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

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

And this is part two of a story that we started the other night.

And we'll be finishing tonight as a bedtime story.

So if you haven't heard part one of this story, and you're actually listening to the story,

I suggest going to this past Sunday's episode, which is episode 489, The Reluctant Dragon, Part 1,

as this is part 2, and we'll complete the story. But if you're just listening to go to sleep,

which I really hope you are, then don't worry about it because this reading is plenty nice to fall asleep to.

And before we get to the bedtime reading, I just want to profoundly thank all of our patrons

on patreon.com, which is a website where you can go and pledge a couple

bucks for an ad-free version of Sleepy. If you are a supporter of the show on Patreon, thank you

so, so much. You have no idea how much you make a difference. And yeah, I'm desperately grateful

for you. Thanks. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, we have a lot of sleepy listeners

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