A fabulous concept with the internal monologue from the horse's viewpoint. This has been made into films and TV shows and is familiar to many through the visual medium.

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chapter 4 of black beauty this librivox recording is in the public domain black beauty by anna sewell chapter 4 berthwick park at this time i used to stand in the stable and my coach was brushed every day until it shone like a rook's wing it was early in may when there came a man from squire gordon's who took me away to the hall my master said goodbye [ __ ] be a good horse and always do your best i could not say goodbye so i put my nose into his hand he patted me kindly and i left my first home as i lived some years with squire gordon i may as well tell something about the place squire gordon's park skirted the village of bertwig it was entered by a large iron gate at which stood the first lodge and then you trotted along on a smooth road between clumps of large old trees then another lodge and another gate which brought you to the house and the gardens beyond this lay the home paddock the old orchard and the stables there was accommodation for many horses and carriages but i need only describe the stable into which i was taken this was very roomy with four good stalls a large swinging window opened into the yard which made it pleasant and airy the first stall was a large square one shut in behind with a wooden gate the others were common stalls good stalls but not nearly so large it had a low rack for hay and a low manger for corn it was called a loose box because the horse that was put into it was not tied up but left loose to do as he liked it is a great thing to have a loose box into this fine box the groom put me it was clean sweet and airy i never was in a better box than that and the sides were not so high but that i could see all that went on through the iron rails that were at the top he gave me some very nice oats he patted me spoke kindly and then went away when i had eaten my corn i looked around in the stall next to mine stood a little fat grey pony with a thick mane and tail a very pretty head and a pert little nose i put my head up to the iron rails at the top of my box and said how do you do what is your name he turned round as far as his halter would allow held up his head and said my name is merry leggs i am very handsome i carry the young ladies on my back and sometimes i take our mistress out in the low chair they think a great deal of me and so does james are you going to live next door to me in the box i said yes well then he said i hope you were good tempered i do not like anyone next door who bites just then a horse's head looked over from the stall beyond the ears were laid back and the eye looked rather ill-tempered this was a tall chestnut mare with a long handsome neck she looked across to me and said so it is you who have turned me out of my box it is a very strange thing for a cult like you to come and turn a lady out of her own home i beg your pardon i said i have turned no one out the man who brought me put me here and i had nothing to do with it and as to my being a cult i am turned four years old and i'm a grown-up horse i never had words yet with horse or mare and it is my wish to live at peace well she said we shall see of course i do not want to have words with a young thing like you i said no more in the afternoon when she went out merry legs told me all about it the thing is this said merry legs ginger has a bad habit of biting and snapping that is why they call her ginger and when she was in the loose box she used to snap very much one day she bit james in the arm and made it bleed and so miss flora and miss jessie who were very fond of me were afraid to come into the stable they used to bring me nice things to eat an apple or a carrot or a piece of bread but after ginger stood in that box they dared not come and i missed them very much i hope they will now come again if you do not bite or...

Wonderfully read by Tadhg who reads all the chapters for us.
A great book about a love triangle.

a pair of blue eyes chapter one 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 tag heinz a pair of blue eyes by thomas hardy chapter one

a fair vestal throned in the west alfreda swan court was a girl whose emotions lay very near the surface their nature more precisely and as modified by the creeping hours of time was known only to those who watched the circumstances of her history personally she was a combination of very interesting particulars whose rarity however lay in the combination itself rather than in the individual elements combined as a matter of fact he did not see the form and substance of her features when conversing with her and this charming power of preventing a material study of herlini mints by an interlocutor originated not in the cloaking effect of a well-formed manner for her manner was childish and scarcely formed but in the attractive crudeness of the remarks themselves she had lived all her life in retirement and the monstrary digital of idle men had not flattered her and at the age of 19 or 20 she was no further on in social consciousness than an urban young lady of fifteen one point in her however you did notice that was her eyes in them was seeing a sublimation of oliver it was not necessary to look further there she lived these eyes were blue blue as autumn distance blue as the bluey sea between the retreating moldings of hills and woody slopes on a sunny september morning a misty and shady blue that had no beginning or surface and was looked into rather than at as to her presence it was not powerful it was weak some women can make their personality pervade the atmosphere of a whole banqueting hall alfredo's was no more pervasive than that of a kitten

alfreda had as her own the thoughtfulness which appears in the face of the madonna and de la cenia without its rapture the warmth and spirit of the type of woman's feature most common to the beauties mortal and immortal of rubens without their insistent fleshiness the characteristic expressions of the female faces of corregio that of the yearning human thoughts that lie too deep for tears was hers sometimes but seldom under ordinary conditions the point in alfreda swan court's life at which a deeper current may be said to have permanently set in was one winter afternoon when she found herself standing in the character of hostess face to face with a man she had never seen before moreover looking at him with a miranda-like curiosity and interest that she had never yet bestowed on a mortal on this particular day her father the vicar of a parish on the sea swept outskirts of laura wessex and a widower was suffering from an attack of gout after finishing her household supervisions elfrida became restless and several times left the room ascended the staircase and knocked at her father's chamber door come in was always answered in a hearty out-of-door voice from the inside papa she said on one occasion to the fine red-faced handsome man of forty who puffing and fitting like a bursting bottle lay on a bed wrapped in a dressing gown and every now and then enunciating in spite of himself about one letter of some word or words that were almost olds papa will you not come downstairs this evening she spoke distinctly he was rather deaf afraid not very much afraid i shall not tell frieda i can't bear even a handkerchief upon this juiced toe of mine much less a stocking or slipper there it is again no i shank it up till then i hope this london man won't come for i don't know what i should do papa well it would be awkward certainly i should hardly think you would come today why they're because the wind blows so twinned what ideas you have alfreda who ever heard of wind stopping a man from doing his business the idea of this...

This is a great book and I had to feature it today. It will also be on the live show soon as a free night book.
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chapter one of eight girls and a dog this is the liver vox recording all over box recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit liverfox.org eight girls and a dog by carolyn chapter one pillows and pictures is there any way to pack pillows and pictures said margie framing herself in the front doorway one hand grasping recklessly the handles the three large pictures in both arms full of sofa pillows the group on the veranda looked up at her doubtfully yes said brilliant man have your pictures bigger than your pillows and the thing is done but the pillows are bigger than the pictures then pack the pictures in the pillows said betty why of course betty you're a genius and margie disappeared with her burdens while the girls on the veranda fell to chattering again like half a dozen shirt-wasted magpies now i know that a story with eight heroines is an imposition upon even the gentlest of readers but you see there were eight girls in the blue ribbon cooking club and when their president marjorie bond proposed they go down to long beach and spend a fortnight all by themselves in her father's cottage the whole club rose up as one girl and voted i objections were disposed of as fast as they were raised permission the girls were sure that the 16 parents concerned could be persuaded to see the matter in a favorable light expense that should be divided equally among them all trouble would be more than compensated by the fun luggage not so very much required the house was completely furnished except with linen and silver and each girl should take her share burglars that idea caused some apprehension but when marjorie said that uncle ned and aunt molly would be right next door plans were suggested significant to scare any reasonably cautious burglar out of his wits and so the preliminaries had been arranged and the date decided upon and the day had come it was thursday morning when they were to leave on the noon train and now although 10 o'clock had struck six sailor-headed girls were gathering on the bonds veranda hurriedly making final arrangements and frantically trying to remember what were the most important things they had forgotten it's like a fire jessie carroll was saying you know people always say their old trash and leave their best things to burn up now i'm sure i've packed just the very things we won't want left home the things we'll need the most and that reminds me man can't i put my best hat in your box i just had to take my down comfortable and it was so puffy it wouldn't leave room for anything else oh don't take your best hat cried betty miller we're not going down to the long beach to dress up in be giddy it's so late in the season none of the summer boarders will be there and we're going to wear flannel frocks all day and [ __ ] in the woods and lull in the hammocks and get brown as berries and hungry as hunters and uncivilized as as hot and tots yes betty but remember somebody has to cook for these hungry hot and tots said mrs bond smiling aren't you afraid girls that you'll get tired of cooking and you'll find that there is a great deal of work connected with housekeeping if you do it all yourselves oh no indeed mrs bond said man kellogg i just love to cook and i don't mind housework a bit mama thinks it will be good training for me such doings exclaimed grandma bond a lovely old lady of the silver haired apple cheeked variety living on chafing dish foolery for two weeks you'll all be ill or starving to death in three days and you'll wish yourselves back in your comfortable homes now we grandma cried betty we have a gas stove and a range besides our beloved chafing dish and we won't starve but if nan makes our welsh rare...

Tale Teller Club Presentation of Witch of the Glens by Sally Watson Free Audiobook Teens Adventure Inverness Scotland, available to all.

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Chapter 1 The Historical Background. A Tale Teller Classic from our open access Library and the Fount.

A gentle subtle comedy was originally written for Punch Magazine observing the Victorians in daily life.


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the diary of a nobody by george and whedon gross smith read for librivox.org by martin clifton chapter one we settle down in our new home and i resolve to keep a diary tradesman troubles a bit so does the scraper the curette calls and pays me a great compliment my dear wife carrie and i have just been a week in our new house the laurels brickfield terrace holloway a nice six-roomed residence not counting basement with a front breakfast parlor we have a little front garden and there is a flight of 10 steps up to the front door which by the way we keep locked with the chain up

cummings going and our other intimate friends always come to the little side entrance which saves the servant the trouble of going up to the front door thereby taking her from her work we have a nice little back garden which runs down to the railway we were rather afraid of the noise of the trains at first but the landlord said we should not notice them after a bit and took two pounds off the rent he was certainly right and beyond the cracking of the garden wall at the bottom we have suffered no inconvenience after my work in the city i like to be at home what's the good of a home if you are never in it home sweet home that's my motto i'm always in of an evening our old friend going may drop in without ceremony so may cummings who lives opposite my dear wife caroline and i are pleased to see them if they drop in on us but carrie and i can manage to pass our evenings together without friends there is always something to be done a tin tac here a venetian blind to put straight a fan to nail up or part of a carpet to nail down all of which i can do with a pipe in my mouth i'll carry is not above putting a button on a shirt mending a pillow case or practicing the silvia gavot on our new cottage piano on the three-year system manufactured by w bilson in small letters from collard and collard in very large letters it is also a great comfort to us to know that our boy willie is getting on so well in the bank at oldham we should like to see more of him now for my diary april the 3rd tradesman called for custom and i promised farmerson the ironmonger to give him a turn if i wanted any nails or tools by the by that reminds me there is no key to our bedroom door and the bells must be seen to the parlor bell is broken and the front door rings up in the servant's bedroom which is ridiculous dear friend gowing dropped in but wouldn't stay saying there was an infernal smell of paint

april the fourth tradesman still calling carrie being out i arranged to deal with horwin who seemed a civil butcher with a nice clean shop ordered a shoulder of mutton for tomorrow to give him a trial carrie arranged with borset the butterman and ordered a pound of fresh butter and a pound and a half of salt ditto for the kitchen and a shilling's worth of eggs in the evening cummings unexpectedly dropped in to show me a mirchon pipe he had won in a raffle in the city and told me to handle it carefully as it would spoil the coloring if the hand was moist he said he wouldn't stay as he didn't care much for the smell of paint and fell over the scraper as he went out must get the scraper removed or else i shall get into a scrape i don't often make jokes april the 5th two shoulders of mutton arrived carrie having arranged with another butcher without consulting me gowing called and fell over scraper coming in must get that scraper removed april the sixth eggs for breakfast simply shocking sent them back to borsit with my compliments and he needn't call any more for orders couldn't find an umbrella and though it was boring with rain had to go without it sarah said mr guy must have took it by mistake last night as there was a stick in the all that didn't belong to nobody in the evening hearing someone talking in a loud voice to the servant...

For older kids, teens, and adults, The Tale Club will be featuring the whole book on our Sci-Fi All Nighter this week.
Superb novel that remains better than some of the films and is a great way to spend some time.

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Great read and even better listen. This Tale Teller Feature with also is live on our all-night Tale Teller Show.

chapter 1 of the report on unidentified flying objects this librivox recording is in the public domain recording by roger moline the report on unidentified flying objects by edward ruppelt chapter 1 project blue book and the ufo story

in the summer of 1952 a united states air force f-86 jet interceptor shot at a flying saucer this fact like so many others that make up the full flying saucer story has never before been told i know the full story about flying saucers and i know that it has never before been told because i organized and was chief of the air force's project blue book the special project set up to investigate and analyze unidentified flying object or ufo reports ufo is the official term that i created to replace the words flying saucers there is a fighter base in the united states which i used to visit frequently because during 1951 1952 and 1953 it got more than its share of good ufo reports the commanding officer of the fighter group a full colonel and command pilot believed that ufos were real the colonel believed in ufos because he had a lot of faith in his pilots and they had chased ufos in their f-86s he had seen ufos on the scopes of his radar sets and he knew radar the colonel's intelligence officer a captain didn't exactly believe that ufos were real but he did think that they warranted careful investigation the logic the intelligence officer used in investigating ufo reports and in getting answers to many of them made me wish many times that he worked for me on project blue book one day the intelligence officer called me at my base in dayton ohio he wanted to know if i was planning to make a trip his way soon when i told him i expected to be in his area in about a week he asked me to be sure to look him up there was no special hurry he added but he had something very interesting to show me when we got wind of a good story project blue book liked to start working on it at once so i asked the intelligence officer to tell me what he had but nothing doing he didn't want to discuss it over the phone he even vetoed the idea of putting it into a secret wire such extreme caution really stopped me because anything can be coated and put in a wire when i left dayton about a week later i decided to go straight to the fighter base planning to arrive there in the mid-morning but while i was changing airlines my reservations got fouled up and i was faced with waiting until evening to get to the base i called the intelligence officer and told him about the mix-up he told me to hang on right there and he would fly over and pick me up in a t-33 jet as soon as we were in the air on the return trip i called the intelligence officer on the interphone and asked him what was going on what did he have why all the mystery he tried to tell me but the enderphone wasn't working too well and i couldn't understand what he was saying finally he told me to wait until we returned to his office and i could read the report myself report if he had a ufo report why hadn't he sent it into project blue book as he usually did we landed at the fighter base checked in our parachutes may wests and helmets and drove over to his office there were several other people in the office and they greeted me with the usual question what's new on the flying saucer front i talked with them for a while but was getting impatient to find out what was on the intelligence officer's mind i was just about to ask him about the mysterious report when he took me to one side and quietly asked me not to mention it until everybody had gone once we were alone the intelligence officer shut the door went over to his safe and dug out a big thick report it was the standard air force reporting form that is used for all intelligence reports including ufo reports the intelligence officer told me that this was the only existing copy he said...

A very interesting talking book. Whether you believe in UFOs or not, this book is based on true reports from the 1950s.
A great listen for enquiring minds.

vchapter 2 of the report on unidentified flying object this librivox recording is in the public domain recording by roger moline the report on unidentified flying objects by edward ruppelt chapter 2 the era of confusion begins

on september 23rd 1947 the chief of the air technical intelligence center one of the air force's most highly specialized intelligence units sent a letter to the commanding general of the then army air forces the letter was in answer to the commanding general's verbal request to make a preliminary study of the reports of unidentified flying objects the letter said that after a preliminary study of ufo reports atic concluded that to quote from the letter the reported phenomena were real the letter strongly urged that a permanent project be established at atic to investigate and analyze future ufo reports it requested a priority for the project a registered code name and an overall security classification atic's request was granted and project sign the forerunner of project grudge and project bluebook was launched it was given a 2a priority 1a being the highest priority an air force project could have with this the air force dipped into the most prolonged and widespread controversy it has ever or may ever encounter the air force grabbed the proverbial bear by the tail and to this day it hasn't been able to let loose the letter to the commanding general of the army air forces from the chief of atic had used the word phenomena history has shown that this was not a too well chosen word but on september 23rd 1947 when the letter was written atic's intelligence specialists were confident that within a few months or a year they would have the answer to the question what are ufos the question do ufos exist was never mentioned the only problem that confronted the people at atic was were the ufos of russian or interplanetary origin either case called for a serious secrecy shrouded project only top people at atic were assigned to project sign although a formal project for ufo investigation wasn't set up until september 1947 the air force had been vitally interested in ufo reports ever since june 24 1947. the day kenneth arnold made the original ufo report as arnold's story of what he saw that day has been handed down by the bards of saucerism the true facts have been warped twisted and changed even some points in arnold's own account of his sighting as published in his book the coming of the saucers do not jibe with what the official files say he told the air force in 1947 since this incident was the original ufo sighting i used to get many inquiries about it from the press and at briefings to get the true and accurate story of what did happen to kenneth arnold on june 24 1947 i had to go back through old newspaper files official reports and talk to people who had worked on project sign by cross-checking these data and talking to people who had heard arnold tell about his ufo sighting soon after it happened i finally came up with what i believe is the accurate story arnold had taken off from chahelis washington intending to fly to yakima washington about 3 o'clock p.m he arrived in the vicinity of mount rainier there was a marine corps c-46 transport plane lost in the mount rainier area so arnold decided to fly around a while and look for it he was looking down at the ground when suddenly he noticed a series of bright flashes off to his left he looked for the source of the flashes and saw a string of nine very bright disc shaped objects which he estimated to be 45 to 50 feet in length they were traveling from north to south across the nose of his airplane they were flying in a reversed echelon that is lead object high with the rest stepped down and as they flew along they weaved in and out between the mountain peaks once passing...

The Tale Teller Club does have a sci-fi section but this is REAL!!!! 🛸
Super to listen, check the skies, we may not be alone.

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