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the wedding of mrs fox from grimm's fairy tales by jacob and wilhelm grimm translated by edgar taylor and marion edwards this librivox recording is in the public domain read by bob neufeld first story there was once upon a time an old fox with nine tales who believed that his wife was not faithful to him and wished to put her to the test he stretched himself out under the bench did not move a limb and behaved as if he were stoned dead mrs fox went up to her room shot herself in and her maid miss cat sat by the fire and did the cooking when it became known that the old fox was dead suitors presented themselves the maid heard someone standing at the house door knocking she went and opened it and it was a young fox who said what may you be about miss cats do you sleep or do you wake she answered i am not sleeping i am waking would you know what i am making i am boiling warm beer with butter will you be my guest for supper no thank you miss said the fox what is mrs fox doing the maid replied she is sitting in her room moaning in her gloom weeping her little eyes quite red because old mr fox is dead do just tell her miss that a young fox is here who would like to woo her certainly young sir the cat goes up the stairs trip trip the door she knocks at tap tap tap mistress fox are you inside oh yes my dear cat she cried a [ __ ] he stands at the door out there what does he look like my dear has he nine as beautiful tales as the late mr fox oh no answered the cat he has only one then i will not have him miss cat went downstairs and sent the wooer away soon afterwards there was another knock and another fox was at the door who wished to woo mrs fox he had two tales but he did not fare better than the first after this still more came each with one tail more than the other but they were all turned down until at last one came who had nine tails like old mr fox when the widow heard that she said joyfully to the cat now open the gates and doors all wide and carry old mr fox outside but just as the wedding was going to be solemnized old mr fox stared under the bench and cudgelled all the rebel and drove them and mrs fox out of the house second story when old mr fox was dead the wolf came as a suitor and knocked at the door and the cat who was a servant to mrs fox opened it for him the wolf greeted her and said good day mrs cat of carowitz how comes it that alone you sit what are you making good the cat replied in milk i'm breaking bread so sweet will you be my guest and eat no thank you mrs cat answered the wolf is mrs fox not at home the cat said she sits upstairs in her room bewailing her sorrowful doom bewailing her trouble so sore for old mr fox is no more the wolf answered if she's in want of a husband new then will it please her to step below the cat runs quickly up the stair lets her tail fly here and there until she comes to the parlor door with her five gold rings at the door she knocks are you within good mistress fox if you're in want of a husband now then will it please you to step below mrs fox answered has the gentleman read stockings on and has he appointed mouth no answered the cat then he won't do for me when the wolf was gone came a dog a stag a hare a bear a lion and all the beasts of the field one after the other but one of the good qualities which old mr fox had possessed was always lacking and the cat had continually descend the suitors away at length came a young fox and mrs fox said has the gentleman red stockings on and has a little pointed mouth yes said the cat he has then let him come upstairs said mrs fox and ordered the servants to prepare the wedding feast sweep me the room as clean as you can up with the window fling out my old man for many a fine fat mouth he brought yet of his wife he never thought but ate up every one he caught then the wedding was solemnized with young mr fox and...

A super live gig from the Jazz rooms with the Tale Teller Club Band.

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hello everybody and welcome to the jazz rooms i've got such a treat for you today uh live from the telltale jazz rooms recorded some time ago before covert and lockdowns and all that sort of thing but i think you'll agree that it's uh it's one of those tracks that stands the test of time now of course jazz dars doesn't it we don't tire of jazz because jazz is jazz is jazz it's a it comes from a time and space that really is is based so much around personality personality of the performers i think when i listen to this track i can really feel the audience and i can feel that vibe and i think this is why musicians don't tire particularly you know jazz and blues music musicians songwriters they don't tire of playing in front of an audience because what you're giving and what you're getting back is so unique every time so even if you're really you know you've played the song 100 times thousand times however many times every audience is different every audience gives you something new there's always somebody there that you know you maybe you like the look of or you haven't seen before and you think oh i wonder who they are you know a bit nosy and um or or perhaps you know your mood is changed and and it comes through the music as you perform it and this this is what makes live music so incredibly beautiful to be a part of you can't really get that from a recording because the recording is the same every time you play it so i do hope that you get the opportunity to go to lots of live gigs um very very soon it looks like we're in for a bit of a harsh winter here in the united kingdom i think they're talking about uh yet another christmas lockdown which is uh not ideal i must say and we've booked a christmas dinner but i suppose that's the least of one's worries is having to cancel christmas dinner um but it's such a shame isn't it and i just hope that you know myself and the band a telltale club band and you know all of our endeavors can bring a little bit of unity and company from around the world so this is called solace and it was written by scott joplin i really i think around 1909 something like that and he wrote the maple leaf rag these ragtime pieces they they're quite um they're quite similar so they're not necessarily easy to differentiate from if you're not an expert but i don't think there's any need to i think you get that you get the vibe um and i like this one it was a total pleasure to play so i hope you enjoy it as much as i did and the band and take care

What a great day it is with all these fab stories! Welcome to all who pass on by.


auto textthe little peasant from grimm's fairy tales by jacob and wilhelm grimm translated by edgar taylor and marion edwards this librivox recording is in the public domain read by bob neufeld

there was a certain village wherein no one lived but really rich peasants and just one poor one whom they called the little peasant he had not even so much as a cow and still less money to buy one and yet he and his wife did so wish to have one one day he said to her listen i have a good idea there is our gossip the carpenter he shall make us a wooden calf and paint it brown so that it looks like any other and in time it will certainly get big and be a cow the woman also liked the idea and their gossip the carpenter cut and planed the calf and painted it as it ought to be and made it with its head hanging down as if it were eating next morning when the cows were being driven out the little peasant called the cow heard in and said look i have a little calf here but it is still small and has to be carried the cow heard said all right and took it in his arms and carried it to the pasture and set it among the grass the little calf always remained standing like one which was eating and the cow heard said it will soon run by itself just look how it eats already at nights when he was going to drive the herd home again he said to the calf if you can stand there and eat your fill you can also go on your four legs i don't care to drag you home again in my arms but the little peasant stood at his door and waited for his little calf and when the cow heard drove the cows through the village and the calf was missing he inquired where it was the cow heard answered i are still standing out there eating it would not stop and come with us but the little peasant said oh but i must have my beast back again then they went back to the meadow together but someone had stolen the calf and it was gone the cow heard said it must have run away the peasant however said don't tell me that and led the cowherd before the mayor who for his carelessness condemned him to give the peasant a cow for the calf which had run away and now the little peasant and his wife had the cow for which they had so long wished and they were heartily glad but they had no food for it and could give it nothing to eat so it soon had to be killed they salted the flesh and the peasant went into the town and wanted to sell the skin there so that he might buy a new calf with the proceeds on the way he passed by a mill and there sat a raven with broken wings and out of pity he took him and wrapped him in the skin but as the weather grew so bad and there was a storm of rain and wind he could go no farther and turned back to the mill and begged for shelter the miller's wife was alone in the house and said to the peasant lay yourself on the straw there and gave him a slice of bread and cheese the peasant ate it and laid down with his skin beside him and the woman thought he is tired and has gone asleep in the meantime came the parson the miller's wife received him well and said my husband is out so we will have a feast the peasant listened and when he heard them talk about feasting he was vexed that he had been forced to makeshift with a slice of bread and cheese then the woman served up four different things roast meat salad cakes and wine just as they were about to sit down and eat there was a knocking outside the woman said oh heavens it is my husband she quickly hid the roast meat inside the tile stove the wine under the pillow the salad on the bed the cakes under it and the parson in the closet on the porch then she opened the door for her husband and said thank heaven you are back again there is such a storm it looks as if the world were coming to an end the miller saw the peasant lying on the straw and asked what is that fella doing there ah said the wife the porn knave came in the...

Oh, new favourite poem. I am very surprised I never heard this as my name is Sarnia and I am nearly 60.

Sarnia Bound
To the Sarnian shores, I´ll set my course
when the sky at dawn turns pale,
And the sea waves glow with sun-streaked foam
and a chill wind fills the sail.

Till the end of day, I’ll make my way
out across the boundless deep,
While a sea bird spreads his wings o’erhead,
and the sun sinks down to sleep.

Then beneath a looming midnight moon
will my ghostly vessel glide
Over ocean waves that rock their babe
all throughout the long night-tide.

And though none will tell, I’ll ring the bell
when a distant rock I glean;
“Land ahoy!” I’ll cry to the sea and sky,
To the empty hold unseen.

And the waves will churn, my heart will burn
as the waning shades grow short;
And a wafting wind will blow me in
To a bustling Sarnian port!

A ❤️ great selection of shorts by our author today from the Internet Archive. Share the seasonal wonder of Christmas, Thanksgiving and New Year too.

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A warm welcome from the crew at Toddle Poddle and a couple of poems to get you in the mood for today.

A wonderful start to the week with lots of super stories from the catalogue of children's archival books. Tradition and fantsy in short stories to keep shildren amused all day are our biggest reading shelf here at the Tale Teller Club Library.
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the golden bird from grimm's fairy tales by jacob and wilhelm grimm translated by edgar taylor and marian edwards 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 bob neufeld a certain king had a beautiful garden and in the garden stood a tree which bore golden apples these apples were always counted and about the time when they began to grow ripe it was found that every night one of them was gone the king became very angry at this and ordered the gardener to keep watch all night under the tree the gardener set his eldest son to watch but about 12 o'clock he fell asleep and in the morning another of the apples was missing then the second son was ordered to watch and at midnight he too fell asleep and in the morning another apple was gone then the third son offered to keep watch but the gardener at first would not let him for fear some harm should come to him however at last he consented and the young man laid himself under the tree to watch as the clock struck twelve he heard a rustling noise in the air and a bird came flying that was of pure gold and as it was snapping at one of the apples with its beak the gardener sun jumped up and shot an arrow at it but the arrow did the bird no harm only it dropped a golden feather from its tail and then flew away the golden feather was brought to the king in the morning when all the council was called together everyone agreed that it was worth more than all the wealth of the kingdom but the king said one feather is of no use to me i must have the whole bird then the gardener's eldest son set out and thought to find the golden bird very easily and when he had gone but a little way he came to a wood and by the side of the wood he saw a fox sitting so he took his bow and made ready to shoot at it then the fox said do not shoot me for i will give you good counsel i know what your business is and that you want to find the golden bird you will reach a village in the evening and when you get there you will see two ins opposite to each other one of which is very pleasant and beautiful to look at go not in there but rest for the night in the other though it may appear to you to be very poor and mean but the son thought to himself what can such a beast as this know about the matter so he shot his arrow at the fox but he missed it and it set up its tail above its back and ran into the wood then he went his way and in the evening came to the village where the two inns were and in one of these were people singing and dancing and feasting but the other looked very dirty in pool i should be very silly said he if i went to that shabby house and left this charming place so he went into the smart house and ate and drank at his ease and forgot the bird and his country too time passed on and as the eldest son did not come back and no tidings were heard of him the second son set out and the same thing happened to him he met the fox who gave him the good advice but when he came to the two inns his eldest brother was standing at the window where the merrymaking was and called to him to come in and he could not withstand the temptation but went in and forgot the golden bird and his country in the same manner time passed on again and the youngest son too wished to set out into the wide world to seek for the golden bird but his father would not listen to it for a long while for he was very fond of his son and was afraid that some ill luck might happen to him also and prevent his coming back however at last it was agreed...

The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song
by Frederick Walker Mott

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section one of the brain and the voice in speech and song this is a librivox recording all infobox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by maria james the brain and the voice in speech and song by f w mott section one preface the contents of this little book formed the subject of three lectures delivered at the royal institution on the mechanism of the human voice and three london university lectures at king's college on the brain in relation to speech and song i have endeavored to place this subject before my readers in a simple language as scientific accuracy and requirements permit where i have been obliged to use technical anatomical and physiological terms i have either explained their meaning in the text aided by diagrams and figures or i have given in brackets the english equivalents of the terms used i trust my attempt to give a sketch of the mechanism of the human voice and how it is produced in speech and song may prove of interest to the general public and i even hope that teachers of voice production may find some of the pages dealing with the brain mechanism not unworthy of their attention f w mott london july 1910 the brain and the voice in speech and song in the following pages on the relation of the brain to the mechanism of the voice in speech and song i intend as far as possible to explain the mechanism of the instrument and what i know regarding the cerebral mechanism by which the instrument is played upon in the production of the singing voice and articulate speech before however passing to consider in detail the instrument i will briefly direct your attention to some facts and theories regarding the origin of speech theories on the origin of speech the evolutionary theory is thus propounded by romanus in his mental evolution in man pages 377-399

quote starting from the highly intelligent and social species of anthropoid ape as pictured by darwin we can imagine that this animal was accustomed to use its voice freely for the expression of the emotions uttering danger signals and singing possibly it may also have been sufficiently intelligent to use a few imitative sounds and certainly sooner or later the receptual life of this social animal must have advanced far enough to have become comparable with that of an infant of about two years of age that is to say this animal although not yet having begun to use articulate signs must have advanced far enough in the conventional use of natural signs assigned with a natural origin in tone and gesture whether spontaneously or intentionally imitative to have admitted of a totally free exchange of receptual ideas such as would be concerned in animal wants and even perhaps in the simplest forms of cooperative action next i think it probable that the advance of receptual intelligence which would have been occasioned by this advance in sign making would in turn have led to a development of the latter the two thus acting and reacting on each other until the language of tone and gesture became gradually raised to the level of imperfect pantomime as in children before they begin to use words at this stage however or even before it i think very probably vowel sounds must have been employed in tone language if not also a few consonants eventually the action and reaction of receptual intelligence and conventional sign making must have ended in so far developing the former as to have admitted of the breaking up or articulation of vocal sounds as the only direction in which any improvement in vocal sign making was possible close quote romanus continues his sketch by referring to the probability that this important stage in the development of speech was greatly assisted by the already existing habit of articulating musical notes supposing our progenitors to have resembled the...

Some of the highlights from the last few months here at the TTC with compositions and live performances by the Tale Teller Club and Vapor Punk.

hi so um welcome to saturday night live and i'm going to um pop this up you'll hear it repeating through the night um but i've popped a lot of stuff up a lot of music stuff stuff up and i'm sort of clearing my catalogue now this is called black jeans and this was the very first thing that i did when i was i was very very lucky to receive funding from future venture for an arts project or for artist development and they gave me money for equipment but i hadn't worked out how to use anything yet and although they had bought me a microphone i hadn't worked out how to use it so i actually recorded this um with garageband and a phone and so the very first thing it's around somewhere you can hear it i'm not sure where it is anymore but it was the demo which i i don't have access to anymore um but that was you know pretty grim but i just wanted to kind of get used to things and understand and i was experimenting because that's what i do i'm an experimental electronic musician and um anyway this one i remastered when i bought logic pro well i didn't buy it i got a free um uh trial but then i went to buy it and they don't make it anymore so i'm sort of i don't they don't make the one the version that works with my computer so i have to wait now to get logic pro again when i you know when i can upgrade my computer which i just can't do so i'm not sure if i can get logic pro 10 anywhere that's the one i need so maybe you can tell me if you're listening to this anyway this was recorded on my phone the cello part and the vocals all the vocals in there were recorded on my phone and then it was mastered on logic pro 10.5 um and now it's here and i like it i really like it and see what you think enjoy it um and i'm going to pop another one up that i did in a minute called cowboy which is equally as interesting and i do understand that you know the the thing is when you work with editing software you get better and better and better at it the more you do it's like anything isn't it it's like my cello you know when i play cello um since lockdown my well i only started cello in during lockdown so you know it's really rocketed my my skill level and it's interesting that that happens with um software as well because you think well it's just there you know what have you got how um creative can it be but it can be incredibly creative and what you learn to do actually is you know the limitations and the possibilities of your software and and you work within that um that sort of paradigm you know you've got the formula there you know you think right but if i play this note on my cello i know that i can bend it or i can pitch shift it or i can put loads of reverb on it or i can do this or do that or whatever or you know and you you think ah it's a bit like a painter so you want to make um blue blue is it blue you make with green and yellow so blue and yellow makes green i think it's that way around you i should know i've been a painter for years and you think yourself right i want i i know that i can make something with with what i have in front of me um and therefore i'm going to make it do you see um i hope that made sense it's a bit convoluted but i i i'm trying to say i think that you get better and better so you will improve however i really like my old stuff because it shows me a very naive and trusting way of working working without knowledge and without understanding and it's very freeing to do that actually and it also makes for more interesting work you know before i realized how to make a pop song the stuff that i was doing was less poppy and now that i know how to make a pop song i find myself you know drawn into that rather ugly horrendous formula um so naivety is a really good thing it can be really a state of bliss darling it's a state of bliss anyway here is black jeans it's a...