ETA: in light of the theme that the adults are the ones acting like children, I now realize that not "using our words"- ie. explaining the situation- is exactly how children respond to a dispute and jump into a fight. It was part of the satire. I shoulda known better! 🤪 Original comment: Not sure why John didn't ask how the fracas started or why the other father didn't immediately tell him. But I still enjoyed it. Love Fitzgerald. Thanks

Stories like this remind me of my childhood.

Enjoyed this. Have you any other stories of the Sikh Gurus? I also enjoyed the one about Guru Nanak

A very touching story, kept me engrossed till the end. Beautiful friendship, wish I can have one like that. Thank you

I just read this. Every generation thinks they are the first ones to learn the great secrets

Oh my ....😂

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All right born and raised in Chicago area, however, I can understand English. Woodhouse, best compliment I can give quite the Wordsmith. I hope you y'all y'all enjoy my comment.

A beautiful story ❤that sweet little girl showed this man that not all is bad. Maybe it changed him, gave him hope.

top 5 favorite horror novels ❤

I come from an old colonial family & find the words used the same as what I heard in my home as kid. Heartwarming & hilarious! ❤❤❤❤

Slept through the story but love that song at the end. Haunting

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I am struggling to adjust the time line for the beginning of the Greqt Depression, Oct. 1929, Black Tuesday and story timeline. Seems the. stock malarkey crqsh didn’t happen yet? But that’s impossible for him to get offf to Europe

Who writes this? Full of glaring mistakes. Totally uninspiring writing of a.really inspiration and divine being. Jamines near the Golden Temple indeed

Anybody else looking for a different type of “David Lane interview” ?

Love Jeeves and Wooster

Not everyone is born rich, not all wealthy people think they are better than others. We worked, we struggled and made a solid Iife. We get to share experiences with some of our family and friends would never have the opportunity to. So it’s a balance, money isn’t an issue a tool nothing more.

Being Rich is having real JOY knowing that you are forgiven and saved through Jesus Christ Money is just money

insomnia a little....uh yes..and poor Scott F..hope he had some happiness..

Queen Isabella died in 1504. Martin Luther had not nailed his 95 theses on the door until 1517. The Reformation had not even begun when Queen Isabella and Ferdinand booted Islam from Spain after many many years of intense fighting. Fighting to regain what the Moors had invaded upon. If Isabella and Ferdinand and the people had not resisted they would be living under Sharia Law.

Goodness. I listen to your videos nearly every single day. Of course some of them I listen to again and again. Mostly there is one A.I. generated narration voice I like a lot and that is the one used here That is why I listen to Sommerset Maugham repeatedly. I have enjoyed immensely these lovely story times. The author is WRONG, however, on his thoughts about the Moors in Spain. The Moors practiced Islam as their religion. Christianity reached Spain long before any qibla faced Mecca. There are some historians (based on new evidence) who believe that there probably isn’t much truth to the standard Islamic narrative. Jay Smith, Al Fadi Hatun Tash are some who come to my mind. In any case I know that Sommerset Maughams stories are fiction however sometimes he seems to state some thoughts as if they are facts. Usually in the beginning of his stories. I don’t know why I am commenting so long in this case. I guess it just got me to thinking. I love world history so certain comments envoke a response from me lol Thank you for all the hard work you put in to making traveling nicer and bedtime too. I so look forward to when I can relax and enjoy a well read story.

Eight adverts in the first twenty minutes? Killed the momentum

How enriched simple conversations were. Our loss.

Love this podcast the conversation and possibilities though provoking thank you 😊

What a treat to have access to these podcasts! I sure hope you're going to talk about brother of the third degree😊

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Where is this story taken from? References?

The Second Death cannot touch us if we die in Christ. He is Our True Life.

Love this, plz post everything about Tolestoy

Excellent story so discriptive I really enjoyed.

the paintings! the transcript! the story I'm in heaven!

I liked both stories, thanks

Anybody know what that music was at the end?

I just finished reading Mary Trumps memoir...that is mostly about her childhood. It has a common theme with this story by Hardy...family duty, patriarchal male attitudes, and projection of personal power outward onto others. The son in this story is an obnoxious, jumped up snob. But the mother is equally annoying to me as the martyrish victim. Patriarchy tells women they must sacrifice themselves for others. And it tells men they have they have the right to demand obediance and servitude from women. Utter nonsense. Im so glad that more and more women are beginning to rebel and to pursue their own happiness with impunity. But its alarming to read that some modern women such as Mary, are still caught in families who give up so much personal power to a patriarch -- Fred Trump, in Marys familys case. It comes down to a simple decision, "Is it more important what others think of me, or pursuing my own ( basically harmeless) happiness without guilt.

Enjoyed, thank you

Loving these stories!!

Hah! Droll and hilarious

Magical story.

We're getting a lot of Jeeves stories 😆😆 it's fun❤️❤️

what was that music played in intro ????

What a wonderful and humorous story!

Nicely read. Thank you.

Hahaha! So goood!

Thank you, i found myself in this story, I'm half Italian but never knew my father, this is how i imagined him,though my spirit, thanks

Anyone who has ever been to Salisbury Plain knows it was never a “desolate expanse”. It has seen regular human occupation for many millennia, and although sparsely populated in parts, is certainly not desolate or bleak!

Thank you!

Sounds like you are adapting and repackaging as well

Ahh, the sweet sounds of the 18591st edition. Far better than that English butchered 4th edit 1879 everyone reads.