The Specialist
By feverfew
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There was girl I used to know,whose pet ambition was to grow,within her tiny garden plot the plants that no one else had got. She had no time for common stuff that other folk thought good enough;She searched the papers through & through for things exotic, strange & new. One night she heard a neighbour say that someone, just across the way, had got PLEBITIS ‘twas a word of which she hadn’t even heard. PHLEBITIS! That was something new! Now was it red or was it blue? The only plant she hadn’t got— She ordered it upon the spot.
11 Jan, 2013
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And the moral of this story is---use a dictionary before you order!
11 Jan, 2013
Who wrote this one Feverfew? It's wonderful, I've been guilty myself too, but not that bad lol:-)
30 Jan, 2013
It was written by the same man,Reginald Arkell. I'm glad that you liked it, Bornagain.
31 Jan, 2013
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and an big ouch if she got it!!
:o))
11 Jan, 2013