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The Red Well-Read Reader

Story 88
To the Heavenly Diadem

The world is full of mayhem We're better than Clem

You wonder - what is the stem? Maybe we ought not to contemn

Perhaps our lust for a gem, Or to condemn

Greed to have more than "Them," But pray to the diadem

Or belief . . . For grace at our . . . re•qui•em

Story 89
Tempted

The devil may attempt to tempt

Even those who hold sin in contempt

In other words no soul is exempt

For Satan may come even in a dream dreamt

Story 90
The Fox's Ken

The sly fox cannot always catch the flighty wren, so now and then he

must satisfy his yen for fowl with a plump hen.

He has the ken to wait til ten, when fast asleep are all the men. Then he

leaves his mountain den and comes down through the glen. When all is

clear, he steals into the chicken pen, clenches his teeth around a hen, and

takes off just as fast as he possibly can.

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