4.9 • 686 Ratings
🗓️ 13 July 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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0:00.0 | Negotium |
0:07.0 | Dyeye's |
0:10.0 | Everybody come back |
0:12.0 | Isn't that so? |
0:14.0 | You tried to get into the locked-drawn today, didn't you? |
0:17.0 | How do the dead come back, mother? |
0:20.0 | Negotium Perambulance by E.F. Benson. |
0:28.2 | The casual tourist in West Cornwall may just possibly have noticed, as he bowled along over the bare high plateau between Penzance and Lanz End, |
0:39.2 | a dilapidated signpost pointing down a steep lane, |
0:43.6 | and bearing on its battered finger the faded inscription, |
0:47.2 | Paulain, two miles. |
0:50.2 | But probably very few have had the curiosity to traverse those two miles in order to see a place, |
0:57.6 | to which their guidebooks award so cursory a notice. |
1:02.0 | It is described there, in a couple of unattractive lines, as a small fishing village, |
1:08.4 | with a church of no particular interest except for certain |
1:13.6 | carved and painted wooden panels, originally belonging to an early edifice which form an altar |
1:20.6 | rail. |
1:21.6 | But the church at St. Creed, the tourist is reminded, has a similar decoration, far superior in point of preservation and interest, and thus even the ecclesiastically disposed, are not lured to Polain. |
1:39.4 | So meagre a bait is scarce worth swallowing, and a glance at the very steep lane which in dry weather |
1:46.0 | presents a carpet of sharp-pointed stones, and after rain, a muddy watercourse, will almost |
1:53.2 | certainly decide him not to expose his motor or his bicycle to risks like these, and so sparsely populated a district. |
2:04.5 | Hardly a house has met his eye since he left Penzance, and the possible trundling of a |
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