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Story 143
The Busy Nurse
There once was a busy nurse. With every patient, she would patiently
converse. Her remarks were always terse, though pleasing and often in
verse. There was nothing to which she was averse, to help make a
patients condition reverse.
But now and again a patient would turn for the worse. Then first she
would call the patients family citing the curse, and next the morgue
requesting its hearse.
Change: apostrophes removed from patient’s.
Story 144
Boys ! Stay Alert !
Little boys should stay alert, on guard against little girls who like to
flirt, especially those that are saucy and pert.
At first, they may say you are sweeter than dessert, or that they
like your spiffy shirt. But when they get angry, you will get hurt. In a
spurt of temper, they will blurt out something curt. They might even
say you are a little squirt, and reason it is your just dessert.
Then come the following week, they are likely to do it again, this time
to a Kurt, a Harry, or a Burt.
Change: desert to dessert.
