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In this episode, I'll be reading chapters one to three from a journey to the centre of the earth by Joel's van.

So let your eyes fall heavy and your breath soften.

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

Chapter one. My uncle makes a great discovery.

Looking back to all that has occurred to me since that eventful day, I am scarcely able to believe in the reality of my adventures.

They were truly so wonderful that even now I am bewildered when I think of them.

My uncle was German, having married my mother's sister and English woman.

Being very much attached to his fatherless nephew, he invited me to study under him in his home the fatherland.

This home was in a large town, and my uncle, a professor of philosophy, chemistry, geology, mineralogy and other such allergies.

One day, after passing some hours in the laboratory, my uncle being absent at the time,

I suddenly felt the necessity of renovating the tissues.

I was hungry and was about to rouse up our old French cook.

When my uncle, professor von Hardwig, suddenly opened the street door and came rushing upstairs.

Now, Professor Hardwig, my worthy uncle, is by no means a bad sort of man.

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