Far from the Madding Crowd: A Girl on Horseback by Thomas Hardy

Just Sleep - Bedtime Stories for Adults

Taesha Glasgow

Stories To Help You Sleep, Unknown, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Mental Health, Just Sleep, Bedtime Stories For Adults

4 • 748 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Fall asleep tonight to the continuation of Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. Published in 1874, this was Hardy's first literary success. In this episode, Farmer Oak talks to Bathsheba Everdene and soon falls in love with her. His marriage proposal, however, might not be well received.

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0:00.0	Good evening. Welcome to the Just Sleep podcast. I'm Tasia, your host. Every week, I will read you
0:17.1	an old story to help you relax, put the stressful day behind you, and drift off to sleep.
0:34.1	Occasionally, we will run ads in order to cover the costs of the production of the podcast.
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1:09.8	Do, do, do, bumper.
1:19.5	Okay, enough Rasmataz.
1:22.6	But it's not every day a new scratch card drops.
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1:46.8	Tonight, I will be reading Far from the Madden Crowd by Thomas Hardy
1:51.5	So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.
2:03.9	Chapter 3. A Girl on Horseback, Conversation.
2:10.3	The sluggish day began to break.
2:13.6	Even its position terresturally is one of the elements of of a new interest and for no particular reason save that the incident of the night had occurred there oak went again into the plantation
2:27.3	lingering and musing hair he heard the steps of a horse at the foot of the hill, and soon there appeared in view,
2:37.1	an Auburn pony with a girl on its back, ascending by the path leading past the cattle shed.
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