Teddy's Button by Amy Le Feuvre (5) First Victories Free Kid's Audiobooks Children's Library
chapter 5 of teddy's button by amy lee fuvery this library fox recording is in the public domain recording by gabrielle c chapter 5 first victories please sir may i speak to you mr upton was coming out of church after a choir practice when teddy accosted him he smiled when he saw the boy you may walk home with me and speak to me as much as you like and so they sauntered at the shady lane the old vector with his head bent and his hands crossed behind him and the boy all eager excitement in motion with suppressed importance in his tone i want you to give me a name for my enemy please sir mr upton looked amused have you had any battles with him yet i think i had one yesterday may i tell you granny was very angry with me because i made uncle king's best handkerchief into a banner of love i didn't really think it was naughty i wrote love and ink right across it and i took such pains for i wanted to show it to nancy and when i got home granny was so angry that she took me by the collar and she locked me into the back kitchen and mother was out and i cried i was so miserable granny said i would come to the workhouse she called me the wickedest mischievous boy he'd ever seen and she said she would like to give me a good whipping not less i got tired of being miserable and i like to bow and i saw the window as partly open so i climbed up and then i thought i would jump out and run away across the field till my mother came home and i was very happy then and i jumped right out and then i remembered but i didn't want to go back again and then the fight began suggested director as the boy pause teddy nodded i asked god to drive my enemy away but i was an awful long time thinking it out is thinking fighting very often it is i did fight hard then and i climbed in again was that being a soldier yes my boy and granny let me out soon after and i kissed her and said i was sorry but i told her how nearly i had run away and asked her to see that the window was locked next time so that i shouldn't have to fight so hard you'll have plenty of fighting don't jerk the hardest part of the field that isn't being brave will you give me a hurried ugly name please sir i thought your enemy was named with teddy no that's mine i must have a name for him a different one you know how do you like ego or ipsy what funny names i think i like itsy best i'll call him ipsy shall i but mr upton's thoughts were far away by this time and presently he said as if to himself the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death nay in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us it is a fight with certain victory ahead then why do we fail shall i fail question the soft force by aside without me you can do nothing that is our captain's word if you fight without him you are done for i think i shall sometimes let epsie have his way will that be deserting to the enemy it will be sure in a certain defeat but then of course my captain won't let me be beaten if i stay close to him and so they talked a strange couple but the younger of them had a faith which the elder might envy and it grasped by the unseen that the ripest sink could not surpass not long after this teddy and his school fellows were having a delightful afternoon in the woods it was saturday afternoon and they were playing their favorite war game teddy of course being prime instigator of the whole affair a few the more adventurous girls had joined them nancy amongst them her respect for teddy was gradually increasing though nothing seemed to quench her self-assertion independence of thought and action at length teddy announced his intention going off on an expedition at the scout and now nancy's insisting that he should come too till children started make their way out of the wood and down to the banks of the street which soon joined the river

what have we to do asked nancy it's great...

Teddy's Button by Amy Le Feuvre (5) First Victories Free Kid's Audiobooks Children's Library
chapter 5 of teddy's button by amy lee fuvery this library fox recording is in the public domain recording by gabrielle c chapter 5 first victories please sir may i speak to you mr upton was coming out of church after a choir practice when teddy accosted him he smiled when he saw the boy you may walk home with me and speak to me as much as you like and so they sauntered at the shady lane the old vector with his head bent and his hands crossed behind him and the boy all eager excitement in motion with suppressed importance in his tone i want you to give me a name for my enemy please sir mr upton looked amused have you had any battles with him yet i think i had one yesterday may i tell you granny was very angry with me because i made uncle king's best handkerchief into a banner of love i didn't really think it was naughty i wrote love and ink right across it and i took such pains for i wanted to show it to nancy and when i got home granny was so angry that she took me by the collar and she locked me into the back kitchen and mother was out and i cried i was so miserable granny said i would come to the workhouse she called me the wickedest mischievous boy he'd ever seen and she said she would like to give me a good whipping not less i got tired of being miserable and i like to bow and i saw the window as partly open so i climbed up and then i thought i would jump out and run away across the field till my mother came home and i was very happy then and i jumped right out and then i remembered but i didn't want to go back again and then the fight began suggested director as the boy pause teddy nodded i asked god to drive my enemy away but i was an awful long time thinking it out is thinking fighting very often it is i did fight hard then and i climbed in again was that being a soldier yes my boy and granny let me out soon after and i kissed her and said i was sorry but i told her how nearly i had run away and asked her to see that the window was locked next time so that i shouldn't have to fight so hard you'll have plenty of fighting don't jerk the hardest part of the field that isn't being brave will you give me a hurried ugly name please sir i thought your enemy was named with teddy no that's mine i must have a name for him a different one you know how do you like ego or ipsy what funny names i think i like itsy best i'll call him ipsy shall i but mr upton's thoughts were far away by this time and presently he said as if to himself the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death nay in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us it is a fight with certain victory ahead then why do we fail shall i fail question the soft force by aside without me you can do nothing that is our captain's word if you fight without him you are done for i think i shall sometimes let epsie have his way will that be deserting to the enemy it will be sure in a certain defeat but then of course my captain won't let me be beaten if i stay close to him and so they talked a strange couple but the younger of them had a faith which the elder might envy and it grasped by the unseen that the ripest sink could not surpass not long after this teddy and his school fellows were having a delightful afternoon in the woods it was saturday afternoon and they were playing their favorite war game teddy of course being prime instigator of the whole affair a few the more adventurous girls had joined them nancy amongst them her respect for teddy was gradually increasing though nothing seemed to quench her self-assertion independence of thought and action at length teddy announced his intention going off on an expedition at the scout and now nancy's insisting that he should come too till children started make their way out of the wood and down to the banks of the street which soon joined the river

what have we to do asked nancy it's great...

Creepy Tales Gothic Horror Tale Teller Book Club Facts of Case M Valdemar Edgar Allen Poe.
chapter 2 of creepy tales by edgar allan poe 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 pamela krantz

creepy tales by edgar allan poe the facts in the case of m voldemort of course i shall not pretend to consider it any matter for wonder that the extraordinary case of mr voldemor has excited discussion it would have been a miracle had it not especially under the circumstances through the desire of all parties concerned to keep the affair from the public at least for the present or until we had farther opportunities for investigation through our endeavors to affect this a garbled or exaggerated account made its way into society and became the source of many unpleasant misrepresentations and very naturally of a great deal of disbelief it is now rendered necessary that i give the facts as far as i comprehend them myself they are succinctly these my attention for the last three years had been repeatedly drawn to the subject of mesmerism and about nine months ago it occurred to me quite suddenly that in the series of experiments made hitherto there had been a very remarkable and most unaccountable omission no person had as yet been mesmerized in articulomortis it remained to be seen first whether in such condition there existed in the patient any susceptibility to the magnetic influence secondly whether if any existed it was impaired or increased by the condition thirdly to what extent or for how long a period the encroachments of death might be arrested by the process there were other points to be ascertained but these most excited my curiosity the last in a special from the immensely important character of its consequences

in looking around me for some subject by whose means i might test these particulars i was brought to think of my friend mr ernest valdemar the well-known compiler of the bibliotheka forensica and author under the nom de plume of issachar marx of the polish versions of volenstein and gargantua mr valdemar who has resided principally at harlem new york since the year 1839 is or was particularly noticeable for the extreme spareness of his person his lower limbs much resembling those of john randolph and also for the whiteness of his whiskers in violent contrast to the blackness of his hair the latter in consequence being very generally mistaken for a wig his temperament was markedly nervous and rendered him a good subject for mesmeric experiment on two or three occasions i had put him to sleep with little difficulty but was disappointed in other results which his peculiar constitution had naturally led me to anticipate his will was at no period positively or thoroughly under my control and in regard to clairvoyance i could accomplish with him nothing to be relied upon i always attributed my failure at these points to the disordered state of his health for some months previous to my becoming acquainted with him his physicians had declared him in a confirmed thisis it was his custom indeed to speak calmly of his approaching dissolution as a matter neither to be avoided nor regretted when the ideas to which i have eluded first occurred to me it was of course very natural that i should think of mr voldemor i knew the steady philosophy of the man too well to apprehend any scruples from him and he had no relatives in america who would be likely to interfere i spoke to him frankly upon the subject and to my surprise his interest seemed vividly excited i say to my surprise for although he had always yielded his person freely to my experiments he had never before given me any tokens of sympathy with what i did his disease was of that character which would admit of exact calculation in respect to the epic of its termination and death and it was finally arranged between us that he would send for...

Creepy Tales Gothic Horror Tale Teller Book Club Facts of Case M Valdemar Edgar Allen Poe.
chapter 2 of creepy tales by edgar allan poe 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 pamela krantz

creepy tales by edgar allan poe the facts in the case of m voldemort of course i shall not pretend to consider it any matter for wonder that the extraordinary case of mr voldemor has excited discussion it would have been a miracle had it not especially under the circumstances through the desire of all parties concerned to keep the affair from the public at least for the present or until we had farther opportunities for investigation through our endeavors to affect this a garbled or exaggerated account made its way into society and became the source of many unpleasant misrepresentations and very naturally of a great deal of disbelief it is now rendered necessary that i give the facts as far as i comprehend them myself they are succinctly these my attention for the last three years had been repeatedly drawn to the subject of mesmerism and about nine months ago it occurred to me quite suddenly that in the series of experiments made hitherto there had been a very remarkable and most unaccountable omission no person had as yet been mesmerized in articulomortis it remained to be seen first whether in such condition there existed in the patient any susceptibility to the magnetic influence secondly whether if any existed it was impaired or increased by the condition thirdly to what extent or for how long a period the encroachments of death might be arrested by the process there were other points to be ascertained but these most excited my curiosity the last in a special from the immensely important character of its consequences

in looking around me for some subject by whose means i might test these particulars i was brought to think of my friend mr ernest valdemar the well-known compiler of the bibliotheka forensica and author under the nom de plume of issachar marx of the polish versions of volenstein and gargantua mr valdemar who has resided principally at harlem new york since the year 1839 is or was particularly noticeable for the extreme spareness of his person his lower limbs much resembling those of john randolph and also for the whiteness of his whiskers in violent contrast to the blackness of his hair the latter in consequence being very generally mistaken for a wig his temperament was markedly nervous and rendered him a good subject for mesmeric experiment on two or three occasions i had put him to sleep with little difficulty but was disappointed in other results which his peculiar constitution had naturally led me to anticipate his will was at no period positively or thoroughly under my control and in regard to clairvoyance i could accomplish with him nothing to be relied upon i always attributed my failure at these points to the disordered state of his health for some months previous to my becoming acquainted with him his physicians had declared him in a confirmed thisis it was his custom indeed to speak calmly of his approaching dissolution as a matter neither to be avoided nor regretted when the ideas to which i have eluded first occurred to me it was of course very natural that i should think of mr voldemor i knew the steady philosophy of the man too well to apprehend any scruples from him and he had no relatives in america who would be likely to interfere i spoke to him frankly upon the subject and to my surprise his interest seemed vividly excited i say to my surprise for although he had always yielded his person freely to my experiments he had never before given me any tokens of sympathy with what i did his disease was of that character which would admit of exact calculation in respect to the epic of its termination and death and it was finally arranged between us that he would send for...

The Bible in Modern English: Genesis (3) 15-21 Scriptures Biblical Teachings Readings Free.

chapters 15 through 21 of the book of genesis from the holy bible in modern english this librivox recording is in the public domain recording by mark penfold the holy bible in modern english translated by farrar fenton the book of genesis chapters 15 through 21

chapter 15 it was after these events that the ever living spoke to abram in a vision saying be not afraid abraham i am your shield your abundant reward i will greatly enrich you but abram replied mighty god why should you give to me when i go childless and the possessor of my house will be eliezer of damascus and abram continued look at me you have not given me offspring so that the steward of my house will become my heir but the ever living answered him saying that man shall not be your heir but one who shall owe his birth to yourself shall become your heir then he took him to the open and said look up at the sky and count the stars if you are able to count them telling him also thus shall your race be and abram believed in the ever living and it was repaid to him in righteousness he also said to him i am the ever living who brought you from ur of the chaldees to give you this land as an inheritance but he replied mighty lord how am i to know that i shall inherit it who answered him select for me a three-year-old heifer a three-year-old goat a three-year-old ram a turtle dove and a young pigeon taking all these he split them in the middle and placed each part opposite its neighbor but he did not split the birds then the kites descended upon the carcasses but abram drove them away and when the sun was sinking a stupor fell upon abram and also a great and terrible darkness oppressed him he then said to abram know this and be assured that your race will be foreigners in a land not their own and they shall enslave them and oppress them for four hundred years the nation which enslaves them however i will punish and after that i will bring them out with great wealth but you shall go to your forefathers in peace you shall be buried with beautiful gray hairs and in several generations they shall return here when the sins of the amorites will be complete after the sunset followed by thick darkness a bright cloud appeared a blazing fire which passed between the pieces at the same time the ever living made a covenant with abraham saying i will give this country to your race from the river of egypt to the great river euphrates the canaanite the canaazite the cadminite the hittite and the perizzite and the rephiem and the amorite and the canaanite and the girgashite and the jebusite

chapter 16. sariai abram's wife had given him no children but she had an egyptian maid named hagar so sariah said to abram see now the ever living has kept me childless therefore go to my maid perhaps she will have a son for me and abram listened to the voice of sariah therefore saria the wife of abram took hagar the egyptian maid at the end of the tenth year of abram's residence in the land of canaan and gave her to abram her husband as a wife so he went to hagar and she conceived when she saw that she had conceived her mistress was despicable in her eyes then serie i said to abram my wrong came from you i gave my maid to you as wife and she sees that she has conceived and i am despicable in her eyes let the ever living decide between me and you abraham answered serie i well your maid is under your hand due to her whatever you consider right so serie i persecuted her and she fled from her presence a messenger of the ever living met her however at the well of waters in the desert at the well by the road to the wall and asked hagar servant of serie i where are you going and what are you weeping for and she answered i am fleeing from the hand of serie i my mistress but the messenger of the ever living said return to your mistress and submit yourself to her the ever-living's...

The Bible in Modern English: Genesis (3) 15-21 Scriptures Biblical Teachings Readings Free.

chapters 15 through 21 of the book of genesis from the holy bible in modern english this librivox recording is in the public domain recording by mark penfold the holy bible in modern english translated by farrar fenton the book of genesis chapters 15 through 21

chapter 15 it was after these events that the ever living spoke to abram in a vision saying be not afraid abraham i am your shield your abundant reward i will greatly enrich you but abram replied mighty god why should you give to me when i go childless and the possessor of my house will be eliezer of damascus and abram continued look at me you have not given me offspring so that the steward of my house will become my heir but the ever living answered him saying that man shall not be your heir but one who shall owe his birth to yourself shall become your heir then he took him to the open and said look up at the sky and count the stars if you are able to count them telling him also thus shall your race be and abram believed in the ever living and it was repaid to him in righteousness he also said to him i am the ever living who brought you from ur of the chaldees to give you this land as an inheritance but he replied mighty lord how am i to know that i shall inherit it who answered him select for me a three-year-old heifer a three-year-old goat a three-year-old ram a turtle dove and a young pigeon taking all these he split them in the middle and placed each part opposite its neighbor but he did not split the birds then the kites descended upon the carcasses but abram drove them away and when the sun was sinking a stupor fell upon abram and also a great and terrible darkness oppressed him he then said to abram know this and be assured that your race will be foreigners in a land not their own and they shall enslave them and oppress them for four hundred years the nation which enslaves them however i will punish and after that i will bring them out with great wealth but you shall go to your forefathers in peace you shall be buried with beautiful gray hairs and in several generations they shall return here when the sins of the amorites will be complete after the sunset followed by thick darkness a bright cloud appeared a blazing fire which passed between the pieces at the same time the ever living made a covenant with abraham saying i will give this country to your race from the river of egypt to the great river euphrates the canaanite the canaazite the cadminite the hittite and the perizzite and the rephiem and the amorite and the canaanite and the girgashite and the jebusite

chapter 16. sariai abram's wife had given him no children but she had an egyptian maid named hagar so sariah said to abram see now the ever living has kept me childless therefore go to my maid perhaps she will have a son for me and abram listened to the voice of sariah therefore saria the wife of abram took hagar the egyptian maid at the end of the tenth year of abram's residence in the land of canaan and gave her to abram her husband as a wife so he went to hagar and she conceived when she saw that she had conceived her mistress was despicable in her eyes then serie i said to abram my wrong came from you i gave my maid to you as wife and she sees that she has conceived and i am despicable in her eyes let the ever living decide between me and you abraham answered serie i well your maid is under your hand due to her whatever you consider right so serie i persecuted her and she fled from her presence a messenger of the ever living met her however at the well of waters in the desert at the well by the road to the wall and asked hagar servant of serie i where are you going and what are you weeping for and she answered i am fleeing from the hand of serie i my mistress but the messenger of the ever living said return to your mistress and submit yourself to her the ever-living's...

Railway Children by E. Nesbit (2) Peter's Coal Mine Kids Audiobooks Online Public Domain.
this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org read by karen savage waco texas august 2006 railway children by edith nesbit chapter 2 peter's coal mine what fun said mother in the dark feeling for the matches on the table how frightened the poor mice were i don't believe they were rats at all she struck a match and relighted the candle and everyone looked at each other by its winky blinky light well she said you've often wanted something to happen and now it has this is quite an adventure isn't it i told mrs viney to get us some bread and butter and meat and things and to have supper ready i suppose he's laid it in the dining room so let's go and see the dining room opened out of the kitchen it looked much darker than the kitchen when they went in with the one candle because the kitchen was whitewashed but the dining room was dark wood from floor to ceiling and across the ceiling there were heavy black beams there was a muddled maze of dusty furniture the breakfast room furniture from the old home where they had lived all their lives it seemed a very long time ago and a very long way off there was the table certainly and there were chairs but there was no supper let's look in the other rooms said mother and they looked and in each room was the same kind of blundering half arrangement of furniture and fire irons and crockery and all sorts of odd things on the floor but there was nothing to eat even in the pantry there was only a rusty cake tin and a broken plate with widening mixed in it what a horrid old woman said mother she's just walked off with the money and not got us anything to eat at all then shalt we have any supper at all asked phyllis dismayed stepping back onto a soap dish that cracked responsively oh yes said mother only it'll mean unpacking one of those big cases that we put in the cellar phil do mind where you're walking to there's a deer peter hold the light the cellar door opened out of the kitchen there were five wooden steps leading down it wasn't a proper cellar at all the children thought because its ceiling went up as high as the kitchens a bacon rack hung under its ceiling there was wood in it and a coal also the big cases peter held the candle all on one side while mother tried to open the great packing case it was very securely nailed down where's the hammer asked peter that's just it said mother i'm afraid it's inside the box but there's a coal shovel and there's the kitchen poker and with these she tried to get the case open let me do it said peter thinking he could do it better himself everyone thinks this when he sees another person stirring a fire or opening a box or untying a knot in a bit of string you'll hurt your hands mummy said roberta let me i wish father was here said phyllis he'd get it open in two shakes what are you kicking me for bobby i wasn't said roberta just then the first of the long nails in the packing case began to come out with a scrunch then a lath was raised and then another till all four stood up with the long nails in them shining fiercely like iron teeth in the candle light hooray said mother here are some candles the very first thing you girls go and light them you'll find some sauces and things just drop a little candle grease in the saucer and stick the candle upright in it how many shall we light as many as ever you like said mother gaily the great thing is to be cheerful nobody can be cheerful in the dark except owls and dorm eyes so the girls lighted candles the head of the first match flew off and stuck to phyllis's finger but as roberta said it was only a little burn and she might have had to be a roman martyr and be burned whole if she had happened to live in the days when those things were fashionable then when the dining room was lighted by fourteen candles roberta...

Railway Children by E. Nesbit (2) Peter's Coal Mine Kids Audiobooks Online Public Domain.
this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org read by karen savage waco texas august 2006 railway children by edith nesbit chapter 2 peter's coal mine what fun said mother in the dark feeling for the matches on the table how frightened the poor mice were i don't believe they were rats at all she struck a match and relighted the candle and everyone looked at each other by its winky blinky light well she said you've often wanted something to happen and now it has this is quite an adventure isn't it i told mrs viney to get us some bread and butter and meat and things and to have supper ready i suppose he's laid it in the dining room so let's go and see the dining room opened out of the kitchen it looked much darker than the kitchen when they went in with the one candle because the kitchen was whitewashed but the dining room was dark wood from floor to ceiling and across the ceiling there were heavy black beams there was a muddled maze of dusty furniture the breakfast room furniture from the old home where they had lived all their lives it seemed a very long time ago and a very long way off there was the table certainly and there were chairs but there was no supper let's look in the other rooms said mother and they looked and in each room was the same kind of blundering half arrangement of furniture and fire irons and crockery and all sorts of odd things on the floor but there was nothing to eat even in the pantry there was only a rusty cake tin and a broken plate with widening mixed in it what a horrid old woman said mother she's just walked off with the money and not got us anything to eat at all then shalt we have any supper at all asked phyllis dismayed stepping back onto a soap dish that cracked responsively oh yes said mother only it'll mean unpacking one of those big cases that we put in the cellar phil do mind where you're walking to there's a deer peter hold the light the cellar door opened out of the kitchen there were five wooden steps leading down it wasn't a proper cellar at all the children thought because its ceiling went up as high as the kitchens a bacon rack hung under its ceiling there was wood in it and a coal also the big cases peter held the candle all on one side while mother tried to open the great packing case it was very securely nailed down where's the hammer asked peter that's just it said mother i'm afraid it's inside the box but there's a coal shovel and there's the kitchen poker and with these she tried to get the case open let me do it said peter thinking he could do it better himself everyone thinks this when he sees another person stirring a fire or opening a box or untying a knot in a bit of string you'll hurt your hands mummy said roberta let me i wish father was here said phyllis he'd get it open in two shakes what are you kicking me for bobby i wasn't said roberta just then the first of the long nails in the packing case began to come out with a scrunch then a lath was raised and then another till all four stood up with the long nails in them shining fiercely like iron teeth in the candle light hooray said mother here are some candles the very first thing you girls go and light them you'll find some sauces and things just drop a little candle grease in the saucer and stick the candle upright in it how many shall we light as many as ever you like said mother gaily the great thing is to be cheerful nobody can be cheerful in the dark except owls and dorm eyes so the girls lighted candles the head of the first match flew off and stuck to phyllis's finger but as roberta said it was only a little burn and she might have had to be a roman martyr and be burned whole if she had happened to live in the days when those things were fashionable then when the dining room was lighted by fourteen candles roberta...

Discoverers and Explorers by Edward R. Shaw Ponce de Lion Free Kid's Audiobooks Public Domain.

chapter seven of discoverers and explorers this librivox recording is in the public domain discoverers and explorers by edward r shaw chapter seven ponce de leon you have heard many surprising things which the people of the 15th century believed it seems almost impossible for us to think that those people really had faith in a fountain of youth yet such is the case this fountain was supposed to exist somewhere in the new world and it was thought that if anyone should bathe in its waters he would become young and would never grow old again in 1513 ponce de leon who was then governor of puerto rico sailed from that island in search of this fountain of youth de leon was an old man and he felt that his life was nearly over unless he should succeed in finding this fountain at the same time the lyon wished to gain gold for though he had already made a fortune in puerto rico he was still very greedy the expedition under his guidance sailed among the bahamas and other islands near them and at length reached a land beautiful with flowers balmy with warm breezes and cheerful with the song of birds partly because this discovery was made on easter sunday which the spaniards called pasqua florida and partly because of the abundance of flowers de leon called the land florida he took possession of this delightful country for spain and then spent many weeks exploring its coast after sailing north as far as saint augustine and finding neither gold nor the fabled fountain of youth de leon turned his vessels and proceeded south doubling the florida cape shortly afterwards he became discouraged and returned to puerto rico in 1521 de leon went again to florida this time for the purpose of planting a colony the indians were very angry that the white men should try to take their land and they made a fierce attack upon de leon and his party in this attack de leon received a severe wound which compelled him to go to cuba for care and rest there he died after much suffering de leon never found the fountain of youth nor were the fabled waters discovered afterwards end of chapter seven

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Discoverers and Explorers by Edward R. Shaw Ponce de Lion Free Kid's Audiobooks Public Domain.

chapter seven of discoverers and explorers this librivox recording is in the public domain discoverers and explorers by edward r shaw chapter seven ponce de leon you have heard many surprising things which the people of the 15th century believed it seems almost impossible for us to think that those people really had faith in a fountain of youth yet such is the case this fountain was supposed to exist somewhere in the new world and it was thought that if anyone should bathe in its waters he would become young and would never grow old again in 1513 ponce de leon who was then governor of puerto rico sailed from that island in search of this fountain of youth de leon was an old man and he felt that his life was nearly over unless he should succeed in finding this fountain at the same time the lyon wished to gain gold for though he had already made a fortune in puerto rico he was still very greedy the expedition under his guidance sailed among the bahamas and other islands near them and at length reached a land beautiful with flowers balmy with warm breezes and cheerful with the song of birds partly because this discovery was made on easter sunday which the spaniards called pasqua florida and partly because of the abundance of flowers de leon called the land florida he took possession of this delightful country for spain and then spent many weeks exploring its coast after sailing north as far as saint augustine and finding neither gold nor the fabled fountain of youth de leon turned his vessels and proceeded south doubling the florida cape shortly afterwards he became discouraged and returned to puerto rico in 1521 de leon went again to florida this time for the purpose of planting a colony the indians were very angry that the white men should try to take their land and they made a fierce attack upon de leon and his party in this attack de leon received a severe wound which compelled him to go to cuba for care and rest there he died after much suffering de leon never found the fountain of youth nor were the fabled waters discovered afterwards end of chapter seven

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