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This is Relic Radio, sci. Quiet, please. The American Broadcasting Company presents Quiet Please, which is written and directed by Willis Cooper, and which features Ernest Chapel.

Your Quiet Please story for tonight takes its name from the title of the series, Quiet Please.

There are books left, many books, and I suppose I have read them all.

I remember things, too. I remember a long white road between the shoulders of the hills and the distant clusters of the live oaks against the uplands beyond and the wide light blue of the sky.

There was a wind that wandered the edges of the hills that brought the soft smell of the sea

so that it mingled with a loamy scent of the grass and made a perfume that I have not

smelled in so many years.

There was a great plane where the hills fell away and tumbled rocky magnificence.

The plane all cut into green and brown and yellowing squares.

And a little stream with bridges of stone that strolled its way across the wide plain and sparkled at last into the distant western ocean.

There was life on the hills and on the plains, the field beasts that moved serenely through the pleasant grasses and rested at noon under the shadowed kindness of the green gray oats.

There were men and cheerful women in the white-walled houses where the road curved.

And the children that played noisily and sweetly in the cottage dooryards are long since dust.

Shall I tell you of the graceful beaches where the sound of the surf was a measured, majestic melody we thought

would never cease.

Shall I speak of the great ships prone upon the breast of the ocean the ships that are

seen no more?

Would you hear of the wind-whipped nights and the lightning in the forests and the gentle rain

in the dawn time? Would you remember, then not forget?

I remember.

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