Hey, my name's Otis Gray, and you're listening to Sleepy.

A podcast where I read old books to help you get to sleep, and this is a midweek short story for you.

Okay. And this is a midweek short story for you. I've got a story tonight that is, um, it's a relatively famous one.

So I'm told, even though I had not read it before tonight.

And, um, it's pretty gripping and a really amazing story so hopefully you just get lost in it

just enough to doze off into a deep slumber I promise I read it as boring as I possibly can

and before we get to this extremely boring bedtime story,

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