The Burglar's Christmas by Willa Cather
Just Sleep - Bedtime Stories for Adults
Taesha Glasgow
4 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Fall asleep tonight to the snoozy short story The Burglar's Christmas by Willa Cather. First published in 1896 under the pseudonym, Elizabeth L. Seymour, this touching tale is about unconditional love.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. Welcome to the Just Sleep podcast. I'm Tasia, your host. Every week, I will read you |
| 0:17.1 | an old story to help you relax, put the stressful day behind you, and drift off to sleep. |
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| 1:50.1 | Tonight I will be reading The Burglar's Christmas by Willa Cather. |
| 1:58.3 | So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story. |
| 2:00.8 | Two very shabby-looking young men stood at the corner of Prairie Avenue, an 80th Street, |
| 2:09.4 | looking despondently at the carriages that whirled by. |
| 2:13.7 | It was Christmas Eve, and the streets were full of vehicles, florists, wagons, |
| 2:20.7 | grocer's carts, and carriages. The streets were in that half-liquid, half-congealed |
| 2:28.1 | condition peculiar to the streets of Chicago at that season of the year. The swift wheels that spun by sometimes |
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