A Course in Phonetics UC Berkeley Linguistics

British accent

who could never make up his mind. 
Whenever his friends asked him
If he would like to go out with them,
he would only answer, "I don't know."
he wouldn't say "yes" or "no" either.
He would always shirk making a choice.

Now look here, no one is going to care for you if  you carry on like this.
you have no more mind than a blade of grass."

The pine rafters were all  rotten, so that the barn was rather unsafe.
At last the joists gave way and fell  to the ground.
The walls shook and all the rats' hair stood on end with fear and  horror.

Within five hourse the ten scouts came back and said,
"We found a stone house where there is room and board for us all.
There is a kindly horse named Nelly,  a cow, a calf, and a garden with an elm tree."

Just then the old one saw Arthur.  "Stop," he ordered coarsely.
"You are coming of course." "I'm not certain," said Arthur, undaunted. "The roof may not come down yet."
"Well," said the angry rat, "we can't wait for you to join us. Right about face. March!"
Arthur stood and watched them hurry away. "I think I'll go tomorrow," he said calmly to himself, but then he thought "I don't know; it's so nice and snug here."

One of them moved a board and he  saw a young rat, quite dead, half in and half out of his hole. Thus the shirker got  his due.