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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.

Tonight's story is by an author that we haven't read on the show in quite a bit.

And honestly, it's usually an author that we read during the fall and the winter.

None other than Washington Irving.

But he wrote a lot of really great short, and we're going to read one tonight.

And before we get to this snoozy bedtime reading, I just want to profoundly thank all of our patrons on patreon.com.

If you are a patron, thank you so, so much.

It means a lot to me.

That you are here and you are helping to make this show happen.

So thank you.

And if you're listening and you don't know what I'm talking about um patrons on Patreon they help keep the show going they're listeners that pledge a couple bucks a month um to be a part of making

this show directly and you get cool perks in exchange like at two dollars a month you get access

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