Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley The Coral Reef Explained for Kids.

section 10 of madame howe and lady y this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org by awaii in january 2011 madame howe and lady y by charles kingsley chapter 9 the coral reef

now you want to know what i meant when i talked of a bit of lime going out to sea and forming part of a coral island and then of a limestone rock and then of a marble statue very good then look at this stone what a curious stone did it come from any place near here no it came from near dudley in staffordshire where the soils are worlds on worlds older than they are here though they were made in the same way as these and all other soils but you are not listening to me why the stone is full of shells and bits of coral and what are these wonderful things coiled and tangled together like the snakes in medusa's hair in the picture are they snakes if they are then they must be snakes who have all one head for c they are joined together at their larger ends and snakes which are branched too which no snake ever was yes i suppose they're not snakes and they grow out of a flower too and it has a stalk jointed too as plants sometimes are and as fish's backbones are is it a petrified plant or flower no though i do not deny that it looks like one the creature most akin to it which you ever saw is a starfish what one of the red starfishes which one finds on the beach its arms are not branched no but there are starfishes with branched arms still in the sea you know that pretty book and learned book two forbes british starfishes you like to look it through for the sake of the vignettes the mermaid and her child playing in the sea oh yes and the kind bogey who is piping while the sandstar stands and the other who is trying to pull out the starfish which the oyster has caught yes but do you recollect the drawing of the medusa's head with its curling arms branched again and again without end here it is no you shall not look at the vignettes now we must mind business now look at this one the feather star with arms almost like fern fronds and in foreign seas there are many other branched starfish beside but they have no stalks do not be too sure of that this very feather star soon after it is born grows a tiny stalk by which it holds on to coralines and seaweeds and it is not till afterwards that it breaks loose from that stalk and swims away freely into the white water and in foreign seas there are several starfish still who grow on stocks all their lives as this fossil one did how strange that a live animal should grow on a stalk like a flower not quite like a flower a flower has roots by which it feeds in the soil these things grow more like seaweeds which have no roots but only hold on to the rock by the foot of the stock as a ship holds on by her anchor but as for its being strange that live animals should grow on stalks if it be strange it is common enough like many far stranger things for under the water are millions on millions of creatures spreading for miles on miles building up at last great reefs of rocks and whole islands which all grow rooted first to the rock like seaweeds and what is more they grow most of them from one common route branching again and again and every branchlet bearing hundreds of living creatures so that the whole creation is at once one creature and many creatures do you not understand me no then fancy to yourself a bush like that hawthorne bush with numberless blossoms and every blossom on that bush a separate living thing with its own mouth and arms and stomach budding and growing fresh live branches and fresh live flowers as fast as the old ones die and then you will see better what i mean how wonderful yes but not more wonderful than your finger for it too is made up of numberless living things my finger made of living things what else can...

Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley The Coral Reef Explained for Kids.

section 10 of madame howe and lady y this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org by awaii in january 2011 madame howe and lady y by charles kingsley chapter 9 the coral reef

now you want to know what i meant when i talked of a bit of lime going out to sea and forming part of a coral island and then of a limestone rock and then of a marble statue very good then look at this stone what a curious stone did it come from any place near here no it came from near dudley in staffordshire where the soils are worlds on worlds older than they are here though they were made in the same way as these and all other soils but you are not listening to me why the stone is full of shells and bits of coral and what are these wonderful things coiled and tangled together like the snakes in medusa's hair in the picture are they snakes if they are then they must be snakes who have all one head for c they are joined together at their larger ends and snakes which are branched too which no snake ever was yes i suppose they're not snakes and they grow out of a flower too and it has a stalk jointed too as plants sometimes are and as fish's backbones are is it a petrified plant or flower no though i do not deny that it looks like one the creature most akin to it which you ever saw is a starfish what one of the red starfishes which one finds on the beach its arms are not branched no but there are starfishes with branched arms still in the sea you know that pretty book and learned book two forbes british starfishes you like to look it through for the sake of the vignettes the mermaid and her child playing in the sea oh yes and the kind bogey who is piping while the sandstar stands and the other who is trying to pull out the starfish which the oyster has caught yes but do you recollect the drawing of the medusa's head with its curling arms branched again and again without end here it is no you shall not look at the vignettes now we must mind business now look at this one the feather star with arms almost like fern fronds and in foreign seas there are many other branched starfish beside but they have no stalks do not be too sure of that this very feather star soon after it is born grows a tiny stalk by which it holds on to coralines and seaweeds and it is not till afterwards that it breaks loose from that stalk and swims away freely into the white water and in foreign seas there are several starfish still who grow on stocks all their lives as this fossil one did how strange that a live animal should grow on a stalk like a flower not quite like a flower a flower has roots by which it feeds in the soil these things grow more like seaweeds which have no roots but only hold on to the rock by the foot of the stock as a ship holds on by her anchor but as for its being strange that live animals should grow on stalks if it be strange it is common enough like many far stranger things for under the water are millions on millions of creatures spreading for miles on miles building up at last great reefs of rocks and whole islands which all grow rooted first to the rock like seaweeds and what is more they grow most of them from one common route branching again and again and every branchlet bearing hundreds of living creatures so that the whole creation is at once one creature and many creatures do you not understand me no then fancy to yourself a bush like that hawthorne bush with numberless blossoms and every blossom on that bush a separate living thing with its own mouth and arms and stomach budding and growing fresh live branches and fresh live flowers as fast as the old ones die and then you will see better what i mean how wonderful yes but not more wonderful than your finger for it too is made up of numberless living things my finger made of living things what else can...

Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley The Ice Plough Explained for Kids.

section 6 of madame howe and lady y this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org berm howe and lady y by charles kingsley chapter 5 the ice plow you want to know why i'm so fond of that little bit of limestone no bigger than my hand which lies upon the shelf why i ponder over it so often and show it to all sensible people who come to see me i do so not only for the sake of the person who gave it to me but because there is written on it a letter out of madame house alphabet which has taken wise men many a year to decipher i could not decipher that letter when i first saw the stone more shame for me for i had seen it often before and understood it well enough in many another page of madame house great book take the stone and see if you can find out anything strange about it well it's only a bit of marble as big as my hand that looks as if it had been and really has been broken off by a hammer but when you look again you see there is a smooth straight part on one edge that seems to have been wrapped against the stone now look at the trapped part and tell me how it was done you have seen men often polish one stone on another or scour floors with a brick and you will guess at first that this was polished so but if it had been then the wrapped place would have been flat but if you put your fingers over it you will find that it is not flat it's rolled fluted channeled so that the thing or things which wrapped it must have been somewhat round and it's covered too with very fine and smooth scratches or grooves all running over the hole in the same line now what could have done that of course a man could have done it if he had taken a large round stone in his hand and worked the large channels with that and then taken fine sand and gravel upon the points of his fingers and worked the small scratches with that but this stone came from a place where men had perhaps never stood before i which perhaps had never seen the light of day before since the world was made and as i happened to know that no man made the marks upon that stone we must set the work and think again for some tour of maryam house which may have made them and now i think you must give up guessing and i must tell you the answer to the riddle those marks were made by a hand which is strong yet gentle tough and yet yielding like the hand of a man a hand which handles and uses in a grip stronger than a giant its own carving tools from the great baldur stone as large as this whole room to the finest grain of sand and that is ice that piece of stone came from the site of the rosenlowy glacier in switzerland and it was polished by the glacier ice the glacier melted and shrunk back this last hot summer farther back than it had done for many years and left bare sheets of rock which it had been scraping at four ages with all the marks fresh upon them and that bit was broken off and brought to me who never saw a glacier myself to show me how the marks which the ice makes in switzerland are exactly the same as those which the ice has made in snowden and in the highlands and many another place where i have traced them and have written a little tool about them in years gone by and so i treasure this as a sign that madame house ways do not change nor her laws become broken that as that great philosopher sir charles lyle will tell you when you read his books madame howe is making and honor making the surface of the earth now by exactly the same means as she was making and unmaking ages and ages sins and that what is going on slowly and surely in the alps in switzerland was going on once here where we stand it is very difficult i know for a little boy like you to understand how ice and much more how soft snow should have such strength that it can grind this little stone with much more such strength as to...

Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley The Ice Plough Explained for Kids.

section 6 of madame howe and lady y this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org berm howe and lady y by charles kingsley chapter 5 the ice plow you want to know why i'm so fond of that little bit of limestone no bigger than my hand which lies upon the shelf why i ponder over it so often and show it to all sensible people who come to see me i do so not only for the sake of the person who gave it to me but because there is written on it a letter out of madame house alphabet which has taken wise men many a year to decipher i could not decipher that letter when i first saw the stone more shame for me for i had seen it often before and understood it well enough in many another page of madame house great book take the stone and see if you can find out anything strange about it well it's only a bit of marble as big as my hand that looks as if it had been and really has been broken off by a hammer but when you look again you see there is a smooth straight part on one edge that seems to have been wrapped against the stone now look at the trapped part and tell me how it was done you have seen men often polish one stone on another or scour floors with a brick and you will guess at first that this was polished so but if it had been then the wrapped place would have been flat but if you put your fingers over it you will find that it is not flat it's rolled fluted channeled so that the thing or things which wrapped it must have been somewhat round and it's covered too with very fine and smooth scratches or grooves all running over the hole in the same line now what could have done that of course a man could have done it if he had taken a large round stone in his hand and worked the large channels with that and then taken fine sand and gravel upon the points of his fingers and worked the small scratches with that but this stone came from a place where men had perhaps never stood before i which perhaps had never seen the light of day before since the world was made and as i happened to know that no man made the marks upon that stone we must set the work and think again for some tour of maryam house which may have made them and now i think you must give up guessing and i must tell you the answer to the riddle those marks were made by a hand which is strong yet gentle tough and yet yielding like the hand of a man a hand which handles and uses in a grip stronger than a giant its own carving tools from the great baldur stone as large as this whole room to the finest grain of sand and that is ice that piece of stone came from the site of the rosenlowy glacier in switzerland and it was polished by the glacier ice the glacier melted and shrunk back this last hot summer farther back than it had done for many years and left bare sheets of rock which it had been scraping at four ages with all the marks fresh upon them and that bit was broken off and brought to me who never saw a glacier myself to show me how the marks which the ice makes in switzerland are exactly the same as those which the ice has made in snowden and in the highlands and many another place where i have traced them and have written a little tool about them in years gone by and so i treasure this as a sign that madame house ways do not change nor her laws become broken that as that great philosopher sir charles lyle will tell you when you read his books madame howe is making and honor making the surface of the earth now by exactly the same means as she was making and unmaking ages and ages sins and that what is going on slowly and surely in the alps in switzerland was going on once here where we stand it is very difficult i know for a little boy like you to understand how ice and much more how soft snow should have such strength that it can grind this little stone with much more such strength as to...

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare Act V 5 Free Audiobook Plays Tale Teller Club.

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the merchant of venice by william shakespeare act five scene one belmont the avenue to porsche's home enter lorenzo and jessica the moon shines bright in such a night as this when the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise in such a night troilus methinks mounted the trojan walls and sighed his soul toward the grecian tents where cressid lay that night in such a night did this be fearfully or trip the dew and saw the lion's shadow air himself and ran dismayed away in such a night stood dido with a willow in her hand upon the wild sea banks and waft her love to come again to carthage in such a night medea gathered the enchanted herbs that did renew old eason in such a night did jessica steal from the wealthy jew and with an unthrift love did run from venice as far as belmont in such a night did young lorenzo swear he loved her well stealing her soul with many vows of faith and near a true one in such a night did pretty jessica like a little shrew slander her love and he forgave it her i would outnight to you did nobody come but hark i hear the footing of a man enter stefano who comes so fast in silence of the night a friend a friend what friend your name i pray you friend stefano is my name and i bring word my mistress will before the break of day be here at belmont she doth stray about by holy crosses where she kneels and prays for happy wedlock hours who comes with her none but a holy hermit and her maid i pray you is my master yet returned he is not nor we have not heard from him but go we in i pray thee jessica and ceremoniously let us prepare some welcome for the mistress of the house enter lancelot sola sola ho sola sola who calls sola did you see master lorenzo master lorenzo sola sola leave halloween man here sola where where here tell him there's a post come from my master with his horn full of good news my master will be here air morning exit sweet soul let's in and there expect their coming and yet no matter why should we go in my friend stefano signify i pray you within the house your mistress is at hand and bring your music forth into the air exit stephano how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank here we will sit and let the sounds of music creep in our ears soft stillness and the night become the touches of sweet harmony sit jessica look how the floor of heaven is thick inlaid with pateens of bright gold there's not the smallest orb which thou be holds but in his motion like an angel sings still quarrying to the young eyed cherubims such harmony is in immortal souls but will this muddy vesture of decay duff grossly close it in we cannot hear it enter musicians come home and wake diana with a hymn with sweetness touches pierce your mistress's ear and draw her home with music music i am never merry when i hear sweet music the reason is your spirits are attentive four do not note a wild and wanton herd or race of youthful and unhandled cults fetching mad bounds bellowing and naying loud which is the hot condition of their blood if they but here perchance a trumpet sound or any air of music touch their ears you shall perceive them make a mutual stand their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music therefore the poet did fame that orpheus drew trees stones and floods since not so stockish hard and full of rage but music for the time doth change his nature the man that hath no music in himself nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds is fit for treasons stratagems and spoils the motions of his spirit are dull as night and his affections dark as erebus let no such man be trusted mark

that light we see is burning in my hall how far that little candle...

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare Act V 5 Free Audiobook Plays Tale Teller Club.

the merchant of venice by william shakespeare act five this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer visit librivox.org

the merchant of venice by william shakespeare act five scene one belmont the avenue to porsche's home enter lorenzo and jessica the moon shines bright in such a night as this when the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise in such a night troilus methinks mounted the trojan walls and sighed his soul toward the grecian tents where cressid lay that night in such a night did this be fearfully or trip the dew and saw the lion's shadow air himself and ran dismayed away in such a night stood dido with a willow in her hand upon the wild sea banks and waft her love to come again to carthage in such a night medea gathered the enchanted herbs that did renew old eason in such a night did jessica steal from the wealthy jew and with an unthrift love did run from venice as far as belmont in such a night did young lorenzo swear he loved her well stealing her soul with many vows of faith and near a true one in such a night did pretty jessica like a little shrew slander her love and he forgave it her i would outnight to you did nobody come but hark i hear the footing of a man enter stefano who comes so fast in silence of the night a friend a friend what friend your name i pray you friend stefano is my name and i bring word my mistress will before the break of day be here at belmont she doth stray about by holy crosses where she kneels and prays for happy wedlock hours who comes with her none but a holy hermit and her maid i pray you is my master yet returned he is not nor we have not heard from him but go we in i pray thee jessica and ceremoniously let us prepare some welcome for the mistress of the house enter lancelot sola sola ho sola sola who calls sola did you see master lorenzo master lorenzo sola sola leave halloween man here sola where where here tell him there's a post come from my master with his horn full of good news my master will be here air morning exit sweet soul let's in and there expect their coming and yet no matter why should we go in my friend stefano signify i pray you within the house your mistress is at hand and bring your music forth into the air exit stephano how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank here we will sit and let the sounds of music creep in our ears soft stillness and the night become the touches of sweet harmony sit jessica look how the floor of heaven is thick inlaid with pateens of bright gold there's not the smallest orb which thou be holds but in his motion like an angel sings still quarrying to the young eyed cherubims such harmony is in immortal souls but will this muddy vesture of decay duff grossly close it in we cannot hear it enter musicians come home and wake diana with a hymn with sweetness touches pierce your mistress's ear and draw her home with music music i am never merry when i hear sweet music the reason is your spirits are attentive four do not note a wild and wanton herd or race of youthful and unhandled cults fetching mad bounds bellowing and naying loud which is the hot condition of their blood if they but here perchance a trumpet sound or any air of music touch their ears you shall perceive them make a mutual stand their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music therefore the poet did fame that orpheus drew trees stones and floods since not so stockish hard and full of rage but music for the time doth change his nature the man that hath no music in himself nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds is fit for treasons stratagems and spoils the motions of his spirit are dull as night and his affections dark as erebus let no such man be trusted mark

that light we see is burning in my hall how far that little candle...

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare Act IV 4 Free Audiobook Plays Tale Teller Club.

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the merchant of venice by william shakespeare act four scene one venice a court of justice enter the duke

and others what is antonio here ready so please your grace i am sorry for thee thou art come to answer estonian adversary an inhuman wretch incapable of pity void and empty from any dream of mercy i have heard your grace has taken great pains to qualify his rigorous course but since he stands object and that no lawful means can carry me out of his envy's reach i do oppose my patience to his fury and am armed to suffer with a quietness of spirit the very tyranny and rage of his go one and call the jew into the court he is ready at the door he comes my lord enter make room and let him stand before our face [ __ ] the world thinks and i think so too that thou but lead us to this fashion of thy malice to the last hour of act and then it is thought doubt show thy mercy and remorse more strange that is thy strange apparent cruelty and where thou now exact the penalty which is a pound of this poor merchant's flesh thou will not only lose the forfeiture but touched with human gentleness and love forgive a moiety of the principle cleansing an eye of pity of his losses have of late so huddled on his back he now to press a royal merchant down and block commiseration of his state for brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint from stubborn turds and tartars never trained to offices of tender courtesy we all expect a gentle answer jew i have possessed your grace of what i purpose and by our holy sabbath have i sworn to have the do and forfeit of my bond if you deny it let the danger light upon your charter and your city's freedom you'll ask me why i rather choose to have a weight of carry and flesh than to receive three thousand dockets i'll not answer that but say it is my humor is it answered what if my house be troubled with a rat and i be pleased to give ten thousand targets to have it paint what are you answered yet some men there are love not a gaping pig some that are mad if they behold a cat and others when the bagpipe sings in the nose cannot contain their urine for affection mistress of passion sways it to the mood of what it likes or lows now for your answer as there is no firm reason to be rendered why he cannot buy the gaping pig why he are harmless necessary cats why he a walling bagpipe but a force must yield to such inevitable shame as to offend himself being offended so can i give no reason nor will i not more than a lodged hate and a certain loathing i bear antonio that i follow thus a losing suit against him are you answered this is no answer thou unfeeling man to excuse the current of thy cruelty i am not bound to please thee with my answer do all men kill the things they do not love hates any man the thing he would not kill every offense is not a hate at first what would thou have a serpent sting thee twice i pray you think you question with the jew you may as well go stand upon the beach and bid the main flood bait his usual height you may as well use question with the wolf why he hath made the ew bleat for the lamb you may as well forbid the mountain pines to wag their high tops and to make no noise when they are threatened with the gusts of heaven may as well do anything most hard as to seek to soften that then which what's harder his jewish heart therefore i do beseech you make no more offers use no further means but with all brief and plain conveniency let me have judgment and the jew his will for thy three thousand ducketts here is six if every bucket in six thousand dockets were in six parts and every part a docket i would not draw them i would have my bond how shall thou hope for mercy rendering none what judgment shall i...

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare Act IV 4 Free Audiobook Plays Tale Teller Club.

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the merchant of venice by william shakespeare act four scene one venice a court of justice enter the duke

and others what is antonio here ready so please your grace i am sorry for thee thou art come to answer estonian adversary an inhuman wretch incapable of pity void and empty from any dream of mercy i have heard your grace has taken great pains to qualify his rigorous course but since he stands object and that no lawful means can carry me out of his envy's reach i do oppose my patience to his fury and am armed to suffer with a quietness of spirit the very tyranny and rage of his go one and call the jew into the court he is ready at the door he comes my lord enter make room and let him stand before our face [ __ ] the world thinks and i think so too that thou but lead us to this fashion of thy malice to the last hour of act and then it is thought doubt show thy mercy and remorse more strange that is thy strange apparent cruelty and where thou now exact the penalty which is a pound of this poor merchant's flesh thou will not only lose the forfeiture but touched with human gentleness and love forgive a moiety of the principle cleansing an eye of pity of his losses have of late so huddled on his back he now to press a royal merchant down and block commiseration of his state for brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint from stubborn turds and tartars never trained to offices of tender courtesy we all expect a gentle answer jew i have possessed your grace of what i purpose and by our holy sabbath have i sworn to have the do and forfeit of my bond if you deny it let the danger light upon your charter and your city's freedom you'll ask me why i rather choose to have a weight of carry and flesh than to receive three thousand dockets i'll not answer that but say it is my humor is it answered what if my house be troubled with a rat and i be pleased to give ten thousand targets to have it paint what are you answered yet some men there are love not a gaping pig some that are mad if they behold a cat and others when the bagpipe sings in the nose cannot contain their urine for affection mistress of passion sways it to the mood of what it likes or lows now for your answer as there is no firm reason to be rendered why he cannot buy the gaping pig why he are harmless necessary cats why he a walling bagpipe but a force must yield to such inevitable shame as to offend himself being offended so can i give no reason nor will i not more than a lodged hate and a certain loathing i bear antonio that i follow thus a losing suit against him are you answered this is no answer thou unfeeling man to excuse the current of thy cruelty i am not bound to please thee with my answer do all men kill the things they do not love hates any man the thing he would not kill every offense is not a hate at first what would thou have a serpent sting thee twice i pray you think you question with the jew you may as well go stand upon the beach and bid the main flood bait his usual height you may as well use question with the wolf why he hath made the ew bleat for the lamb you may as well forbid the mountain pines to wag their high tops and to make no noise when they are threatened with the gusts of heaven may as well do anything most hard as to seek to soften that then which what's harder his jewish heart therefore i do beseech you make no more offers use no further means but with all brief and plain conveniency let me have judgment and the jew his will for thy three thousand ducketts here is six if every bucket in six thousand dockets were in six parts and every part a docket i would not draw them i would have my bond how shall thou hope for mercy rendering none what judgment shall i...

Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling Part 4 Free Audiobook from the Tale Teller Club.

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harvey wake to find the first half at breakfast the foxel door drawn to a crack and every square inch of the schooner singing its own tune the black bulk of the cook balanced behind the tiny galley over the glare of the stove and the pots and pans and the pierced wooden board before it jarred and racketed to each plunge up and up the folks so climbed yearning and surging and quivering and then with a clear sickle-like swoop came down into the seas he could hear the flaring boughs cut and squelch and there was a pause air the divided waters came down on the deck above like a volley of buckshot followed the woolly sound of the cable in the haus hole a grunt and squeal of the windlass a yaw a punt and a kick and the we're here gathered herself together to repeat the motions now ashore he heard long jack saying you have chores and you must do them in any weather here we're well clear of the fleet and we've no chores and that's a blessing good night all he passed like a big snake from the table to his bunk and began to smoke tom platt followed his example uncle salters with pen fought his way up the ladder to stand his watch and the cook set for the second half it came out of its bunks as the others had entered theirs with a shake and a yawn it ate till it could eat no more and then manuel filled his pipe with some terrible tobacco crouched himself between the paul post and a forward bunk cocked his feet up on the table and smiled tender and indolent smiles at the smoke dan lay at length in his bunk wrestling with a gaudy guilt-stopped accordion whose tunes went up and down with the pitching of the weir here the cook his shoulders against the locker where he kept the fried pies dan was fond of fried pies peeled potatoes with one eye on the stove an event of too much water finding its way down the pipe and the general smell and smother were past all description harvey considered affairs wondered that he was not deathly sick and crawled into his bunk again as the softest and safest place while dan struck up i don't want to play in your yard as accurately as the wild jerks allowed how long is this for harvey asked of manuel till she get a little quiet and we can roll to trawl perhaps tonight perhaps two days more you do not like a what i should have been crazy sick a week ago but it doesn't seem to upset me now much that is because we make you a fisherman these days if i was you when i come to gloucester i would give two three big candles for my good luck give who to be sure the virgin of our church on the hill she is very good to fishermen all the time that is why so few of us portuguese men ever are drowned you're a roman catholic then i am a madera man i am not a puerto rico boy shall i be baptist then hey what i always give candles two three more when i come to gloucester the good virgin she never forgets me manuel i don't sense it that way tom platt put in from his bunk his scarred face lit up by the glare of a match as he sucked at his pipe it stands to reason the seas the sea and you'll get just about what's going candles or kerosene for that matter tis a mighty good thing said long jack to have a friend at court though i'm a manwell's way of thinking about 10 years back i was crewed to a south boston market boat we was off minot's ledge with a northeaster but first the top of us thicker and burgu the old man was drunk his chin was wagging on the tiller and i says to myself if ever i stick my boathook into t wharf again how to show the saints what matter of craft they saved me out of now i'm here as you can well see and the model...

Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling Part 4 Free Audiobook from the Tale Teller Club.

chapter four of captains courageous this is the librevox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org this recording is by mark smith of simpsonville south carolina captains courageous by roger kipling chapter four

harvey wake to find the first half at breakfast the foxel door drawn to a crack and every square inch of the schooner singing its own tune the black bulk of the cook balanced behind the tiny galley over the glare of the stove and the pots and pans and the pierced wooden board before it jarred and racketed to each plunge up and up the folks so climbed yearning and surging and quivering and then with a clear sickle-like swoop came down into the seas he could hear the flaring boughs cut and squelch and there was a pause air the divided waters came down on the deck above like a volley of buckshot followed the woolly sound of the cable in the haus hole a grunt and squeal of the windlass a yaw a punt and a kick and the we're here gathered herself together to repeat the motions now ashore he heard long jack saying you have chores and you must do them in any weather here we're well clear of the fleet and we've no chores and that's a blessing good night all he passed like a big snake from the table to his bunk and began to smoke tom platt followed his example uncle salters with pen fought his way up the ladder to stand his watch and the cook set for the second half it came out of its bunks as the others had entered theirs with a shake and a yawn it ate till it could eat no more and then manuel filled his pipe with some terrible tobacco crouched himself between the paul post and a forward bunk cocked his feet up on the table and smiled tender and indolent smiles at the smoke dan lay at length in his bunk wrestling with a gaudy guilt-stopped accordion whose tunes went up and down with the pitching of the weir here the cook his shoulders against the locker where he kept the fried pies dan was fond of fried pies peeled potatoes with one eye on the stove an event of too much water finding its way down the pipe and the general smell and smother were past all description harvey considered affairs wondered that he was not deathly sick and crawled into his bunk again as the softest and safest place while dan struck up i don't want to play in your yard as accurately as the wild jerks allowed how long is this for harvey asked of manuel till she get a little quiet and we can roll to trawl perhaps tonight perhaps two days more you do not like a what i should have been crazy sick a week ago but it doesn't seem to upset me now much that is because we make you a fisherman these days if i was you when i come to gloucester i would give two three big candles for my good luck give who to be sure the virgin of our church on the hill she is very good to fishermen all the time that is why so few of us portuguese men ever are drowned you're a roman catholic then i am a madera man i am not a puerto rico boy shall i be baptist then hey what i always give candles two three more when i come to gloucester the good virgin she never forgets me manuel i don't sense it that way tom platt put in from his bunk his scarred face lit up by the glare of a match as he sucked at his pipe it stands to reason the seas the sea and you'll get just about what's going candles or kerosene for that matter tis a mighty good thing said long jack to have a friend at court though i'm a manwell's way of thinking about 10 years back i was crewed to a south boston market boat we was off minot's ledge with a northeaster but first the top of us thicker and burgu the old man was drunk his chin was wagging on the tiller and i says to myself if ever i stick my boathook into t wharf again how to show the saints what matter of craft they saved me out of now i'm here as you can well see and the model...