Welcome to Raven's Readings. I'll be reading from Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, by the Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. He wrote this in 1912 as an imaginative and ironic portrayal of Mariposa. It's a fictional small town in Canada, modelled after Orillia, Ontario, where he spent many summers.
Last time, we learned of an upcoming election in Mariposa. Bagshaw in the incumbent Liberal, and Mr. Smith, the hotel proprieter, will be running as a Conservative. On a platform of temperance. Let's see how that rolls out.
I do readings twice a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays, so this story should take about six weeks. Please subscribe to my Substack newsletter, you'll get notified of my updates as soon as they are ready. If you enjoy this reading, or have other classics you'd like to hear, leave me a comment. For my next novel, I might do The Maltese Falcon, written by Dashiell Hammet in 1930. The style is a lot like that of the 1941 film of the same name, starring Humphrey Bogart.
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