Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some

sleep.

So find a comfortable spot, adjust your volume, take a nice deep breath in, let it out slowly, and off we go.

Before we begin, I'd like to give a special shouter to thanks to Sean,

the latest member of our Patreon family. of

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Now let's get to the reading.

Tonight by listener request, we're returning to a journey to the Western Isles of Scotland by

Samuel Johnson, first published in 1775. Let's continue our journey where we left off on the Isle of Sky.

Talisker in Skye. From Ulanish, our next stage was to Talisker, the house of Colonel

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