Hi everyone. My name is Otis Gray and you're listening to Sleepy.

A podcast where I read old books to help you get to sleep.

I've got a nice, Newsy Victorian era story for you tonight.

I think you're really good and like dozing off to this one.

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Tonight, we've got a pretty old story for you. I think it was written in the 1850s. It's called

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. This is a pretty classic kind of Victorian era story about

a group of people getting ready for a wedding. To be honest, it's pretty boring.

I think a lot to me. I just think a lot of this Victorian era stuff is,

that's just funny. That's how this really flew for you wonderful poetic writing about people doing

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