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For the next few weeks, we're going to try something a little different.

I'm going to read an entire book over the next few weeks with new chapters every week,

instead of spreading them out over a few months, as I currently do, we're trying this

because we had some feedback from our listener survey.

If you like this approach and the additional episode every week,

let me know at Hello at justsleeppodcast.com.

The novel is Little Lord Fortleroy by Francis Hodgson Burnett.

So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.

Chapter 1

Cedric himself knew nothing whatever about it.

It had never been even mentioned to him.

He knew that his papa had been an Englishman because his mama had told him so.

But then his papa had died and he was so little a boy

that he could not remember very much about him, except that he was

big and had blue eyes and a long mustache, and that it was a splendid thing to be carried around

the room on his shoulder. Since his papa's death, Cedric had found out that it was best

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