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Story 345
Precocious Jewel
Jewel was two when she quit dripping drool. At three she began diving
in the pool. At six she stopped fearing the dentist's drilling tool.
At 13 she started acting too "very cool," and she broke nearly every
rule. A year hence, however – when told she might flunk out of school,
she quickly realized that all along, she had been one big, ignominious
fool.
Story 346
He Bride and the Gloom
The bride felt like a beautiful blossom in bloom, for soon her fortune,
was about to boom. She was about to assume, perhaps totally consume,
the wealth of her groom.
She was planning to spend lavishly on perfume, and to re-do his every
room. She would presume, to hire maid in costume, to whom to present
with broom, and vacuum.
The poor groom, was soon to feel
gloom. He would learn that big
problems were going to loom. Sorely
he felt the need for elbow room ! He
thought about getting into his car
and zoom, but from the time in his
mother's womb, somehow, he knew
of this inevitable doom. So instead,
he would search for his soon-to-be
tomb!
