Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get

some sleep.

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Now let's relax with some reading.

Find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume.

Take a nice deep breath in, let it out slowly, and off we go.

Tonight, let's relax with the Book of the Ocean by Ernest Ingersoll, author of Knock and Round the

Rockies, the Oyster Industries of the United States,

Friends worth knowing, wild neighbors,

the crest of the continent, etc.

First published in 1898 by the Century Company, New York.

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