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                        Story 135
                      “The Nerd”

Mark Byrd didn’t know the sound heard from the sheep herd. As a matter of fact
he couldn’t spell a single word.

He didn’t know that milk has wheys and curd. He couldn’t even tell a plane form a
bird, nor first base from third.

Con•se•quent•ly, his classmates would call him “The Nerd.” And now, today, Byrd is
a farmhand picking up turd.

                                            Story 136

                        Murph
        In the 12th Cen•tu•ry England
There lived a man whose name was Murph
      Now just because he was a serf
His highness the king called him “ scurf ”

                 Which was wrong
                  For all day long
    He fished the seas riding the surf
   Or plowed the fields tilling the turf.

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