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The Red Well-Read Reader

Story 291
The Swarm

Now and then when the weather is fair and warm honey bees will swarm.

In their dress-jacket uniform, they will conform to a box-shaped form.

And when the Queen Bee’s ready, she will flap her wings to inform the

workers that it is time to perform. Then they’ll move her to another

"dorm."

Story 292

Hard as an Acorn

1. Do babies come mother born, or stork borne?

2. Should one mourn because it rains in the morn?

3. Is a bull's horn longer than a shoe horn?

4. Is a goose's horn louder than a French horn?

5. Is an ear of corn longer than Cap•ri•corn?

6. Is a goat shorn when its coat is worn?

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