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 read and relax.

Find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume.

Take a nice deep breath in.

Let it out slowly. And off we go.

Tonight let's return to the Book of the Ocean by Ernest Ingersoll, author of N

Nilesall. of the Oyster Ernest Ingersoll, author of Naken Round the Rockies, the Oyster Industries of the United

States.

Friends worth Knowing Wild Neighbour States, friends worth knowing, wild neighbors, the crest of the continent, etc.

Published in 1898 by the Century Company, New York.

Let's pick up where we left off in the middle of Chapter 2,

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