W. Somerset Maugham
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 8 Sep
W. Somerset Maugham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In appetite he is liberal and cosmopolitan.
Loving a dried sheepskin as well in proportion to its weight as a kettle of soap.
The village which Mr Gish honors by his residence has, for some years, been kept upon the dizzy verge of financial ruin by the maintenance of this animal.
The reader will have already surmised that it was this beast which our hero selected to testify his toleration of his lady friend.
There never was a greater mistake.
Mr Gish merely presented her a sheaf of assorted angleworms, neatly bound with a pink ribbon tied into a simple knot.
The dog is an heirloom and will descend to the gishes of the next generation.
in the direct line of inheritance.
End of chapter twenty four
Chapter twenty five
Of the Fiend's Delight by Ambrose Beerce.
This Librevox recording is in the public domain.
Recording by April six zero nine zero
Some fiction.
A cow county pleasantry.
About the most ludicrous incident that I remember occurred one day in an ordinarily solemn village in the Cow Counties.
A worthy matron, who had been absent looking after a vagrum cow, returned home and pushing against the door found it obstructed by some heavy substance, which, upon examination, proved to be her husband.
He had been slaughtered by some roving joker.
Who had wrought upon him with a pick candle?
To one of his ears was pinned a scrap of greasy paper.
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