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Welcome to Send Me To Sleep, the world's sleepiest podcast.

I'm your host, Andrew. I'm here to help calm your mind and send you into a peaceful night's sleep.

Tonight, to get us into the festive Christmas spirit, I'll be reading Chapters 4 and 5 of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.

So let your eyes fall heavy and your breath soften.

As we settle in, for a peaceful night's sleep.

Chapters 4, The Last of the Spirits

The phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached.

When it came near him, Scrooge bent down upon his knee.

For in the very air through which this spirit moved, it seemed to scatter gloom and mystery.

It was shrouded in a deep black garment which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of its visible, safe one outstretched hand.

But for this it would have been difficult to detach its figure from the night and separate it from the darkness by which it was surrounded.

He felt that it was tall and stately when it came beside him and that its mysterious presence filled him with a solemn dread.

He knew no more for the spirit neither spoke nor moved.

I am in the presence of the ghost of Christmas yet to come, said Scrooge.

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