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

My name is Teddy and I'm going to read a story from an old book.

Not one that is particularly interesting,

but one that is hopefully boring enough to get you to sleep.

Tonight's readings come from a book published in 1895.

The book is called Winning His Spurs, A Tale of the Crusades by G.A. Henty.

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Winning His Spurs, A Tale of the Crusades by G. A. Henty. 1895.

Chapter 1 The Outlaws It was a bright morning in the month of August,

when a lad of some 15 years of age, sitting on a low wall, watched party after

party of armed men, riding up to the castle of the Earl of Evesham. A casual observer glancing at his curly hair and bright open face as also at the fashion of his dress would at once have assigned to him a purely saxon origin but a keener eye would have detected signs that Norman

blood ran also in his veins, for his figure was lighter and lighter, his features more straightly and shapely cut

than was common among Saxons.

His dress consisted of a tight-fitting jerkin

descending nearly to his knees.

The material was a light blue cloth, while over his shoulder hung a short cloak of a darker

hue. His cap was of Saxon fashion, and he wore on one side a little pume of a heron.

In a somewhat costly belt hung a light short sword,

while across his knees lay a crossbow.

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