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The Red Well-Read Reader
Story 39
The Overpaid Maid
There was once a staid old maid who no one would say was a gay blade. She
never wore makeup, nor did she ever put her hair up in a braid.
To the woman of the house, she was no aid: beds she never made, and
ironing she would always evade. For hours messes usually stayed,
cockroaches making their daily raid, as she lay sleeping in the shade.
Nevertheless, she was handsomely paid: $10 an hour is what she made.
Story 40
The Waif
When jets made a bombing strafe, the child received only a minor skin
chafe; but she lost her parents, her house, and the money in her family's
safe. And so she became a wandering waif and lived a life so unsafe.
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