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Okay let's begin tonight's episode. I hope it distracts and relaxes your overactive brain squirrels. Your Overactive Brainsquels.

The Glass Dog by Elphrank Bomb,

An accomplished wizard once lived on the top floor of a tenement house and passed his time in thoughtful study and studious thought.

What he didn't know about wizardry was hardly worth knowing, for he possessed all the books and recipes of all the

Wizards who had lived before him, and moreover he had invented several wizardments himself. This Admiral person would have been completely happy, but for the numerous interruptions

to his studies caused by folk who came to consult him about the troubles in which he wasn't

interested and by the loud knocks of the Ice Man, the Milk Man, the Laundry, the Laundry man, and the peanut woman.

He never dealt with any of these people, but they wrapped at his door every day to see him about this or that,

and to try to sell him their wares.

But when he was most deeply interested in his books,

or engaged in watching the bubbling of a cauldron, there would come a knock at his door.

And after sending me intruder away, he always found he had lost his train of thought or ruined his compound.

At length, these interruptions aroused his anger and he decided he must have a dog to keep people away from his

door. He didn't know where to find a dog, but in the next room lived a poor glass blower with whom he had a slight acquaintance.

So he went into the man's apartment and he asked,

where can I find a dog?

What sort of dog?

I'm quiet the glass blower.

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