Boris Karloff - Story Of Wood
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Boris Karloff - Story Of Wood

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 12, 20264 min

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This is Boris Karloff speaking. I'm here with a story for you from the files of the Reader's Digest.

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It has held man in his cradle. It warmed his hearth. It will make him his last long home.

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This is Boris Karloff speaking. I'm here with a story for you from the files of the Reader's Digest. This is the story of the most versatile of all living substances. It has held man in his cradle. It warmed his hearth. It will make him his last long home. This is the story of wood.

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When living, a tree sweetens the air where it breathes. It lays the dust and tempers the wind, and when it is felled, sawn and seasoned, it lays bare the hidden beauty of its heart in figures and grains more lovely than the most premeditated design.

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Touch any object made of wood, the table-top of bright maple, the chopping-bowl of cleanly birch, a paddle-wall of knotty pine, the lean strength of an ash rake handle or a tobacco pipe of briar. Pass your fingers over this wood, then press your full palm upon its firmness. Compared with metal or clay

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