W. Somerset Maugham
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 8 Sep
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No sooner had he recovered than he leaped into the air, making a frantic clutch at something, but apparently without success.
Darn it, hissed he.
There goes my teeth.
Blowed out again by hokey.
A passing cloud of dust hid him for a moment from view.
And when he reappeared he was an altered man.
A paroxysm of asthma had doubled him up like a nutcracker.
Excuse me, he wheezed, I'm subject to this, caught it crossin' the Isth in forty dine.
As I was a saying, there's no country in the world that offers such inducements to the immigrant as California.
With her fertile soil, her unrivaled climate, her magnificent bay, and the rest of it, there is enough for all.
This venerable pioneer picked a fragmentary biscuit from the street and devoured it.
Mr Grill thought this had gone on about long enough.
He twisted the head off that hopeful old party, surrendered himself to the authorities, and was at once discharged.
CHAPTER twenty six
Chapter twenty seven 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 the root of education.
A pedagogue in Indiana, who was had up for unmercifully wailing the back of a little girl, justified his action by explaining that she persisted in flinging paper pellets at him when his back was turned.
That is no excuse, said
Mr Greel once taught school up in the mountains, and about every half hour had to remove his coat and scrape off the dried paper wads adhering to the nap.
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