Reading Shel Silverstein poem, Sick and a Narrative pulled from the \"Voices.com\" website

Erica Johnson

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Description

Although I would say my voice is very versatile, I have always enjoyed reading to my children. I thought my reading the Shel Silverstein poem would showcase the playful and lighthearted side of both my personality and talent. I followed the poem up with the short narrative to display a more sober and straightforward piece of my repertoire.

Language

English

Voice Age

Child (5-12)

Accents

North American (General)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
it. I cannot go to school today, said Little Peggy Ann McKay. I at the measles and the mumps a gash, a rash and purple bumps. I'm now this wet. My throat is dry. I'm going blood in my right on. My tonsils are as big as rocks. I counted 16 chicken pox and there's one more that 17. And don't you think my face looks green? My leg is pet. My eyes are blue. It might be Instamatic blue calm seas, gas been choke. I'm sure that my left leg is broke. My head hurts when I move my chin, my belly buttons caving in my back is Ridge, my spine. Eight straight. My appendix pays each time it weighs. My nose is cold, my toes on them. I have a sliver in my thumb. My neck is it. My toys is weak. I hardly whisper when I e. My tongue is filling my mouth. I think my hair is falling out. My elbows been my spine. Eight straight by temperatures. One away. My brain is struck. I cannot hear there is a hole inside my ear. Have a hail And what? What's that? What's that you say you stay today in Saturday. Good bye. I'm going out to play. Like many other philosophers who have extended greatly our knowledge of nature, Galileo had a remarkable aptitude for the invention of instruments designed for philosophical research to facilitate its practical work. We find that in 15 99 he had engaged in as beautiful workman who was to live in his house and be constantly at hand to try new devices, which were forever springing from Galileo's portal brain. Among the earliest of his inventions appears to be the thermometer, which he constructed in 16 02 No doubt this apparatus in its primitive form, different in some respects from the Contra Vice. Will you call by the same name? Galileo at first employed water as the agent. Its expansion was the basis for the measure of temperature.