CAPTAIN ELI'S BEST EAR by FRANK STOCKTON A 1001 CHRISTMAS SPECIAL SELECTION
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
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🗓️ 6 December 2023
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Two old sea captains put their heads together to provide a special Christmas for a little girl in need of one.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Oh, the, The Welcome back everyone to |
| 0:49.8 | to one thousand one classic short stories and tales it's time for a Frank Stockton story and this time a Christmas story called Captain Eli's best ear |
| 0:59.6 | The little seaside village of Sponganis lies so quietly upon a protected spot on our Atlantic coast |
| 1:05.9 | that it makes no more stir in the world than what a pebble which held between one's finger and thumb |
| 1:11.0 | should be dipped below the surface of a mill pond and then dropped. |
| 1:16.7 | About the post office and the store, both under the same roof, the greater number of houses |
| 1:21.8 | cluster as if they had come for their week's groceries or were waiting for the mail. |
| 1:27.0 | While toward the west the dwellings became fewer and pure, |
| 1:31.0 | until at last the village blends into a long stretch of sandy coast and |
| 1:35.2 | scrubby bindwoods. Eastward the village ends abruptly at the put of a wind-swept bluff |
| 1:40.8 | on which no one cares to build. |
| 1:44.0 | Among the last houses in the western end of the village stood two neat substantial dwellings, |
| 1:50.0 | one belonging to Captain Eli Bunker and the other to Captain Seifas Dyer. |
| 1:55.0 | These householders were two very respectable retired mariners, |
| 1:59.0 | the first a widower about 50, and the other a bachelor of perhaps the same age, a few years more or less making |
| 2:06.2 | but little difference in this region of weather-beaten youth and seasoned age. |
| 2:11.8 | Each of these good captains lived alone and each took entire charge of his own domestic affairs |
| 2:16.9 | Not because he was poor, but because it pleased him to do so |
| 2:22.0 | When Captain Eli retired from the sea he was the owner of a good vessel, which he sold at a fair profit. |
| 2:28.0 | And Captain Seifis had made money and many a voyage before he built his house in Spankanis and settled there. |
| 2:35.6 | When Captain Eli's wife was living, she was his household manager. |
| 2:39.9 | But Captain Seepis had never had a woman in his house, |
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