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The Red Well-Read Reader

Story 93

We Depend on Mom
There are many affairs to which mother has to attend, because she has many
children for whom to fend. In the day she works in a big store in South Bend.
Her job is to vend clothes of the fash•ion•a•ble trend. And some nights she must
bartend. When she returns home she has to spend time with each child who wants
to bend her ear. She has to mend socks, perhaps send a letter, and always
lend a hand to fix a meal.
Thanks to Mom, who is our bestest friend and whom we highly commend, we all
should ascend to great heights in the end.

Story 94

Pent up
Once upon a time in the city of Trent, there lived an elderly gent by
the name of Ghent. Being pent up in a penthouse, Mr. .Ghent became
dis•con•tent. So one day he senthis final payment to the res•i•dent
manager, Mrs. Kent. In•clu•ded was a note in which he said he had
no intent to pay the next month's "sky-high rent," and soon to
expect his descent (by which he meant good-bye to Mrs. Kent).

So Mr. Ghent, who always had the bent to live in wilderness
wonderment, went off into the woods where his final days were
spent quite content - sniffing animal scent, living in a pup tent.

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