Fred (host, reader)

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Undertow: Familiar Haunts · The Green Book, Part 1 · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

They played together and danced round round the pool, and they sang a song till I fell asleep.

Nurse woke me up when she came back, and she was looking something like the lady had looked, so I told her all about it and asked her why she looked like that.

At first she cried, and then she looked very frightened and turned quite pale.

She put me down to the grass and stared at me, and I could see she was shaking all over.

Then she said I had been dreaming, but I knew I hadn't.

Then she made me promise not to say a word about it to anybody, and if I did, I should be thrown into the black pit.

I was not frightened at all, though Nurse was, and I never forgot about it, because when I shut my eyes and it was quite quiet, and I was all alone,

I could see them again.

Very faint and far away, but very splendid, and little bits of the song they sang came into my head, but I couldn't sing it.

I was thirteen, nearly fourteen, when I had a very singular adventure.

So strange the day on which it happened is always called the White Day.

my mother had been dead for more than a year, and in the morning I had lessons, but they let me go out for walks in the afternoon.

And this afternoon I walked a new way, and a little brook led me into a new country.

But I tore my frock getting through some of the difficult places, as the way was through many bushes, and beneath the low branches of trees, and up thorny thickets on the hills, and by dark woods full of creeping thorns, and it was a long, long way.

It it seemed as if I was going on forever and ever, and I had to creep by a place like a tunnel where a brook must have been, but all the water had dried up, and the floor was rocky, and the bushes

had drone overhead till they met, so that it was quite dark.

And I went on and on through that dark place, it was a very long way, and I came to a hill that I never saw before.

I was in a dismal thicket full of black twisted boughs that tore me as I went through them, and I cried out because I was smarting all over, and then I found that I was climbing.

And I went up and up a long way, till at last the thicket stopped, and I came out crying just under the top of a big bare place where there were ugly grey stones lying all about on the grass.

And here and there a little twisted stunted tree came out from under a stone, like a snake.

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