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The Red Well-Read Reader
Story 145
Around the Earth
Ships travel the earth, en•cir•cling its fat girth. They travel
through channel and firth, from London to Perth, and home again
from berth to berth.
They carry those goods of which another nation has a dearth.
This brings both countries great mirth, for each enjoys a much
greater worth.
Story 146
Elmhurst
In Elmhurst – beginning June first, lasting exactly one year to May
thirty-first – there was a drought, history’s worst. Ten thousand
persons died of thirst.
What is worse – when the clouds finally burst, mud slid and
twenty thousand more died submersed. Can you imagine a land
more accursed ?
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