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The Red Well-Read Reader

Story 123

A Special Treat

For ac•com•plish•ing your ac•a•dem•ic feat

You have won yourself a special treat.

Would you like a drink to beat the heat?

Perhaps a tasty cut of meat?

If there’s nothing you want to eat,

How about a Yankees’ grandstand seat?

Wouldn’t that be super neat?

I repeat – wouldn’t that be super neat?

Story 124

A Proper Greeting

Regardless whether it’s raining a sheet of sleet

Or for some other reason you’d like to be fleet

Whenever you meetfriend of stranger on the street,

Be as sweet as a sugar beet

Greet him with words upbeat

And smile, be it Pete or Marguerite.

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