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The Red Well-Read Reader

Story 347

As the Band Crooned

In June, on a sand dune under a full moon, a band called "The Buffoons" played

a Looney tune that made the jejune girls swoon.

Being en•rap•tured, June forgot her lunch of prunes. They were soon seen by a

raccoon, a long-billed loon, and a baboon – who prop•er•ly ate them with a spoon.

Story 348

Rouen's Ruin

During World War II, the French city of Rouen was bombed and left in ruin.

For this and other bad things they were doin', every German was called a "bruin".

Story 349

Fleeing the Coop

Tired of reporting the poop, Sue decided to flee the "coop."

So she sailed away in her 20-foot sloop.

But after just one Caribbean loop, however, her spirits

began to droop. She then realized she had been a stupe. So

she sold her sloop and happily rejoined her old newspaper

group.

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