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The Red Well-Read Reader
Story 323 No Bunk
There is: The cattail punk The dull clunk
The bed bunk & the wise punk & the dull plunk
The bread hunk The colt’s spunk The water dunk
The wood chunk The elephant’s trunk The basketball dunk
The soda drunk The clothes trunk The foul funk &
The gooey gunk The prayerful monk The smelly skunk
The scrap junk The dumb clunk
Story 324
The Drag Bunt
When young, Juan learned to drag bunt. But later as a
major leaguer he would grunt when asked to lay down
the bunt.
His thinking was that if the brunt of his hits were the
mere bunt, he might as well quit his hunt to be in the
game’s forefront and see his picture in every storefront.
Story 325
Hiccoughs Or Hiccups
When just a pup Jorge´ would sup his supper so fast that
he would in•va•ri•a• bly hiccup. “ Coke and Pepsi would just
make him throw up ! The only thing that worked was a cup
of 7-Up. Believe me, this ain’t no gup !”
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