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Star Stories for Little Folks by Gertrude Chandler Warner 2 Auriga Free Audiobooks Cosmic.
section two of stars 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 deb k star stories for little folks by gertrude chandler warner auriga the wagoner look for auriga during the middle of november do come in just a minute dr laurie and see what i've made begged helen the second night the doctor came to tell her about the stars dr laurie put on his eyeglasses and sat down near the library lamp to look at the small blue book helen handed to him it was made of six squares of black paper pasted on larger white cards on the first square helen had drawn the dippers in white ink and underneath the card she had written all she had learned about them on the blue cover in large white letters was printed my star book that's a fine idea exclaimed the doctor i wish every little girl in the united states had one tonight we'll learn a group of stars that will be harder to draw it is called auriga or the wagoner we'll go to the same place to see it and face north when they found the big dipper dr laurie said now instead of using the two real pointers to find auriga just imagine that the two top stars of the bowl are pointing east or to the right you see they point out a very very bright star the only bright one anywhere near yes answer helen brighter than even the dipper yes a star of the first magnitude we say meaning brightness now see what we are to look for this time the flashlight showed a large figure made of five stars one of which was a very bright star when the light was turned away helen looked up into the darkness and saw the exact copy of the little drawing smiling down upon her only so very large and grand the bright star is named capella the goat playing near her are the three little kids helen skipped with pleasure when she found them this is a prettier group than the dipper a prettier constellation we say said the doctor smiling and leading the way back to the house end of auriga the wagoner recording by debkay

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Free Children's Books 9-10 Free Famous Family Audiobook.
treasure island by robert louis 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 pretzels chapter 9 powder and arms the hispaniola lay some way out and we went under the figureheads and around the sterns of many other ships and their cables sometimes grated beneath our keel and sometimes swung above us at last however we swung alongside and were met and saluted as we stepped aboard by the mate mr arrow a brown old sailor with earrings in his ears and a squint he and the squire were very thick and friendly but i soon observed that things were not the same between mr trelawny and the captain this last was a sharp looking man who seemed angry with everything on board and was soon to tell us why for we had hardly got down into the cabin when a sailor followed us captain smallitz sir asking to speak with you said he i'm always at the captain's orders show him in said the squire the captain who was close behind his messenger entered at once and shut the door behind him well captain smallit what have you to say all well i hope all shipshape and seaworthy well sir said the captain better speak plain i believe at the risk of a fence i don't like this cruise i don't like the men and i don't like my officer that's short and sweet perhaps so you don't like the ship inquired the squire very angry as i could see i can't speak to that sir not having seen her tried said the captain she seems a clever craft more i can't say possibly sir you may not like your employer either said the squire but here dr liv see cut in stay a bit said he stay a bit no use of such questions as that but to produce ill feeling the captain has said too much or he has said too little and i'm bound to say that i require an explanation of his words you don't you say like this cruise now why i was engaged sir on what we call sealed orders to sail this ship for that gentleman where he should bid me said the captain so far so good but now i find that every man before the mast knows more than i do i don't call that fair now do you now said dr libsy i don't next said the captain i learn that we are going after treasure hear it from my own hands mind you now treasure is ticklish work i don't like treasure voyages on any account and i don't like them above all when they are secret and when begging your pardon mr trelawny the secret has been told to the parrot silva's parrot ask the squire it's a way of speaking said the captain blabbed i mean it's my belief neither of you gentlemen know what you are about but i'll tell you my way of it life or death and a close run that is all clear and i dare say true enough replied dr libsy we take the risk but we are not so ignorant as you believe us next you say you don't like the crew are they not good semen i don't like them sir returned captain smalling and i think i should have had the choosing of my own hands if you go to that perhaps you should reply the doctor my friend should perhaps have taken you along with him but the slight if there be one was unintentional and you don't like mr arrow i don't sir i believe he's a good sea man but he's too free with the crew to be a good officer a mate should keep himself to himself shouldn't drink with the men before the mast do you mean he drinks cried the squire no sir replied the captain only that he's too familiar well now and the shorts of the long of it captain asked the doctor tell us what you want well gentlemen are you determined to go on this cruise like iron answered the squire very good said the captain then as you've heard me very patiently saying things that i could not prove hear me a few words more they are putting the powder and arms in the forehold now you have a good place under the cabin why not put them there...

The Book of Buried Treasure by Ralph Delahaye Paine 2 World Wide Hunt For Vanished Riches.
chapter 2 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 2 captain kid in fact in fiction

doomed to an infamy undeserved his name reddened with crimes he never committed and made wildly romantic by tales of treasure which he did not bury captain william kidd is fairly entitled to the sympathy of posterity and the apologies of all the ballad makers and alleged historians who have obscured the facts in a cloud of fable for two centuries this grizzly phantom has stalked through the legends and literature the black flag as the king of pirates and the most industrious depositor of ill-gotten golden jewels that ever willed at pick and shovel his reputation is simply prodigious his name is frightened children wherever english is spoken and the kid tradition or myth is still potent to send treasure seekers exploring and excavating almost every beach cove and headland between nova scotia and the gulf of mexico fate has played the strangest tricks imaginable with the memory of this 17th century seafarer who never cut a throat or made a victim walk the plank who was no more than a third or fourth rate pirate in an era when this interesting profession was in its heyday and who was hanged at execution dock with the excessively unromantic crime of cracking the skull of his gunner with a wooden bucket as for the riches of captain kidd the original documents in this case preserved among the state papers of the public record office in london relate with much detail what booty he had and what he did with it alas they reveal the futility of the searches after the stout seat chest buried above high watermark the only authentic kid treasure was dug up and inventoried more than 200 years ago nor has the slightest clue to any other been found since then these curious documents faded and sometimes tattered invite the reader to thresh out his own conclusions as to how great a scoundrel kid really was and how far he was a scapegoat who had to be hanged to clear the fair names of those noble lords in high places or partners and promoters of that most unlucky sea venture which kid sent out to catch pirates was said to have turned amateur pirate himself rather than sail home empty-handed certainly it is that these words of the immortal ballot are cruelly grotesquely unjust i made a solemn vow when i sailed when i sailed i made a salom vow when i sailed i made a solemn vow to god i would not bow lord myself a prayer allow as i sailed i had a bible in my hand when i sailed when i sailed i had a bible in my hand when i sailed i had a bible in my hand by my father's great command and i sunk it in the sand when i sailed in english fiction there are three treasure stories of surpassing merit for ingenious contrivance and convincing illusion these are stevenson's treasure island pose goldbug and washington irving's wilford weber differing widely in plot and literary treatment each peculiar to the genus of its author their blood kin sprung from a common ancestor namely the kid legend by this half-hearted pirate was neither red-handed nor of heroic dimensions even in his badness should have inspired more romantic fiction than any other character in american history his past all explaining strangely enough no more than a generation or two after kids sorry remnants were swinging in chains for the birds big hat they began to cluster around his memory the folklore and superstitions colored by the supernatural which had been long current in many lands in respect to buried treasure it was a kind of diabolism which still survives in many a corner of the atlantic coast where tales of kate are told irving took these legends as he heard them from the long-winded ancients of his own...

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson 5 Free Audiobook Kids Famous Stories Teens Adventure
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Puss in Boots, Jr., and the Good Gray Horse by David Cory 4 Magic Wings Kids' Audiobook.
chapter 4 of puss in boots junior and the good grey horse this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org puss in boots jr and the good grey horse by david corey the robber fairies cock's crow in the morn to tell us to rise and he who lies late will never be wise for early to bed and early to rise is the way to be healthy and wealthy and wise well i haven't been to bed at all said puss i was held up in the forest what exclaimed the innkeeper i had no idea there were robbers about there were no robbers my good host said puss you would hardly believe me if i were to relate what actually happened tell me said the innkeeper while i fried the bacon so puss explained how the fairies had made him captive although he feared that the good man would doubt the truth of the story but instead the innkeeper said tis not the first time my good sir cat that i have heard of travellers being held up in yonder woods by the fairies indeed they take a mischievous pleasure in waylaying us mortals after sundown indeed said puss hereafter i shall take great pains to avoid the forest after dark i had a narrow escape well pretty soon the innkeeper placed the food upon the table and he and puss sat down to eat but oh dear me they had hardly commenced when they heard a great commotion in the barnyard puss rushed to the door just in time to see his good grey horse scallop out of the stable yard with more than 100 fairies on his back who drove sharp little thorns into his sides and blew tiny horns in his ears whoa screamed puss rushing out of doors the good grey horse terrified by the cries of the fairies as well as excited by the stings and blows paid no attention to the voice of his small master but dashed out upon the highway and in a few minutes disappeared down the hill what shall i do cried puss in dismay

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Jātaka Tales by H. T. Francis; E. J. Thomas 5 International Stories for Children Free Audiobook.
section 5 of jataka tales by h.t francis and ej thomas this librivox recording is in the public domain the haughty slave once on a time when brahmadata was reigning in banaras the bodhisattva came to life again as a landowner another landowner a friend of his was an old man himself but had a young wife who had borne him a son and heir said the old man to himself as soon as i am dead this girl being so young as she is will marry heaven knows whom and spend all my money instead of handing it over to my son wouldn't it be my best course to bury the money safely in the ground so in the company of a household slave of his named nanda he went to the forest and buried his riches at a certain spot saying to the slave my good nanda reveal this treasure to my son after i am gone and don't let the wood be sold after giving this injunction to his slave the old man died in due course the son grew up and his mother said to him my son your father in the company of nanda buried his money get it back and look after the property of the family so one day he said to nanda uncle is there any treasure which my father buried yes my lord where is it buried in the forest my lord well then let us go there and he took a spade in a basket and going to the scene said to nanda well uncle where's the money but by the time nanda had got up to the treasure and was standing right over it he was so puffed up by the money that he abused his master saying you servant of a slave wench's son how should you have any money here the young gentleman pretending not to have heard this insolence simply said let us be going then and took the slave back home with him two or three days later he returned to the place but again nanda abused him as before without any abusive rejoinder the young gentleman came back and turned the matter over in his mind thought he to himself at starting this slave always means to reveal where the money is but no sooner does he get there then he falls to abusing me the reason of this i do not see but i could find out if i were to ask my father's old friend the landowner so he went to the bodhisattva and laying the whole business before him asked his friend what was the real reason of such behavior said the bodhisattva the spot at which nanda stands to abuse you my friend is the place where your father's money is buried therefore as soon as he starts abusing you again say to him whom are you talking to you slave pull him from his perch take the spade dig down remove your family treasure and make the slave carry it home for you and so saying he repeated this stanza methinks the golden jewels buried lie where nanda lowborn slave so loudly balls taking a respectful leave of the bodhisatta the young gentleman went home and taking nanda went to the spot where the money was buried faithfully following the advice he had received he brought the money away and looked after the family property he remained steadfast in bodhisatte's councils and after a life spent in charity and other good works he passed away to fare according to his desserts the pigeon and the crow once on a time when brahmadata was raining in benares the bodhisattva was born a pigeon now the banaras folk of those days as an act of goodness used to hang up straw baskets in divers places for the shelter and comfort of the birds and the cook of the guild master of benares hung up one of these baskets in his kitchen in this basket the bodhisatta took up his abode sallying out at daybreak in quest of food and returning home in the evening and so he lived his life but one day a crow flying over the kitchen snuffed up the goodly savor from the salt and fresh fish and meat there and was filled with longing to taste it casting about how to have his will he perched hard by and that evening saw the bodhisattva come home and go into the kitchen ah thoughty i can manage it through the pigeon so...

The Mystery of the Secret Band 3 Free Audiobooks for Children Teens And Young-Adults.
chapter 3 of mystery of the secret band by edith lavelle this librivox recording is in the public domain the book club mary louise was a little off struck as she sat down alone in her new bedroom the first time she had ever been away from home by herself without any friends alone in a big city working on a job it seemed to her that she had suddenly grown up she couldn't be the same carefree high school girl who had gone coasting only yesterday afternoon with her friends a momentary sensation of depression took hold of her as she thought of jane and the boys and the informal party she was missing that evening it would be wonderful if jane could be with her now sharing her experiences as she always had helping her to solve this mystery but such a thing was impossible of course jane wouldn't want to give up the christmas deity at riverside and besides this was a real job you couldn't bring your friends along on a real job as if it were only play then she thought of that other riverside girl alone in this big city margaret detweiler the girl who had so mysteriously disappeared what could have happened to her suppose something like that should happen to mary louise i'm positively getting morbid she thought jumping up from the chair on which she was seated and beginning to unpack her things i'd better get dressed and go down and meet some of the young people i'll never accomplish anything by mooning about like this she unpacked her suitcase and hung her clothing in the closet what a neat little room it was with its pretty maple furniture and white ruffled curtains so different from the common ugly boarding house bedroom she was lucky to have such a nice place to live in and mrs hillard was certainly a dear she found the shower bath down the hall and feeling refreshed slipped into a new wine red crepe which her mother had bought her especially for the holidays it was very becoming and her eyes sparkled as she ran down the steps to the first floor no use bothering with elevators when she had only one flight to go mrs hillard was at the desk talking to the secretary who was putting on her hat and coat oh mary louise she said i want you to come here and register and meet miss horton this is miss gay she explained a young friend of mine she is visiting me for the holidays and i forgot to have her register when she came in but as she is using room 206 and not my apartment i think she had better register mary louise nodded approvingly and wrote her name in the book you have never come across a girl named margaret detwiler have you missed fortune she asked i want to find her if i can while i'm in philadelphia the secretary shook her head no i don't think so you might look through the book though i can't remember all the transients who have stopped here at stoddard house naturally agreed mary louise and she turned the pages eagerly but of course she did not find the name coincidences like that don't often happen and besides she reasoned if she did find it it wouldn't do her much good that wouldn't tell her where margaret was now coming to the music room with me said mrs hillard i see one of our newest arrivals here a young girl who came only last week she can't be more than 19 or 20 i think you'd like each other the girl an attractive brunette with a gay manner and a little too much lipstick was standing beside the radio turning the dials she looked up as mrs hillard and mary louise entered the room miss brooks i want you to meet a friend of mine miss gay said mrs hillard perhaps i'd better say pauline and mary louise because i know you young people don't bother with last names the girls smiled at each other and the manager went towards the door would you be good enough to take care of mary louise introduce her to any of the other girls who come in miss brooks i have to go back to the desk for the secretary has gone home certainly agreed pauline...

The Mystery of the Fires by Edith Lavell 3 The Burnt Bungalow Free Teens Mystery Novels.
chapter 3 of the mystery of the fires by edith lavelle this librivox recording is in the public domain the ditmars freckles exclaimed mary louise as she entered the kitchenette of the bungalow the following morning where are you going the boy grinned mysteriously can't tell you that says he replied it's a secret but i wanted to talk to you and it's only a little after eight o'clock i know but i'm a busy guy important affairs with whom freckles hesitated then he decided to tell part of a secret the fellows up here have a secret band it's called the wild guys of the road i was initiated last night mary louise burst out laughing she couldn't help it the wild guys of the road she repeated regular hold up men well not exactly replied her brother but we've got some exciting adventures on who is the leader robbie smith he's got some swell ideas mary louise's eyes narrowed does burning people's houses come into his plan gosh no we're not really bad sis we wouldn't do anything like that do you make fires at all sure we make fires we've got to cook our camp meals haven't we and have our ceremonies i see she was thinking and sometimes those fires spread farther than you want them to no course not now don't you go blaming us guys for hunter's bungalow burning down i'm not blaming you freckles you weren't even here but i'm not so sure about those smith boys they are pretty wild once they get started remember the time they locked that little boy in the boathouse and almost left him there all night gee whiz sis they wouldn't have left him there they just wanted to scare him i'm not so sure they're spoiled kids i wish you wouldn't play with them now sis don't be silly everybody's in the gang together i've got to play with the smith boys or i'll stay home by myself with a yell of goodbye for his mother the boy was off mary louise and jane sat down to their breakfast mrs gay who had eaten hers with freckles came in to talk to them what have you on the program for today she inquired oh the usual things answered her daughter tennis with a bunch this morning and i suppose everybody will go in swimming about 11 o'clock david is coming over to talk about fixing up our canoe for the contest tomorrow night jane coughed nervously i uh sort of promised cliff i'd go in his motorboat mary lou she said would that be all right sure it's all right i greet her chum it'll be even better because the less weight we have in our canoe the more decoration we can put on and there's a prize for each type of boat you know then i shan't be competing against you if i go in cliff's launch oh no we are in separate classes after the girls had finished washing the dishes for mrs gay they started off for a little walk with silky at their heels why not stop for the read girls suggested jane mentioning the twins who lived in the cottage on the far side of the gays i'm crazy to meet them you'll meet them when we go swimming later on replied mary louise but just now i want to go in the other direction to call on the dipmars the dipmars for the moment jane had forgotten who these people were for she had heard so many new names the night before yes don't you remember the young architect that cliff told us about the man mrs hunter thinks set her bungalow on fire oh yes of course in other words a suspect that's right agreed mary louise but how can we call on him if we don't know him ask jane we'll find a way oh sure we will tease jane trust the girl detective for that shh please don't call me that in front of anybody jane if people think i'm snooping they'll shut up like clams and won't tell me anything although there were only eight cottages at shady nook the distance from the reeds on one end to the ditmars on the other was over a mile cliff's father mr hunter who had planned the little resort knew that even a small friendly community like this people still liked privacy so he had...

The Mystery at Dark Cedars by Edith Lavell 3 The House of Mystery Free Public Domain Audiobooks.
chapter 3 of the mystery at dark cedars by edith lavelle this librivox recording is in the public domain suspects let's sit down again while you tell me every single thing that happened here yesterday suggested mary louise elsie took off the white coat and folded it carefully then she removed her hat but i can't sit down in this silk dress she objected and i don't want to take it off till i see myself in a mirror i might not have another chance to put it on all day long you can sit on the paper advise jane that will protect it besides the ground is dry and these needles are recovering very cautiously elsie seeded herself and turned to mary louise who had dropped down beside her on the ground begin when you got up in the morning she said that was about seven o'clock replied elsie but really that doesn't matter because i'm sure aunt maddy counted her money after you girls brought the kitten back i heard her and she stayed in her room until after lunch does this safe have a combination lock inquired mary louise no it doesn't just a key john grant suggested to aunt maddie that she have one put on and she refused she said people can guess at combinations of figures by twisting the handle around but if she kept the key with her day and night nobody could open the safe but she got fooled the lock was broken yes but the door of the safe was closed so she hadn't noticed it until she went to count her money this morning do you know how much was taken no i don't plenty i guess only there was one queer thing about it the thief didn't take the bonds she kept in a special drawer overlook them probably remarked louise maybe i don't know well as i said aunt maddie was in her room until lunchtime and then she went out on the front porch about two o'clock in the afternoon aunt grace and her son john drove over john grant repeated mary louise consulting the list in her notebook he's your aunt grace's oldest son yes he's about 40 as i said fat and a little bald an old bachelor probably you'd recognize him if you saw him because he's on the school board aunt matty likes him because he does little repair jobs for her around the house that save her spending money for a carpenter yesterday he went upstairs and fixed a window sash in her bedroom elsie paused thoughtfully so you see john had a good chance to open the safe and steal the money why he's the guilty one of course cried jane instantly it's just too plain i should think your aunt would see that elsie shook her head no it would never occur to maddie to accuse john he's the one person in the family she trusts she always says she's leaving him all her money in her will so why would he bother to steal it he might need it now for some particular purpose replied jane he is handy with tools you say and had such a good opportunity we better get on with the story urged mary louise any minute elsie may be called in the girl shuddered as if she dreaded the ordeal of meeting her aunt again was your aunt grace in the bedroom at all during the afternoon question mary louise by herself i mean i don't know she and aunt maddie went up together to look at the window after jon finished fixing it but whether or not aunt grace was there alone i couldn't say anyhow there's no use worrying about that aunt grace just couldn't steal anything according to the detective stories put in jane it's the person who just couldn't commit the crime who always is the guilty one the one you suspect least but this isn't a story said elsie i wish it were if you knew how dreadful it is for me living here and having everybody think i'm a thief why don't you run away now that you have some decent clothes suggested jane i just wouldn't stand for anything like that but i have nowhere to go besides running away would make me look guiltier than ever elsie's right approved mary louise she can't run away now but will prove she's...

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 3 The Antechamber Free Adventure Teen Book.
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this recording is by mark smith of simpsonville south carolina the three musketeers by alexander dumas chapter three the audience messi treville was at the moment in rather ill humor nevertheless he saluted the young man politely who bowed to the very ground and he smiled on receiving d'artagnan's response the baroness accent of which recalled to him at the same time his youth and his country a double remembrance which makes a man smile at all ages but stepping towards the anterior chamber and making a sign to d'artagnan with his hand as if to ask his permission to finish with others before he began with him he called three times with a louder voice at each time so that he ran through the intervening tones between the imperative accent and the angry accent arthos portholes

the two musketeers with whom we have already made acquaintance and who answered to the last of these three names immediately quitted the group of which they had formed apart and advanced toward the cabinet the door of which closed after them as soon as they had entered their appearance though it was not quite at ease excited by its carelessness at once full of dignity and submission the admiration of d'artagnan who beheld in these two men demigods and in their leader an olympian jupiter armed with all his thunders when the two musketeers had entered when the door was closed behind them when the buzzing murmur of the antechamber to which the summons which had been made had doubtless furnished fresh food had recommenced when messier treville had three or four times paced in silence and with a frowning brow the whole length of his cabinet passing each time before porthos and aramis who was upright and silent as if on parade he stopped all at once full in front of them and covering them from head to foot with an angry look do you know what the king said to me cried he and that no longer ago then yesterday evening do you know gentlemen no replied the two musketeers after a moment's silence no sir we do not but i hope that you will do us the honor to tell us adidaramus and his politest tone and with his most graceful bow he told me that he should henceforth recruit his musketeers from among the guards of monsieur cardinal the guards of the cardinal and why so ask porthos warmly because he plainly perceives that as piquette stands in need of being enlivened by a mixture of good wine a piquette is a watered liquor made from the second pressing of the grape the two musketeers reddened to the whites of their eyes dartanya did not know where he was and wished himself a hundred feet underground yes yes continued masseur de chaveed growing warmer as he spoke and his majesty was right for upon my honor it is true that the musketeers make but a miserable figure at court the cardinal related yesterday while playing with the king with an air of condolence very displeasing to me that the day before yesterday those damned musketeers those daredevils he dwelt upon those words with an ironical tone still more displeasing to me those braggarts added he glancing at me with his tiger cat's eye had made a riot in the roof aru in a cabaret and that a party of his guards i thought he was going to laugh in my face had been forced to arrest the rioters you must know something about it arrest musketeers you were among them you were don't deny it you were recognized and the cardinal named you but it's all my fault yes it's all my fault because it is myself who selects my men you aramis why the devil did you ask me for a uniform when you would have been so much better in a cassock and you porthos do you only wear such a fine golden baldrick to suspend the sword of straw from it and athos i don't see athos where is he ill very ill say you...