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The Red Well-Read Reader

Story 93

We Depend on Mom

There are many affairs to which mother has to attend, because she has many

children for whom to fend. In the day she works in a big store in South Bend.

Her job is to vend clothes of the fash•ion•a•ble trend. And some nights she must

bartend. When she returns home she has to spend time with each child who wants

to bend her ear. She has to mend socks, perhaps send a letter, and always
lend a hand to fix a meal.

Thanks to Mom, who is our bestest friend and whom we highly commend, we all

should ascend to great heights in the end.

Story 94

Pent up

Once upon a time in the city of Trent, there lived an elderly gent by
the name of Ghent. Being pent up in a penthouse, Mr. .Ghent became

dis•con•tent. So one day he sent his final payment to the res•i•dent

manager, Mrs. Kent. In•clu•ded was a note in which he said he had

no intent to pay the next month's "sky-high rent," and soon to

expect his descent (by which he meant good-bye to Mrs. Kent).

So Mr. Ghent, who always had the bent to live in wilderness

wonderment, went off into the woods where his final days were

spent quite content - sniffing animal scent, living in a pup tent.

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