When the Japanese beetles come to my garden in the summer, I don't bother with pesticides. I just pick them off and squish them with my fingers. Yesterday I was doing this crunchy and enjoyable chore when I came across a rosebud covered with the evil vermin, like this one. I grabbed them all into my hand and crushed them. Then I opened my hand and counted: SEVEN.
Jack the Tailor has nothing on me.
I still remember the little French reader we were so thrilled to get in French I. The first story was about lentils; the second was
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