Page 69 - TRWRR_Neat
P. 69

The Red Well-Read Reader




                                                                                                       Story 93


                                                  We Depend on Mom

             There are many affairs to which mother has to attend, because she has many

         children for whom to fend.  In the day she works in a big store in South Bend.

         Her job is to vend clothes of the fash•ion•a•ble trend.  And some nights she must

         bartend.  When she returns home she has to spend time with each child who wants

         to bend her ear.  She has to mend socks, perhaps send a letter, and always

         lend a hand to fix a meal.


             Thanks to Mom, who is our bestest  friend and whom we highly commend, we all

         should ascend to great heights in the end.





                                                                                                          Story 94



                                                                                                             Pent up
                                Once upon a time in the city of Trent, there lived an elderly gent by

                                the name of Ghent. Being pentup in a penthouse, Mr. .Ghent became

                                dis•con•tent.  So one day he senthis final paymentto the res•i•dent

                                manager, Mrs. Kent.  In•clu•ded was a note in which he said he had

                                no  intent to pay the next month's "sky-high  rent," and soon to

                                expect his descent (by which he meant good-bye to Mrs. Kent).




                                So  Mr. Ghent, who always had the  bent  to  live  in  wilderness

                                wonderment, went  off into the woods where his final days were

                                spent quite content - sniffing animal scent, living in a pup tent.









                                                                                                               -49-
   64   65   66   67   68   69   70   71   72   73   74