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The Red Well-Read Reader

                                           Story 88

To the Heavenly Diadem

The world is full of mayhem       We're better than Clem
You wonder - what is the stem?    Maybe we ought not to contemn
Perhaps our lust for a gem,       Or to condemn
Greed to have more than "Them ,"  But pray to the diadem
Or belief . . .                   For grace at our . . . re•qui•em

                                           Story 89

                        Tempted

        The devil may attempt to tempt
     Even those who hold sin in contempt

       In other words no soul is exempt
For Satan may come even in a dream dreamt

                                           Story 90

The Fox's Ken

The sly fox cannot always catch the flighty wren, so now and then he
must satisfy his yen for fowl with a plump hen.

He has the ken to wait til ten, when fast asleep are all the men. Then he
leaves his mountain den and comes down through the glen. When all is
clear, he steals into the chicken pen, cle n ches his teeth around a hen, and
takes off just as fast as he possibly can.

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