If you're enjoying send me to sleep, make sure that you've followed the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and any other podcast player you use.

Also, if you have a moment, please rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. All of this really helps the show reach new listeners, and you never know, your review may convince someone to listen and lead them to a good night's rest,

which I hope you all agree is worth sharing. Thanks so much for your listenership and support.

Hey, it's Andrew here. Now's your chance to reply to questions and calls for feedback from myself and all your favourite podcasters on Spotify.

Every new episode could have a Q&A or poll with a topic for you to weigh in on, so let your voice be heard.

I personally love reading through your comments and reviews for episode, and your feedback is always so useful in making improvements to the show.

View our latest episodes to respond to our Q&As and polls today. Thanks, everyone.

Good evening.

Welcome to Send Me To Sleep, the world's sleepiest podcast.

I'm your host, Andrew. I'm here to help calm your mind and send you into a peaceful night's sleep.

Tonight, I'll be starting another new story, Emily of New Moon, by L. M. Montgomery, famed author of Anne of Green Gables.

So let your eyes fall heavy, and your breath soften.

As we settle in, four peaceful night's sleep.

Chapter 1, The House in the Hollow

The house in the Hollow was a mile from anywhere, so Maywood people said.

It was situated in a grassy little dail, looking as if it had never been built like other houses, but had grown up there like a big brown mushroom.

It was reached by a long green lane and almost hidden from view by an encircling growth of young birches.

No other house could be seen from it, although the village was just over the hill.

Ellen Green said it was the most lonesome place in the world, and vowed that she wouldn't stay there a day if it wasn't that she pitted the child.

Emily didn't know she was being pitted, and didn't know what lonesomeness meant.

She had plenty of company. There was Father, and Mike, and saucy Sal.

The wind woman was always around, and there were the trees, Adam and Eve, and the rooster pine, and all the friendly lady-burches,

...