Hello, welcome to the Bore You to Sleep podcast, the podcast that will hopefully help you get to sleep.

I am going to read an open source book, one that is not particularly interesting, but one that is

hopefully boring enough to get you to sleep.

On tonight's episode of the Bore You to Sleep podcast, we're going to listen to a book called On the Trail.

An Outdoor Book for Girls by Lena Beard and Adelia Bell Beard.

The book was published in New York by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1915.

I hope you enjoy it and as always not so much that it keeps you awake but hopefully

you sit back relax and fall a little sleepy.

To all girls who love the life of the open, we dedicate this book.

Presentation

The joyous, exhilarating call of the wilderness and the forest camp is surely and steadily penetrating through the barriers of brick, stone and

concrete, though the more or less artificial life of town and city, and the American girl is listening eagerly.

It is awakening in her longings for free, wholesome and adventurous outdoor life

for the innocent delights of nature-loving, thorough and bird-loving burrows.

Sturdy, independent, self-reliant, she is now demanding outdoor books that are genuine and

filled with practical information. Books that tell how to do worthwhile things

that teach real woodcraft and are not adapted to the girl supposed to be afraid of a caterpillar

or to shudder at the side of a harmless snake.

In answer to the demand on the trail has been written,

the author's deep desire is to help girls respond to this new insistent call

by pointing out to them the open trail.

It is their hope and wish

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