{"file_name": "2428-83699-0000.flac", "transcription": "I imagine there were several kinds of old fashioned christmases but it could hardly be worse than a chop in my chambers or horror of horrors at the club or my cousin lucy's notion of what she calls the festive season", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0001.flac", "transcription": "Festive yes", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0002.flac", "transcription": "The reply was written in a sprawling feminine hand it was a little vague", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0003.flac", "transcription": "It appeared that the terms would be five guineas but there was no mention of the length of time which that fee would cover", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0004.flac", "transcription": "The whole thing was a trifle odd", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0005.flac", "transcription": "There was nothing said about the sort of accommodation which would be provided nothing about the kind of establishment which was maintained or the table which was kept", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0006.flac", "transcription": "Now it is a remarkable thing that i have always had an extraordinary predilection for the name madge i do not know why", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0007.flac", "transcription": "I have never known a madge and yet from my boyhood upward i have desired to meet one", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0008.flac", "transcription": "Under such circumstances she was hardly likely to be lively herself but her name was madge and it was the accident of her christian name which decided me to go", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0009.flac", "transcription": "I had no illusions", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0010.flac", "transcription": "I did not expect a princely entertainment", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0011.flac", "transcription": "All night it had been blowing and raining", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0012.flac", "transcription": "I felt quite lively myself as i mingled with the christmas crowd looking for things which might not turn out to be absolutely preposterous", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0013.flac", "transcription": "I even bought something for madge i mean missus wilson", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0014.flac", "transcription": "It was a horrible journey", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0015.flac", "transcription": "He was impervious to reason", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0016.flac", "transcription": "It is some satisfaction for me to be able to reflect that i made it warm for the officials however cold i might have been myself", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0017.flac", "transcription": "When at last i reached crofton my journey's end it turned out that the station staff consisted of a half witted individual who was stationmaster porter and clerk combined and a hulking lad who did whatever else there was to do", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0018.flac", "transcription": "No one had come to meet me the village was about half a mile and hangar dene the house for which my steps were bent about four miles by the road how far it was across ploughed fields my informant did not mention", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0019.flac", "transcription": "There was a trap at the boy and blunderbuss but that required fetching", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0020.flac", "transcription": "When the trap did appear it looked to me uncommonly like an open spring cart", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0021.flac", "transcription": "In it i was deposited with my luggage", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0022.flac", "transcription": "I did not know what he meant", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0023.flac", "transcription": "I did not ask i was beyond it", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0024.flac", "transcription": "I was chilled to the bone wet tired hungry", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0025.flac", "transcription": "I had long been wishing that an old fashioned christmas had been completely extinct before i had thought of adventuring in quest of one", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0026.flac", "transcription": "Here we be that might be so", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0027.flac", "transcription": "There be the door in front of you you go up three steps if you can find em", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0028.flac", "transcription": "There's a knocker if none of em haven't twisted it off", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0029.flac", "transcription": "There appeared to be no knocker though whether it had been twisted off was more than i could say", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0030.flac", "transcription": "No answer though i allowed a more than decent interval", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0031.flac", "transcription": "Better ring again suggested the driver hard", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0032.flac", "transcription": "Maybe they're up to some of their games and wants rousing", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0033.flac", "transcription": "The bell reverberated through what seemed like an empty house", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0034.flac", "transcription": "Presently feet were heard advancing along the passage several pairs it seemed and a light gleamed through the window over the door", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0035.flac", "transcription": "A voice inquired who's there", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0036.flac", "transcription": "The information was greeted with what sounded uncommonly like a chorus of laughter", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0037.flac", "transcription": "There was a rush of retreating feet an expostulating voice then darkness again and silence", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0038.flac", "transcription": "Who lives here are the people mad", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0039.flac", "transcription": "I tolled the bell again", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0040.flac", "transcription": "After a vast amount of unfastening the door was opened and on the threshold there stood a girl with a lighted candle in her hand", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0041.flac", "transcription": "I'm mister christopher from london", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}
{"file_name": "2428-83699-0042.flac", "transcription": "We've lost the key of the cellar and there's nothing out except water and i don't think you'd care for that", "speaker_id": "2428-83699"}