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Story 323
No Bunk
There is:
The bed bunk The cattail punk The dull clunk
The bread hunk & the wise punk & the dull plunk
The wood chunk The colt’s spunk The water dunk
The soda drunk The elephant’s trunk The basketball dunk
The gooey gunk The clothes trunk The foul funk &
The scrap junk The prayerful monk The smelly skunk
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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