Latest / Carry On, Jeeves / Mother Goose for Grownups-Guy Wetmore Carryl

Transcript

Mother Goose for Grownups-Guy Wetmore Carryl · Carry On, Jeeves

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Tale one of Mother Goose for Grown Ups. This is
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: Mother Goose for Grown Ups by Guy Wetmore, Carol. To
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: constance in memory of other days, dear critic, when your
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: whisper'd praise cheered on the limping pen, how short, how
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: sweet those younger hours, How bright our suns, how few
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: our showers? Alas we knew not then, if but long
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: leagues across the seas. The trivial charm of rhymes like
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: these shall serve to link us Twain, an instant in
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: the olden spell that once we knew and loved so well,
• 0:55
  Speaker 1: I have not worked in vain and of to constance.
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: Tale two of Mother Goose for Grown Ups. This is
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
• 1:15
  Speaker 2: For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
• 1:22
  Speaker 2: Mother Goose for Grown Ups by Guy Wetmore Carol. The
• 1:26
  Speaker 2: admirable assertiveness of jilted Jack, A noble and generous mind
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: was Jack's folks knew he would not talk behind their backs.
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: But when some maiden fresh and young at Jack a
• 1:46
  Speaker 2: bit of banter flung, she soon discovered that his tongue
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: was sharp as any axe. A flirt of most engaging
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: wiles was Jill on Jack. She lavished all her smiles
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: until her slave, and he was not the first of love.
• 2:06
  Speaker 2: Sick Swains became the worst. His glance a strong box
• 2:11
  Speaker 2: might have burst. His sighs were fit to kill. One
• 2:17
  Speaker 2: April morning, clear and fair, when both of staying home
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: and idling there in sloth were weary, Jack remarked to Jill, Oh,
• 2:29
  Speaker 2: what's the sense in sitting still? Let's mount the slope
• 2:34
  Speaker 2: of Yonder Hill. And she was nothing loth. But as
• 2:39
  Speaker 2: she answered, what's the use the gruff, young swain replied, Oh,
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: there's excuse enough your doting parents water lack. We'll fill
• 2:51
  Speaker 2: a pail and bring it back the reader. We'll perceive
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: that Jack was putting up a bluff. Thus, hand in
• 3:00
  Speaker 2: hand the tempting hill they scaled, and Jack proposed a
• 3:05
  Speaker 2: kiss to Jill and failed. One backward start, one step
• 3:10
  Speaker 2: too bold, and down the hill the couple rolled, resembling
• 3:16
  Speaker 2: if truth be told, A luggage train derailed with eyes
• 3:22
  Speaker 2: ablaze with anger, she exclaimed, Well, who'd a thought you
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: ought to be ashamed? You quite forget yourself, it's plain,
• 3:32
  Speaker 2: so I'll forget you too. Insane young men, I'll say,
• 3:37
  Speaker 2: O Feederzaine, her German might be blamed. But Jack, whose
• 3:43
  Speaker 2: linguist pride was pricked to shine, asked man kunigin will
• 3:48
  Speaker 2: nietscht be mine? And when she answered nine, in'spleen, he cried,
• 3:55
  Speaker 2: Then in the soup, Tureen, you'll stay. You're not the
• 3:58
  Speaker 2: only queen discarded. Four A nine A Morals made for
• 4:05
  Speaker 2: maidens young and small. If you would in a foreign
• 4:09
  Speaker 2: tongue in thrall, lead off undaunted in a Swede or
• 4:14
  Speaker 2: Spanish speech, and you'll succeed. But they who in a
• 4:19
  Speaker 2: German lead no favor win at all. End of the
• 4:27
  Speaker 2: admirable assertiveness of jilted Jack.
• 4:37
  Speaker 3: Section three. The blatant brutality of Little bo Peep from
• 4:43
  Speaker 3: Mother Goose for Grownups. This is a LibriVox recording. All
• 4:48
  Speaker 3: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
• 4:52
  Speaker 3: or to volunteer, visit LibriVox dot o r g use
• 5:00
  Speaker 3: for grown Ups by Guy what Moore Carol. The blatant
• 5:06
  Speaker 3: brutality of Little bo Peep, though she was only a
• 5:12
  Speaker 3: shepherdess tending the meekest of sheep. Never was African leopardess
• 5:20
  Speaker 3: crosser than little bo Peep. Quite apathetic, impassable. People described
• 5:28
  Speaker 3: her as that wayward, contentious, irascible, testy can tankerous brat.
• 5:39
  Speaker 3: Yet as she dozed in a grotto like sort of
• 5:44
  Speaker 3: kind of a nook, she was charmingly watteau like. What
• 5:49
  Speaker 3: with her sheep and her crook, she is a dryad
• 5:54
  Speaker 3: or nymph. Any casual passer would think. Poets pronounced her
• 6:00
  Speaker 3: a symphony, all in the palest of pink. Thus it
• 6:08
  Speaker 3: was not enigmatical that the young shepherd who first found
• 6:12
  Speaker 3: her asleep in ecstactical sighs of felicity burst. Such was
• 6:21
  Speaker 3: his sudden beatitude that, as he gazed at her, so
• 6:26
  Speaker 3: Daphness gave vent to this platitude. My ain't she elegant?
• 6:33
  Speaker 3: Though roused from some dream of arcadia, Little bo Peep,
• 6:40
  Speaker 3: with a start, answered him, I ain't afraid of your
• 6:46
  Speaker 3: Perhaps you imagine you're smart. Daphness protested, impulsively, blushing as
• 6:54
  Speaker 3: red as a rose, all was in vain. She convulsively
• 7:00
  Speaker 3: punched the young man in the nose. All of it's true,
• 7:05
  Speaker 3: every word of it. I was not present to peep.
• 7:10
  Speaker 3: But if you ask how I heard of it, please
• 7:14
  Speaker 3: to remember the sheep. There is no need of excuse.
• 7:20
  Speaker 3: You will see how such scandals occur. If you recall
• 7:24
  Speaker 3: Mother Goose, you will know what tail bearers they were moral.
• 7:34
  Speaker 3: This pear irreclaimable might have made seraphim weep. But who
• 7:41
  Speaker 3: can pick the most blameable? Both saw a little bow peep,
• 7:54
  Speaker 3: and do the blatant brutality of little will peep? Read
• 7:59
  Speaker 3: by Dennis Sayers in Modesto, California for LibriVox Fall two
• 8:02
  Speaker 3: thousand and.
• 8:03
  Speaker 4: Eight, Tell four of Mother Goose for Grownups. This is
• 8:17
  Speaker 4: a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
• 8:22
  Speaker 4: For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
• 8:28
  Speaker 4: Mother Goose for Grownups by Guy Wetmore Carol The commendable
• 8:34
  Speaker 4: castigation of old Mother Hubbard. She was one of those
• 8:40
  Speaker 4: creatures whose features are hard beyond any reclaim And she
• 8:46
  Speaker 4: loved in a hovel to grovel, And she hadn't a
• 8:50
  Speaker 4: cent to her name. She owned neither gallants nor talents.
• 8:56
  Speaker 4: She barred extensively too, from all of her dozens of cousins,
• 9:02
  Speaker 4: and never refunded a sou Yet all they said in
• 9:06
  Speaker 4: abuse of her was she is prouder than Lucifer. That
• 9:11
  Speaker 4: I must say, without meaning to blame, is always the
• 9:15
  Speaker 4: way with that kind of a dame. There never was
• 9:21
  Speaker 4: jolly or collie than old mother Hubbard had found. Though
• 9:26
  Speaker 4: cheaply she bought him. She'd taught him to follow her
• 9:31
  Speaker 4: meekly around. But though she would lick him and kick him,
• 9:35
  Speaker 4: it never had any effect. He always was howling and growling.
• 9:41
  Speaker 4: But goodness, what could you expect. Collies were never to flourish,
• 9:48
  Speaker 4: meant lest they had plenty of nourishment. All that he
• 9:53
  Speaker 4: had were the feathers she'd pluck, often occasional chicken or duck.
• 10:00
  Speaker 4: The collie was barred in the garden, he howled and
• 10:04
  Speaker 4: he wailed and he whined. The neighbor's indignant, malignant petitions
• 10:10
  Speaker 4: unanimous signed. The nuisance grows nightly politely, they wrote, it's
• 10:17
  Speaker 4: an odious hound, and either you'll fill him or kill him,
• 10:22
  Speaker 4: or else he must go to the pound. For if
• 10:26
  Speaker 4: this howling infernally is to continue nocturnally, pardon us ma'am,
• 10:31
  Speaker 4: if we seem to be curt somebody's apt to get
• 10:35
  Speaker 4: horribly hurt. Mother Hubbard cried loudly and proudly, land sakes,
• 10:43
  Speaker 4: but you give yourselves airs, I'll take the law to
• 10:47
  Speaker 4: you and sue you. The neighbors responded, who cares? We
• 10:54
  Speaker 4: None of us care. If the sheriff lock every man
• 10:57
  Speaker 4: jack of us up. We won't be repining at fining,
• 11:02
  Speaker 4: so long as we're rid of the pup. They then
• 11:05
  Speaker 4: proceeded to mount a sign bearing this ominous counter sign, freeman,
• 11:12
  Speaker 4: the moment has come to protest, and old Mother Hubbard
• 11:17
  Speaker 4: the lendum est. They marched to her gateway and straightway.
• 11:22
  Speaker 4: They trampled all over her lawn most rudely. They harried
• 11:27
  Speaker 4: and carried her round on a rail until dawn. They
• 11:32
  Speaker 4: marred her and jarred her, and tarred her and feathered her,
• 11:37
  Speaker 4: just as they should of speech. They bereft her and
• 11:41
  Speaker 4: left her with now do you think you'll be good?
• 11:47
  Speaker 4: The moral's a charmingly pleasing one, while we would deprecate
• 11:52
  Speaker 4: teasing one. Still, when a dame has politeness rebuffed, she
• 11:57
  Speaker 4: certainly ought to be collared and cuffed, and of the
• 12:03
  Speaker 4: commendable Castigation of Old Mother Hubbard recording by Ronda Fetterman.
• 12:16
  Speaker 3: The Disappointing Discovery of Little Jack Horner from Mother Goose
• 12:22
  Speaker 3: for Grown Ups. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox
• 12:27
  Speaker 3: recordings are in the public domain. For more information or
• 12:31
  Speaker 3: to volunteer, visit LibriVox dot o RG read by Dennis Sayers.
• 12:39
  Speaker 3: Mother Goose for Grownups by Guy what More Carol, The
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: disappointing discovery of Little Jack Horner A knack a most
• 12:52
  Speaker 3: incredible for dealing with an edible. Jack Horner's elder sister
• 12:58
  Speaker 3: was acknowledged to She labored hard and zealously, but always
• 13:05
  Speaker 3: guarded jealously the secrets of the dishes she invented. Every
• 13:10
  Speaker 3: day she'd take some indigestible, unpopular comestible, and to its
• 13:18
  Speaker 3: better nature would so tenderly appeal that Jack invoked a
• 13:24
  Speaker 3: benison upon a haunch of venison, when really she was
• 13:28
  Speaker 3: serving him a little leg of veal. Jack said she
• 13:35
  Speaker 3: was a miracle. The word was not satirical. For daily
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: climbing upward, she excelled herself at last. The acme of facility,
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: the zenith of ability, was what she gave her brother
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: for his Christmas Day repast. He dined that evening eagerly
• 13:57
  Speaker 3: and anything but meagerly, And when he'd finished, had his
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: salad and his quart of extra dry, with sisterly benignity
• 14:08
  Speaker 3: and just a touch of dignity, she placed upon the
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: table an unutterable pie. Unflagging pertinacity and technical sagacity. Long
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: nights of sleepless vigil, and long days of constant care
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: had been involved in making it, improving it, and baking it.
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: Until of other pies, it was the wonder and despair,
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: so princely and so prominent, so solemn, so predominant. It
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: looked upon the table that with fascinated eye, the youth,
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: with sudden wonder struck, electrified and thunder struck, could only
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: stammer stupidly. Oh golly, what a pie. In view of
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: his satiety, it almost seemed impiety to carve this crowning
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: triumph of a culinary life. But braced by his avidity,
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: with sudden intrepidity, he broke its dome, imposing with a
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: common kitchen knife. Ah hideous fatality, For when with eager
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: palate he commenced to eat, he happened on an accident.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: Uncouth and cried with stifled moan of it one plumb
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: I tried, the stone of it had never been extracted.
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: I've broke by wisdom tooth. Jack's sister wept effusively, but
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: loudly and abusively. His unreserved opinion of her talents, he proclaimed.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: He called her names like driveler, and simpleton and sniveler,
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: and others which to mention, I am really too ashamed
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: the moral It is saddening, embarrassing, and maddening a stone
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: to strike in what you thought was paste one thing alone,
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: then this mischance is crueler. And that is for a
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: jeweler to strike but paste in what he fondly thought
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: to be a stone. And of the discouraging discovery of
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: little Jack Horner read by Dennisayers for LibriVox Fall two
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: thousand and eight.
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffett of Mother goose
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: Folk Grown Ups. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: recordings are in the public domain. For more information, ought
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Mother Goose Fog
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: Grown Ups by Guy Wetmore Carol. The Embarrassing Episode of
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: Little Miss Muffett little miss Muffett discovered the toughet, which
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: never occurred to the rest of us. And as it
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: was a June day and just about noonday, she wanted
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: to eat like the best of us. Her diet was way,
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: and I hastened to say, it is wholesome, and people
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: grow fat on it. The spot being lonely, the lady
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: not only discovered the toughet, she set on it. A
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: rivulet gabbled beside her and babbled as revelets always are
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: thought to do, and dragonflies ported round and coveted, as
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: poets say dragonflies ought to do. When glancing aside for
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: a moment, she spied a horrible sight that brought fear
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: to her. A hideous spider was sitting beside her, and
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: most unavoidably near to her. All beat and sightly. This
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: creature politely said, Madame, I earnestly vowed to you. I
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: am penitent that I did not bring my hat. I
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: should otherwise certainly vow to you. Though anxious to please,
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: he was so ill at ease that he lost all
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: his sense of propriety and grew so inept that he
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: clumsily stepped in her plate, which is barred in society.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: This curious error completed her terror. She shuddered, and, growing
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: much paler, not only left Toughet, but dealt him a
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: buffet which doubled him in a sailor not It should
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: be explained that at this point he was pained. He cried,
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: I have vexed you, no doubt of it. Your fist
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: like a truncheon. You're still in my luncheon. With all that,
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: She answered, get out of it. And the moral is
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: this be it, Madame or miss to whom you have
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: something to say. You are only absurd when you get
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: in the curd, but you're rude when you get in
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: the way. End of the embarrassing episode of Little Miss Maffett.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: Recording by Israel in Belgium in September two thousand.
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: And eight.
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: Till seven of Mother Goose for Grown Ups. This is
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivo dot Org.
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: Recording by Dider Mother Goose for Grown Ups by Guy
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: Wetmore Carol The fearful Finale of the Irascible Mouse Upon
• 20:19
  Speaker 7: a stairway built of brick, A pleasant featured clock from
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: time to time with murmured chick, and vary it with chuck.
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: Although no great intelligence there lay in either world, they
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: were not meant to give offence to anyone who heard.
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: Within the pantry of the house, among some piles of cheese,
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: they dwelt an irritable mouse, extremely hard to please. His
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: appetite was most immense. Each day he ate a wage
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: of stilton cheese. In consequence, his nerves were all on
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: age with ill concealed impatience. He, upon his morning walk,
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: had heard the clock unceasingly unnotonously toke, until his rage
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: burst every bound he gave a fretful shout, well, psyics alive,
• 21:23
  Speaker 7: it's time I found what all these talks about. With
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: all the admirable skill that marks the rodent race, the
• 21:33
  Speaker 7: mouse ran up the clock until it crept behind the face,
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: and then, with word that no one thought to use,
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: and scornful squeals, he cried aloud, just what I thought,
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: great off, you're full of wheels, the timepiece sternly said,
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: half done, And through the silence house it struck emphatically wild.
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: But that one was the mouse to earth. The crawling
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: round fell in terror for his life and turned to flee.
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: But sad to tail, there stood the farmer's wife. She
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: did not faint, she did not quell, she did not
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: cry out scat. She simply took him by the tail
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: and gave him to the cat. And with a stern,
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: triumphant look, she watched him cloud and cleft, and with
• 22:40
  Speaker 7: some plotting paper, took up all that there was left.
• 22:45
  Speaker 7: The moral in a farmer's home ran down his hurts,
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: his flocks, ran down his crops, ran down his loan.
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: But when it comes to clocks, pray leave them ticking
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: everyone in peace upon the shares, when running down is
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: to be done, the clocks running down themselves, And of
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: the fearful finale of the irascible mouse.
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: Tail eight of Mother Goose for Grown Ups. This is
• 23:25
  Speaker 8: a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
• 23:30
  Speaker 8: For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
• 23:37
  Speaker 8: Mother Goose for Grown Ups by Guy Wetmore Carol The
• 23:43
  Speaker 8: gastronomic guile of Simple Simon. Conveniently near to where young
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: Simple Simon dwelt, there was to be a county fair,
• 23:54
  Speaker 8: and Simple Simon felt that to the fair. He ought
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: to go in all his Sunday clothes, and so determined
• 24:03
  Speaker 8: to behold the show, he put them on and went.
• 24:07
  Speaker 8: When half his clothes was borrowed and the other half
• 24:10
  Speaker 8: was lent, he heard afar the cheerful sound of horns that
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: people blew, saw wooden horses swing around a circle two
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: and two, beheld balloons rise. And if he scented with
• 24:27
  Speaker 8: a gentle sniff the smells of pies, what is the
• 24:32
  Speaker 8: death for rens's to me or you? You cannot say
• 24:38
  Speaker 8: my verse is false, because I know it's true. As
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: Simple Simon nearer came to these attractive smells, avoiding every
• 24:49
  Speaker 8: little game men played with walnut shells, he felt a sudden,
• 24:55
  Speaker 8: longing rise. The sparkle in his eager eyes betray the
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: fact he yearned for pies. The eye the secret tells
• 25:06
  Speaker 8: tis known the pie of country fairs. All other pies excels.
• 25:12
  Speaker 8: So when he saw upon the road some fifty feet
• 25:16
  Speaker 8: away a pie man, Simple Simon strode toward him, shouting, Hey,
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: what kinds As lordly as a prince? The pie man said,
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: I've a pumpkin, quince, blueberry, lemon, peach, and mince and
• 25:33
  Speaker 8: showing his array, he added, won't you try one, sir?
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: They're very nice to day.
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: Simon's taste was most profuse, and so by way of start,
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: he ate two cakes, a Charlotte rouse, six buns, the
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: better part of one big gingerbread, a pair of lady fingers,
• 25:55
  Speaker 8: an a Claire, and ten assordid pies. And there his
• 26:01
  Speaker 8: hand upon his heart, he paused to choose between an
• 26:05
  Speaker 8: apple dumpling and a tart. Observing that upon his tray
• 26:11
  Speaker 8: his goods were growing few. The pie man cried, I
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: beg to say that patron such as you one does
• 26:19
  Speaker 8: not meet in many a moon. Pray, won't you try
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: this macaroon? But soon Suspicious changed his tune, continuing, what
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: is due? I beg respectfully to add a dollar twenty two.
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: Then simple Simon put a curb upon his appetite, and
• 26:41
  Speaker 8: turning with an air superb, he suddenly took flight while
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: o'er his shoulder. This absurd and really most offensive word,
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: the trusting pie man shortly heard to soothe his bitter plight.
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: Perhaps I should have said, before your wares are out
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: of sight. The moral is a simple one, but still
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: of consequence. We've seen that Simon's sense of fun was
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: almost too intense. Though blaming his deceitful guise, we with
• 27:17
  Speaker 8: the pie man sympathize the latter, we must criticize because
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: he was so dense he might have known from what
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: he ate that Simon had no sense and of the
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: gastronomic guile of simple Simon. Recording by David Fetterman.
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: Tale nine of Mother Goose for Grown Ups. This is
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: Recording by Toby Pear. Mother Goose for Grown Ups by
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: Guy wet More Carol The harmonious heedlessness of Little Boy Blue,
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: composing scales beside the rails that flanked a field of corn,
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: A farmer's boy with vicious joy, performed upon a horn
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: the vagrant airs, the fragrant airs around the field. That
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: strayed took flight before the fragrant airs that noisome urchin played,
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: He played with care the Maiden's prayer. He played God
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: save the Queen, divachtam Rhine and Aldlangzine, and wearing of
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: the green with feudal toots and brutal toots, and shrill
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: chromatic scales, and utterly in noodle toots and agonizing whales.
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: The while he played around him, strayed and calmly chewed
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: the cud. Some thirty nine assorted kind, all ankle deep
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: in mud. They stamped about and tramped about that mud
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: till all the troop made noises as they ramped about
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: like schoolboys eating soup, till growing bored. With one accord,
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: they broke the fence. Forlorn. The field was doomed. The
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: cows consumed two thirds of all the corn, and viciously
• 29:13
  Speaker 6: maliciously when prancing o'er the loam. That landscape expeditiously resembled
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: harvest home. Most idle ass of all your class, the
• 29:22
  Speaker 6: farmer said, with scorn. Just see, my son, what you
• 29:25
  Speaker 6: have done. The cows are in the corn. Oh drat,
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: he said. The brat, he said, the cow herd seemed
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: to rouse. My friend. It's worse than that, he said.
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: The corn is in the cows. The moral lies before
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: our eyes when tending kine and corn. Don't spend your
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: noons in tooting tunes upon a blatant horn, or scaling
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: and assailing, and with energy immense, your cows will take
• 29:52
  Speaker 6: a railing, and the farmer take a fence. And of
• 29:56
  Speaker 6: the harmonious heedlessness of Little Boy Blue recording by Toby Parody.
• 30:07
  Speaker 9: Tale ten of Mother Goose for Grown Ups. This is
• 30:11
  Speaker 9: a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
• 30:16
  Speaker 9: For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
• 30:22
  Speaker 9: Recording by Ruth Golding. Mother Goose for Grown Ups by
• 30:27
  Speaker 9: Guy Wetmore Carol The Inexcusable Improbity of Tom the Piper's Son.
• 30:35
  Speaker 9: A Paris butcher kept a shop upon the river's bank,
• 30:39
  Speaker 9: where you could buy a mutton chop or two for
• 30:42
  Speaker 9: half a franc The little shop was spruce and neat
• 30:46
  Speaker 9: in view of all who trod the street. The decorated
• 30:49
  Speaker 9: joints of meat were hung up in a rank. This
• 30:53
  Speaker 9: gallic butcher led a life of highly moral tone. He
• 30:58
  Speaker 9: never raised his strife. He never drank alone. He simply
• 31:04
  Speaker 9: sat outside his door and slept from eight o'clock to four.
• 31:09
  Speaker 9: The more he slept so much, the more to slumber
• 31:13
  Speaker 9: he was prone. One day outside his shop he put
• 31:18
  Speaker 9: a pig he meant to stuff and carefully around each
• 31:21
  Speaker 9: foot he pinned a paper rough but while a watch
• 31:26
  Speaker 9: he should have kept his habit conquered. And he slept,
• 31:31
  Speaker 9: And for a thief who was a debt, that surely
• 31:34
  Speaker 9: was enough. A Scottish piper dwelt near by, whose one
• 31:41
  Speaker 9: ungracious son beheld that pig and murmured, why No sooner
• 31:48
  Speaker 9: said than done. It seems to me that this I need,
• 31:54
  Speaker 9: And grasping it with all his speed, across the Pont
• 31:57
  Speaker 9: des Envalide, he started on a run, Then, turning sharply
• 32:02
  Speaker 9: to the right, without a thought of risk, he fled.
• 32:05
  Speaker 9: Tis there to call his flight inordinately brisk. But now
• 32:10
  Speaker 9: the town was all astir in vain his feet he
• 32:14
  Speaker 9: strove to spur. They caught him shouting over l beside
• 32:19
  Speaker 9: the obelisk. The breathless butcher cried, amor. The crowd said conspiet,
• 32:28
  Speaker 9: and some abbah, and half a score responded vive l'armaie,
• 32:33
  Speaker 9: while grim gendarme, with piercing eye and stern remarks about
• 32:39
  Speaker 9: can I the pig abstracted on the sly Such is
• 32:44
  Speaker 9: the Gallic way. The piper's offspring, his defeat deep rooted
• 32:51
  Speaker 9: in his heart, a Revolutionary Sheet proceeded then to start,
• 32:56
  Speaker 9: thenceforward every evening he in Leader's scared, pleased the ministry,
• 33:01
  Speaker 9: and wished he could accomplish the return of Bonaparte. The
• 33:07
  Speaker 9: moral is that when the press begins to rave and shout,
• 33:12
  Speaker 9: it's often difficult to guess what it is all about
• 33:17
  Speaker 9: the editor. We strive to pin, but we can never
• 33:21
  Speaker 9: find him in what startling knowledge we should win if
• 33:26
  Speaker 9: we could find him out. End of the inexcusable improbity
• 33:32
  Speaker 9: of Tom the Piper's Son. Recording by Ruth golding.
• 33:42
  Speaker 10: Tail eleven of Mother Goose for grown Ups. This is
• 33:45
  Speaker 10: a LibriVox according all LibriVox accordings are in the public domain.
• 33:50
  Speaker 10: For more information or to volunteer, please visit librifox dot org.
• 33:57
  Speaker 10: Recording by Chili from Malhialm. Mother Goose Were grown Ups
• 34:02
  Speaker 10: by Guy White mac Carroll. The judicious judgment of Quiet
• 34:07
  Speaker 10: contrary Mary. Though Mary had the kind of face the
• 34:11
  Speaker 10: roaders went were softly blow on. Though she was full
• 34:15
  Speaker 10: of simple grays, sweet, amiable and kind and so on.
• 34:20
  Speaker 10: I would not have you understand as I she was meek.
• 34:23
  Speaker 10: You'd be mistaken. She worked at logarithms and her favorite
• 34:28
  Speaker 10: essays was bacon, and though not positive, I think she
• 34:32
  Speaker 10: tired about Savonarola and study Maurice Maeterlink and read the
• 34:36
  Speaker 10: works of a mile Zola and Demersons, and some of
• 34:39
  Speaker 10: Khant's and all of mine and Schopenhauer's. But still she
• 34:44
  Speaker 10: cultivated plants and spent her life in tending flowers. She
• 34:49
  Speaker 10: had a little hedge of bogs azalias, and a bat
• 34:52
  Speaker 10: of tansy, a double row of hollyhocks, and every different
• 34:55
  Speaker 10: kind of pancy. And though so innocent of look, she'd
• 35:01
  Speaker 10: love as by the schools and dozens, and learned by
• 35:04
  Speaker 10: talking with the cook to tell her friends that they
• 35:07
  Speaker 10: were her cousins. The first was French, the second Greek.
• 35:12
  Speaker 10: The third was born upon the Mercy. The fourth one
• 35:15
  Speaker 10: came from Mozambique. The fifth one came from the Isle
• 35:18
  Speaker 10: of Jersey. I cannot tell about the rest, but judging
• 35:22
  Speaker 10: from their dress and faces, they came from north, east,
• 35:26
  Speaker 10: south and west, but all of them from different places. Now,
• 35:32
  Speaker 10: such was merry sense of pride. Despite of the further protestations.
• 35:37
  Speaker 10: Before she vowed to be a bride, she set at
• 35:40
  Speaker 10: them all examinations. She asked each one to tell the
• 35:44
  Speaker 10: deed of Washington and Cleopatra, named Dickens's novels, and locate
• 35:48
  Speaker 10: the sight of Yonkers and Chamatra had so chanced sad
• 35:53
  Speaker 10: from a score of suit as resolute and haughty, one
• 35:56
  Speaker 10: gained a mark of sixty four, and all the rest
• 35:58
  Speaker 10: were under forty. Once reign alone the rest outclassed because
• 36:03
  Speaker 10: of one audacious guess. He the strict examination passed when
• 36:08
  Speaker 10: Mary asked the date of Cressy. The morral shows that
• 36:13
  Speaker 10: when a made her life devotes into a garden, when
• 36:16
  Speaker 10: horticultural skills displayed her heart, she does not dare to harden.
• 36:22
  Speaker 10: So crafty suitors scorn the base. And you may lay
• 36:26
  Speaker 10: this flattering balm to your souls if you but get
• 36:30
  Speaker 10: your dates. The chances are you'll get the palm too,
• 36:35
  Speaker 10: and of the judicious judgment of quiet. Contrary Marry.
• 36:45
  Speaker 7: Tale twelve of Mother Goose for Grown Ups. This is
• 36:50
  Speaker 7: a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: For more information, ought to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
• 37:02
  Speaker 7: Recording by Didye Mother Goose for Grown Ups? By Guy
• 37:09
  Speaker 7: wait More Carol The linguistic languor of Charles Augustus Sprague,
• 37:17
  Speaker 7: A child of nature. Curious was Charles Augustus Sprague. He
• 37:23
  Speaker 7: made his parents furious because he was so vague, although
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: his age was nearly two eleven. Words were all in
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: new These sounded much as sounds of the Dutch that
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: spoken at the hag. A few of his arela tis,
• 37:43
  Speaker 7: just as should a vow he called his mother tatar,
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: and mood he dubbed a cow, nor was it altogether plain.
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: While cho two mede a railway train he called a
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: cat yeah, and that no purist would allow. Within his
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: father's orchard, there stood for all to see, with branches
• 38:09
  Speaker 7: bent and tortured, an ancient apple tree that Charles goes
• 38:15
  Speaker 7: to Sprague my trows his mother on its weaging boughs.
• 38:20
  Speaker 7: His cradle hung, and while it swung, she sung with
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: energy a sun blow rising. One day, the branches broke,
• 38:30
  Speaker 7: with suddenly, surprising the sleeping babe, awoke and crashing down
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: to earth. He fell, ah me, that I should have
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: to tell the words. That mild and genial child on
• 38:45
  Speaker 7: this occasion spoke, his face convulsed and checkered with passion,
• 38:51
  Speaker 7: and with tears he blotted out the record of both
• 38:55
  Speaker 7: his speechless sears, his mother stupefied a god her child's
• 39:01
  Speaker 7: Augustus speak. At last, he opened wide his mouth and cried,
• 39:07
  Speaker 7: these ill conditioned sneers, So pristi accidente perchants. My speech
• 39:14
  Speaker 7: is late, but b she two or twenty an income poop.
• 39:19
  Speaker 7: I hate what idiot said. That woman's planned to warn,
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: to comfort and command. His words are quenched. Excuse my
• 39:30
  Speaker 7: French Jaudico to Montbette. The moral common clocks we find
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: in silence take a siden wind, but only he wroes
• 39:42
  Speaker 7: as we know in silence, take a sudden blow, and
• 39:52
  Speaker 7: of the linguistic languor of Charles Augustus spray.
• 40:02
  Speaker 11: Tale number thirteen of Mother Goose for Grown Ups. This
• 40:07
  Speaker 11: is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the
• 40:10
  Speaker 11: public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit
• 40:15
  Speaker 11: LibriVox dot org. Recording by Jessica Louise, Mother Goose for
• 40:21
  Speaker 11: Grown Ups by Guy Whatmore Carol. The Mysterious misapprehension concerning
• 40:27
  Speaker 11: a man in our town. There was a man in
• 40:31
  Speaker 11: our town, half beggar, half rapscallion, who, just because his
• 40:36
  Speaker 11: eyes were brown, was thought to be Italian, and though
• 40:40
  Speaker 11: with much insistence, he said that people aired and bitterly
• 40:44
  Speaker 11: to Italy. He frequently referred the false report as is.
• 40:48
  Speaker 11: The way of false reports had come to stay. So
• 40:52
  Speaker 11: everyone who'd been to Rome by aid of cooks or
• 40:56
  Speaker 11: gazes would call upon him at home to flaunt Italian
• 41:00
  Speaker 11: raises capite queste lingua. The inquiry would be poquissimo benissimo,
• 41:06
  Speaker 11: viprego dite mi siet de voi contentoqua luntano dal Italia.
• 41:13
  Speaker 11: The victim plunged in deep disgust, grew nervous, could not slumber,
• 41:18
  Speaker 11: said he, I'm called Italian just because my eyes are umber.
• 41:23
  Speaker 11: And if this persecution is ever to be stopped, some
• 41:27
  Speaker 11: stern and stoic, hard heroic course I must adopt. And so,
• 41:33
  Speaker 11: to everyone's surprise, he calmly scratched out both his eyes.
• 41:39
  Speaker 11: The neighbors said, so strange a thing might seem to
• 41:42
  Speaker 11: be an omen. We thought his wits were wandering, but
• 41:45
  Speaker 11: now we know their Roman, and so at him by legions,
• 41:50
  Speaker 11: by bevies, hosts and herds, professors, purists, tramps and tourists
• 41:56
  Speaker 11: screamed Italian words, perceiving all he'd done, was vain. He
• 42:01
  Speaker 11: scratched his eyesight in again the moral. If your neighbors
• 42:07
  Speaker 11: say you're one thing or another, you'll find there isn't
• 42:10
  Speaker 11: any way there prejudice to smother, what matter if they
• 42:13
  Speaker 11: think you from Italy or Greece. I beg you treasure,
• 42:17
  Speaker 11: no displeasure. Bow and hold your peace like Omar. Underneath
• 42:21
  Speaker 11: the bow you'll find there's paradise and now and of
• 42:27
  Speaker 11: the mysterious misapprehension concerning a man in our town. Recording
• 42:32
  Speaker 11: by Jessica Luise.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: Tail fourteen of Mother Goose for Grownups. This is a
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: Mother Goose for Grown Ups by Guy Wetmore Carol. The
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: opportune overthrow of Humpty Dumpty upon a wall of medium
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: height bombastically sat a boastful boy, and he was quite
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: unreasonably fat. And what aroused the most intense disgust in
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: passers by was his abnormal impudence inhaling them with haig,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: while by his kicks he loosened bricks the girls to terrify.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: When thus for half an hour or more he'd played
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: his idle tricks and wounded something like a score of
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: people with the bricks. A man who kept a fuel
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: shop across from where he sat remarked, well, this has
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: got to stop. Then, snatching up his hat and sallying out,
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: began to shout, look here, come down from that. The
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: boastful boy to laugh, began as laughs a rapid clown,
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: and cried, it takes a bigger man than you to
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: calm me down. This wall is smooth, this wall is
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: high and safe from every one. No acroback. Do what
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: I have been and gone and done. Though this reviled,
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: the other smiled and said, just wait, my son. Then
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: to the interested throng that watched across the way, he
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: showed with smiling face along and slender Henry Clay, remarking,
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: in upon my shelves all kinds of cold there are.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: Step in me, friends, and help yourselves. And he who
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: first conjar that wretched urchin off his perch will get
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: this good cigar. The throng this task did not disdain,
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: but through with heart and soul till round the youth
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: there raged a rain of lumps of cattle coal. He
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: dodged for all that he was worth, till one bombarded
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: deft triumphant brought him down to earth a vanity bereft
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: I see, said he that this is the cold day
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: when I get left. The moral is that fuel can
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: become the tool of fate when thrown upon a little
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: man instead of on a grate. This story proves that
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: when a rati imagine he's admired, and acts in such
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: a fashion that he makes his neighbors tired, that little
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: fool who's much too cool gets warmed when coal is fired.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: End of the Opportune Overthrow of Humpty Dumpty.
• 45:23
  Speaker 9: Tale fifteen of Mother Goose for Grown Ups. This is
• 45:27
  Speaker 9: a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
• 45:32
  Speaker 9: For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
• 45:37
  Speaker 9: Recording by Ruth Golding. Mother Goose for Grown Ups by
• 45:42
  Speaker 9: Guy Wetmore Carol The preposterous performance of an Old Lady
• 45:47
  Speaker 9: of Banbury. Within a little attic, a retiring but erratic
• 45:53
  Speaker 9: old lady six and eighty to be Frank made sources
• 45:57
  Speaker 9: out of Cranberry for all the town of Banbury, depositing
• 46:01
  Speaker 9: the proceeds in the bank. Her tendency to thriftiness, her
• 46:06
  Speaker 9: scorn of any shiftiness, built a bustling business, and in
• 46:10
  Speaker 9: course of time her secret yearnings were revealed, and all
• 46:15
  Speaker 9: her earnings she squandered in the purchase of a horse.
• 46:20
  Speaker 9: I am not in a hurry for a wagonette or surrey,
• 46:24
  Speaker 9: she said, In fact, I much prefer to ride, And
• 46:29
  Speaker 9: in spite of all premonishment, to everyone's astonishment, the gay
• 46:34
  Speaker 9: old lady did so and astride. Now this was most periculous.
• 46:40
  Speaker 9: But what was more ridiculous The horse she bought had
• 46:44
  Speaker 9: pulled a car, and so the lazy steed to cheer up.
• 46:48
  Speaker 9: She'd a bell upon her stirrup and rang it twice
• 46:52
  Speaker 9: to make the creature go. I blush the truth to utter,
• 46:57
  Speaker 9: But it seems a pound of butter and thirty eggs
• 47:01
  Speaker 9: she had to sell. Of course, in scorn of ways pedestrian,
• 47:05
  Speaker 9: this fatuous equestrian to mark it gaily started on the horse.
• 47:10
  Speaker 9: Becoming too importunate to hasten, the unfortunate old lady plied
• 47:16
  Speaker 9: her charger with a birch. In view of all her cronies.
• 47:21
  Speaker 9: This stupidest of ponies fell flat before the Presbyterian church,
• 47:27
  Speaker 9: if it should chance that one set a red Italian
• 47:31
  Speaker 9: sunset beside a Beardsley poster, and applaid like any canny Highlanders,
• 47:36
  Speaker 9: beside a Fiji islander's most variegated costume, and should add
• 47:40
  Speaker 9: a Turner composition, and with clever intuition to cap the climax,
• 47:45
  Speaker 9: pile upon them all the Aurora Borealis, then veracity, not malice,
• 47:51
  Speaker 9: might claim a close resemblance to her fall. At sight
• 47:56
  Speaker 9: of her disaster with arneca and plaster, the neighbours up
• 48:00
  Speaker 9: eagerly to aid. They cried, don't do that often, ma'am,
• 48:04
  Speaker 9: or you will need a coffin. Ma'am, you've worked your
• 48:07
  Speaker 9: soul a plexus. We're afraid, We hope your martyr dormal.
• 48:12
  Speaker 9: Let you notice what an omelet you've made in half
• 48:15
  Speaker 9: a chiffy. It is great. She only clutched her bonnet
• 48:21
  Speaker 9: she had fallen flat upon it, and answered, will you
• 48:24
  Speaker 9: tell me if it's straight? The morals rather curious, for
• 48:30
  Speaker 9: often the penurias are apt to think old horses of
• 48:34
  Speaker 9: a count. If you would ride, then seek fine examples
• 48:40
  Speaker 9: of the equine, and don't look on a mole hill
• 48:44
  Speaker 9: as a mount end of The Preposterous Performance of an
• 48:50
  Speaker 9: Old Lady of Banbury recording by Ruth Golding.
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: Section sixteen. The Quixotic Quest of Three Blind Mice from
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: Mother Goose for Grown Ups. This is a LibriVox recording.
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: information or to volunteer, visit LibriVox dot O r G.
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: Mother Goose for Grown Ups by Guy what More Carol,
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: The Quixotic Quest of Three Blind Mice. A maiden mouse
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: of an arrogant mind had three little swains, and all
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: were blind. The reason for this I do not know,
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: but I think it was love that made them so,
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: for without demure, they bowed to her. Though she treated
• 49:54
  Speaker 3: them all with a high hauteur. She ruled them, schooled
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: them frequently, fooled them, snubbed, tormented, and ridiculed them. Mice,
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: as a rule, are much like men. So they swallowed
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: their pride and called again. The maiden mouse of an
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: arrogant mind to morbid romance was much inclined. The reason
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: for this I have not learned, but I think by
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: novels her head was turned. She said that the chap
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: who dared to nap one hour inside of the farmer's
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: trap might gain her rain her holly, in chain her
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: woo her win her and thence retained her hope. Ran
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: high in each suitor's breast, and all determined to stand
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: the test. The maiden mouse of an arrogant mind laughed
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: when she saw them thus confined. The reason for this
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: I can't proclaim, but I know some girls who'd have
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: done the same as Thus they kept to their word
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: and slept the farmer's wife to the pantry stepped, she
• 51:11
  Speaker 3: sought them, caught them carefully, brought them out to the light,
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: and there she taught them how that chivalry often fails,
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: by calmly cutting off their tails. The maiden mouse of
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: an arrogant mind treated her swains in a way unkind.
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: The reason for this is not complex. That's always the
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: way with the tender sex, with impudent hailes. She cried,
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: what ails you all? And where are your splendid tails?
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: She jeered, so sneered, so flouted and fleered, so giggled,
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: and altogether appeared so lacking in heart that her slaves
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: grew bored and threw up the spot lunge of their
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: own accord. The maiden mouse of an arrogant mind watched
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: and waited, and peaked and pined. The reason for this,
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: I beg to state, is summed up in the words
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: too late. The moral entwined is Love is blind, but
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: he never leaves all his wits behind. You may beat him,
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: cheat him, often, defeat him, though he be true with torture.
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: Treat him. One of these days you'll be bereft. You
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: think you're right, but you'll find you're left. End of
• 52:44
  Speaker 3: Quixotic Quest of Three Blind Mice, read by Dennis Sayers
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: and Modesto, California for LibriVox, Fall two thousand and eight.
• 53:02
  Speaker 12: Tale seventeen of Mother Goose for Grown Ups. This is
• 53:08
  Speaker 12: a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
• 53:14
  Speaker 12: For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
• 53:22
  Speaker 12: Mother Goose for Grown Ups by Guy Westmore Carroll, Tale seventeen,
• 53:28
  Speaker 12: The remarkable regimen of the Sprat family. The Sprats were
• 53:34
  Speaker 12: four in number, including twins in kilts.
• 53:39
  Speaker 7: All day.
• 53:39
  Speaker 12: Jack cartered lumber all day. His wife made quilts, Thus
• 53:45
  Speaker 12: heartlessly neglected twelve hours in twenty four as might have
• 53:50
  Speaker 12: been expected, the twins sat on the floor and all
• 53:54
  Speaker 12: the buttons, I should state they chanced to find they
• 53:59
  Speaker 12: promptly this was not meat. But still it's true. We
• 54:04
  Speaker 12: did the same when we were two. The wife, whose
• 54:08
  Speaker 12: name was Julia, maintained an ample board, but one thing
• 54:13
  Speaker 12: was peculiar lean meat she quite aboard. Here also should
• 54:18
  Speaker 12: be stated another fact tis that her spouse abominated the
• 54:24
  Speaker 12: very taste of fat. This contrast, curious of taste, precluded
• 54:30
  Speaker 12: any thought of waste. For all they left of any meal,
• 54:34
  Speaker 12: no self respecting dog would steal, no generous table de
• 54:39
  Speaker 12: HOAt meal, no dainties packed in tins, but only bowls
• 54:45
  Speaker 12: of oatmeal they gave the wretched twins. And yet little
• 54:49
  Speaker 12: princess pampered had lived those babes accursed? Could they have
• 54:54
  Speaker 12: fed unhampered? I have not told the worst. Since nothing
• 54:59
  Speaker 12: from the dining room was left to feed the cook
• 55:02
  Speaker 12: and groom. It seems that these domestic crewel were led
• 55:07
  Speaker 12: to steal the children's gruel. The twins, all hopes, resigning
• 55:13
  Speaker 12: and wounded to the core, confined themselves to dining on
• 55:18
  Speaker 12: buttons off the floor. No passionate resentment the docile babes
• 55:23
  Speaker 12: displayed each day in calm contentment. Three hearty meals they made,
• 55:30
  Speaker 12: and daily Jack and missus Spratt ate all the lean
• 55:33
  Speaker 12: and all the fat, and every day the groom and
• 55:37
  Speaker 12: cook the children's meal contrived to hook. But when the
• 55:42
  Speaker 12: twins grew older, as twins are up to do and
• 55:46
  Speaker 12: shoulder touching shoulder sat Sundays in their pew, they saw
• 55:51
  Speaker 12: no Christian glory in parting with the dime and in
• 55:55
  Speaker 12: the offer tree drop buttons. Every time, said they, what's
• 56:00
  Speaker 12: good enough for spretes is good enough for heathen brets.
• 56:05
  Speaker 12: I most sincerely wish I knew what was the heathen's
• 56:09
  Speaker 12: point of view? The moral anidotes abound of buttons in
• 56:16
  Speaker 12: collections found thus on the wheels of progress go and
• 56:21
  Speaker 12: Heathen's reap. What questions so? End of Tale seventeen, The
• 56:28
  Speaker 12: remarkable regimen of the Sprat family.
• 56:37
  Speaker 8: Tail eighteen of Mother Goose for Grown Ups. This is
• 56:42
  Speaker 8: a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
• 56:47
  Speaker 8: For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
• 56:53
  Speaker 8: Mother Goose for Grown Ups by Guy what More Carol,
• 56:58
  Speaker 8: the singular sung of Baby Bunting. Bartholomew Benjamin Bunting had
• 57:06
  Speaker 8: only three passions in life, and one of the trio
• 57:10
  Speaker 8: was hunting. The others his babe and his wife, and
• 57:15
  Speaker 8: always so rigid his habits, he frolicked at home until
• 57:19
  Speaker 8: two and then started hunting for rabbits, and hunted till
• 57:25
  Speaker 8: fall of the dew. Belinda Bellonia Bunting, thus widowed for
• 57:31
  Speaker 8: half of the day her duty maternal confronting with baby,
• 57:36
  Speaker 8: would patiently play when thus was her energy wasted A
• 57:40
  Speaker 8: patented food, she dispens she had bought it the day
• 57:44
  Speaker 8: that they pasted the posters all over her fence. But
• 57:49
  Speaker 8: Buonaparte Buckingham Bunting, the infant thus blindly adored, replied to
• 57:55
  Speaker 8: her worship by grunting, which showed he was brutally bored
• 58:00
  Speaker 8: twas little he cared for the troubles of life, like
• 58:04
  Speaker 8: a crab on the sands. From his sweet little mouth,
• 58:08
  Speaker 8: he blew bubbles and threatened the air with his hands.
• 58:13
  Speaker 8: Barthor new Benjamin Bunting, one night, as his wife let
• 58:17
  Speaker 8: him in, produced as the fruit of his hunting, a
• 58:21
  Speaker 8: cotton hell's velvety skin, which, seeing young Bonaparte wriggle, he
• 58:27
  Speaker 8: gave him without a demure, and the babe with an
• 58:31
  Speaker 8: aqueous giggle. He swallowed the whole of the fir. Belinda
• 58:36
  Speaker 8: Bellonia Bunting behaved like a consummate loon, her offspring in phrenzy. Confronting,
• 58:43
  Speaker 8: she screened herself modeled maroon. She felt of his vertebrae spinal,
• 58:49
  Speaker 8: expecting he'd surely succumb, and gave him one vigorous, final
• 58:54
  Speaker 8: hard prod in the pit of his tomube. But Bonaparte
• 58:59
  Speaker 8: buckingham Butting, at first, but a trifle perplexed by a
• 59:04
  Speaker 8: change in his manner of grunting, soon showed he was
• 59:08
  Speaker 8: terribly vexed. He displayed not a sign of repentance, but
• 59:13
  Speaker 8: spoke in a dignified tone. The only consecutive sentence he
• 59:19
  Speaker 8: uttered twas a lemmy alone the moral the parent that
• 59:26
  Speaker 8: uses precaution, his folly regrets. An infant gets all that
• 59:31
  Speaker 8: he chooses. An infant choose all that he gets, and
• 59:36
  Speaker 8: collox He constantly has em so long as his food
• 59:40
  Speaker 8: is the best. But he'll swallow with never a spasm
• 59:45
  Speaker 8: what ostriches couldn't digest. End of the singular sangfoi of
• 59:52
  Speaker 8: Baby Bunting. Recording by David Fetterman.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 5: Till nineteen of Mother Goosefog Grown Ups. This is a
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 5: LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 5: For more information, ought to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 5: Mother Goose Fog Grown Ups by Guy Wetmore Carol The
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 5: touching tenderness of King Carl the First for hunger and thirst.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 5: King Carl the First had stoy called stern disdain. The
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 5: food that he ordered consistently bordered on what was described
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 5: as plain much trouble. His cook ambitiously took to tickle
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 5: his frugal taste, but all of his savory science and
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 5: slavery ended it. Not but waste, said the steward. The
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 5: thing to tempt the King and charm his indifferent eye,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 5: no doubt, is a tasty, delectable pasty. Make him a
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 5: blackbird pie. The cook, at these words, baked twenty four
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 5: birds and set them before the King, and the two
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 5: dozen odious, bald and melodious singers began to sing. The King,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 5: in surprise, said, dozens of pies. In the course of
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 5: our life we've tried, but never before us were served
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 5: up a chorus like this that we hear inside with
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 5: a thunderous look. He ordered the cook and the steward
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 5: before him brought, and with a beatified smile. He is
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 5: satisfied both of these innocents thoughts of sinn us the worst,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 5: said Carl. The first is the babarious eruffium, that a
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 5: songbird would slaughter unless for his daughter or wife he
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 5: is trimming a hat. We'll punish you so for the
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 5: future you'll know that from mercy you can't depart. Observe
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 5: that your lenient, kind, intervenient king has a tender heart.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 5: He saw that the cook in a neighboring brook was drowned,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 5: as he quite deserved, and ordered the steward at once
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 5: to be skewered. The steward was much unerved. It's a
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 5: curious thing, said the merciful King, that monarchs so tender
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 5: are so oft We affected that we have suspected that
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 5: we are too kind by far. The moral the mercy
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 5: of men and kings are apt to be wholly dissimilar things.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 5: In spite of the merchant of venice, we pained to
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 5: note that the qualities sometimes trained and of the touching
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 5: tenderness of King Carl the I recording by Islae in
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 5: Belgium in October two thousand and eight.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 4: Tell twenty of Mother Goose for Grown Ups. This is
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 4: a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 4: For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 4: Mother Goose for Grown Ups by Guy Wetmore Carol, The
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 4: unusual ubiquity of the inquisitive gander. A gander dwelt upon
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 4: a farm, and no one could resist him. For had
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 4: he died, such was his charm, his neighbors would have
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 4: missed him his scorn, for any loud display. His cheerful
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 4: hissing day by day would win your heart in such
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 4: a way you almost could have kissed him. This bird
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 4: was always nosing round, most patiently. He waited until an
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 4: open door he found, and then investigated. He loved to poke,
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 4: He loved to peque in every knot hole, so to speak.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 4: He quickly thrust his prying beak for what was hid.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 4: He hated the farm. Exhausted now, said he my policy's expansion.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 4: When one's convinced how things should be, the proper course,
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 4: he can't shun. His mind made up, he followed it,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 4: relying on his native wit, and soon had wandered bit
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 4: by bit through all his master's mansion. At least, he said,
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 4: It's not my fault if everything's not seen too. I've
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 4: gone from garret down to vault, and glanced into the
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 4: lean to in every room, I've chanced to stop, a
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 4: supervising glance to drop. I've looked below, I've looked on top, behind,
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 4: and in between two one thing alone, he found to blame,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 4: as thus his time he squandered, for seeing not the
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 4: farmer's dame into her room, he wandered, and mounting nimbly
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 4: on the bed, Why bless my careful soul, he said,
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 4: these pillows are as hard as lead? Now how come that?
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 4: He pondered? The farmer's Dame for half an hour, had
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 4: watched the bird meander, and finding him within her power,
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 4: she leaped upon the gander. Why howdy do my gander coy?
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 4: She shouted, What will be my joy to dream to
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 4: night on you, my boy? This was no baseless slander,
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 4: for with a stoutish piece of string secure, purely was
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 4: this fool's tide, and buy a leg and buy a
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 4: wing unto an oaken stool tide. While pinning towels around
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 4: her gown. She plucked him with relentless frown, and stuffed
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 4: the pillows with his down, and roasted him for Yule Tide.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 4: The moral is, when you explore, don't try to be superior.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 4: Be cautious, and retire before your safety grows inferior. Tis
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 4: best to stay upon the coast, or some day you
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 4: will be like most of all that bold exploring host
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 4: that's gone to the interior. End of the unusual ubiquity
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 4: of the Inquisite of Gander recording by Ronda Fetterman. End
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 4: of Mother Goosefer Grown Ups by Guy Wetmore, Carrol