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Nigel's Sound Page

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This page requires the use of the Real Player ,(Click here if you do not have the Real Player) This player is free, at one time these would play on Windows Media Player, but they no longer seem to work, oh well, what is one to do! ) here you will find some wonderful stories written by Rudyard Kipling, one of England's finest writers. You will also find Aesop's Fables, The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes, John Gilpin by William Cowper and the start to The Christmas Carol ...

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The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes

read by Nigel Aves .... poem time 6 minutes 25sec's

This poem has murder, suicide, love and ghosts... who could ask for anything more, and it is suitable for children.

definitions

	French cocked-hat .... three cornered hat
	rapier ... thin bladed sword
	ostler .... stable lad
	casement ... window with shutters
	red coats ... British army
	priming ... adding powder so the musket would ignite

John Gilpin by William Cowper (1731-1800)

read by Nigel Aves .... poem time 8mins 47 sec's

This is an interesting poem as it was written in 4 line rhyming meter

A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig ... Charles Dickens ... circa. 1820

read by Nigel Aves .... story time 19mins 32 sec's.

Story on how "Roast Pig" came about ... not for anybody on a diet ..

definitions

	Mast ... nuts, especially beechnuts
	Crackling ... the crisp skin of roast port
	mundis edibillis ... world of edibles
	Princeps obsoniorum ... prince of delicacies
	armor immunditiae ... love of filth (especially relating to my three children!)
	Praelundium ... prelude
	Jellies .. stars ... an illusion to superstition that shooting stars leave jellies where they fall.
	Ere .. care ... Coleridge's "Epitaph on an infant".
	Sapors ... savors
	tame .. fowl ... Milton's "Samson Agonistes 1" . 1695