The Plimoth Adventure - Voyage of Mayflower: A Radio Dramatization Audiobook

" This product takes the form of three mp3 files. The review mechanism does not permit much writing, and so I am providing only an excerpt from my favorite part. This part is from the third of the 3 mp3 files. The comes a great monologue from an angry old woman. "Those crying babies!" "What say you?" asks somebody else." The old woman continues, "The dissenters, sick as dogs, crying . . . complaining . . . I say we toss the whole lot of them overboard. Sniveling cowards looking down their noses at us with their higher-than-though ways . . . curse the whole lot of them." "Just do your job," says an old man. "I do my job," replies the angry old woman, "but it gives me satisfaction to put them in their place . . . cargo, they's just cargo," snorts the old woman. Then, we hear more music, mainly a church organ. Then, more sounds of sails rumbling in the wind. At 5 minutes and 20 seconds, a young boy makes his entrance. It is William Butten (spelled with an "e," not an "o"). The captain tells him to stay below where he will be safe from the storm. At 6 minutes, we hear the sounds of wind whistling. William Butten and and older boy (John) come up to the deck to get some fresh air. "Get below you bumbling idiots," says a sailor to them. We hear more crashing waves and whistling wind. At 8 minutes, we hear, "He's gone, one of the passengers." "What was he doing on deck?" snaps another sailor, "you should have sent him below." "I did says the first sailor, ". . . look, there he is" "Hang on, don't let go," yell the two sailors. The narrator tells us that John Howland was saved, but William Butten was not. "