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Old Musings
Good things come in threes. So goes omne trium perfectum or the rule of three. I am recalling three of my old musings that have been lying here and there for awhile in my social media account, on Messenger, and among the pages of a sparsely-written journal. I love autumn! I wrote this verse eight…
13 Old-time Occupations
Back when my little girl head was full of fairy tales, I mistook a cobbler as a man who sold oysters. I was going to marry a cobbler. He would get me a beautiful pearl necklace. Perhaps too many images in those story books made up a hilarious jumble in my imagination. I still laugh…
Cobbler or an Emperor
Who would you like to marry, a cobbler or an emperor? In the fairy tale, “The Three Heads of the Well,” from Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales by James Orchard Halliwell, the bad girl was married off to a cobbler as part of her punishment. The other punishments were leprosy and stinky breath. They had…
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The Old Curiosity Buff 
