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The Red Well-Read Reader
Story 132
What’s Causing the Stir?
“Sir, can you tell me what spurs the squirrels to stir? I’ve never seen them
so busily whir. They’re like a blur. Nor have I heard them so noisily chirr.
They jump about the oaks and firs as though their coats have thistles and
burs.”
The man replied to her, “Does it not occur to you that you can no longer hear
a cat purr ? Don’t you know that there is a high price on fur, even the fur of
a cur ? Now answer, what should a squirrel infer seeing your coat of rabbit
fur?”
Story 133
Herbal Tea
Miss Lee couldn’t curb her yearning for this tea superb, as says the blurb.
And because her stomach is easy to disturb, as is her smile to perturb, to
buy it Herb would travel to the city from miles beyond the suburb,
somewhere in the exurb.
But Herb, who grew tired of traveling, now grows the herb between his
sidewalk and the county curb.
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