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The Red Well-Read Reader

Story 24

A Chasm

When a person has 'em -

That is, one after another muscle spasm

And if his masseuse doesn't shows no en•thu•si•asm

To help him pass'em,

Then the patient might blurt out cutting sarcasm.

And between the two may come an unfriendly, unbridgeable chasm.

Story 25

Death by an Asp

When Sarah was about to file a gate hasp

She reached down to clasp . . .

Hold of a metal rasp

But there in the grass was a poisonous asp
It bit her and made her lose her grasp

Within minutes she had breathed her final gasp!

Story 26
Last

At the start of the race the sailboat broke fast on the ocean so

vast. Passing a reef she gave her horn a blast; however, a

fisherman's cast caught hold of her mast and held fast. All the
other boats hurried past, thus this sailboat came in last.

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