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. Tonight's reading comes from the Provincial American

and other papers by Meredith Nicholson, published in 1913.

This book is the perfect companion to help you drift off to sleep.

My name is Teddy, and I am to help people everywhere get a good night's rest.

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In the meantime, lie back, relax and enjoy the ratings. The Provincial American and other papers.

I am a provincial American.

My forebears away farmers or country town folk.

They followed the long trail over the mountains out of Virginia and North Carolina,

with brief sojourns in western Pennsylvania and Kentucky.

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