CHRISTMAS AT SEA (STEVENSON) and CHRISTMAS BY INJUNCTION (O.HENRY)
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 11 December 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Christmas at Sea (poem) - Robert Louis Stevenson. A young man who has left his family to go to sea is working aboard a ship on Christmas Day while a fierce ice storm is threatening the ship and its crew. The ship is being close to shore and he can see his boyhood home through the blowing storm.
Christmas by Inquisition- O.Henry- A small gold mining town prepares a special Christmas day for a returning prospector who has promised a Santa and a sleigh full of toys for the kiddies- but the town has a problem. With only two days to go- the town has no kids- so they set out to round some up.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 1001 Classic Short Stories and Tales. |
| 0:34.6 | This is your host, John Hecadorn. |
| 0:36.9 | Two great stories for you today, the first poem by Robert Louis Stevenson called Christmas |
| 0:41.8 | Ed C. The second Christmas. Louis Stevenson called Christmas and see. |
| 0:43.3 | The second, Christmas by injunction |
| 0:46.0 | by one of our favorite authors here, O Henry. |
| 0:49.7 | Hope you enjoy. |
| 0:51.7 | And now Christmas in C, by Robert Lewis Stevenson. |
| 0:57.0 | The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand. |
| 1:01.9 | The decks were like a slide where the seamen scarce could stand. The wind was |
| 1:07.0 | Norwester, blowing squally off the sea, and cliffs and spouting breakers were the only things a lead. |
| 1:15.0 | They heard the surf are roaring before the break of day, |
| 1:18.0 | but t'was only with the peep of light we saw hell ill we lay. |
| 1:22.0 | We tumbled every hand on deck instanter with a shout and we gave her the main |
| 1:27.4 | topsole and stood by to go about. All day we tacked and tacked between the south and the north. All day we hauled the frozen sheets and got no further forth. |
| 1:39.0 | All day as cold as charity, in bitter pain and dread for every life in nature we tacked from head to |
| 1:47.3 | head. |
| 1:49.2 | We gave the South a wider birth for there the tide raised ward but every tack we made we brought the north |
| 1:55.5 | head close aboard so as we saw the cliffs and houses and the breakers running high and |
| 2:01.6 | the coastguard in his garden with his glass against |
| 2:05.0 | his eye. |
| 2:06.8 | The bells upon the church were wrung with mighty jovial cheer, for it's just that I should |
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