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  Speaker 1: Chapter one of the Cruise of the Noah's Ark. This
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  Speaker 1: is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox dot org. The Cruise of the Noah's Ark by
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  Speaker 1: David Cory, Chapter one. All aboard A stands for animal,
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  Speaker 1: aunt or ape, quite different in spelling as well as
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  Speaker 1: in shape. Oh dear, sighed Marjorie. I'm tired of writing
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  Speaker 1: in this old copy book. What's the use of making
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  Speaker 1: the letters just like the copy anyhow? Mother, doesn't her
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  Speaker 1: capitals are very different. B stands for bruin, be your bug.
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  Speaker 1: The b has a sting and the bear has a hug.
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  Speaker 1: Oh dear, sighed Marjorie again, while she rested her head
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  Speaker 1: on her arm and looked over at Noah's Ark. And
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  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, something very strange happened. Mister
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  Speaker 1: Noah came out of his little arc and said, you
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  Speaker 1: had better come with us, for it's going to rain
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  Speaker 1: for forty days and forty nights, and goodness knows where
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  Speaker 1: this nursery will be by the end of that time,
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  Speaker 1: probably floating about half full of water in the apple orchard.
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  Speaker 1: Do you really mean it, asked Marjorie, gazing anxiously out
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  Speaker 1: the window at the rain which was falling in Torrents.
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  Speaker 1: I certainly do, replied mister Noah, And then Missus Noah
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  Speaker 1: poked her head out of the little window in the ark.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to mister Noah, my dear, for he was certainly
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  Speaker 1: right the first time, and why shouldn't he be now.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Noah smiled and walked across the table towards the
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  Speaker 1: little yellow hen shoe. He cried as the contrary fowl
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  Speaker 1: tried to dodge around a toy automobile shoe. There. You
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  Speaker 1: know you can't swim like missus duck, so why don't
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  Speaker 1: you have some sensing get aboard out of harm's way.
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  Speaker 1: As he finished speaking, water began to pour over the windowsill,
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  Speaker 1: and soon the nursery floor was ankled eap. Marjorie stood
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  Speaker 1: on a chair, and, climbing upon the table, walked over
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  Speaker 1: to the ark. On her way, she picked up her
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  Speaker 1: rag doll, Maria Jane, and the little toy automobile. Hurry,
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  Speaker 1: my dear, cried mister Noah. Here comes the water over
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  Speaker 1: the edge of the table. As it was Maria Jane
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  Speaker 1: was splashed a bit, and so was the automobile before
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  Speaker 1: it was pushed through the narrow doorway, for the Ark
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  Speaker 1: was rolling from side to side in rather a dangerous manner.
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  Speaker 1: Make everything tight, close the hatches and the portholes, commanded
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  Speaker 1: Captain Noah, for now that they were actually afloat, this
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  Speaker 1: seemed like the proper title form, And in a few
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  Speaker 1: minutes it was comfortable and snug inside. And then all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden a big wave carried them over the
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  Speaker 1: window sill and out into the garden. But it didn't
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  Speaker 1: look very much like the garden, for only the tops
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  Speaker 1: of the rose bushes could be seen, and the roses
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  Speaker 1: rested on the water like the pond lilies. And then
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  Speaker 1: away sailed the Ark across the garden, over the fence,
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  Speaker 1: down the road until it reached an open space. The ocean, cried,
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  Speaker 1: Missus Noah. Nonsense, exclaimed Marjorie. I beg your pardon, Missus Noah.
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  Speaker 1: I meant it's Uncle Spencer's meadow. Why there's Tim. Let's
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  Speaker 1: save him. And Marjorie ran down to the lower floor
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  Speaker 1: of the Ark and commenced to unfasten the door. Careful,
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  Speaker 1: my dear, cried, Captain Noah, what are you about. Oh hurry,
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  Speaker 1: captain begged Marjorie Tim Uncle Spencer's dog is in the
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  Speaker 1: water and I want to bring him aboard. Here, mates,
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  Speaker 1: bring me a life line, shouted Captain Noah. And in
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  Speaker 1: less time than I can take to tell it, the
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  Speaker 1: line was thrown to the little dog, who managed to
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  Speaker 1: catch hold of it with his teeth just in time,
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  Speaker 1: for the ark was going at a tremendous rate of speed.
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  Speaker 1: Don't haul it in too fast, advised Captain Noah, as
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  Speaker 1: his three sons began pulling the rope, or he'll be
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  Speaker 1: drawn under the water and smothered before we can get
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  Speaker 1: him aboard. At last, the little dog was landed safely
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  Speaker 1: on the deck. Everybody ran away from him to avoid
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  Speaker 1: getting a shower bath as he shook himself again and again.
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  Speaker 1: Well you've all proved to be a brave life saver,
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  Speaker 1: said missus Noah. Now I'll give him some warm milk
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  Speaker 1: and dry him by the kitchen fire, where he may
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  Speaker 1: get a severe cold. Goodness knows what would happen if
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  Speaker 1: he gave it to all the other animals and they
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  Speaker 1: all got to sneezing and coughing at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: And then the good woman took the little dog down
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  Speaker 1: into the hold of the ark, where the pantry and
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen were, and he was soon fast asleep by
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  Speaker 1: the stove, none the worse for his wedding. It was
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  Speaker 1: now time for supper, so Missus Noah busied herself preparing
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  Speaker 1: the evening meal, while Captain Noah and his three sons, Ham,
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  Speaker 1: Sham and Jayfeth fed the animals. This was not an
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  Speaker 1: easy matter, for each animal had a different taste, and
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  Speaker 1: the fodder had to be carefully measured so as to
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  Speaker 1: give each one enough and no more. The elephant ate
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  Speaker 1: almost a bale of hay for each meal, and the
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  Speaker 1: lion ate about twenty large Delmonico steaks. It's lucky we
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  Speaker 1: haven't a whale on board, said Captain Noah, as he
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  Speaker 1: rolled a bale of hay up to missus Elephant at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, warning Ham not to give the lion
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  Speaker 1: a surloin steak. By mistake, you might feed the pigs too,
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  Speaker 1: he added, wiping his forehead with a red bordered handkerchief.
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  Speaker 1: They seem to like you, Ham, I guess they consider
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  Speaker 1: you one of the family, Marjorie thought. The rabbits were
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  Speaker 1: very pretty. But just as she was about to play
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  Speaker 1: a game of hide and seek with them, the supper
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  Speaker 1: bell rang, and as soon as the three Noah boys
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  Speaker 1: had washed their hands and combed their hair, they came
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  Speaker 1: to the table. Shem pulled out his mother's chair and
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  Speaker 1: ham politely helped Marjorie with hers. It was all very
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  Speaker 1: interesting to the little girl, and when Missus Noah looked
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  Speaker 1: over at her and said in a motherly way, I
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  Speaker 1: always wanted a little girl of my own, Marjorie felt
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  Speaker 1: quite at home. Thank you, ma'am, she said, but I
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  Speaker 1: think you have very nice boys. After the supper table
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  Speaker 1: was cleared and the dishes washed, Missus Noah and Marjorie
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  Speaker 1: went up on deck, where they found Captain Noah contentedly
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  Speaker 1: smoking his pipe. The three boys were having a merry
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  Speaker 1: time with the little dog. The rain had stopped and
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  Speaker 1: the sky was full of stars. I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: much of a rainfall we have had this time, said
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  Speaker 1: Captain Noah, but it must have been pretty heavy, for
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  Speaker 1: there seems to be as much water around as there
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  Speaker 1: was when it rained for forty days and forty nights,
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  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, a harsh grating noise
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  Speaker 1: was heard, and everybody jumped up. Have we struck a rock?
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  Speaker 1: Inquired missus Noah anxiously, I don't know, answered Captain Noah,
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  Speaker 1: peering over the side, I can't see bottom. Suddenly the
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  Speaker 1: arc stopped all together. Guess we're on ground now, all right,
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  Speaker 1: said j Peth. It's all too dark to tell much
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  Speaker 1: about it, though, No it isn't, cried a deep gurgling voice,
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  Speaker 1: and their astonished eyes saw the head of a whale
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  Speaker 1: rise above the bow. I have a passenger for you,
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  Speaker 1: continued the whale. He doesn't like his present mode of travel,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm going to ship him over to you. How
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  Speaker 1: do you know we want him, inquired Captain Noah, going
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  Speaker 1: forward to investigate. We have a pretty full house as
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  Speaker 1: things are. And besides, he might be a Jonah. That's
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  Speaker 1: just who he is, spouted the whale with a gleeful gurgle,
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  Speaker 1: and before anyone could say Jack Robinson, mister Jonah appeared
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  Speaker 1: on the deck of the Ark, and with a swish
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  Speaker 1: of his great tail, the whale disappeared into the darkness.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry if I'm intruding, said mister Jonah apologetically, But the
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  Speaker 1: truth is it was so dark and uncomfortably inside that
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  Speaker 1: whale that I would have had nervous prostration had I
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  Speaker 1: been obliged to remain there another minute, well, said Missus Noah,
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  Speaker 1: slowly looking mister Jonah over and seeing that he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: such a bad looking person after all, although a trifle damp.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see how we get along. By this time, Marjorie
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  Speaker 1: began to feel tired. Would you mind, she said, turning
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  Speaker 1: to Missus Noah if I went to bed. I feel
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  Speaker 1: so sleepy, and it's been long past Maria Jane's bedtime.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure come right along with me, answered Missus Noah. Kindly,
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  Speaker 1: good night all, said Marjorie, following Missus Noah into the ark.
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  Speaker 1: You shall sleep in the room next to mine, said
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  Speaker 1: Missus Noah, turning to the little girl with a smile
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  Speaker 1: as she led the way into the pretty bedroom. Would
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  Speaker 1: you like me to unfasten your dress for you? I
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  Speaker 1: think I can manage that, replied Marjorie. But if you
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't mind, I'd like to have you wait and tuck
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  Speaker 1: me in bed after I've said my prayers. I can't
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  Speaker 1: very well tuck in the sheets at the side after
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  Speaker 1: I'm once in so good kind motherly missus. Noah tucked
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  Speaker 1: in the little girl and kissed her good night, and
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  Speaker 1: in a few minutes she was fast asleep, with her
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  Speaker 1: arms tightly clasped around her rag doll Maria Jane. End
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  Speaker 1: of chapter one. All aboard chapter two of The Cruise
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  Speaker 1: of the Noah's Ark. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 1: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. The Crews
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  Speaker 1: of the Noah's Ark by David Cory, Chapter two. Cocka
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  Speaker 1: doodle doo, Cock a doodle doo. My master's lost a shoe.
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  Speaker 1: But what's the use of an excuse? A rubber boodle doo?
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  Speaker 1: Marjorie leaped out of bed and ran over to the
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  Speaker 1: window to see where the ark had drifted during the night.
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  Speaker 1: To her surprise, it was aground on the roof of
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  Speaker 1: a big barn. And goodness me, didn't the weathercock look
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  Speaker 1: handsome with his gilded feathers shining brightly in the rays
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  Speaker 1: of the morning sun as he turned to and fro
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  Speaker 1: with every little chain of the wind. Good morning, said Marjorie,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it a beautiful day? I don't feel sure about anything,
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  Speaker 1: replied the weathercock. I used to be a jolly weathercock,
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  Speaker 1: but now with all this water around, I feel more
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  Speaker 1: like a lighthouse. Then why didn't you warn us off
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  Speaker 1: the reef, I mean the roof, asked Marjorie. I did,
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  Speaker 1: but everybody was asleep and no one paid attention to me.
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  Speaker 1: And just then the wind came in a sudden gust,
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  Speaker 1: and the weathercock flew around to face it. Goodness, he cried,
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  Speaker 1: I believe it's going to rain again. Ahoy, there, shouted
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  Speaker 1: Captain Noah from the deck below. Tell that gilt brooster.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to shove off. If he wants to come aboard,
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  Speaker 1: he'd better be quick about it. Would you like to
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  Speaker 1: come with us, asked Marjorie. I'd like to have you.
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  Speaker 1: I once read about a very nice weather cock in
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  Speaker 1: Old Mother Goose. Thank you, I think I will, replied
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  Speaker 1: the weathercock, hopping nimbly onto the flagpole of the ark.
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  Speaker 1: I shall feel more at home here, now that the
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  Speaker 1: green meadows have turned into an ocean. A barn is
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  Speaker 1: no place for a rooster when the water is above
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  Speaker 1: the hay loft. Marjorie had no time to answer, for
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  Speaker 1: just then the rain began to fall in torrents, making
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  Speaker 1: it necessary to close the window. In a few minutes,
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  Speaker 1: the ark began to quiver and shake, and then, with
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  Speaker 1: a loud, grating noise, it slipped off the bridge of
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  Speaker 1: the roof and once more floated down the tide. Good
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  Speaker 1: Bye Red Barn with your loft of hay. We're off
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  Speaker 1: on a voyage to far away, crowed the weathercock, and
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  Speaker 1: then Marjorie waved her hand from behind the window pane
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  Speaker 1: and ran down to breakfast, where in a few minutes
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  Speaker 1: the family were all seated around the table. What did
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  Speaker 1: you give the pigs for supper last night, asked Captain Noah,
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  Speaker 1: looking at Ham suspiciously. Why, father, asked Ham in a
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  Speaker 1: low voice. Because they don't seem well this morning. I
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  Speaker 1: gave them some green apples, said Ham. Ill replied Captain Noah.
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  Speaker 1: Don't know, as that should make him ill. I chased
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  Speaker 1: him around the deck. What in thunder did you do
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  Speaker 1: that for, asked his father. I wanted to see them
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  Speaker 1: slide when they turned the corner, said Ham sheepishly. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: they were seasick, interposed Missus Noah, who began to feel
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  Speaker 1: sorry for Ham. Perhaps they weren't, said Captain Noah sternly,
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  Speaker 1: I think, young man, you had better be locked up
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  Speaker 1: in the brig for the rest of the day and
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  Speaker 1: fed on bread and water. We can't afford to have
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  Speaker 1: any passengers abused by the crew. And then he turned
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  Speaker 1: to Marjorie and smiled, even if one of the crew
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  Speaker 1: happens to be the captain's son. And after that, poor
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  Speaker 1: Ham was solemnly marched up to the brig and locked in,
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  Speaker 1: much to Marjorie's regret, for she liked him very much,
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  Speaker 1: although he was the most mischievous of all Captain Noah's sons.
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  Speaker 1: It was still raining heavily, and as the wind was
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  Speaker 1: blowing quite a gale, the sea became rough and the
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  Speaker 1: ark began to roll from side to side. Pretty soon,
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  Speaker 1: the animals grew uneasy, and strange noises came from many
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  Speaker 1: parts of the boat. The roar of the tiger mingled
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  Speaker 1: with the trumpeting of the elephant, and the howling of
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  Speaker 1: the wolf made a dreadful discord with the bellowing of
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  Speaker 1: the buffalo. Then the monkeys started to chatter, and the
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  Speaker 1: parrots to screech, the horses to neigh, and the pigs
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  Speaker 1: to squeak. The cows to moo, and the donkeys to bray,
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  Speaker 1: the wild hyena to laugh, and the little lambs to bleat.
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  Speaker 1: But luckily, towards evening the storm went down, and if
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  Speaker 1: it had not, I guess missus Noah would have gone crazy.
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  Speaker 1: The dove, which was most quiet and peaceful of all
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  Speaker 1: the passengers, perched herself on Marjorie's shoulder. You shall sleep
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  Speaker 1: in my cabin, said the little girl, stroking its glossy neck.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you'd never get a wink of sleep if
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  Speaker 1: you had to stay below decks Tonight. Toward evening, the
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  Speaker 1: weather grew calm, and after supper, the rain having stopped,
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  Speaker 1: Marjorie went on deck for some fresh air. The weathercock,
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  Speaker 1: on seeing the dove perched on the little girl's shoulder,
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  Speaker 1: called out politely, Good evening, ladies. Aren't you glad it
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  Speaker 1: cleared off, asked Marjorie, looking up with a smile. Indeed,
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  Speaker 1: I am, he replied, swinging around on one toe like
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  Speaker 1: a dancer, isn't he graceful? Coot the dove in Marjorie's ear, Ssh,
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  Speaker 1: she answered, don't let him hear you. He might get conceited.
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  Speaker 1: What are you talking about down there? Asked the weathercock. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: nothing in particular, answered the dove. I was just receiving
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  Speaker 1: a little advice from Marjorie. Well you probably won't use it,
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  Speaker 1: said the weathercock, so you may just as well hand
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  Speaker 1: it over to me. My how curious you are, laughed Marjorie.
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  Speaker 1: You'd be too, answered the weathercock, if you were in
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  Speaker 1: the habit of having the winds tell you each day
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  Speaker 1: what was going on. It's not so much curiosity as habit.
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  Speaker 1: Just then, Missus Noah called Marjorie, I think you'd better
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  Speaker 1: come in. It's too damp outside, my dear, The cabin
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  Speaker 1: looked very cozy. Missus Noah was seated by the table
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  Speaker 1: knitting a pair of socks for the captain, and the
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  Speaker 1: three boys were writing in their copy books. I think,
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  Speaker 1: my dear, said Missus Noah. Kindly, it would be a
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  Speaker 1: good thing for you to do a little studying each day.
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  Speaker 1: So Marjorie seated herself at the table, and Missus Noah
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  Speaker 1: opened a writing book and laid it before her. With
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  Speaker 1: a cry of surprise, Marjorie turned to Missus Noah, why
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  Speaker 1: it's the very copy book I have at home. A
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  Speaker 1: stands for animal, aunt or ape quite different in spelling
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  Speaker 1: as well as in shape. The very same, cried Marjorie. Again,
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  Speaker 1: see how well you can make the capital letters, suggested
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  Speaker 1: Missus Noah. If you fill in this book nicely, you
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  Speaker 1: can take it home with you and show your mother
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  Speaker 1: how well you employed your time aboard the ark. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, cried Marjorie. That would be lovely. Mother is
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  Speaker 1: always worrying about my handwriting. I shall try my best
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  Speaker 1: to improve. Missus Noah then turned to look at Ham's book.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a very good sea you've just made, she said. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you see, answered Ham with a laugh. The sea is
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  Speaker 1: so rough that it bade my sea rough too. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: laughed at Ham's witty excuse, what's all this levity about,
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  Speaker 1: asked Captain Noah, entering the cabin. Cooh, said the little dove.
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  Speaker 1: Coo said she and they all lived together in the
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  Speaker 1: big green tree. Hello, exclaimed Captain Noah forgetting his own question.
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  Speaker 1: The dove's spouting poetry. Eh, Well, we'll have to give
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  Speaker 1: an entertainment. There must be lots of talent on board,
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  Speaker 1: plenty of material for a circus anyhow, how jolly, exclaimed Marjorie.
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  Speaker 1: I'll make a ring tomorrow, said j Peth. I've already
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  Speaker 1: trained one of the little pigs to walk in its
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  Speaker 1: hind legs, said Ham. It's the white one with the
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  Speaker 1: pink nose. The elephant and I are great friends, said Shem.
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  Speaker 1: I think you'd do anything, I asked him tonight. When
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  Speaker 1: I rolled up his bale of hay, he said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: young man, look out for my toes, and then he
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  Speaker 1: stood up on top of the bail on his hind legs,
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  Speaker 1: just as they do in the circus. I'll bet I
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  Speaker 1: can make him do lots of stunts. Just you wait
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  Speaker 1: until you see my wrestling monkeys, cried Ham. I've talked
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  Speaker 1: two of them already. They'll be better than a moving
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  Speaker 1: picture show. My goodness, I think you have very clever boys,
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  Speaker 1: said Marjorie, who was tickled to death to think that
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  Speaker 1: they were going to have a circus. Miss Noah did
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  Speaker 1: not reply at once. I guess she was thinking it over. Well,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps they are, she said, by and by. I never
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  Speaker 1: thought of it in just that way. I'm afraid I've
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  Speaker 1: always thought of them as mischievous. What time shall we
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  Speaker 1: have the circus, asked Ham, not too soon after breakfast,
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  Speaker 1: said Captain Noah. I don't want any sick animals aboard.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be careful, said Jpeth. Let's go to bed now
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  Speaker 1: so as to wake up bright and early tomorrow. End
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  Speaker 1: of chapter two. Cock a Doodle Do. Chapter three of
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  Speaker 1: the Cruise of the Noah's Ark. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 1: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. The
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  Speaker 1: Cruise of the Noah's Ark by David Cory. Chapter three,
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  Speaker 1: The Circus. The arc goes ailing down the bay upon
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  Speaker 1: the rushing tide, and the circus will commence today with
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  Speaker 1: the animals safe inside. This is the song the weathercock sang.
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  Speaker 1: Early the next morning, Marjorie rubbed her eyes and then
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  Speaker 1: jumped out of bed and looked out the window. Good morning,
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  Speaker 1: she said to the merry gilt rooster. It's a fine
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  Speaker 1: day for the circus. That was a pretty verse you
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  Speaker 1: just sang. Did you just make it up?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, said the weathercock proudly. Just couldn't help it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the circus doesn't come to town every day in the week.
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  Speaker 1: Well after that, Marjorie hurried down to the breakfast table,
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  Speaker 1: where she found mister Jonah seated with the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the family. She had forgotten all about him, and so
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  Speaker 1: did I. And maybe you have two for you. See,
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  Speaker 1: mister Jonah hadn't been feeling very well and had remained
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  Speaker 1: in his cabin since the day he'd left the whale.
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  Speaker 1: It's certainly a relief to be once more at a
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  Speaker 1: breakfast table, he said. Traveling inside a whale is like
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  Speaker 1: sailing in a submarine, although a whale is supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be neutral. Nevertheless, I was frightened to death for fear
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  Speaker 1: we might be torpedoed. Yes, indeed, sighed missus Noah, these
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  Speaker 1: awful times. One isn't safe anywhere. That's right, exclaimed Captain Noah.
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  Speaker 1: We must keep a sharp lookout. There's no telling how
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  Speaker 1: soon we may be in the war zone, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: responsible for the safety of all my passengers. And just
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  Speaker 1: then the weathercock shout. It's something which sounded very much
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  Speaker 1: like periscope. Well you can imagine how excited everybody was
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  Speaker 1: after that. Where away, asked Captain Noah. Dead ahead, screamed
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  Speaker 1: the weathercock. Instantly all eyes were turned in that direction.
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  Speaker 1: Some distance ahead stretched a long, smooth, sandy beach, on
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  Speaker 1: which was a huge billboard with the words Parry's slope, Bah,
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  Speaker 1: exclaimed Captain Noah. Perry's slope isn't periscope. Well, I'm glad
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  Speaker 1: it isn't. Are we going ashore, asked mister Jonah. Looks
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  Speaker 1: like it, answered Captain Noah. The arc is pointed for
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  Speaker 1: the beach. Hope we don't bump too hard. Some of
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  Speaker 1: the animals might get hurt. The arc was going at
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  Speaker 1: a fast clip, and as they neared the shore, everyone
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  Speaker 1: clung tightly to the railing hold Fast, shouted the weathercock.
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  Speaker 1: As the bow touched the beach. In another minute, the
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  Speaker 1: arc skimmed gracefully over the sand with as much ease
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  Speaker 1: as it had sailed upon the ocean. Wonderful boat, you have,
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  Speaker 1: exclaimed mister Jonah, looking at Captain Noah ought to be
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  Speaker 1: proud of her. She's a dandy. Before the latter had
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  Speaker 1: time to reply, the ark stopped and everyone rushed towards
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  Speaker 1: the gangplank. Let it down, easy, commanded Captain Noah. Easy there,
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  Speaker 1: Why the ark's on wheels, cried Marjorie as she stepped
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  Speaker 1: on the sandy beach, regular automobile wheels. Well, I declare,
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  Speaker 1: exclaimed missus Noah, so it is. Let's call it the Arkmobile,
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  Speaker 1: suggested Ham. Just the thing, said Shem. Don't you think so? Father?
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  Speaker 1: Captain Noah did not reply for a moment, for he
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  Speaker 1: was busily engaged inspecting the bottom of the ark. I
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  Speaker 1: was looking to see if it were built to run
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  Speaker 1: on the land, he replied, or whether it just went
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  Speaker 1: this far on account of its momentum. What's that noise,
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  Speaker 1: asked j Peth. Sounds like the engine of an automobile,
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  Speaker 1: answered Shem. It's coming from the arc, cried Ham. Captain
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  Speaker 1: Noah hurriedly went below. Presently he returned, smiling with satisfaction.
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  Speaker 1: There's a regular automobile engine in the way aft, he said,
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  Speaker 1: and it's connected with a shaft so that we'll turn
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  Speaker 1: the wheels. We'll have no difficulty in traveling on land.
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  Speaker 1: Hoorah for the Arcmobile, shouted Ham. On land or on sea,
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  Speaker 1: wherever we may be. The Arkmobile is the thing for me,
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  Speaker 1: saying Marjorie, skipping about on the sand, over sand, over foam,
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  Speaker 1: wherever we may roam, The Arkmobile will carry us home,
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  Speaker 1: sang the weather cock. And then he said, I guess
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  Speaker 1: I'll come down from the flagpole if you're going to
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  Speaker 1: camp here. If you're not, I'll stay where I am,
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  Speaker 1: for it's a pretty good climb, and I'm not much
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  Speaker 1: of a sailor as of yet. Let's stay here and
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  Speaker 1: have the circus, said Ham. We can make a splendid
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  Speaker 1: ring in the sand. In fact, we can have three
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  Speaker 1: rings if we want to. All we have to do,
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  Speaker 1: you know, is to throw up the sand in a circle.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone agreed that it was an ideal spot, so the
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  Speaker 1: boys set to work at once. Miss Noah made Marjorie
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  Speaker 1: a wonderful dress covered with gold spangles. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: ride the big white horse, just like a circus rider,
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  Speaker 1: cried Marjorie. And I shall stand up on the saddle
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  Speaker 1: and jump through my hoop. Ham can hold it, of
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  Speaker 1: course I will, he cried, looking up from his work.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll be jolly glad when this ring is finished.
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  Speaker 1: I had no idea it would take so long. Orrah,
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  Speaker 1: mine's finished, cried Jpeth. And so is mine, shouted Shem.
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  Speaker 1: Well I think mine's the biggest of all, said Ham.
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  Speaker 1: It must be, or i'd have finished when you, fellows did.
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  Speaker 1: Father ought to put on his dress suit, said Shem,
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  Speaker 1: and snap the whip when Marjorie rides around the ring,
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  Speaker 1: you know, just the way they do in a real circus,
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  Speaker 1: Great Scott, exclaimed Captain Noah overhearing the remark, as he
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  Speaker 1: descended the gangplank. I didn't bargain for this, but I
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  Speaker 1: suppose I might as well put it on, and he
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  Speaker 1: turned back into the ark. The sound of hammering at
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  Speaker 1: the moment reached them. What's going on, asked Ham. Let's see,
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  Speaker 1: suggested shem. But before they reached the gangplank, mister Jonah
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  Speaker 1: appeared on His legs were strapped a pair of stilts,
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  Speaker 1: which made him at least eight feet high. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: be the giant, he said with a laugh, bumping down
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  Speaker 1: the gangplank in a clumsy manner. I say, Missus Noah,
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  Speaker 1: could you sow the legs of an old pair of
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  Speaker 1: trousers on to mine so the stilts won't show? Of
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  Speaker 1: course I can't, replied Missus Noah, bursting into laughter. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm afraid they won't match. In due course of time,
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  Speaker 1: Marjorie's circus dress was finished and the giant's trousers lengthened,
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  Speaker 1: the upper part being blue, the lower part being gray,
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  Speaker 1: but perfectly satisfactory to the wear. Everyone was now waiting
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  Speaker 1: impatiently for Captain Noah, when suddenly his head appeared at
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  Speaker 1: one of the portholes. Mother, he called, where are my
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  Speaker 1: white dressed ties? I can't find them anywhere, So Missus
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  Speaker 1: Noah laid down her work basket and went into the
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  Speaker 1: ark to find them, and in a few minutes Captain
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  Speaker 1: Noah appeared in full dress, his silk hat upon his
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  Speaker 1: head and a long whip in his hand. He came
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  Speaker 1: down the plank. Jpeth led the big white horse, and
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  Speaker 1: after helping Marjorie to mount, led him to the center ring.
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  Speaker 1: Shen then opened the big door in the ark, and
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  Speaker 1: all the animals solemnly marched out and arranged themselves around
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  Speaker 1: the rings. Next came Ham leading his two wrestling monkeys,
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  Speaker 1: and after him came Shen with his elephant. Mister Jonah,
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  Speaker 1: towering above the heads of the tallest animals, including the giraffe,
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  Speaker 1: announced that the circus would commence, ladies and gentlemen, He began,
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  Speaker 1: allow me to introduce you to the most wonderful child
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  Speaker 1: rider in the world, Marjorie Hall on her beautiful white horse, Marshmallow. Marjorie,
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  Speaker 1: without doubt is the most daring bareback rider in the universe.
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  Speaker 1: There was a great clapping of hands, hoofs, and palls
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  Speaker 1: at this announcement, for she had become a great favorite
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  Speaker 1: with the Noah's Ark people, ladies and gentlemen went on,
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  Speaker 1: mister Noah, you see you before you in ring number
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  Speaker 1: two the most famous wrestlers of the world, Jocko and
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  Speaker 1: Manco in ring number three is the largest elephant in existence.
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  Speaker 1: While all this was going on, the Noah Boys had
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  Speaker 1: run into the ark. Presently they returned dressed up as clowns,
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  Speaker 1: and then the fun commenced. Ham held up a hoop
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  Speaker 1: which he had carefully covered with tissue paper, and to
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  Speaker 1: Missus Noah's amazement, Marjorie leapt through it as if she
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  Speaker 1: had been a circus bareback rider all her life. The
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  Speaker 1: boys performed marvelous feats of tumbling and jumping, and were
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  Speaker 1: so funny that half the animals nearly split their sides
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  Speaker 1: with laughing. The laughing hyena had to be carried into
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  Speaker 1: the ark and put to bed, for fear she would
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  Speaker 1: laugh herself to death. Well well, exclaimed Missus Noah when
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  Speaker 1: it was all over, I certainly never enjoyed the circus
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  Speaker 1: so much in all my life, not even when I
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  Speaker 1: was a little girl. And that night everyone slept like
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  Speaker 1: a top let me tell you, for each one was
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  Speaker 1: tired out what the day's work. Even the weathercock, I think,
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  Speaker 1: tucked his head under his gilt wings and snored. End
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  Speaker 1: of chapter three The Circus. Chapter four of the Cruise
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  Speaker 1: of the Noah's Ark. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 1: or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. The Cruise
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  Speaker 1: of the Noah's Ark by David Cory, Chapter four, The
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  Speaker 1: Majesty of the Law. Wake up, Wake up. We're off again,
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  Speaker 1: over hill and over plain. The archmobile on sea or
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  Speaker 1: land can sail away at our command again. The weathercock
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  Speaker 1: awoke little Marjorie on board the Noah's Ark where we
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  Speaker 1: left her in the last chapter. You remember it was
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  Speaker 1: the morning after the circus, and she probably would have
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  Speaker 1: slept much later had not the faithful bird, as usual,
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  Speaker 1: sung his bit of verse. You see, this wonderful weathercock
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  Speaker 1: was just like an alarm clock. Where's the ocean? Asked Marjorie,
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  Speaker 1: looking out the window. Why we're traveling on land? Of
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  Speaker 1: course we are, answered the weathercock. Didn't you see the
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  Speaker 1: wheels on the bottom of the ark yesterday? So I did,
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  Speaker 1: admitted Marjorie. I'd forgotten all about them. Well, how did
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  Speaker 1: you like my poetry? You see? I make up a
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  Speaker 1: new verse every morning so as to be sure to
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  Speaker 1: wake you up. I think you're a great poet, answered
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  Speaker 1: the little girl. The weathercock got very red in the gills.
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  Speaker 1: I guess that's the only way he could blush. So
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  Speaker 1: let the rain or sunshine come across the land, will swiftly, hum.
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  Speaker 1: We are prepared for rain or shine, for dusty road
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  Speaker 1: or foamy brine orrah, shouted the elephant from down below. Bravo, sir,
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  Speaker 1: chant clear. You'll have to excuse me now, said Marjorie
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  Speaker 1: to the weathercock, for I must pull on my shoes
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  Speaker 1: and stockings and brush my hair. You don't have to
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  Speaker 1: bother about such things, you know. That's one advantage of
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  Speaker 1: being a weathercock. After breakfast, as they all sat in
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  Speaker 1: the cabin, Captain Noah remarked, I'm getting a trifle worried.
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  Speaker 1: You see, I can't tell by the barometer whether the
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  Speaker 1: arc is floating or wheeling. Now that is rather important
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  Speaker 1: if we keep on this way, I shall have to
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  Speaker 1: get a speedometer. It wouldn't be very nice to be
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  Speaker 1: arrested for breaking the speed laws and be locked up
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  Speaker 1: in jail. Missus Noah turned pale, and the weathercock shifted
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  Speaker 1: about uneasily on top of the flagpole. No, indeed, he said,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to be a jailbird. Well, what's the
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  Speaker 1: best thing to do, asked Missus Noah. Count the telegraph
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  Speaker 1: poles as we go along, suggested Ham. I think they're
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  Speaker 1: about thirty to a mile, and see how long it
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  Speaker 1: takes us to pass them. That's a good idea, said
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  Speaker 1: mister Jonah. But when they looked out of the portholes,
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  Speaker 1: they couldn't find any telegraph poles. And just then, all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, a pistol shot rang out, clear and loud.
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  Speaker 1: The arcmobile came to a sudden stop, and a voice
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  Speaker 1: outside was heard to exclaim, where's the chauffeur. Captain Noah
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  Speaker 1: rushed up on deck, followed by his family, mister Jonah
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  Speaker 1: and Marjorie. What's the matter, asked Captain Noah, looking about
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  Speaker 1: to find the owner of the voice. Oh that's what
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  Speaker 1: they all say, came the reply, you know jolly well,
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  Speaker 1: what's the matter? Who are you and where are you?
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  Speaker 1: Asked Captain Noah, vainly trying to find this remarkable person
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  Speaker 1: who seemed to be nothing but a voice. Who am I?
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  Speaker 1: You'll find out pretty quick? Where am I? You'd better
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  Speaker 1: find out even quicker. Looking up to the weathercock, Captain
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  Speaker 1: Noah shouted, ahoy there, look out, who's delaying us? The
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  Speaker 1: majesty of the law. Came the answering voice again, this
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  Speaker 1: time so distinctly that everyone turned in the direction from
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  Speaker 1: which it came, and then a huge megaphone on the
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  Speaker 1: top of a post repeat the majesty of the law.
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  Speaker 1: Well I'll be blowed, exclaimed Captain Noah. You have exceeded
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  Speaker 1: the speed limit, said the megaphone, and you are fined
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  Speaker 1: fifteen dollars. Oh, interposed missus Noah. I'm sure you must
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  Speaker 1: be mistaken. I'm sure we were not exceeding a fifteen
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  Speaker 1: dollars worth, so am I added mister Jonah. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think we were exceeding anything. We were just
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  Speaker 1: rolling along, didn't you know, quite comfortably? Well, suppose I
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  Speaker 1: haven't the money with me, asked Captain Noah. Fifteen days
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  Speaker 1: in jail, answered the megaphone. Mercy, cried Missus Noah. Don't worry,
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  Speaker 1: whispered Captain Noah. I'll borrow the money from mister Jonah.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Jonah was very obliging and lent the money, saying
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  Speaker 1: he had had no chance to spend a cent while
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  Speaker 1: he was aboard the whale. Now where shall I put
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  Speaker 1: the money, asked Captain Noah. The little box back of me,
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  Speaker 1: replied the megaphone, and as soon as the money was
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  Speaker 1: dropped in, the megaphone shouted. The prisoner is discharged. Prisoner,
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  Speaker 1: shouted Captain Noah, as mad as a hornet, how dare
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  Speaker 1: you call me a prisoner? But before they had time
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  Speaker 1: to say another word, the arcmobile started off and the
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  Speaker 1: megaphone was left behind. Jehosa fat, exclaimed Captain Noah, wiping
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  Speaker 1: the perspiration from his forehead with his red bordered handkerchief.
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  Speaker 1: Bad enough to be robbed of fifteen dollars, but to
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  Speaker 1: be called a prisoner, well that does make me angry.
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  Speaker 1: Never mind, my dear, said Missus Noah, soothingly. All's well
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  Speaker 1: that ends well. Just think if we hadn't been able
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  Speaker 1: to borrow that fifteen dollars we'd have spent fifteen days
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  Speaker 1: in jail, and then all of a sudden, the weathercock
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  Speaker 1: shouted everybody in the cabin, water dead ahead. My goodness me,
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  Speaker 1: you should have seen the animals pulled their heads in
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  Speaker 1: through the portholes. Poor missus draft didn't get hers inside
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  Speaker 1: in time, and her bonnet got soaking wet. For as
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  Speaker 1: soon as the Arc struck the water, the spray flew
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  Speaker 1: here and there and everywhere, and the deck was flooded
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  Speaker 1: ankle deep. But the Arc was a sturdy craft, and
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  Speaker 1: as soon as it once more felt the ocean beneath
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  Speaker 1: it rode the waves as gracefully as a swan. I
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  Speaker 1: guess we won't be fine for speeding now, laughed Marjorie.
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  Speaker 1: And in the next chapter you shall hear what further
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  Speaker 1: adventures she had aboard this wonderful Noah's Ark. End of
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  Speaker 1: chapter four, The Majesty of the Law.
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  Speaker 3: Chapter five of The Cruise of the Noah's Ark. This
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  Speaker 3: is all Whibbyvox recording. All wibrivox recordings are in the
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  Speaker 3: public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit
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  Speaker 3: libyvox dot org. The crews of the Noah's Bark by
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  Speaker 3: David cory Man. Overboard, wake up, wake up, and sing
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  Speaker 3: your song as we roll merrily along above the meadow,
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  Speaker 3: sings the lark. So let us sing aboard the ark.
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  Speaker 3: There goes the weather cock, cooed the dove, flying over
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  Speaker 3: to the porthole and looking out over the bright ocean.
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  Speaker 3: Tell him I'll get up in a minute beyond Marcherie.
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  Speaker 3: So the dove, who slept in Marjorie's cabin in a
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  Speaker 3: pretty gilt cage, spoke to the weather cock, after which
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  Speaker 3: she commenced to sing. There's a robin in the woodland,
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  Speaker 3: there's a robin in the sea. But they are just
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  Speaker 3: as different as different can be. The one that's in
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  Speaker 3: the forest has feathers and a tail. The one that's
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  Speaker 3: in the ocean has a scaly coat of nail. The
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  Speaker 3: robin in the forest could never take a swim. The
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  Speaker 3: robin of the ocean could never fly or skim across
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  Speaker 3: a grassy meadow, nor fly a binner tree. But he
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  Speaker 3: can do all kinds of stunts within the deep blue sea.
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  Speaker 3: Where did you learn all that? Asked Bargerie, pulling on
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  Speaker 3: her stockings. Listen, listen, there's another verse, and maybe two
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  Speaker 3: or three, cooed the dove, and then she began to
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  Speaker 3: sing again. The robin of the Woodland has a pretty
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  Speaker 3: crimson vest. He sings a merry, blessome song and builds
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  Speaker 3: a cozy nest. The robin of the Ocean haspins that
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  Speaker 3: look like wings. He does and build a nest at all.
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  Speaker 3: He grunts but never sings. Yet both of them are robins,
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  Speaker 3: as some of us have heard. Although the ocean want's
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  Speaker 3: a fish, the woodland on's a bird. Talk a little doo,
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  Speaker 3: crowed the weathercock as the dove finished her song. Hurrah
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  Speaker 3: for you, you are the poet of the Ark. Oh no,
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  Speaker 3: replied the modest little dove. That is not my own.
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  Speaker 3: My mother taught me that song when I was a
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  Speaker 3: Dovelet is that?
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  Speaker 4: So?
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  Speaker 3: Said the weather cocking. He gave a sigh of relief,
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  Speaker 3: for I guess he wanted to be the only poet
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  Speaker 3: on board the Ark and sing his little songs every morning,
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  Speaker 3: just as he had always done. By this time, Marjorie
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  Speaker 3: was dressed, and, taking the dove on her shoulder, went
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  Speaker 3: down to the dock. As usual, the Noah boys were
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  Speaker 3: on hand with great and glorious appetites. How are the
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  Speaker 3: animals this morning, inquired Captain Noah, helping himself to a
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  Speaker 3: big saucer of oatmeal. Pretty well, answered Jeffeth. Some of
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  Speaker 3: the insects are getting restless, said ham. I should say so,
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  Speaker 3: exclaimed missus Noah. Here's that big red aunt in the
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  Speaker 3: sugar bowl. Catch him, cried Shemp. We ought to put
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  Speaker 3: him back where he belongs. But the aunt all of
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  Speaker 3: a sudden crawled out of the sugar bull and ran
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  Speaker 3: down the leg of the table and out on the deck.
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  Speaker 3: There he goes, shouted Marjory, Quick or he'll get away,
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: cried Captain Noah. I can't afford to lose a single passenger. Instantly,
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  Speaker 3: the boys darted after the fleeing insect, but just as
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  Speaker 3: they were about to snatch him up from the deck,
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  Speaker 3: a wave washed him overboard. Man overboard, shouted the weather cock,
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  Speaker 3: and my goodness, what a commotion there was. After that,
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  Speaker 3: all the animals rushed up on deck to sea who
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  Speaker 3: had fallen into the ocean. Throw a life preserver, yelled
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  Speaker 3: mister Jonah. And in the second ham unfastened a large
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: horse collar life preserver and tossed it into the ocean.
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Suppose he can't reach it, said the elephant. I guess
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: I'd better jump in and save him. And overboard went
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: the big animal with a loud splash. Where is he
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: asked the elephant, after a looking around in Maine for
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: the ant, O, I can't see him, and no wonder,
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  Speaker 3: for the sea was rough and it was no easy
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  Speaker 3: matter to find so small a passenger. Get my telescope,
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  Speaker 3: yelled Captain Noah. I think it's in my work basket,
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: said Missus Noah to Ham, who started at once to
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: obey his father's command. If it isn't, it may be
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: in your tool chest. I think you had it the
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: other day when you were going to make an anti
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: aircraft gun out of it for your toy army. That's
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: where I found it, said Ham a minute later, appearing
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: breathless with the telescope wear abouts, screamed the elephant, who
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: was now some distance from the ark. Wait a minute,
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: can't you, yelled Captain Noah. I've got to with just
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: the thing. These boys have been meddling with it. When
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: this was finally done, Captain Noah slept the sea with
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  Speaker 3: his glass, but in vain the form of the poor
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  Speaker 3: ant was nowhere to be seen. Shiver my timbers, said
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  Speaker 3: Captain Noah under his breath. What will happen to me
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  Speaker 3: if I lose a passenger? Hurry up, gasped the elephant,
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  Speaker 3: now thoroughly worn out by the buffeting of the waves.
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  Speaker 3: Hurry up, almost in Well, we'll have to get you out, then,
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  Speaker 3: answered Captain Noah. Swim around to the fort side, said Ham,
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  Speaker 3: we'll hoist you up by the davits. I hate to
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  Speaker 3: give up looking for the ant, said the elephant, as
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: he slipped the ropes under his big body, and then,
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: after much tugging and hauling away on the ropes, he
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: was lifted up even with the deck. But beyond this
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: it was impossible to do anything. The davits refused to
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  Speaker 3: swing in, being hindered by the immense size of the animal.
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  Speaker 3: Put your trunk on a deck, suggested mister Jonah. That
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: will make you way less and perhaps we can roll
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  Speaker 3: you over the edge. Yes, that's a good idea, said Sham.
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  Speaker 3: Put your baggage aboard first. This is no time for joking.
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  Speaker 3: We have lost one passenger and are in danger of
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: losing another. It will look very strange to lose the
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: largest and the smallest on the same day, said poor
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: Captain Noah despairingly well. Just then Missus ellaph And came
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  Speaker 3: up from the hold. She had overslept herself and had
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: only now heard the commotion on deck. On seeing her
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  Speaker 3: mate swinging from the davits, she sat up a loud trumpeting.
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  Speaker 3: Good gracious Ella said the elephant. Don't carry on like that.
• 42:24
  Speaker 3: Screaming won't get me out. Get hold of me and
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: help pull. This was good advice, and pretty soon mister
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  Speaker 3: elephant was landed safely on board the ark. Just then
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: the weathercock called out that he could see the little
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: red ant on the life preserver. Thank goodness, exclaimed Captain Noah,
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: and the ark was turned in that direction pointed out
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  Speaker 3: by the faithful lookout. Then mister jonah Lee leaned over
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  Speaker 3: and pulled in the life preserver as the ark slowly
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: came a long side, and just in the nick of time,
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: for the poor aunt was nearly dead. Give him to me,
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: said Missus Noah. A little Jamaica ginger in a warm
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: blanket will bring him round. I guess well well, exclaimed
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: Captain Noah, as the motherly form of Missus Noah disappeared
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: down the companion way. This has been an exciting warning,
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: and then he wiped his forehead with his red bordered
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  Speaker 3: handkerchief and looked about him. All you animals go below deck,
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: he commanded, or else we'll have somebody else overboard. So
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: Missus Elephant led mister Elephant, who was wet to the
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: skin and shivering with the cold, down to the hold,
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: where she put him to bed, with a hot water
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: bag at his feet and a woolen nightcap on his head.
• 44:16
  Speaker 3: Are you going to put this down in your log book?
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: Asked Marjorie. I think it will make a very interesting story,
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: and I've heard from old sailors that they always put
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: down everything that happens in their log book. Of course
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: I will, answered Captain Noah. Bring me the log book, Jaffath.
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: You haven't done anything this morning. Suppose you jot it down.
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: I declare, I'm all tuckered out with excitement and worry.
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: You'd better lie down and rest, father, said Missus Noah,
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: coming up on deck. I have the aunt very comfortable now,
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: and I feel sure he will recover in a short time.
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: So Captain Noah went below to rest, and the little
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: dove perched herself on Marjorie's shoulder and watched Captain Noah's
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: son write in the log book, and what do you
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: suppose he wrote, Well, it was something like this, for
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: the little dove told me afterwards, the little red ant
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: fell into the sea, but oh dear you, and oh
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: dear me, and then the elephant, with a shout, jumped
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: in and tried to pull him out. But he wasn't
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: saved by the elephant. It was mister Jonah who saved
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: the aunt. And in the next chapter out tell you
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: more about Marjorie on board the Ark end of chapter five.
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  Speaker 2: Chapter six of The Crews of the Noah's Ark. This
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  Speaker 2: David Cory. Fire Fire, Fire, Fire, Fire. Marjorie awoke with
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: a start. The weathercock was again sounding the warning fire
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: Fire Fire, where cried Marjorie, looking out of the porthole
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: at the excited weathercock, and then down to the deck,
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: where at that moment Captain Noah and his sons appeared,
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: each armed with a pail. The fire evidently was at
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: the forward end of the ark, for Noah and his
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: crew ran that direction. It took Marjorie but a few
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: minutes to dress, and just as she reached the deck,
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: mister Jonah appeared. This is a poor way to put
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: out a fire, he said, as he tossed the water
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: from his pail down the hatchway, from which was rising
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: a thick cloud of smoke. We need a hose and
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: a pump. Hurry up, Jonah commanded Captain Noah. This fire
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: is getting too much headway to suit me. I'm afraid
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: the animals will be roasted if we don't put it
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: out pretty soon. As he finished speaking, the elephant rushed
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: on deck and, leaning over the side of the ark,
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: filled his trunk with water, which he immediately squirted over himself,
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: and then missus Elephant did the same. I was never
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: so warm before, she remarked, not even in India. If
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: I had stayed another minute below deck, I would have
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: been scarred for life. By this time, the deck was crowded.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: Some of the animals were nearly frightened to death, Some
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: were choking with the smoke, while others were filling the
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: air with noises of all kinds. It was as if
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: pandemonium were let loose, those animals which could climb were
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: soon scrambling to the roof of the ark, where they
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: set on, or clung desperately to the ridgepole. The deck
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: grew hotter and hotter, and it was necessary for every
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: one to dance about in order to keep his feet
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: from blistering. Holy sufferin mackerel, exclaimed Captain Noah, not realizing
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: the seriousness of the situation. Are we to be burned
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: at sea? Get the elephants to squirt water down the hold,
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: suggested Ham. Get busy, said Captain Noah to the elephants.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: Your trunks are nearly as good as hose. Why don't
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: you help us? What do you say, ella, said the elephant.
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: If we don't, we may have to swim later. Without answering,
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: she went forward and commenced, drawing up the salt water
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: in her trunk, and then sending it in a swift
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: stream down into the hold. The fire, however, was gaining fast,
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: and in spite of the efforts of the elephants and
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: the crew, the danger increased to an alarming extent, and
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: at last the flames leaped forth and crawled over the deck.
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: The animals howled and rushed at the stern of the ark,
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: which raised the boat high in the air and thus
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: added to the danger. If it would only rain, said
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: Missus Noah, who sat on a coil of rope, her
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: sealskin coat on her arm, and her jewel box in
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: her hand. If it would only rain, this can't be
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: the forty first day, can it? Time does go so fast? Well,
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: I guess something terrible would have happened if just then,
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: all of a sudden, the weathercock hadn't seen the whale
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: who had landed mister Jonah board some two or three
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: chapters ago. There's the whale, shouted the weathercock. See him spout,
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: run up a signal of distress, commanded Captain Noah. He
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: might save mister Jonah for old time's sake. If he'd
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: only get up close and spout water over the ark,
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: he'd put out the fire pretty quick, said ham. Good idea,
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: said Captain Noah. Ship a hoy, yelled mister Jonah, waving
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: his red bandanna handkerchief in the air. A hoy, A hoy.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: Then the whale stopped spouting and made for the ark.
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: He's coming, He's coming, shouted the weather cock. Don't stop
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: squirting water, said Captain Noah to the elephants. On with
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: a pale brigade, screamed ham. And then the monkeys slid
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: down from the roof and grabbed hold of the pails
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: and threw water down the hold. But still the cruel
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: flames crept nearer and nearer. Oh dear, sighed Missus Noah.
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: I'm afraid my seal skin coat will get singed, and
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: after all the trouble I've had putting it up in camphor.
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: And then all though a sudden, a tremendous stream of
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: water fell upon the ark, soaking every one to the skin.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: And soon the deck was a river, and the steam
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: that came out of the hole almost suffocated everybody. Goodness
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: be screamed Missus Noah. We'll be swamped. Hold on there,
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: shouted Captain Noah, leaning over the side of the ark,
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: where the whale lay like a fire patrol boat in action.
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: Hold on, turn off the hose or you'll drown us.
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: So the good natured whale shut off the water, while
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: Captain Noah added, a Turkish bath has nothing on this.
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: It was off. The kind of you to come to
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: our rescue, said Missus Noah, smiling sweetly at the whale
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: as she leaned over the railing. Well, if you hadn't
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: come just when you did, said Captain Noah, I guess
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: we'd all have gone down to Davy Jones's locker. Don't
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: mention it, said the whale. Glad to have been able
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: to do you a little favor. You see, he added
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: in a low voice, mister Jonah was never satisfied when
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: he was my guest. He was always complaining about the dampness.
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: So when you came along and I had a chance
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: to put him aboard the Ark, I was tickled to death.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: In fact, I was so glad to get rid of
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: my passenger that I made up this little poem. And
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: then the whale began to spout, it's not so very
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: pleasant when sailing on the sea to have a passenger
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: aboard whose sulky as can be. And that's the reason.
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: After dark I landed him aboard the ark. And after
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: that he swam away, and the Ark began once more
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: to skim over the dark blue sea, and by and by.
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: After a while, Captain Noah said, we'll have to make
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: new bunks and bursts for the animals. I guess, for
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: the fire has burned up everything. And oh dear me,
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: when he went below, he saw that everything was burned
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: to a cinder. We'll have to land somewhere and make repairs,
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: said mister Jonah. I guess we will, said Captain Noah.
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: And all the animals began to howl and make dreadful noises,
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: for they didn't want to go down in the smoky hole,
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: you see. And just then, all of a sudden, the
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: weather cock called out land to starboard, and sure enough,
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: looming up in the dim distance was a mountainous shore line.
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  Speaker 2: End of chapter six, read by Nancy Cochran Gergen Gilbert Arizona,
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: August twenty four, two thousand, twenty three. Chapter seven of
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: the Crews of the Noah's Ark. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 2: Cruise of the Noah's Ark by David Cory repairs A Hoy,
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: a hoy, mount ararat. Now we know where we are at.
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: Run the ark up high and dry, close against the
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: bright blue sky. Not a bit of it, shouted Captain Noah,
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: looking up at the weathercock. I don't propose to take
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: any chances running up that mountain side. Suppose our motorg
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: we'd be in a nice fix. We'll run up on
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: the shore and heave too. The ark, obeying Captain Noah's
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: guiding hand, swept upon the beach and came to a
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: standstill some two hundred feet from the water. We can
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: cut all the timber we need for repairs now, said Jafete,
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: looking over toward a big forest that lay back from
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: the beach. The animals too, can have a nice frolic
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: on the sand. It will do them good after being
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: cooped up on board ship for so long. And in
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: a short time the ark was empty and all the
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: animals were having a fine time making castles in the
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: sand and picking up pretty sea shells. And after a
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: while Captain Noah got out his axe and saw, and
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: calling to mister Jonah and his three boys, started off
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: for the forest. And as soon as he cut down
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: a tree, mister Jonah and the three boys sotted up
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: into logs. I guess we have enough now, said Captain Noah.
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: Guess we'd better start and split them in the planks.
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: This was not such easy work. But after a while
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: they had quite a pile of lumber on hand. If
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: we only had a wagon to haul the logs to
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: the ark, said Captain Noah, wiping his forehead with his
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: red bordered handkerchief. And just then Marjorie came riding down
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  Speaker 2: the gang plank in the Luloi autobile. I'll take them
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: back to the ark, she said. And after a while,
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: not so very long, they were all aboard. Well, by
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: this time it was pretty dark, and Captain Noah felt
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: uneasy about the animals, so he stood up on the
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: bow of the big boat and called out, all aboard
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: for the night, All the board for the night, he
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: called out again, And then he turned to little Marjorie
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  Speaker 2: and said, I'd never forgive myself if anything should happen
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: to any one of my passengers. But oh, dear me,
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: when Captain Noah, who had stood by the gangplank and
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: checked off each animal as he came aboard, found that
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: the little red squirrel was missing, he was dreadfully worried.
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: Goodness me, he exclaimed, if that squirrel has gone off
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: into the woods, how will we ever find him? Well,
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: there's no use in worrying, said Missus Noah, who just
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: then came up from below deck. Come down and get
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: a nice hot cup of tea. After you've eaten something,
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: you'll know better what to do. Well after supper, everybody
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: felt better, so Captain Noah and his crew came up
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: on deck to look for the lost squirrel. The moon
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: was just coming up out of the east, making a
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: silver path across the water right up to the ark.
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: As Captain Noah looked over the railing to the sand below,
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: he saw a little figure walking directly in a silver moonpath.
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: It seemed to be carrying something heavy, for it paused
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: every now and then to rest. It's a little red squirrel,
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: shouted Marjorie, So it is, said Captain Noah. Hello there,
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: he shouted, wait and I'll let down the gangplank.
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: Show.
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: But I'm tired, panted the red squirrel as he crawled
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: up on deck. This bag of nuts is as heavy
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: as lead. And then he let the well fell bag
• 57:08
  Speaker 2: slip from his shoulders to the deck. Don't you ever
• 57:11
  Speaker 2: stay out as late as this again, sir, said Captain Noah,
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: pulling in the gangplank and making it fast for the night.
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: If you do, you won't get sure leave for a
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: long time. I'm glad you're back, whispered Marjorie, for we
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: were all dreadfully worried about you. And this so pleased
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: the little red squirrel that he gave her a handful
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: of chestnuts. Come along with me, said Captain Noah, I'm
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: going below to see what the boys are doing. So
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: Marjorie and the little squirrel followed the captain without a word,
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: for they saw that he was somewhat vexed. Below deck,
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: all was in confusion, for the animals, after finishing their supper,
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: were trying to find places to sleep. All the mister
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: Jema and the boys had made the place as clean
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: as possible since the fire. They had not, of course,
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: been able in so short a time to replace the
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: bunks and pins in which the animals had slept. Everybody
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: was in everybody else's way. The smaller animals were squeezed
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: into corners by the larger ones, and the elephant complained
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: that the red aunt kept treading on his toes order order,
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: shouted Captain Noah, What are you doing, Jonah? And where
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: are you boys? He called out, peering into the darkness,
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: for of course all the electric lights were out and
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: the hole was in total darkness. Here we are, answered
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: mister Jonah. We're doing the best we can, and he
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: came out of the darkness and rested his pitchfork on
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: the floor while he wiped the perspiration from his forehead.
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: I was spreading out the straw for bedding, ham is
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: giving the pigs a drink before they go to bed.
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: And just then the other two boys appeared. What are
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: you doing here, Jeffeth asked the merely cow, which stood
• 59:00
  Speaker 2: by quietly chewing her cud. But the muley cow only
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: said oOoOO, Well, come along with me. All the cows
• 59:09
  Speaker 2: are at the other end of the ark. Don't be impatient,
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: said Captain Noah, for the muley cow was a very
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: gentle creature and never tried to bud any one with
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: her horns because she didn't have any. You know. While
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: all this was going on, Marjorie and the little squirrel
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: stood in the doorway. Glad you weren't lost, said Shem,
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: patting the squirrel on the back as if he were
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: a little pet dog. The other squirrel said they would
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: go to bed until you were found. Where are they
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: asked the little red squirrel. I'm pretty sleepy, and would
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: like to cuddle up for the night. And then he
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: swung his bag of DUTs over his shoulder and followed
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  Speaker 2: shm But before he went he whispered to Marjorie that
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  Speaker 2: he'd give her some hickory nuts in the morning. After
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  Speaker 2: a while, everything was made snug and tight for the night.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Jonah put away his pitchfork, and the boys hung
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: at the water pails. Then a lighted lantern was hung
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  Speaker 2: at each end of the cabin, and the evening chores
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: were done just the same as if they had been
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  Speaker 2: on a farm, you know. And after that, Margy went
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  Speaker 2: up on deck where the weathercock was sitting on the
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  Speaker 2: flagpole in the moonlight. Oh I love to be a
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  Speaker 2: sailor and sail the ocean blue. And hear the captain
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  Speaker 2: shout a hoy and ordered round the crew. And when
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  Speaker 2: the waves are rolling high the wind is blowing strong,
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  Speaker 2: I sing my cockadoodle do, just like a sailor's song. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a sailor rooster, and my name is Shanghai Jo,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll sail the sea from a to z. I'm
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  Speaker 2: a sailor bird. Heave ho. Well, I'm glad you're so happy,
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: said little Marjorie, and maybe she felt just a little
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: bit homesick, for she was far away from home. And
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: just then missus Noah came on deck and said, come, Madge,
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  Speaker 2: it's time for bed. And then she picked her up
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  Speaker 2: and carried her in your cabin and tucked her in
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  Speaker 2: for the night, as comfortable as you please. And in
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  Speaker 2: the next chapter, I'll tell you what happened in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: End of chapter seven. Read by Nancy Cochrane Gergen Gilbert, Arizona,
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  Speaker 2: August sixteenth, two thousand twenty three, Chapter eight of The
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  Speaker 2: Crews of the Nozark. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 2: of the Nozark by David Cory The Iceberg jingle bells,
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  Speaker 2: jingle bells as getting cold as ice, Put your furs
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  Speaker 2: and knittens on, Wrap up, warm and nice. Marjorie awoke
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: with a start. My how cold it was. The porthole
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: glass was covered with a network of frosty lace. And
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: the little love who slept in Marcher's cabin pulled her
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: head out from under her wing and shivered. What has happened?
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: Asked Marjorie, sitting up in bed and looking about her.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: Perhaps she expected to see Jack Frost sitting in the
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: rocking chair. Quickly pulling on her slippers, she ran to
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: the poorhole to ask her good friend, the weather cock,
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: the reason for this sudden drop in the temperature. She
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: found him, as usual, perched on the flag pole. His
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: comb was very red, as if Jack Frost had given
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: it a nip. And now and then he raised one
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  Speaker 2: leg to his breast to warm his toes in the
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: fluffy feathers. Good morning, said Marjorie. Isn't it freezing? Do
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: you wonder? Answered the weather cock, pointing to a large
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: iceberg close at hand. She turned to look, and sure enough,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: just a few feet away was a great mountain of ice.
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  Speaker 2: We're ground on an iceberg, went on the weather cock
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: ran into an ice floe last night, and the ark
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: slipped upon the ledge of the iceberg and grounded. Goodness gracious,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: cried Marjorie. What are we ever going to do? I'm
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: sure I don't know, answered the weather cock. I'll have
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: to get some woolen socks and a pair of felt shoes,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: or my toes will be frost bitten. Perhaps Missus Noah
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: will niche you a pair, said Marjorie. I'm going down
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: to breakfast now and I'll speak to her about it.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, replied the weather cock, and tell her I
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: wouldn't mind having a worsted muffler too. Down below, matters
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 2: were even worse, for the fresh water had frozen during
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: the night, so that it was impossible to give the
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 2: animals a drink. Missus Noah had been forced to melt
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: a piece of ice and a pan over the fire
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: in order to have butter with which to make the coffee. Phew,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 2: exclaimed Captain Noah, coming in from deck and closing the
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: door as quickly as possible. My hands are almost frozen.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: This is as bad as a trip to the North Pole,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: perhaps worse, for we are totally unprepared for this kind
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: of weather. Just then, mister Jonah and the boys came in,
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: rubbing their hands and stamping their feet to keep warm.
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  Speaker 2: Merry Christmas, laughed ann the Scathing's find that on the
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: ice floe, how shally, cried Marjorie. Let's go skating after breakfast, No,
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  Speaker 2: sir ee, said Captain Noah. The boys must help me
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: float the Ark, one of the rubber tired wheels is crushed,
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  Speaker 2: and it will take a lot of hard work to
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  Speaker 2: get her off. We'd better set about it as soon
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: as possible, said mister Jonah, after Captain Noah had made
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 2: an inspection. Some of the animals are nearly perishing with
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: the cold. The monkeys are rolled up so tight you'd
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  Speaker 2: think they were fer balls. Only the polar bears seem
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  Speaker 2: to enjoy life, and they are just crazy to take
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: a run on the ice. Let them wait, said Captain Noah.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: We have more serious things to attend to than pleasure
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: for the moment. Well, come and get a good hot
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: breakfast first, said Missus Noah, bringing in the steaming coffee
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: pot and a plate of hot corn muffins. After breakfast,
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: you'll all feel differently. This was indeed good advice, And
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: when breakfast was over, Captain Noah said, get the crowbar
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: and the wooden rollers to fast. We'll see if we
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  Speaker 2: can start the old ark moving. Maybe she's stuck too
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: deep in the ice, but we'll try it at any rate. Here,
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  Speaker 2: my little girl, said kind Missus Noah to Marjorie. Put
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  Speaker 2: on this muffler. If you're going out. It's pretty cold,
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: so Marjorie tied the warm muffler round her neck and
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  Speaker 2: stepped out on deck. A beautiful sight met her eyes.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: Towering high above was a mountain of glittering ice, while
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: as far as the eye could reach was a field
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  Speaker 2: of ice and snow. Under the rays of the morning sun,
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  Speaker 2: parts of the great bird glittered like a rainbow. It
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: was so old that Marjorie had to jump up and
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: down to keep her toes from freezing. Down on the
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: ice close to the ark, Captain Noah and his crew
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: were busily at work. One of the auto wheels had
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: sunk deep into the ice and acted like an anchor.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: The other wheels also were embedded in the ice, so
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: that the ark was held as if in a vice.
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  Speaker 2: Guess we'll have to give it up, exclaimed Captain Noah,
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: after an hour's hard work, during which time the ark
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: had not moved an inch. We'd better make up our
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: minds to winter here until the iceberg close into a
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: warmer climate and either melts or breaks apart. That's cheerful,
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: said mister Jonah. I've nothing but summer flannels and a
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: macintosh with me. What about some of the poor animals
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: who are used to the torrent zone, replied Captain Noah,
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  Speaker 2: shouldering the crowbar and climbing up the rope ladder to
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  Speaker 2: the deck. Mister Jonah did not reply, but turned up
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  Speaker 2: his coat collar and stamped upon his feet to warm them.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: The hairless Mexican dog will surely die if we don't
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: do something for him, said Pam. I think I'll ask
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  Speaker 2: mother if she won't let him stay in the kitchen.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: But Missus Noah did not seem very pleased over this suggestion.
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  Speaker 2: Gracious me, she said, Shim already has two parrots, a marmoset,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 2: and a little green steak in the kitchen. I don't
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: suppose one more animal would make much difference, if it
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 2: will only keep from under my feet. I nearly stepped
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: on one of the steaks this morning, and the kitchen
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: is none too large anyway. Don't you boys worry your
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: mother anymore, said Captain Noah sternly. The animals have got
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 2: to make the best of it. Any One who travels
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: by sea undergoes some risk, and I'm sure I'm as
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  Speaker 2: careful a captain as a man could be. It's lucky
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  Speaker 2: we didn't go down to the bottom of the sea
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: when we struck the berg instead of running up on
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  Speaker 2: it safely. After dinner, Captain Noah and mister Jonah held
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  Speaker 2: a consultation as to what was the best to do
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: under the circumstances. Of course, some of the animals, like
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: the polar bears and the seals, will enjoy a vacation
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: on the ice. The penguins too will be glad to
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  Speaker 2: have a little change. We can let them out and
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: the rest of the Arctic passengers. But how to keep
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: the other animals warm puzzles me. We haven't call enough
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: to keep the furnaces going for very long. Mister Jonah
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: stroked his chin reflectively. We might dig a channel from
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 2: the ark to the edge of the berg and then
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: float the arc, he said. After a pause. That's a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good scheme, said Captain Noah. We'll get to work
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  Speaker 2: at once. Here, you boys, get the pickaxes and come
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  Speaker 2: with me. By evening the canal was finished. Now when
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  Speaker 2: the tide rises, said Captain Noah, resting on the handle
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  Speaker 2: of his pickaxe, perhaps the old tub will float. It
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  Speaker 2: was now quite dark, so all hands returned to the ark.
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  Speaker 2: The animals which had been allowed to play on the
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  Speaker 2: ice had all returned, except the two polar bears, who
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  Speaker 2: begged Captain Noah to let them stay out all night,
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  Speaker 2: as they wished to see the northern mice from the
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  Speaker 2: top of the iceberg. It was a very tired family
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  Speaker 2: that gathered around the supper table that evening. But after
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  Speaker 2: the meal was over, the weather cock began to sing.
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  Speaker 2: It's time for bed, and all the arc should soon
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: be snoring in the dark. The elephant and kangaroo, the lion,
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  Speaker 2: and the curled horn new have gone to bed, and
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  Speaker 2: so should you. So good night, coc the Doo Doo
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  Speaker 2: end of chapter eight, read by Nancy Cochran Gergen Gilbert Arizona,
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  Speaker 2: August nineteenth, two thousand twenty three. Chapter nine and the
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  Speaker 2: Crews of the nos Ark. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 2: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 2: Crews of the Nozark by David Cory. A thrilling rescue.
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  Speaker 2: We're off, We're off. We're off again to sail upon
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  Speaker 2: the rolling main. The ice no longer holds thus fast.
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  Speaker 2: We're sailing, safe and free at last. This is what
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: the weathercock sang loud and clear. The next morning, it
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  Speaker 2: woke up Marjorie with a start, and running through the
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  Speaker 2: port hole, she saw that they were once again upon
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  Speaker 2: the ocean blue. How did it happen, she asked, turning
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  Speaker 2: to her faithful friend on the fight pole, who was
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  Speaker 2: still crowing and flapping his wings at a great rate.
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  Speaker 2: How did it all happen while you are asleep, my
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: dear little madge, answered the weathercock. I didn't ask you
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  Speaker 2: when I asked you, how laughed Marjorie, for she was delighted.
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  Speaker 2: You see to be once more sailing over the great
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  Speaker 2: big ocean. You'd better not ask me any more questions,
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 2: said the weathercock quickly. You just better hurry up and
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  Speaker 2: dress and ask Captain Noah what he is going to
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  Speaker 2: do about the castaways. But what, gasped Marjorie, the castaways,
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: the two polar bears who are still on the iceberg.
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  Speaker 2: Goodness gracious, she cried. I'll hurry and get on my boots.
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: I must tell Captain Noah at once. In a few minutes,
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: she was running down to the lower cabin. Captain Noah,
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  Speaker 2: Captain Noah, she shouted, Captain Noah, the polar bears are
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  Speaker 2: left on the iceberg. The captain, who had overslept himself,
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 2: put his head out of his cabin door. What is
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  Speaker 2: all the excitement about, he asked sleepily. The bears are
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 2: left on the iceberg, shouted Marjorie. Again. Well that's all right.
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  Speaker 2: I told them they could stay out all night. They
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: will come aboard for breakfast. No doubt they can't. They can't,
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  Speaker 2: cried Marjorie in great excitement. The ark is afloat again,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: and we are sailing away blubber and rubber, exclaimed the captain,
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: now even more excited than the little girl mother. He cried,
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: The arcs afloat, and two of our passengers are still ashore.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: Missus Noah opened her eyes. What did you say, my dear,
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 2: she asked sleepily. The captain, by this time had pulled
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  Speaker 2: on his sailor suit, and, closing the cabin door with
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  Speaker 2: a bang, rushed out on deck, with Marjorie close at
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  Speaker 2: his heels. In the distance, the iceberg could be seen
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: indistinctly through the morning. Mist hard a port, shouted Captain Noah.
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 2: Mister Jonah, who was at the wheel, woke up with
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  Speaker 2: a start. He was so tired with cutting the ice
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  Speaker 2: The day before that he had fallen sound asleep at
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  Speaker 2: his post. You land lubber, cried Captain Noah, What do
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  Speaker 2: you mean by falling asleep? This is my first experience
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  Speaker 2: before the mast, apologized poor Jonah. I've always been a passenger.
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  Speaker 2: Please don't get provoked. Provoked, yelled Captain Noah. Provoked, I
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  Speaker 2: feel like throwing you overboard. Steer for the iceberg. I
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: won't throw you overboard until later. Mister jonahaped a sigh
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: of relief, for at first, I guess he thought he'd
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  Speaker 2: have to go back to the whale without having a
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  Speaker 2: chance of Captain Noah cooling off. Marjorie stood close to
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  Speaker 2: the rail, straining her eyes for a glimpse of the
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  Speaker 2: polar bears. The three no boys now came on deck.
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  Speaker 2: Ant Ham handed the spyglass to his father. I see them,
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  Speaker 2: I see them, cried Captain Noah. One of them is
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: waving a flag. Let me look, said Marjorie, who was
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: dreadfully worried about them. Yes, there they were on the
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  Speaker 2: top of the berg. She could dimly see two figures
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 2: and a white object waving back and forth. The sea
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: was getting rough, and the ark rolled about in a
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: most uncomfortable manner. The weathercock clung tightly to his post, however,
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  Speaker 2: and flapped his ways. Now men looked out, he cautioned,
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: as the ark near the berg, be careful or you'll
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  Speaker 2: stave a hold in the ark. Hurry up, shouted the
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  Speaker 2: polar bears. We're nearly starved. We want our breakfast. Want
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  Speaker 2: your breakfast, muttered Captain Noah under his breath. You'll be
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  Speaker 2: wanting something more than breakfast if we don't find a
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  Speaker 2: way to get you aboard. Let them swim, suggested Ham.
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  Speaker 2: Run up close and let them jump, advised Shem. Let
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: them fly, chuckled jefef unsympathetically, who was somewhat tired of
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  Speaker 2: feeding the animals and felt that too less would not
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  Speaker 2: be such an awful thing. After all, nothing of the sort,
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 2: cried Captain Noah. I am responsible for the safety of
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 2: every passenger. I will take no such chances. What are
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 2: we going to do, then, asked mister Jonah, looking over
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  Speaker 2: the side of the ark to make sure that it
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  Speaker 2: was not getting too close to the dangerous bird, which
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: jutted out in ragged points neath the water. Launch the lifeboat,
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: commanded Captain Noah, who will volunteer, I will, cried Ham,
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  Speaker 2: and in less time than I can take to tell it,
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  Speaker 2: Ham and his trained monkeys lowered the boat and jumped in.
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  Speaker 2: Shove off, commanded coxswain Ham, and with a strong pull
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: and a loud yoho, the little boat shot away. Ham
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  Speaker 2: held firmly to the tiller and kept the boat pointing
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  Speaker 2: toward the big rollers, while the monkeys handled the oars.
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  Speaker 2: Pull for the shore, sailor pull for the shore, sang
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  Speaker 2: the weathercock. The bears, who had slid down the iceberg
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  Speaker 2: close to the water's edge, stood anxiously waiting. Careful, now,
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  Speaker 2: cried Ham, Pull on your starboard oar. The boat grazed
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: the iceberg. Hump, shouted Ham. Quick and then one of
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: the bears gave a spring and landed in the boat.
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  Speaker 2: His mate, however, slip and a big wave at that
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  Speaker 2: moment whirled the boat away from me, and with a
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 2: big splash, he landed in the water. Throw him a
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: life preserver, shouted Captain Noah, Throw him a lifeline, yelled
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: shall throw him the anchor growled of Ff, who never
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: had liked the polar bears. I guess, but cox swain
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  Speaker 2: Ham was not the least bit rattled, he steered the
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: boat toward the frightened bear and told him to catch
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: hold now, pull for all you're worth, shouted, hand to
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 2: the monkeys, and we'll tell brother Beer. But oh dear me,
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: the great waves kept washing over the little boat, and
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: the two monkeys had a hard time rowing with that
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: great heavy bear dragging on the stern. They'll be swamped,
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: screamed Missus Noah, as a tremendous great wave dashed over
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: the little lifeboat. Bail, bail, you lubber, shouted Ham. We'll
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 2: all be in Davy Jones's locker if you don't well.
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 2: Pretty soon, they came alongside the ark and Captain Noah
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 2: let down a rope ladder. I wish. The two bears
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: vanished to scramble after a hard struggle, and after that
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: Cockswain Ham and his gallant crew came aboard and the
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 2: lifeboat was hoisted up on deck. Motherly Missus Noah at
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 2: once put the two bears to bed after a hot
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: mustard bath and a drink of Jamaica ginger. Well, this
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 2: beats the old days all hour, exclaimed Captain Noah. We
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: never had such accidents on my first voyage. It just
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: rained and rained for forty days and forty nights. That's
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: the truth, my dear, agreed Missus Noah. I remember it
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: very well. Ham was just a baby, and the other
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 2: two boys were little fellows. It was hard work finding
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: something new for them to do each day, rainy days
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  Speaker 2: on board ship. Well, I never want to go through
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 2: with it again. I should think your boys would think
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  Speaker 2: you're just lovely, said little Margerie. Well I guess we do,
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  Speaker 2: said Hann, kissing his mother. You know we do, mother, dear,
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  Speaker 2: of course I do, she replied, giving him a hug.
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  Speaker 2: Go and kiss your mother, said Captain Noah to Chamnger
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: feth Or she won't give you any breakfast. And then
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: they both ran over to her and kissed her, glad
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: of an excuse to show their real feelings. Now come
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: and get something nice and hot for breakfast, said Missus Noah,
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  Speaker 2: For if we don't eat breakfast pretty soon, we'll have
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  Speaker 2: to call at lunch. And in the next chapter you
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  Speaker 2: shall hear of a dreadful collision. But don't worry, for
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: I shan't let anything happen to Little Marjorie and the
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  Speaker 2: kind Noah family. And of chapter nine read by Nancy
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  Speaker 2: Cochran Gergen Gilbert, Arizona, August twenty three, two Thousy twenty three,
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  Speaker 2: Chapter ten of the Cruise of the Noah's Ark. This
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  Speaker 2: LibriVox dot org. The Cruise of the Nozark by David Cory.
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  Speaker 2: A leak, look out, look out, a boat in sight.
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  Speaker 2: Turn quickly to the left or right, You'll have a
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  Speaker 2: smash up. Sure as fate. Alas my warning came too late,
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: sang the weather cock, and oh dear me, he was right.
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: Crash bang the Nozark shivered from bow to stern, and
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: all the animals were thrown off their feet. Little Marjorie
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: awoke with a start. It was just daylight, and far
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: off in the east, the rising sun was tinging the
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  Speaker 2: sky pink and gold. She hurriedly put on her clothes
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  Speaker 2: and ran out on deck, where she met Captain Noah
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: and his sons, whales and porpoises. Exclaimed, Captain doa, mister
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: Jonah has been asleep at the switch again, I'll bet.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: And then he ran forward and looked over the bow
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: of the Ark. Only a few yards off was the
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: charred hall of a vessel riding low in the water.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: Quickly examining his own ship, Captain Noah discovered a hole
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: on the starboard side, and then all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 2: the animals came rushing up on deck. The Ark is
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  Speaker 2: filling with water, cried Missus Elephant, and my slippers are
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 2: all soaking wet. If I had remained below another minute,
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  Speaker 2: they would have been ruined. She had hardly finished when
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 2: all the rats and maya scrambled up the companionway. A
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 2: bad sign, said Captain Noah. It shows the Ark is sinking.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 2: Missus Noah gave a scream. She had hastily thrown a
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: kimono over a night dress at the first warning, and
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: had hurried on deck. Don't worry, said little Margery, bravely.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: Captain Noah will stop the league. I hope, so he said. Then,
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 2: turning to the passengers, he asked, who'll volunteer to go
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  Speaker 2: with me below deck? I will, shouted Ham, and so
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  Speaker 2: will I said the elephant. Come along, then, said Captain Noah.
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  Speaker 2: Throw me down the tarpaulin and some planks he called
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 2: up a few minutes later, but oh, dear me, the
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  Speaker 2: water had gained such headway that the tarbulin was of
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  Speaker 2: no use at all. And I don't know what would
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  Speaker 2: have happened if the elephant hadn't sat down squarely on
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  Speaker 2: the whole blocking it up so that not a single
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  Speaker 2: drop of water leaked in. Bully for you, cried Captain Noah.
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  Speaker 2: That's the best stunt I've seen yet. It's not very comfortable,
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 2: said the elephant, with a shiver. My, but the water's chilly.
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  Speaker 2: Start the pumps, commanded Captain Noah, rushing to the foot
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 2: of the companionway set some of the animals to work well.
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  Speaker 2: After a while, the ark was pumped dry, and everybody
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 2: heaved a sigh of relief. How long do you expect
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  Speaker 2: me to be a water plug? Asked the elephant. You
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 2: don't expect me to sit here for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the voyage. I don't know what we'll do if you
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  Speaker 2: get up, answered Captain Noah. Neither do I said the elephant.
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  Speaker 2: Let's call mister Jonah, said Captain Noah. What's the use
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 2: said the elephant. What good will he do? If he
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  Speaker 2: hadn't been asleep at the tiller, we never would have
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  Speaker 2: had the accident. We might punish him for a neglect
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  Speaker 2: of duty, said Captain Noah. We'll plug the hole up
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  Speaker 2: with him. He can set on the opening for a punishment.
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  Speaker 2: Great idea, chuckled the elephant. Bring him down. So Captain
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  Speaker 2: Noah hastened on deck to look for poor mister Jonah,
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 2: and pretty soon he came back with mister Jonah, who
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  Speaker 2: of course didn't know what they were going to do
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  Speaker 2: with him. What do you want me for, he asked.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty damp down here, hullo, said the elephant. Excuse
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  Speaker 2: my not rising, certainly, said mister Jonah. But you don't
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 2: look very comfortable. And then, quick as a wink, the
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  Speaker 2: elephant reached out his trunk and grabbed poor mister Jonah.
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  Speaker 2: Help murder, yelled Jonah, nearly strangled by the water, which
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 2: rushed into the ark as the elephant got up, keep quiet,
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  Speaker 2: commanded Captain Noah, and then the elephant pushed poor mister
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  Speaker 2: Jonah into the hole. It's on your fault that we
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  Speaker 2: had this accident. Now you can stop up the leak.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Jonah was too frightened to speak. Finally, when he
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 2: partly recovered from his fright, he said but what am
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  Speaker 2: I to do. Don't do a thing, said Captain Noah,
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  Speaker 2: pushing him down as he started get up. You just
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 2: sit there and be a hero, I won't, cried mister Jonah.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: Then we'll all drown, and you too, said Captain Noah.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 2: And just then the weather coop shouted out loud and clear,
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  Speaker 2: Land ahead, Land ahead, And in a few short seconds
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  Speaker 2: the arc rolled upon a sandy beach and came to
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  Speaker 2: a standstill. Throw out, the anchor, commanded Captain Noah. We
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  Speaker 2: won't take any chances this time, And pretty soon all
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  Speaker 2: the animals were playing on the sand, while Missus Noah
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  Speaker 2: with Marjorie and the boys made a fire under some
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: palm trees. Suddenly Captain Noah remembered mister Jonah. Thunder and lightning,
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 2: he exclaimed, and at once descended into the hold, where
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 2: he found poor mister Jonah still sitting on the hole
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  Speaker 2: in the ark arise. Noble man, said Captain Noah, bursting
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  Speaker 2: into laughter. Thank goodness, said Jonah, I feel as stiff
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  Speaker 2: as a glass bottle stopper. And in the next chapter
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  Speaker 2: you shall hear of a wonderful picnic which they all
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  Speaker 2: had on this little green island. In the middle of
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  Speaker 2: the big Blue Ocean. End of chapter ten. Read by
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Cochranebergen, Gilbert, Arizona, August twenty three, two thousand, twenty three.
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  Speaker 4: Chapter eleven of the Crews of the Noah's Ark. This
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  Speaker 4: public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please a
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  Speaker 4: LibriVox dot org read by Kay Curtis. The Crews of
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  Speaker 4: the Noah's Ark by David Cory, Chapter eleven, the picnic.
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  Speaker 4: Don't leave me alone on the ark, Margie, dear, for
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 4: I shall be lonely. I very much fear Now, how
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  Speaker 4: would you like to be left alone? High up on
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 4: a perch where the wild breeze is moan? The weathercock
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 4: wants to come with us, said Marjorie. Then why doesn't he?
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 4: Said Captain Noah, who was busily engaged in making the
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  Speaker 4: anchor line fast. I'll tell him to come with us.
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  Speaker 4: And she ran up to the gangplank and called to
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  Speaker 4: the lonely weathercock, why don't you fly down? We'd like
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  Speaker 4: to have you come ashore with us. That's all I
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  Speaker 4: wanted to know, said the faithful bird. Look out here
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 4: she goes, and with a great flutter and flapping of
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  Speaker 4: his gilt wings, he landed on the sand. And after
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 4: that he and Marjorie went over to the clump of
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 4: palm trees where Missus Noah and the boys were resting.
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  Speaker 4: This would be a fine spot for a picnic, she said,
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  Speaker 4: did you ever go to one? No, I've never been
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 4: to one, although I once went to affair with father,
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 4: said Marjorie. Well, while the boys are busy with Captain
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 4: Noah mending the ark, we'll get a fire started and
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 4: have our lunch out here beneath the trees. It didn't
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 4: take long to get the fire started for Missus Noah
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 4: wished to surprise the captain when he came back, And
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 4: pretty soon the kettle was singing away. Hooray for the
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 4: jolly picnic and the crew of the Red Noah's Ark.
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 4: I'll whistle and sing like a bird in the spring
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 4: while the red flames gleam and spark. There are some
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  Speaker 4: nice clams on the beach, said Missus Noah. So the
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  Speaker 4: weathercock took a basket and went down to the water's
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  Speaker 4: edge and brought back enough for everybody. And I guess
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  Speaker 4: Missus Noah had been to many a clam bake, for
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 4: she knew just how to roast them, and a pile
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 4: of seaweed and red hot stones. Well, pretty soon Captain Noah,
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  Speaker 4: with mister Jonah and the three boys came out of
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  Speaker 4: the ark and sat down beneath the palm trees. And
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  Speaker 4: then all the animals sat around in a ring, for
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  Speaker 4: this was the first picnic they had ever been to.
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  Speaker 4: I'm as hungry as a bear, said little Margery, and
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 4: then the elephant began to laugh, but the bear only
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  Speaker 4: smiled and spread his bread with honey. Of course, some
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  Speaker 4: of the animals didn't eat any of Missus Noah's lunch.
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  Speaker 4: The giraffe stood near by and ate the tender leaves
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  Speaker 4: off the tops of the trees, and the monkeys ate cocoanuts,
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  Speaker 4: and the ducks and geese kept close to the water
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  Speaker 4: and snapped up little fishes and snails. But everybody had
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  Speaker 4: a wonderful time, I think, mother, said Captain Noah, wiping
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  Speaker 4: the crumbs from the tablecloth and holding them out to
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  Speaker 4: a little brown thrush who had sat on his shoulder
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  Speaker 4: during the meal. We had better spend the night ashore.
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  Speaker 4: I'll bring the big tent from the ark and set
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  Speaker 4: it up under the trees. I'm going to do a
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 4: little painting inside the ark this afternoon. That's a very
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  Speaker 4: good idea, said Missus Noah. When the tent was set
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  Speaker 4: up and the ropes securely fastened to the pigs which
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 4: had been driven into the ground, Missus Noah and Marjorie
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  Speaker 4: busied themselves fixing it up inside in order to make
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  Speaker 4: it comfortable for the night. And when evening came, a
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  Speaker 4: bright fire was lighted, and after supper everybody sat around
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 4: and talked. Ham popped corn and Marjorie roasted apples. Nine o'clock,
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  Speaker 4: said Captain Noah. Time for bed. We must be up
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 4: early in the morning. It was the loveliest picnic I've
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 4: ever had, said Marjorie as she kissed Missus Noah good night.
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  Speaker 4: End of chapter eleven The Picnic.
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  Speaker 2: Chapter twelve of The Crews of the Noah's Ark. This
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  Speaker 2: LibriVox dot org. The Crews of the Noah's Ark by
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  Speaker 2: David Cory. The storm by noon of the next day,
• 1:29:30
  Speaker 2: Captain Noah reported that the pain was dry and the
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 2: ark ready to set sail. We must get the animals together,
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 2: he said, looking anxiously about. I can't imagine where they
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 2: have all gone to. Well, I'll have everything packed and
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 2: ready to put aboard by the time you round up
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 2: your passengers, laughed Missus Noah, who never seemed to worry
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 2: about anything, and Marjorie thought she was the nicest person
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 2: she had ever met. Come, boys, commanded Captain Noah. Let's
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 2: start the hunt. I hope they eland isn't large, for
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 2: I don't fancy walking many miles in this hot climate.
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 2: So they all started off, mister Jonah and the three
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 2: Noah boys following Captain Noah, and after walking for some time,
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 2: they came to the top of a hill from which
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 2: they had a good view of the island, and not
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 2: very far away were all the animals, enjoying themselves to
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 2: their hearts content. Captain Noah took his bugle and blew
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 2: a long blast, and at once all the animals looked around.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 2: Then he blew again, and after that the animals formed
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 2: in line with the elephant at their head and marched
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 2: toward them. When they reached the ark, the gangplank was
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 2: lowered and they all marched aboard. Everything below decks was
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 2: in apple pie order, and the animals all seemed glad
• 1:30:46
  Speaker 2: to be once more back in the ark. All's well,
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 2: that ends well, said Captain Noah, turning to mister Jonah.
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  Speaker 2: My duty is to land these animals safely after the
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  Speaker 2: rain is over. But it looks to me as if
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  Speaker 2: it were going to commence a gate. There's a big
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 2: black cloud in the west, shouted the weather cock, who
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 2: had flown up to his perch on the flight pole
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 2: and was keeping a sharp lookout. Yes, I guess we're
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 2: going to have some nasty weather, said Captain Noah. Let
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 2: us hurry and get the ark afloat. In a few minutes,
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 2: the great boat was in motion, and after a short
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 2: run down to the water, it once more rode the waves.
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 2: You'd better come down to the cabin, Captain Noah called
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 2: out to the weather cock, as a flash of lightning
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  Speaker 2: passed across the sky. We're going to have a storm
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  Speaker 2: and you may be blown off your perch. So the
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  Speaker 2: weather cock came down and perched on his shoulder, and
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 2: then he began to sing. Oh. The animals came into
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 2: the ark, the little dog with a bow wow bark.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 2: The lion gave a kingly roar, and the monkey shook
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 2: the rat by the paw, and the mule cow said moo,
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 2: and the rooster sang cock a doo. Well, it didn't
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 2: take long for Captain Noah and his crew to make
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 2: everything snug and tie. But oh dear me, how the
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  Speaker 2: thunder roared and the lightning flashed. But in spite of
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  Speaker 2: all this, Marjorie grew so sleepy that pretty soon as
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  Speaker 2: she went up to her little cabin with a dove
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 2: on her shoulder and crept into bed. And then something
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  Speaker 2: strange happened. The weather cock, although he had hopped into
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 2: the cabin to escape the storm, went out on deck
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  Speaker 2: every now and then to look about him so as
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  Speaker 2: to report to Captain Noah the whereabouts of the ark.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 2: He didn't seem to mind the storm, for a weathercock
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  Speaker 2: is used to all sorts of weather and knows just
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 2: from what quarter the wind is blowing, you know, about midnight,
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  Speaker 2: after coming in from deck, he hopped up to Little
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  Speaker 2: Marger's cabin and knocked on the door, But she was
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  Speaker 2: so fast asleep she didn't hear him. And if it
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  Speaker 2: hadn't been for the Dove, who was a very light sleeper.
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  Speaker 2: I don't believe the weathercock would ever have been able
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  Speaker 2: to tell Marjorie this strange thing that had happened. But
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  Speaker 2: just as soon as little Dove heard the knocking, she
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  Speaker 2: flew down from her cage and opened the door, And
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  Speaker 2: after the weathercock had whispered to her, she went over
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  Speaker 2: to where Marjorie lay sound asleep in her berth. And
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  Speaker 2: just then the yard grated on something and came to
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  Speaker 2: a stand still. But so gradually did the great boat
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  Speaker 2: stop that Captain Noah, who was also sound asleep, did
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  Speaker 2: not even move in his berth. Wake Little Marjorie, whispered
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  Speaker 2: the weather cock, And then the little white bird leaned
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 2: over the pillow and sang in a low voice, wake up,
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  Speaker 2: Wake up, Marjorie, dear, Come to the window. Your home
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  Speaker 2: is quite nearer. See we are landed upon your own roof,
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  Speaker 2: just outside your bedroom. Come here is the proof. All
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  Speaker 2: lift up the curtain. There's your little bed with a
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  Speaker 2: cozy white pillow and cover of red. What is it?
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 2: Where am i asked Marjorie, opening her eyes, Come, said
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  Speaker 2: the weather cock. Follow me dreamily. She got up and
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 2: followed him to the window. Opposite was her own little
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  Speaker 2: bedroom window. Step over carefully, whispered the weather cock, while
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  Speaker 2: the dove took her by the hand. Marjorie stepped across
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 2: the open space and entered her bedroom. Then she walked
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 2: over to her own little bed and crept inside. Go
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  Speaker 2: to sleep, whispered the weather cock. See you in the morning,
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 2: cooed the dove, and with a gentle flutter, they disappeared
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 2: through the window. Indistinctly, Marjorie heard the arc cast away
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 2: from the window sill, and the voice of Captain Noah
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 2: came faintly to her ears. Careful, now we must slip
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 2: in through the nursery window without waking the household. As
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 2: that Noah's ark slowly drifted in through the nursery window,
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 2: Captain Noah ran forward with a hawser, ready to make
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  Speaker 2: fast to the bookcase near the big table. Well well,
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 2: he exclaimed, it is nice to be home again. It
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 2: certainly is, said Missus Noah, as she and the three
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 2: boys came out on deck. It is wonderful that the
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 2: water has done no damage to Marjorie's pretty nursery. See
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 2: how fast it is running away, exclaimed ham Lucky we
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 2: sailed home to night. Just then mister Noah looked at
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 2: the bookcase. Gee hosa fat, he exclaimed, See that book
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 2: the Cruise of the Noah's Ark. Why there is my
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 2: picture on the cover. Look, look, shout Jepeth. There are
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 2: more books in the series of Little Journeys to Happy Land.
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  Speaker 2: So there are laughed Missus Noah. I would like to
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 2: read the Iceberg Express. That sounds interesting. I think a
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 2: little Journey to Happy Land in the Magic Soap Bubble
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 2: would be some trip, exclaimed Sam. Time for bed, suddenly,
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 2: exclaimed Captain Noah. I am going to turn out all
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 2: the lights on the Noah's Ark, no time to night
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 2: for you to read these other books in this series.
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  Speaker 2: And with these words, he turned out the red light
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  Speaker 2: on the port side of the Ark and the green
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  Speaker 2: light on the starboard side, and with a sigh of relief, added,
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  Speaker 2: thank goodness, all the animals are well, and Marjory upstairs
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  Speaker 2: asleep in her little bed, and the old Noah's Ark
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  Speaker 2: back safe in the nursery. As Captain Noah see speaking,
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  Speaker 2: the weathercock fluttered off the Ark and over to the
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  Speaker 2: nursery window, pausing a moment on the sill He turned
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  Speaker 2: for one last look, and then flew straight away for
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  Speaker 2: Uncle Spencer's barn. Home again, he chuckled, who'd have thought
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  Speaker 2: I'd ever be a pilot on the deep blue sea?
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  Speaker 2: End of Chapter twelve. Read by Nancy Cochranngergen Gilbert, Arizona,
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  Speaker 2: August twenty four, two thousand twenty three. And of the
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  Speaker 2: Crews of the Noah's Ark by David Cory