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We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we\u2019ll read the fourth part to "The Secret Garden", a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in 1911. Set in England, it is now one of Burnett's most popular novels and seen as a classic of English children's literature. To unlock full episodes and ad-free listening of this series and more, please go to\xa0snoozecast.com/plus.\n\nIn the last episode, little Mary and the maid Martha get acquainted.\xa0\n\nThey are both surprised by the other. Mary is shocked by Martha\u2019s thick Yorkshire dialect and casual, direct manner. Martha is shocked that Mary is helpless to dress herself and is wasteful of eating good food, when her own numerous siblings may go hungry. Where we pick up, Martha has encouraged Mary to walk around outside.\n\n-- read by 'V'\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices