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Thanks from all of us.

Doing the different voices is what makes the reading fun for me. Hopefully they make it fun for the listener too.

Here's another one for the Civil War buffs:

Before Grant Won His Stars
by E.J. Edwards

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf071_beforegrantwonhisstars_edwards_rr_128kb.mp3

https://www.unz.com/print/McClures-1895jun-00038/

36:09

Much appreciated. It's been almost 2 months since I submitted my piece. I thought you guys had forgotten about me.

Here's mine.

https://librivox.org/uploads/kikisaulite/herotales_38_burnham_128kb.mp3

18:30

If no one else has claimed it, I'd like to take a crack at Chapter 38.

Here's my submission from that wise old man Ben Franklin.

To Madame Brilliant: The Ephemera an Emblem of Human Life
by Benjamin Franklin
https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cb020_ephemera_rr_128kb.mp3
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48138/48138-h/48138-h.htm#Page_508
6:54

Hi,
I just uploaded
An Audience With Abraham Lincoln
by T.B. Bancroft
https://www.unz.com/print/McClures-1909feb-00447/
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf066_audiencewithlincoln_bancroft_rr_128kb.mp3
21.16
Hope you like it.

Madame Versay
Melville Davisson Post
1869-1930
https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/ss074_madameversay_rr_128kb.mp3
30:45
https://books.google.com/books?id=XtURAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA27&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false

Not the greatest literature but fun to record.

Oh my goodness, that is some sleuthing! Thank you so much! What a team!

Thanks for the thoughtful response. I searched for the article through the Chronicling America website as best as I could, but got no hits (though I did come across a funny headline about a certain Mr. Ponzi making millions for his investors). Today's newspapers have their archives behind a paywall,...

How To Pitch to Babe Ruth Ring Lardner https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf059_baberuth_lardner_rr_128kb.mp3 4:52 This is a newspaper article by Ring Lardner published by the Bell Syndicate in 1920. I have taken it from the collection "The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner" the...

Sonnet 64: When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd
William Shakespeare 1564–1616
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45096/sonnet-64-when-i-have-seen-by-times-fell-hand-defacd
1:27

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/ss072_thereward_rr_128kb.mp3
The Reward
Melville Davisson Post
1869-1930
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2861/2861-h/2861-h.htm#link2H_4_0003
33:27

This is my return after a long absence so I'm still getting back into the swing of things. Hope I did everything correctly. https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/ss072_grandfathersoldram_rr_128kb.mp3 The Story of Grandfather's Old Ram by Mark Twain 1835-1910 http://www.pbs.org/marktwain/learnmore/writ...

Here is Bel Affris
5.41 min
http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/ek/caesarandcleopatra_belaffris_1.mp3

Here is First Porter
.32 seconds
http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/ek/caesarandcleopatra_firstporter_3.mp3

That should do it for me (unless I screwed up, which is certainly possible).