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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Some four years ago her husband brought home a baby.
Which he said he found lying in the street.
in which they concluded to adopt.
About a year after this, he
He brought home another, and the good woman thought she could stand that one too.
A similar period passed away when one evening he opened the door and fell headlong into the room.
Swearing with studied correctness at a dog which had tripped him up.
But which upon inspection turned out to be another baby.
Margaret's suspicion was aroused, but to allay his, she hastened to implore him to adopt that darling also.
To which, after some slight hesitation, he consented.
Another twelfth month rolled into eternity.
When one evening the lady heard a noise in the backyard.
And going out she saw her husband laboring at the windlass of the well with unwanted industry.
As the bucket neared the top, he reached down and extracted another infant, exactly like the former ones.
And holding it up he explained to the astonished matron.
Look at this now.
Did you ever see such a sweet young one go a campaigning about the country without a lantern and a tumblin' into wells?
There, take the poor little thing into the fire, and get off its wet clothes.
It suddenly flashed across his mind that he had neglected an obvious precaution.
The clothes were not wet, and he hastily added
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