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.

Welcome to tonight's episode of the Bore You to Sleep podcast.

I've decided to bring back the adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Chapter 2 is what we're going to be reading tonight.

I know how much everyone loves this book.

It's a classic and it's good to lie back to and listen to as you fall asleep.

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Tonight's readings will continue with Tom Sawyer in the adventures of Tom Sawyer.

We're going to start with Chapter 2.

Strong Temptations, Strategic Movements, The Innocence Beguiled. Saturday morning was come and all the summer world was bright and fresh and brimming with life

there was a song in every heart and if the heart was young the music issued at the lips there was cheer in every face and a spring in every step the locused

were in bloom and the fragrance of the blossoms filled the air.

Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above it,

was green with vegetation,

and it lay just far enough away to seem a delectable land,

dreamy, reposeful, and inviting. Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence and all gladness left him, and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit.

Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high, life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

Sighing, he dipped his brush and passed it along the topmost plank,

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