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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

The 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!