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The Red Well-Read Reader

Story 192

Cry It

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?

Story 193

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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