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Story 145
Around the Earth
Ships travel the earth, encircling its fat girth. They travel
through channel and firth, from London to Perth, and home again from
berth to berth.
They carry those goods of which another nation has a dearth.
This brings both nations great mirth, for each enjoys a much greater
worth.
Story 146
Elmhurst
In Elmhurst, beginning June first, lasting exactly one year to May
thirty-first, there was a drought, historys worst. Ten thousand
persons died of thirst.
What is worse, when the clouds finally burst, mud slid and twenty
thousand more died submersed. Can you imagine a land more cursed ?
Change: accursed to cursed; no apostrophe in history’s.
