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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 pent up in a penthouse, Mr. .Ghent became

                                dis•con•tent.  So one day he sent his final payment to 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.









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