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The Red Well-Read Reader

Story 107

All I Need

I pray on my rosary bead

For an upright life to lead

For nothing else do I plead

For nothing else do I need

Except the knowledge to read

And pro•nounce such words as knead,

Supercede, and millipede

Story 108

In League

Ed and Fred enjoyed crime’s intrigue. But as time passed,

Fred told his colleague, “This work is causing me fatigue,

thus I must renege!”

Upon hearing this Ed shot Fred dead, and then dropped his
former colleague down to the deepest sea league.

Ed

Fred

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