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The Red Well-Read Reader

Story 77

The Deb's Web

Jeb

A Southern Reb 1
At his lowest ebb

Got caught by a con•niv •ing deb 2

She had said their dating was just for fun

Then she said she wanted to bear his son
So tenderly trapped in her web

He married her in the month of Feb

1. Rebel.
2. Debutante, a young lady coming out in society.

Story 78

Rebecca

Rebecca cried, “My clothes make me look a wreck. All of them

are spotted with lint specks. And I look so fat in checks !"

Her husband, hearing her beck, gave her a peck on her neck

and said, "Dear, trek to the store and buy whatever in the heck

you reck will make you the prettiest Czech in all Quebec.”

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