The Soul of the Schoolboy--Uncle (Reverend) takes his nephew to see old silver coin. They empty pockets to enter museum. Boy drops off magnet, string, junk. A monk/magician enters with them. Colonel Morris is in charge of the place, a skeptic. The boy, curious about a switch, plunges them all into darkness. When the lights come back on--the coin is gone. The "thief" is Colonel Morris who used the darkness to test his theory that the silver coin was a fraud. He used the boys magnet and string to fish the coin out of the display case, proving to himself that the coin was bogus--silver coated but iron, not silver, inside. Clever
PUPPY Dysfunctional family has puppy that they need to get rid of. Mom places ad; family is coming over. Description of family. Mom: husband changed from long-haired attractive to stooped old man. Husband: talks constantly of living on a farm and doing what needs to be done, though he never lived on a farm. Conversations together: Sell and move to Arizona, get hooked on phonics for kids, buying a car wash. . . wonderful randomness. Straight-laced suburbanite comes to look at puppy. Seems like she will buy it, even though she is repelled by house. (Dog turds on carpet, filthy.) She is proud of how accepting she is until she looks out window and sees white trash's son tied by harness to a tree. Reader knows he is a menace to himself, darting across I-90, for example. Suburban mother beats hasty retreat, leaving dog to be (probably) drowned by dad who does what has to be done. Suburbanite remembers her own pathetic ch...
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