The Little Fishes

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Description

Narration of Erich Haugaard's novel

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

British (England - South East - Oxford, Sussex) British (General) British (Received Pronunciation - RP, BBC)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
She is dirty Mama. The little boy looked at me and then at his mother, who was standing at the kitchen table slicing a piece of bread for me from a large country loaf. She's pool, the mother explained, and she smiled towards me. I was looking at the boy and thinking, and so would you be if you lived as I do? She is dirty, he repeated and glanced at his own hands. Would you like some wine? I nodded for my mouth was too full of bread for me to talk. She poured a large glass of wine from 1/2 empty bottle. I drank it greedily, for I was thirsty, but it was very sour, and I must have made a grim missus. I swallowed it. Is it so sour? The woman was nervous, and when I didn't reply at once, she said hurriedly. I thought it was all right. We use it for cooking. I smiled for I had noticed that she had stood long looking of the shelf before she decided which of several bottles to pour from