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🗓️ 8 May 2022
⏱️ 182 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello there, and welcome to Down to Sleep. This is the podcast of softly spoken stories to help you get a good night's rest. |
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0:20.1 | This week's episode is the first half of a |
0:22.4 | complete reading of The Wind and the Willows. This is one of my favorite books that we have |
0:26.7 | read on the podcast so far. It is perfectly cozy and sleepy to help you get a better rest tonight. |
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1:04.4 | Let's begin. |
1:06.0 | The mole had been working very hard all morning, spring cleaning his little home. First with brooms, |
1:13.8 | then with dusters, then on ladders and steps and chairs with a brush and a pail of whitewash, |
1:20.1 | till he had dust in his throat and eyes and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, |
1:26.2 | and an aching back and weary arms spring was moving in the |
1:32.0 | air above and in the earth below and around him penetrating even his dark and lowly little house |
1:39.5 | with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. |
1:50.1 | It was small wonder then that he suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said, |
1:58.8 | Bother, and old blow, and also hang spring cleaning, and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat. |
2:01.3 | Something up above was calling him imperiously, |
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