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 readings will come from Tom Slade with the Flying Corps, A Campfire Tale.

The book was authored by Percy Keithese Fitzhue and published in 1919. It follows the

story of a young and heroic aviator in World War I. I think the book will be really good to listen to

as you try and fall asleep.

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Tom Slade with the Flying Corps.

A Camp Fire Tale by Percy Keese Fitzhue.

Part 1, The Secret of the Scuppers.

Chapter 1 tells briefly of the extraordinary episode which ended his service in the Flying Corps,

and gives also a glimpse of his adventurous career.

The reports in the American newspapers of the loss of Tom Slade, Aviator, were read by his many admirers and friends

with a sense of shock and with feelings of personal bereavement. Notwithstanding that his former

comrades on this side of the water had not seen him for more than two years and knew that

the character of his service as well as his temperament would be sure to take him where danger

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