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Sep 12, 2026
Bruce PirieNARRATOR
There was so much to talk about.
Bruce PirieNARRATOR
It was not till the small hours that the good nights were said, and soon the watchers of the Maypole were the only ones left awake in the manor house of Saint-Jean-Port-Joli.
Bruce PirieNARRATOR
End of chapter 7 Chapter 8 of The Canadians of Old by Philippe Aubert de Gaspé Translated by Sir Charles G.D. Roberts This LibriVox recording is in the public domain Recording by Bruce Pirie The May Feast Le premier jour de mai Labourez Je m'en fous planter un mai Labourez À la porte à ma mie Ancienne chanson It was scarcely five o'clock in the morning when Jules, who slept like a cat, shouted to Lockheel in the next room that it was high time they were up.
Bruce PirieNARRATOR
But as the latter would make no response, Jules took the surest way of arousing him by getting up himself.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
You keep them for me, said Bettine sweetly.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
I hope you dance next to me at the Maypole when Evangeline's queen.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
Won't it be lovely? And she sighed.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
Lovely? exploded William.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
William watched her in amazement, forgetting even to scowl at her.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
Her capacity for cakes exceeded even William's, and his was no mean one.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
They had a rehearsal of the Maypole dance and crowning the next day.
Kara ShallenbergNARRATOR
I want William Brown to hold the queen's train, said Miss Dewhurst.
Rich CredoGUEST
coming.
Adam CzeislerGUEST
Like, it's like the May, you know, the Maypole.
Adam CzeislerGUEST
And, and I was like, oh, the bustle in your hedge grow is kind of like, you know, you have a restlessness, you know, maybe like, and so I was, and I was just like, oh my God, I can't believe Robert Plant's explaining stairway to heaven to me right
Rich CredoGUEST
now.
Adam CzeislerGUEST
And then he said, he said, it's all about like basically spring and like fertility.
Adam CzeislerGUEST
Like it's like the May, you know, the Maypole.
Adam CzeislerGUEST
And, and I was like, ah, the bustle in your hedge grow is kind of like, you know, you have a restlessness, you know, maybe like, and, um, so I was, and I was just like, oh my God, I can't believe Robert Plant's explaining stairway to heaven to me right
Mike WagnerHOST
now.
MelAUDIENCE
And then it's just like each country's got to stand there and the last man standing.
MelAUDIENCE
You know, like Midsummer, that movie where it was the Maypole? Yeah.
MelAUDIENCE
Right.
MelAUDIENCE
And it could go for hours, but I think we'd win.
Seren Hawley-PlowsGUEST
So with Beltane celebrations today, it's not the Beltane celebrations that would have been in the Celtic era because we have some of the Anglo-Saxon stuff coming in.
Seren Hawley-PlowsGUEST
So we've got the May Queen and we've got the Maypole and that's not Celtic, that's Saxon European in its origin.
Seren Hawley-PlowsGUEST
And the same with some of the Christmas and Yuletide stuff as well.
Seren Hawley-PlowsGUEST
We have some of the Norse aspects coming in.
Penny KellyHOST
And so that, and some volcanoes.
Penny KellyHOST
And so all of that, if, if the pole shift is really the need to, You know what the Maypole is, how people danced around the Maypole? Yes.
Penny KellyHOST
Like, okay, we just need a new dance around a new pole.
Penny KellyHOST
That was the picture.
John PaytonNARRATOR
He went on playing in the mud just the same and enjoying it too, but instead of splashing around in the Thames solely for the fun of it, he began to find an added value in it because of the washings and cleansings it afforded.
John PaytonNARRATOR
Tom could always find something going on around the Maypole in Cheapside and at the fairs, and now and then he and the rest of London had a chance to see a military parade when some famous unfortunate was carried prisoner to the Tower by land or boat.
John PaytonNARRATOR
One summer's day he saw poor Anne Askew and three men burned at the stake in Smithfield, and heard an ex-bishop preach a sermon to them which did not interest him.
John PaytonNARRATOR
Yes, Tom's life was varied and pleasant enough on the whole.
Thomas CopelandNARRATOR
For sports, for pageantry and plays, thou hast thy eves and holidays, on which the young men and maids meet to exercise their dancing feet, tripping the comely country round with daffodils and daisies crowned.
Thomas CopelandNARRATOR
Thy wakes, thy quintals here thou hast, thy Maypoles too with garlands graced, thy morris dance, thy whitsun ale, thy shearing feast, which never fail.
Thomas CopelandNARRATOR
Thy harvest home, thy wassail bowl that's tossed up after fox of the hole.
Thomas CopelandNARRATOR
Thy mummeries, thy twelve-tide kings and queens, thy Christmas revelings, thy nut-brown mirth, thy russet wit, and no man pays too dear for it.
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