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Story 221
The Goths
Centuries ago there lived a Germanic race called the Visigoths,
known also as the Ostrogoths or merely the Goths. The Romans
said that the Goths were bar•bar•i•ans – lazy sloths.
This so angered the Goths that it filled their hearts with wroth.
The Goths turned into “mad men” spewing froth. Soon one after
another Roman fell by the swaths of the be•sworded Goths.
Story 222
Albert Knox
Albert Knox catches salmon, called lox, and sells them frozen by
the box. He grows cotton to make socks, and raises hogs
es•pe•cial•ly for hocks.
To till his fields he uses a bull ox. He keeps a few gamecocks
too, because they protect his chickens from fox and are more
de•pend•a•ble than the best alarm clocks.
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