I Got Books for My Birthday Yesterday

mindful webworker - have to learn to read again

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Sun 2015 Aug 23, 9:23am

I got books for my birthday yesterday.

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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. by Washington Irving, a "secondary school" book from 1911. In pretty good shape.

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The Face is Familiar - The selected verse of Ogden Nash, 1941 printing. Someone wrote a long poem in 1946on the ... flyleaf? whatchacall that page facing the title? The edge (whatchacall the face you see on the shelf?) needs some gluing, but otherwise in good shape.

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The Verse by the Side of the Road by Frank Rowsome, Jr. with drawings by Carl Rose. The story of the Burma-Shave signs and jingles, containing all 600 of the roadside rhymes. 1965, my printing 1975. I will, no doubt, be able to read this one, despite my web-obliterated attention span.

Past schoolhouses
Take it slow
Let the little
Shavers Grow
Burma-Shave

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