THE COUNTERSIGN OF THE CRADLE by HENRY VAN DYKE
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 26 March 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In this interesting two part story set in the north country outside of Quebec, our narrator has booked a hunting trip with his friend and guide, who has left early to get supplies in Quebec. the guide has a family with a wife and a pair of twins he is very proud of. In part one, a curious sound alerts the wife to the movement of a rocker they have placed in the kitchen, where she thinks she hears her husband's voice and senses his presence. She senses something is terribly wrong. In part two, our narrator catches up with his friend and soon a disaster takes place, happening at the same time that the wife and mother senses something is wrong.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | And the The Welcome back everyone to |
| 0:30.3 | the one thousand one classic short stories entails. |
| 0:33.0 | Today a great short story from Henry Van Dyke called |
| 0:36.0 | The Counter-Zine of the Cradle. |
| 0:38.0 | Hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:40.0 | I cannot explain to you the connection between the two parts of this story. |
| 0:46.4 | They were divided in their happening by a couple of hundred miles of mountain and forest. |
| 0:52.0 | There were no visible or audible means of communication |
| 0:54.6 | between the two scenes, but the events occurred at the same hour and the |
| 0:59.1 | persons who were most concerned in them were joined by one of those vital ties of human |
| 1:04.0 | affection would seem to elude the limitations of time and space. |
| 1:08.0 | Perhaps that was the connection. |
| 1:10.0 | Perhaps love worked the miracle. I do not know. I only tell you the story. |
| 1:16.0 | And now part one of those two parts. |
| 1:19.0 | It begins in the peaceful homely village of St. Jerome on the shore of Lake St John at the edge of the vast northern wilderness. |
| 1:28.0 | Here was the home of my guide, Pat Malarkey, whose name was as Irish as his nature was French Canadian, and who was so fond of children that, having lost his only one, he was willing to give up smoking in order to save money for the adoption of a baby from the founding asylum at |
| 1:44.4 | Quebec. How his virtue was rewarded and how his wife Angelique presented him |
| 1:50.6 | with twins of his own to his double, has been told in another story. |
| 1:55.5 | The relation of parentage to a matched brace of babies is likely to lead to further adventures. |
| 2:01.7 | The cradle, of course, being built for two was a broad affair and little Jacques and Jacqueline rolled around in it inextricably mixed |
| 2:10.1 | until Pat had the ingenious idea of putting a board down the middle for a partition. |
| 2:15.0 | Then the infants rocked side by side in harmony, going up and down alternately, |
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