Mark Twain - reading from A Tramp Abroad -01

Send me a text message. Suggestions? Subjects for future podcasts? Let me know--thanks!"We had a plain, simple, unpretending, good hotel, in Baden-Baden—the Hôtel de France—and alongside my room I had a giggling, cackling, chattering family who always went to bed just two hours after me and always got up two hours ahead of me. But this is common in German hotels; the people generally go to bed long after eleven and get up long before eight. The partitions convey sound like a drum-head, and everybody knows it; but no matter, a German family who are all kindness and consideration in the daytime make apparently no effort to moderate their noises for your benefit at night. They will sing, laugh, and talk loudly, and bang furniture around in a most pitiless way. If you knock on your wall appealingly, they will quiet down and discuss the matter softly among themselves for a moment—then, like the mice, they fall to persecuting you again, and as vigorously as before. They keep cruelly late and early hours, for such noisy folk."===========1-We had a plain, simple, unpretending, good hotel, in Baden-Baden2—the Hôtel de France3—and alongside my room I had a giggling, cackling, chattering family 4-who always went to bed just two hours after me 5-and always got up two hours ahead of me. 6-But this is common in German hotels; 7-the people generally go to bed long after eleven and get up long before eight.  8-The partitions convey sound like a drum-head, 9-and everybody knows it; but no matter, 10-a German family who are all kindness and consideration in the daytime 11-make apparently no effort 12-to moderate their noises for your benefit at night. 13-They will sing, laugh, and talk loudly, 14-and bang furniture around in a most pitiless way. 15-If you knock on your wall appealingly, 16-they will quiet down and discuss the matter softly among themselves for a moment—17-then, like the mice, they fall to persecuting you again, 18-and as vigorously as before. 19-They keep cruelly late and early hours, for such noisy folk.A Tramp Abroad is a book by Mark Twain. It was published in 1880. It is freely available online in various formats. Here is one link:  https://www.gutenberg.org/files/119/119-h/119-h.htmIntro & Outro Music: La Pompe Du Trompe by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com Support the showEmail me:  [email protected] can now support my podcasts and classes:Keep the podcasts coming! Thank you!