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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Obscusion, you see like him off in the even time,

(00:53):
romantic and then gone, always dressed out of the wa
that is political rasp, never quite reality, may it or
free of verage.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
A story of enemies is one or through very moment
when or.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Answer started and very but then rightly told God you turn,
as when on a couch told him a fresh persons
send it of a gift and storough consuming obsess.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Power.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
Enity is a house. It's a good question when you
are anything in the hall echoes in money, yesterday's when
a thing is speaking, that's side that whispers of someone
who was but is no more. When the always sound
too open to the touch of an oay for our hands,

(02:06):
when a chair is vacant and no longer the stairs
quick to the foot tread.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
Of someone in love. Than in a house is empty,
as in a fear as the heart.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
And it's always sat there in an empty house, sat.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
By the door of wdow, so getting out of fire garden,
going to seat, and had gone a walk in computer
sat there, and it makes them for the sound of it,
like the spread of yesteryear would come no more, But
yet sprang a turtle in the death well of obsession,

(02:54):
change house.

Speaker 5 (02:55):
Pay with a turble. Yeah, if they have a first
fall where there's ben't go. It's so much a thing.

Speaker 6 (03:06):
Because the breath to the all of us.

Speaker 7 (03:11):
Have.

Speaker 5 (03:11):
They'll go on in the house, this house, Uh good,
you see follow it in ways?

Speaker 8 (03:20):
See thirty off a coat.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
I have such little a goodness, dick.

Speaker 6 (03:27):
Oh, it's new paper.

Speaker 5 (03:31):
Paper.

Speaker 9 (03:33):
They don't know.

Speaker 5 (03:35):
If they've over read the place at cant and they
won't know.

Speaker 10 (03:40):
They will go about them that the spring all along
the street, they say, down to death.

Speaker 6 (03:47):
If it's nothing that happens, if if.

Speaker 8 (03:49):
This Despring was still here, I's called.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
How is called?

Speaker 6 (04:01):
Hello?

Speaker 2 (04:02):
Hello? Please?

Speaker 7 (04:04):
Let me have the newspaper office, the journal.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
That's right?

Speaker 6 (04:10):
Hello?

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Is this the newspaper office?

Speaker 7 (04:13):
Please?

Speaker 8 (04:15):
Then I speak to the editor.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Sa, Hello, this is missus William.

Speaker 8 (04:24):
Spring on the chest up street. I have a story
for the front.

Speaker 6 (04:30):
Page of your newspapter.

Speaker 10 (04:32):
Please try to report it to see.

Speaker 6 (04:33):
Me by the way, I have so very much to
tell him a department. Yes, my.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
My mister Spring.

Speaker 6 (04:47):
That just has the brain.

Speaker 9 (04:53):
Uh yes, are you missus Spring?

Speaker 5 (05:05):
Yeah, I missing.

Speaker 9 (05:06):
I'm Casey of the journal. I'm here to get a
story about Mr Spring. Could you tell me something.

Speaker 6 (05:11):
About him, about Mr Spring.

Speaker 10 (05:14):
Yes, I I could tell you a lot about mister Spring.

Speaker 9 (05:17):
Oh, thank you?

Speaker 6 (05:18):
She did none here right, yes, t we canna got
to know.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Oh when I was born?

Speaker 9 (05:25):
His full name when you were married, you know?

Speaker 10 (05:27):
Oh I see, yes, of course, Wim Hanley Spring.

Speaker 6 (05:33):
That was his poor name.

Speaker 11 (05:35):
He was born in m let's see, uh, eighteen seventy before.

Speaker 5 (05:41):
Yes, he was just sixteen yelds. We were harried in
eighteen twenty four.

Speaker 6 (05:46):
And he died to the What did he do?

Speaker 9 (05:51):
Missus Spring?

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Do?

Speaker 7 (05:54):
Wy?

Speaker 2 (05:54):
He did everything?

Speaker 12 (05:56):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (05:57):
What was that question?

Speaker 2 (05:59):
Well?

Speaker 9 (05:59):
I wanted to know what mister Spring did?

Speaker 8 (06:01):
Huh what he did?

Speaker 6 (06:02):
What he do here?

Speaker 10 (06:04):
Well it's hard to say.

Speaker 6 (06:07):
He was a farmer, wasn't it? Yes? But uh, mister Spring,
maybe you could tell me how you met him, something
about your courtship?

Speaker 8 (06:15):
Ye, all right, I will I do. I'll just tell
you all about that.

Speaker 5 (06:19):
Then about mister Spring.

Speaker 6 (06:22):
I always liked to rename that that thing and make him.

Speaker 10 (06:26):
It was at a box social at the church.

Speaker 6 (06:29):
We he goes past the luncheon and the boys who
did for him to get their pardon.

Speaker 2 (06:38):
You once she's best.

Speaker 13 (06:50):
Married, you know, Oh, yes, I know it's s all
John us in a group paper.

Speaker 8 (06:56):
Is it yours?

Speaker 12 (06:57):
Yes, it's mine, Uncle Martin. I'll be ad.

Speaker 6 (07:00):
I want to see who buys it. Give you hope
by it?

Speaker 7 (07:03):
Well, come on you you can tell me.

Speaker 12 (07:07):
Well, Billy strings, Billy.

Speaker 6 (07:09):
Scream hope he's Mary.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
He's just a screaming boy.

Speaker 8 (07:12):
He's so shy. And look at that funny cowling.

Speaker 12 (07:16):
Oh I know, and he's big shoes, he his blue shirt.

Speaker 6 (07:19):
But oh, I hope he buys it.

Speaker 13 (07:22):
All for hunt old Uh thirty five, oh, thirty five, going, going,
gone to Billy Springs. Here you are, Billy and your
partner is Mary Jinkie. Yep, that's just what a record.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
If you hear got Mary?

Speaker 6 (07:41):
Oh, yes, but let's the hen we've been talking and
didn't hear he's coming over here.

Speaker 8 (07:46):
He's been watching you all the time.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
He knows what you've been doing.

Speaker 6 (07:50):
I'd better leave you alone.

Speaker 5 (07:52):
Oh no, uncle on good buy Mary?

Speaker 6 (07:56):
Hello there, oh hello here Mary Jenkins guy.

Speaker 8 (07:59):
Yes, I'm I'm built spring.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Yes, I know.

Speaker 8 (08:03):
That's all right. I wanted to buy your lunch. I
had been thirty five cents together.

Speaker 11 (08:08):
Yes, I h I mean that's nice.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Tall.

Speaker 8 (08:11):
We said, let's go over there in the corner, all right, and.

Speaker 12 (08:14):
Maybe you won't like the lunch now that you've bought it.

Speaker 13 (08:16):
I'll bet I do said, hold it some chicken sandwiches,
Oh chicken?

Speaker 8 (08:23):
Oh what kind of sandwiches?

Speaker 12 (08:25):
Jelly?

Speaker 8 (08:26):
Oh?

Speaker 12 (08:26):
Oh, you got a lot put up to jelly myself
last summer.

Speaker 8 (08:30):
Sure I liked jelly sandwiches.

Speaker 6 (08:33):
As a matter of that night, I loved jelly.

Speaker 5 (08:36):
Sandi.

Speaker 7 (08:49):
Well, know that there's really nothing wrong.

Speaker 9 (08:52):
That we can print in the paper for all right.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
I thought that you wanted to know.

Speaker 6 (09:00):
He gets done to day.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Well, I start the sea.

Speaker 9 (09:03):
From the spring.

Speaker 6 (09:04):
We'll find something. Why don't you just tell me some more?

Speaker 9 (09:08):
No, oh, it was much more.

Speaker 6 (09:11):
That's just whatever you remember. We'll find something.

Speaker 9 (09:14):
We can mean.

Speaker 5 (09:15):
Oh, I don't ever say what I mean. I shout.
I'll always Tracy, I'll tell.

Speaker 6 (09:22):
You what he he get so blue lines. I remember
that night, really tell really well, you can work.

Speaker 9 (09:45):
All oh.

Speaker 11 (09:47):
Popping the roof of the Oh I forget about that, right, sir,
says happen him the new night?

Speaker 5 (09:54):
Oh, I just pray.

Speaker 9 (09:55):
Yeah, Hey, I.

Speaker 5 (09:57):
Ain't had a nux, especially on other night.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
Just nice.

Speaker 8 (10:01):
Now this is my favorite spot? Is this apple tree
all in blossom. Ye see, all as pretty as you're here.
Oh you pop, that's beautiful. Foolish, it's a bad let
a guy.

Speaker 11 (10:13):
I'm yes so much to tell you. I wish I
was an old port sellar so I could tell it
to your real popping life. So I'm not so you
don't have to be satisfied with my hymns and hord
go on.

Speaker 8 (10:26):
Here's the thing.

Speaker 6 (10:27):
Well, you know that little pint.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
Of land I bought?

Speaker 9 (10:29):
Uh huh, but it's you that play nice.

Speaker 8 (10:32):
They just stop the corn on this bursting out a ground.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
And that's rich land.

Speaker 8 (10:36):
Then it's more here. God, I'd love to work on.

Speaker 2 (10:41):
I feel a good one.

Speaker 8 (10:42):
I know I'm working towards something.

Speaker 6 (10:44):
I want that.

Speaker 8 (10:44):
What do you want?

Speaker 9 (10:45):
That's the thing?

Speaker 2 (10:46):
Oh?

Speaker 11 (10:47):
Let it get the landing like my little bit and
a beautiful white house a dream home.

Speaker 5 (10:51):
Now right now, I just.

Speaker 11 (10:54):
Have a little tumble down places.

Speaker 5 (10:57):
H it's too big for word in it.

Speaker 8 (11:00):
H h h it Now just touch a soft ware.
Uh what are you trying to say, missus strain?

Speaker 5 (11:09):
I get a spot?

Speaker 12 (11:11):
There was it?

Speaker 7 (11:14):
The shorter moonlight?

Speaker 8 (11:15):
Isn't the three or the apple blossoms?

Speaker 9 (11:18):
Oh?

Speaker 6 (11:18):
Oh did themis the stand I.

Speaker 11 (11:24):
Got almost more than a dog that theyre work for
us to the spring over our life.

Speaker 6 (11:29):
Might it just?

Speaker 11 (11:31):
Yes, yes, I want to.

Speaker 10 (11:33):
Be mister Spring forever and ever.

Speaker 9 (11:50):
I see it is the spring.

Speaker 5 (11:51):
Did your husband become a very successful farm? You have
to work hard. We only have to antape. But we
own here.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
Didn't developed in any foreign processes or or was it
prominent in the staring farming organizations?

Speaker 10 (12:08):
No, nothing like that.

Speaker 8 (12:11):
Oh, I don't know what to tell you.

Speaker 7 (12:14):
I thought that I can see.

Speaker 5 (12:17):
Real eye respect nothing.

Speaker 8 (12:19):
They shouldn't just come here at all. I just just
folly children, And I can see.

Speaker 10 (12:23):
Now the how didn't get some important things about this disting.

Speaker 5 (12:29):
But there's hele to you can pray to you on
her education.

Speaker 12 (12:33):
If only the water.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
You could see their war utle other, I was go.
If they couldn't understand they're in the stars their n
m you know, then there for what they turn the
eye right, rather than as for what they seemed to be.
Now there's been a great y story here.

Speaker 4 (13:14):
Upon which two pile black scareheads. No squeaks to stop
the presses, nothing an wipen the eyes or raise the
eyebrows on the city deck, just missus spring, and the desire.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
Gets down to have the world nor there as there was,
and it's as.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
She still is, within the sore of her many cloid obsessions.

Speaker 13 (13:47):
You're that fring yep?

Speaker 12 (13:49):
Any up?

Speaker 13 (13:52):
Ooh, I long missus springs.

Speaker 12 (13:54):
Why tell them missus spring?

Speaker 9 (13:56):
Ooh ooh there.

Speaker 8 (13:59):
That water cooled him.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
Oh yes, I just brought it up from the well.

Speaker 11 (14:03):
Oh, I'm a Marria, the finest wife a man ever had.
And you know he's got quite a farm here.

Speaker 12 (14:09):
Yes, it's the fideing farm of the skin.

Speaker 10 (14:11):
You know.

Speaker 6 (14:12):
I think it looks pretty as jus at counset.

Speaker 8 (14:14):
That's a pretty sentence to a pretty scary the field.
They're a pretty yeah pretty.

Speaker 12 (14:22):
Oh you.

Speaker 7 (14:24):
Are you sure?

Speaker 5 (14:25):
Oh?

Speaker 7 (14:27):
You ever get tired of holding my hand?

Speaker 10 (14:29):
Do you?

Speaker 9 (14:30):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (14:31):
Got to bring us together more then two of us
are strong. They sing there together.

Speaker 8 (14:39):
No, I don't wish we had our house. That's special art.
Oh that doesn't matter.

Speaker 10 (14:46):
We have little billies.

Speaker 11 (14:49):
He's probably trying for you right now.

Speaker 12 (14:51):
Oh no, he's on the porch. I'll hear him.

Speaker 6 (14:52):
Missy tries.

Speaker 13 (14:54):
He just lies there and looks with his big blue eyes.

Speaker 6 (14:58):
I think there is bluis yours, mister.

Speaker 9 (15:00):
Bring William springs your Oh he's our eternal.

Speaker 13 (15:04):
Saying Billy, he has something to work.

Speaker 8 (15:06):
For, something like solid as the earth. Oh, it makes
me feel good all that. It makes me feel nice
like clam yeah.

Speaker 9 (15:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (15:20):
Oh, my head tightens the spring.

Speaker 5 (15:28):
That's that's fall, that's fall across the hand.

Speaker 10 (15:35):
It's like a nightmare remembering everything seemed to crash, all
the hopes of a lifetime. O crop an.

Speaker 12 (15:55):
Horrible. It looks like it looks like children.

Speaker 8 (16:00):
Do you hear, missus Spring.

Speaker 6 (16:03):
You mustn't. Oh the means it's true. We were at
the end of our rope.

Speaker 9 (16:09):
No, Mary down, No, no, we're not really here.

Speaker 8 (16:14):
Hold my hand now.

Speaker 6 (16:17):
Now, don't cry.

Speaker 9 (16:19):
Yeah, everything we went for a plan for everything.

Speaker 12 (16:26):
We're still in a hot and hands it's gone.

Speaker 8 (16:30):
No, no, missus Spring, it's not a faun. We we
still have the best plant of all young jellies, and
we still have each other. What do we do?

Speaker 11 (16:41):
Old crops above the ground may be then, but oh,
there's still richness and power in the earth. We can't
get up. Wait till spring. We'll plant again and hope again,
and someday we'll have a special little white hot.

Speaker 8 (16:57):
Oh, we so much to hope, but we have a
whole lifetime out of this law. Fifty more, explaining.

Speaker 10 (17:16):
That was the worst of all of all, and that
with him becaust he died just to sudden, with the
crops that tripled off every I didn't want him to
come and in nothing fut.

Speaker 6 (17:36):
And then I got a sick.

Speaker 8 (17:38):
I didn't want to live.

Speaker 6 (17:40):
That's mister Day held my house, you know, all.

Speaker 10 (17:46):
Day he did work in the US, and at month
he would sit by.

Speaker 8 (17:50):
O th and hold my f ilways, see uncle want
might be a little better, but usual I don't know.

Speaker 5 (18:00):
Oh.

Speaker 11 (18:01):
The doctor said that tonight would be the worst if
you still holding there, and they get well, that that
I better stay.

Speaker 9 (18:10):
Not fun all.

Speaker 5 (18:12):
Kind of you to stay there any day I'll be
a look a side.

Speaker 8 (18:19):
I can't be tired of the money, very need it.
The doctor says he's.

Speaker 5 (18:25):
Work than thing, just the world of it. The word
ty word to hold on to, and that's that someone
be good.

Speaker 8 (18:35):
You say, just you're right, but I'll come earlier in
the morning, or.

Speaker 2 (18:42):
You'll be sair.

Speaker 10 (18:44):
H.

Speaker 9 (18:46):
Die.

Speaker 5 (18:47):
Oh that don't interesting tet you somehow you needn't know
you die you won't do anything.

Speaker 6 (18:58):
You have to go then it talk to it? And
how could he talk to do?

Speaker 5 (19:05):
It had a strong come to be by. It was
like a killing that a ship could turn to a
ship just then hold a kind.

Speaker 9 (19:17):
Of telegraph but.

Speaker 12 (19:22):
The disclaim, Yeah, got a.

Speaker 5 (19:27):
Crip h h hold around. I want to a figure
I'd buy after the White House? How long the discrep.

Speaker 7 (19:48):
Something that was a long long time ago, wasn't it?

Speaker 5 (20:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 13 (20:09):
I was to my what about this house?

Speaker 5 (20:12):
Missus Glenny?

Speaker 2 (20:13):
Get your house now? Right house or well anything it
looks like a right then?

Speaker 9 (20:20):
Huh?

Speaker 5 (20:23):
If I don't know, ski, get the story, let it go?

Speaker 3 (20:28):
Well where's you know?

Speaker 2 (20:30):
It's muster spread and stop right there?

Speaker 5 (20:34):
Maybe I just get great, but you're going to do
your dad?

Speaker 8 (20:39):
I just got a blind bully now and you still a.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
Put you said, I got all right? Calling it place
to play game?

Speaker 9 (20:50):
Did you go stop gabbling? Chu?

Speaker 7 (20:53):
Ways out over I go some times I.

Speaker 12 (20:56):
Went over y fall where.

Speaker 5 (21:01):
Everything man?

Speaker 7 (21:02):
That five?

Speaker 9 (21:05):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (21:05):
Just the mad say we do yeah so everything. Oh
I'm Friday out out.

Speaker 6 (21:16):
Not very far?

Speaker 8 (21:18):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (21:26):
Right?

Speaker 6 (21:26):
D you been all.

Speaker 12 (21:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (21:35):
Because they got a shatns.

Speaker 12 (21:40):
Oh wow.

Speaker 8 (21:44):
There just different fight those.

Speaker 5 (21:47):
Hush a regiver.

Speaker 8 (21:52):
Uh, they like child.

Speaker 12 (21:57):
Just patent.

Speaker 6 (21:59):
Good.

Speaker 8 (22:03):
Oh really it's too diffiful, but I.

Speaker 10 (22:08):
Comer, Oh my, but tell me the diffriend h how
can the one of foods wasn't different? Man like you
about something the.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
Old that be like the.

Speaker 6 (22:29):
Good.

Speaker 5 (22:30):
It it's just different from types to.

Speaker 2 (22:45):
It became the.

Speaker 5 (22:49):
No fIF.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
H, that's oh.

Speaker 5 (23:00):
Not the I never remember it.

Speaker 8 (23:03):
It's it.

Speaker 12 (23:04):
Yes.

Speaker 5 (23:06):
I they at that play that you got pretty in
her ticket.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
You say, I think that's just the things. I know
how you feel. Now, I like a lot of somebody.

Speaker 5 (23:18):
You can go around that difference, but all like I saw.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
That not just fine anyways a great manner.

Speaker 4 (23:25):
Oh h h, I ever thought of it just that way?

Speaker 8 (23:31):
Because that you want he rot, oh, he wants a grin.

Speaker 9 (23:49):
You have been listening to obser
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