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May I have 2 part 2?

Tae

Chapter 4:

http://s65.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0IBJAVEZ2H7R81WBJAQU4T5BA2

Tae

I would like to do

09-06 THE FARMER, HIS BOY, AND THE ROOKS
09-07 THE ASS AND THE DOG
09-08 THE ASS CARRYING THE IMAGE

Actually, I have already done them, and am just converting them to MP3 at the moment.

Tae

May I have a go at Chapter 4?

Tae

http://s54.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=248F6GMA33JCK0AMF8BDO5RDS1

-Tae

Wow . . . getting the meter right when it's a jumble of modern and antique English is kind of hard. Are we trying to maintain a consistent meter here, or is that not absolutely necessary?

Hullo, can I take the Monk's tale?

Tae

[edit]And on pronunciation, since it's some sort of hybrid of the original and modern English, I was thinking I'd just try it with a sort of generic Northern-style accent, so the occasional mediaevalism won't sound . . . too out of place. Would that be fine?

Here's a go at Saki's "The Toys of Peace" , from Project Gutenberg . Running time is a brisk 11:31, and my name is Tae Jensen. Actually, the recording quality here suffers from a fair number of flaws, namely that there are annoying popping noises throughout (I have not quite got the hang o...

This seems rather fun . . . here's a go at Return, by Rudyard Kipling:

http://s53.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0G0ZHGG43498O17CZDSLQEZ7E1

Alas, it's in dialect, and my accent there slips a bit from time to time.

Tae