Now the special English program American Stories. Our story today is Hard Rock Maple. It is about two people living in New England. They seemed like the hard rock maple trees, often found in that area. Nothing can make them move. Today's story was wr

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Our story today is called A Girl for Walter. It was written by Theodore Jason. Here is Shep O'Neal with the story. We never knew what Walter was, but we called him an idiot. We called him that without knowing if he really was as foolish and as stupid

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Now the Special English program American Stories. Our story this week is The Listener. It was written by John Berry. Here is Shep O'Neal to tell you the story. Once there was a Czechoslovakian violin player who lived in Sweden. His name was Rudolf. S

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Our story today is adapted from a novel for young people called Crazy Lady by Jane Leslie Conly. Crazy Lady is a Newbery Honor Book, one of the highest awards for children's literature in the United States. The story is told by 14-year-old Vernon Deb

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Now, the VOA Special English program American Stories. Our story today is called The Mute Singer. It was written by Stanislav Szukalski. Here is Shep O'Neal with our story. Every year at this time, the peasants began their long religious pilgrimage t

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Olive Bowen made some hot coffee to take to her husband Nate who was over in the barn. He was helping their cow Maudie to give birth. Olive herself was expecting a baby very soon. She felt heavy and moved around slowly. The coffee boiled on the stove

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As soon as I saw Anvol sitting in the apple tree I knew we would fight. I also knew he would win. But winning or losing was not important, at least not so important as getting him down from the tree. The tree was mine. It was a young tree and it had

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Elizabeth. Betty Talen turned to her best friend Debby, I hate it when my mother calls me Elizabeth, it always means I have to do some work. Betty made her music louder and the two girls laughed. Betty and Debby are 12 years old and live in Fairbanks

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Father, what are the men digging over in the field for? The old man shut his mouth and continued getting his horse ready to ride. They were in the barn, standing before the wide open doors. The spring air was full of the smell of growing grass. Adoni

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Before I was born, I went on the road. The road was highway 17. It went from the city of Jacksonville to the city of Whelmington in North Carolina, that is where the hospital was. My father back the car out of his place in the barn. He helped my moth

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Mr. Dow's store was widely known throughout the neighborhood. It sold many different things. Both old and young came here to shop for special items. They could find kitchens, large and small wallets to hold coins and paper money, packs of playing car

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(MUSIC) Our story today is called To Build a Fire. It was written by Jack London. Here is Harry Monroe with the story. (MUSIC) Storyteller: The man walked down the trail on a cold, gray day. Pure white snow and ice covered the Earth for as far as he

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I'm an old lawyer and I have three men working for me. My business continued to grow and so I decided to get one more man to help write legal papers. I have met a great many people in my days. But the man who answered my advertisement was the strange

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Now, the VOA Special English program American Stories. Our story is called The Animals Give Themselves from the book Cloudwalker by Joel Monture, published by Fulcrum Publishing. Mr. Monture is a Native American from the Mohawk nation. He has written

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One day, our neighbor Keno Carter rode his horse over to our house. He had another horse with him. He rode to me and said: You have helped me a lot during the year. You've been a good boy. Now, here is the horse I promised. It is yours. At first, I j

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Mrs. Henry Miller had lived alone for several years. Her husband was dead. But he had left her a comfortable amount of money. He also had left her a nice apartment in New York City near the East River. There were three other apartments in the large b

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There are a hundred places in New York like Gabriel's. Up front is a small bar, in back there are a few booths and a half of dozen tables, the husband is the cook, and the wife takes care of the bar. It has a name, which is the first name of the husb

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(MUSIC) Today's story is called The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. It is about something strange that happed long ago in a valley called Sleepy Hollow. It was written by Washington Irving. The story is told by Doug Johnson. (MUSIC) Narrator: The valley kno

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(MUSIC) Our story today is called The Line of Least Resistance. It was written by Edith Wharton. Here is Larry West with the story. (MUSIC) Storyteller: Mister Mindon returned home for lunch. His wife Millicent was not at home. The servants did not k

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G sat in the bedroom and looked at the paper that covered the walls. He felt strange. He and his wife had slept in this room all of their married life. Yet he could not remember what the walls looked like. He had been blind. Now he could see again. H

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