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Good evening.

Welcome to send me to Sleep, the world sleepiest podcast.

I'm your host, Andrew.

I'm here to help calm your mind and send you into a peaceful night's sleep.

Tonight I'll be reading Chapter 9, the strangest house anyone ever lived in and chapter 10

Dickon from the secret garden

by Francis Hodgson Burnett.

So let your eyes fall heavy,

and your breath soften as we settle in for a peaceful night sleep.

Chapter 9, the strangest house anyone ever lived in. It was the sweetest, most mysterious looking place anyone could

imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the

leafless stems of climbing roses which were so thick that they were matted together.

Mary Lennox knew they were roses because she had seen a great many roses in India.

All the ground was covered with grass of a wintry brown and out of it grew clumps of bushes which was

surely rose bushes if they were alive.

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