these green ass gases is the most abundant in the earth's atmosphere is it nitrous oxide carbon dioxide methane or water vapor question two the equator does not pass through which of the following countries is it brazil india somalia or uganda

question 3 king george iv had a a bit of a disastrous marriage to which princess is it catherine of braganza adelaide of saxa meningan caroline of brunswick or charlotte of mecklenburg strelitz what a mouthful anyway question four which poet wrote the collection leaves of grass was it robert frost sylvia plath ezra pound or walt whitman i wonder if he's related to um wally white no that's wally whiten no forget it nothing to do with walt whitman anyway question five the fourth fo rth a fourth railway bridge is an example of which type of bridge design is it swing suspension cantilever or pontoon question six the first crafts show was held in 1886 what was it then called was it the first great terrier show the canine show the first great lurcher show or crafts championship question seven the comedian and writer ronnie barker wrote comedy sketches under which name was it reginald mole husband gerald wiley maria brett cooper or james apple

question eight in square miles to the nearest thousand how big oh my goodness how big is great britain is it sixty thousand eighty thousand hundred thousand or a hundred and forty thousand oh dear oh dear question nine helen sharman the first briton in space was how old when she became an astronaut was she 21 27 35 or 42 and question 10 where in the body are the adrenal glands situated kidneys brain neck or liver all sounds pretty horrible doesn't it

right now let's have a look at the answers oh i gotta do all this again oh no anyway let's crack on question one which of these greenhouse gases is most abundant in the earth's atmosphere nitrous oxide carbon dioxide methane or water vapor it is come on water vapor question two the equator does not pass through which of the following countries brazil india somalia or uganda it's india question three king george iv had a disastrous marriage to which of these princesses was it catherine arrogan no wasn't no no no catherine of briganza adelaide of saxa menigan caroline of brunswick or charlotte of mecklenburg strelitz it was caroline of brunswick question four which poet wrote the collection leaves of grass robert frost sylvia plath ezra pound or walt whitman it was walt whitman not walt disney question five the fourth railway bridge is an example of which type of bridge design swing suspension cantilever pontoon and it is cantilever

question six the first crafts show was held in 1886 and what was it then called was it the first great terrier show the canine show the first great lurcher show or crafts championship well believe it or not it was called the first great terrier show question seven a comedian and writer ronnie barker wrote comedy sketches under which name was it reginald mole husband i like that name gerald wiley maria brett cooper or james apple it was gerald wiley question eight in square miles to the nearest thousand now biggest great britain 60 800 or 140 000 i mean really what do you do take a tape measure well it turns out...

The Boy Scouts on Swift River by Thornton W. Burgess 3 The Boy Scouts on Swift River by Thornton W. Burgess 3 Free Kids' Audiobooks Public Domain.
chapter 3 of the boy scouts on swift river by thornton w burgess this librivox recording is in the public domain chapter 3 choosing the outfit promptly the next morning hal appeared in the car ready for the trip downtown to the famous supply house for sportsmen voyagers prospectors and explorers walter was ready and they were soon on their way reaching their destination the car was dismissed to return in two hours and the boys entered the great outfitting house with just a little sense of awe for over the place hung the glamour of romance here expeditions for the ends of the earth had been vetted out and many a modern hero of adventures in far places had passed these portals neither had ever been there before and walter's little gasp of delight was echoed by hal as they entered the big showrooms filled with every conceivable device for use in outdoor life hal brought out woodhall's list which he had mislaid the day previous the first thing to be considered was the matter of tense lewis strongly advised two small ones rather than one large enough for four to sleep in comfortably pointing out that in a cruise of this nature in which camp was broken every day in the next camping ground was an unknown quantity it would be easier to find two small level bits of ground and one large enough for the bigger tent again it would be more work to pitch the larger tent and a pack and carry it he favored two tents made according to a plan of his own a modification of the shelter tent of the united states army this called for an a tent of waterproof yet light material seven and a half feet long by six feet wide and four feet high with closed back front flaps and a five inch sod cloth all the way around on the inside a rope ridge with a loop at either end for the two poles and continuing as the two guide ropes was provided for with stake loops at each corner and halfway along either side and with a loop midway in the lower ridge of the back the tent was complete lewis claimed for this tent that it could be set up with a minimum of trouble it was warm and afforded perfect shelter in any kind of weather by spreading rubber blankets so that they overlap the sod cloth on the inside all dampness could be shut out even in the rainiest weather best of all such a tent was comparatively inexpensive hal grinned as he read this aloud for to him the matter of expense was of no concern whatever walter noticed the grin and rightly interpreted its meaning look here hal before we go any further there is one thing i want to drive into that silly head of yours he began it is this matter of expense hold on now till i'm through as hal opened his mouth as if to speak i know just what you're going to say that the money question is no concern of mine or woodhulls because you're paying the bills now that's just where you've gone off on a blind trail your father has insisted on standing the expense of this trip which is mighty nice of him but dad and i didn't want it to be so and it wasn't until dad saw that mr harrison was going to feel really hurt unless he had his way the dad agreed to the plan don't you see that it puts all the rest of us under obligation to you the more you spend the greater the obligation do you get that fiddlesticks exclaimed how you make me tired forget it go over to the corner there and make a noise like a loon you're just about as crazy there isn't any obligation about it i'm running this and i'll spend what i please so long as dad doesn't kick you've got no kick coming but i have a great big kick and you've given me just the chance to land it that i've wanted cried walter triumphantly so you're running this are you and yet woodhall is supposed to be in command and the rest of us are supposed to have something to say the more you spend the less independence for the rest of us no one's...

Little Match Seller Traditional Stories Free Audiobooks Listen and Learn Free Online School.
the little match seller by hans christian anderson 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 frasier prescott the little match cellar it was terribly cold and nearly dark on the last evening of the old year and the snow was falling fast in the cold and the darkness a poor little girl with bare head and naked feet roamed through the streets it is true she had on a pair of slippers when she left home but they were not of much use they were very large so large indeed that they had belonged to her mother and the poor little creature had lost them in running across the street to avoid two carriages that were rolling along at a terrible rate one of the slippers she could not find and a boy seized upon the other and ran away with it saying that he could use it as a cradle when he had children of his own so the little girl went on with her little naked feet which were quite red and blue with the cold in an old apron she carried a number of matches and had a bundle of them in her hands no one had bought anything of her the whole day nor had anyone given her even a penny shivering with cold and hunger she crept along poor little child she looked the picture of misery the snowflakes fell on her long fair hair which hung in curls on her shoulders but she regarded them not lights were shining from every window and there was a savory smell of rose goose for it was new year's eve yes she remembered that in a corner between two houses one of which projected beyond the other she sank down and huddled herself together she had drawn her little feet under her but she could not keep off the cold and she dared not go home for she had sold no matches and could not take home even a penny of money her father would certainly beat her besides it was almost as cold at home as here for they had only the roof to cover them through which the wind howled although the largest holes had been stopped up with straw and rags her little hands were almost frozen with the cold ah perhaps a burning match might be some good if she could draw it from the bundle and strike it against the wall just to warm her fingers she drew one out scratch how it sputtered as it burnt it gave a warm bright light like a little candle as she held her hand over it it was a really wonderful light it seemed to the little girl that she was sitting by a large iron stove with polished brass feet and a brass ornament how the fire burned and seemed so beautifully warm that the child stretched out her feet as if to warm them when low the flame of the match went out the stove vanished and she had only the remains of the half-burnt match in her hand she rubbed another match on the wall it burst into a flame and where its light fell upon the wall it became as transparent as a veil and she could see into the room the table was covered with a snowy white tablecloth on which stood a splendid dinner service and a steaming roast goose stuffed with apples and dried plums and what was still more wonderful the goose jumped down from the dish and waddled across the floor with a knife and fork in its breast to the little girl then the match went out and there remained nothing but the thick damp cold wall before her she lighted another match and then she found herself sitting under a beautiful christmas tree it was larger and more beautifully decorated than the one which she had seen through the glass door at the rich merchants thousands of tapers were burning upon the green branches and colored pictures like those she had seen in the show windows looked down upon it all the little ones stretched out her hand towards them and the match went out the christmas lights rose higher and higher till they looked to her like the stars in the sky then she saw a star fall leaving behind it a bright streak of...

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The Baby's Opera by Walter Crane Mulberry Bush Presented by Librivox Music School Lesson

The Baby's Opera
by Walter Crane

Publication date 2021-03-17
Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0Creative Commons Licensepublicdomain
Topics librivox, audiobooks, nursery rhymes, music, songs, children's songs
LibriVox recording of The Baby's Opera by Walter Crane.
Read in English by Jenn Broda.

song number one of the babies opera 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 jen broda the baby's opera by walter crane girls and boys

girls and boys come out to play the moon to shine as brightest day leave your supper and leave your sleep come to your play fellows in the street come with a whoop and come with a call come with a good will or not at all up the ladder and down the wall a penny loaf will serve you all

end of song number one recording by jen brodar