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1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

AN EPISODE OF FIDDLETOWN (PT 2) by BRET HARTE

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Arts, Fiction

4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In part two we move forward in time to where Carrie is in a finishing school out east and a man from her past comes to visit...

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0:00.0

And the Yeah, Oh, the day.

0:24.0

The day.

0:25.0

Oh,

0:26.0

Oh, Oh, Oh,

0:28.0

. .

0:30.0

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Welcome back everyone to part 2 of Breadheart's Classic Short Story, an episode of Fiddletown.

0:49.0

This is your host, John Hagadorn.

0:51.4

This is 1001 Classic Short Stories and Tales.

0:55.7

And now our story.

0:59.9

The gray fog deepened into night and the street lamps started into shivering life as absorbed in these

1:06.2

unprofitable memories. Mrs. Trethrich still sat drearily at her window. Even Carrie had slipped away, unnoticed, and her abrupt entrance with a

1:15.5

damp evening paper in her hand roused Mrs. Trethrich and brought her back to an

1:19.3

active realization of the present. For Mrs. Trerethric was want to scan the advertisements in the faint hope of finding some avenue of employment.

1:27.0

She knew not what, open to her needs, and Carrie had noted this habit.

1:32.0

Mrs. Trethric mechanically closed the shutters, let the lights, and opened the paper.

1:38.0

Her eye fell instinctively on the following paragraph in the telegraphic column.

1:42.0

Fiddletown, 7th.

1:45.0

Mr James Trethrick, an old resident of this place,

1:48.0

died last night of Delirium Tremmons.

1:51.0

Mr Trethrick was addicted to int intemperate habits said to have been induced by domestic trouble.

1:57.0

Mrs Trethrich did not start. She quietly turned over another page of the paper and glanced to Carrie.

2:04.6

The child was absorbed in a book.

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