A Christmas Carol - Down To Sleep #49

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🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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A reading of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens to help you sleep.Listen ad-free and hear exclusive books, and 2 episodes a week, by joining Patreon: https://www.Patreon.com/DownToSleep(You can listen to the Patreon version on any device or app including Spotify!)All the links you needPatreon: https://www.Patreon.com/DownToSleepListen on YouTube (More Books): https://www.youtube.com/DownToSleepInstagram: https://www.Instagram.com/DownToSleepPodcastCreated & Narrated by MadMorph: https://www.madmorph.comWebsite: https://www.DownToSleepPodcast.comDown To Sleep is a podcast to fall asleep to. Turn on & drift off. If you need help sleeping or just want to relax listening to classic tales as bedtime stories with a side of unintentional softly spoken ASMR. Come gently nod off to sleep with me, a new episode every Monday. You can listen on Spotify, Google, Apple, and most podcast apps.Website: https://www.DownToSleepPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello there and welcome to Down to Sleep, the podcast of softly spoken stories to help you get a good night's rest.
0:07.6	Tonight, a Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, as it is December and this was voted for by the supporters on Patreon.
0:15.8	If you find this podcast useful and you would like to support it and join our sleepy little midnight book club,
0:21.6	then come and join us at patreon.com slash down to sleep. You get two episodes every week. Access to every recording so
0:28.5	far. We are on episode 97 over there. Otherwise, let's go ahead and tuck you in and get you down to
0:36.4	sleep tonight. Let's begin ahead and tuck you in and get you down to sleep tonight.
0:38.6	Let's begin.
0:48.6	I have endeavored in this ghostly little book to raise the ghost of an idea, which shall not put my readers out of humor with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their houses
0:58.8	pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. Their faithful friend and servant, seedy. Stave One,
1:10.8	Marley's ghost.
1:13.7	Marley was dead, to begin with.
1:17.3	There is no doubt whatever about that.
1:20.7	The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner.
1:30.7	Scrooge signed it, and Scrooge's name was good upon change, for anything that he chose
1:37.1	to put his hand to. Old Mali was as dead as a doornail. Mind, I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge,
1:47.5	what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined myself to regard a coffin
1:55.4	nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade trade but the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile
2:03.4	and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it all the country is done for you will therefore
2:11.9	permit me to repeat emphatically that marley was as dead as a doornail.
2:20.3	Scrooge knew he was dead? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise?
2:26.4	Scrooge and he were partners for, I don't know how many years. Scrooge was his sole
2:32.7	executor, his sole administrator, his soul assign, his sole friend, and soul mourner.
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