["Pomp and Circumstance"]

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episode is brought to you by Cinnamon Bear. Tonight we'll read the next part

to the box card children written by first grade teacher, Gertrude Chandler

Warner, and published in 1924. The box card children tells the story of four

orphan children, Henry, Jesse, Violet, and Benny. They create a home for

themselves in an abandoned box car in the forest. In the first episode, we learned

that the only relative for the orphans to live with would be their supposedly

hard-hearted grandfather whom they never met because of his disapproval of

their parents marriage. So instead, the children strike out on their own into the

woods. We will pick up at the end of the first episode where Jesse sees it is

about terrain and finds an abandoned box car for her siblings to shelter in

just in time.

Let's get cozy. Close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths.

Faintly outlined among the trees just saw an old freight or box car. Her first

thought was one of fear. Her second hope for shelter. It really was a freight car.

She felt of it. It stood on rusty broken rails which were nearly covered with

dead leaves. Then the thunder cracked overhead. Just came to her usual senses and

started back for Henry, flying like the wind. Come, panted Jess. I've found a

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