Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep.

So find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume,

take a nice deep breath in,

let it out slowly, and off we go.

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by Khalil Gibran, the book we finished last week.

It's a wonderful book and I think you'll enjoy it.

Now let's get to the reading.

Tonight we're returning to one of your all-time favorites,

The Sears Roebuck and Co-incorporated, Consumer's Guide,

Number 104 for 1897. That's right, it's the Sears catalog. In this episode, let's take a

browse through the Musical Goods Department and see what's for sale. Musical goods department.

department.

No department in our vast establishment has grown more rapidly in popular favor than that of musical instruments.

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