Hello there. Welcome to another episode of Down to Sleep, a podcast of softly spoken stories to help you

relax and drift off for a peaceful night's rest. Thank you for joining me. Tonight we're going to be

reading The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. I'm sure we're all familiar with the movie, and I'm very

curious to see how the book reads. I've never read this book before. So this should be interesting.

We'll get started in just a second, so go ahead and get yourself comfortable, get nice and

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter 1, The Cycl Cyclone Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer,

an Aunt M, who was the farmer's wife. Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be

carried by wagon many miles. There were four walls, a floor and a roof, which made one room,

and this room contained a rusty-looking cookstove, a cupboard for the dishes, a table,

three or four chairs, and the beds.

Uncle Henry and Aunt M had a big bed in one corner,

and Dorothy a little bed in another corner.

There was no garret at all, and no cellar, except a small hole dug in the ground, called a

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