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The Red Well-Read Reader

Cry It Story 192
Story 193
For a few cents, you can buy it.

With a little butter, you can fry it.

Without butter, you can try it on a diet.

At Easter, you can also dye it.

And in disquiet, you can fly it to start a riot.

. . . Well, what is it, Wyatt?

Strife Is Rife!

Ed said, "Wife,
I thought that our life
would
be
music
from
a
fife !

"But our life
has been rife
with strife

So, dear wife,
please
lend
me
your
knife !

For I'm about to take your life !"

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