Rita Boutros
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Through the Looking Glass · Coffee Break Collection 026 - It's a Small World - Various · 23 Jul 2026
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Section fifteen of Coffee Break Collection Number twenty six.
It's a small world.
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Recording by Rita Boutros.
Coffee Break Collection number twenty six It's a Small World by Varius.
Selection Riga in the chimney.
How did Riga get into the chimney?
Well, if the truth must be told, it was not merely a chimney, but the window, and not a window only, but the front door, and not only the front door, but the staircase.
It was in fact so much of all four that it was but slightly like any one of them.
Things were altogether upside down in this house, instead of being built on the ground like all reasonable houses, it was under it, and although it had but one place to come in at, and but one fire to cook at, so many people lived inside of it in tents of their own that it was in reality a village.
And yet again it was a village where you had only to lift the skin wall of your one room dwelling to get into your neighbour's.
The land was Kamchatka.
And Riga was a small boy of that cold country.
He had been outside to get some milk from the deer, and had come to the hole that formed the entrance, and taken the first step down on the notched pole that was to land him in the fire if he didn't take a good leap over when he got to the bottom.
It was already dark.
Above him one of the dogs, there were twenty or thirty in all, got a smell of the milk, or a smell of the pot on the fire, and as he sniffed greedily through chimney, we might as well call it that, he lost his balance and came tumbling head and heels over Riga with a prodigious racket and howling into the village below.
Riga, who was fat, thought he was going too, but he clung to the notched pole till he had his senses again, and then he clung the tighter because of something else.
At the foot of the pole burned a fire of moss which gave much heat, little light, and more smoke than anything else.
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