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The Red Well-Read Reader
Story 111
A Bird Unique
On a hilly peak
Along the Chesapeake
Lives a bird unique.
Like a parrot, he can speak
But his call is a shriek
That breaks into a squeak.
He possesses a hug beak,
Plumage white with an orange streak.
And he has a bulbous physique.
What’s more, he’s so weak
That flying makes his bones creak
Story 112
Miss Beale
Miss Beale jumped into her keel with her rod ‘n’ reel and said to herself, “Oh
how lucky I feel. Maybe today I’ll catch a shark or seal.”
But as hard as she fished and as hard as she wished, all she could catch was
a boot heel and a slimy eel.
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