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Story 278
A Gold Pound
Walking with her hound on the beach of the Sound, a young girl found,
a gold pound in a sand mound.
She asked herself: "Was there a reef around on which a ship had run
aground? To whom would this wealth redound ? Would talking about it
be unsound ?"
Her mind was confounded, her conscience hounded. So deciding to
make the state as dumfounded as she was astounded, she told how it
lay “ingrounded.”
Story 279
Laziness Is Hard to Surmount
The Count cannot count to a very high amount. In fact, he cannot
even count the few ducks in his fount. He cannot keep account of
the papers he stacks in a big mount. His horse he can't even
mount or dismount. Things that happened as recently as
yesterday, he often can’t recount.
Yet he defends himself saying, "Other things are more
paramount. And besides, I have my trusty servants on whom to
count, 1, 2, 3, 4 . . . ."
