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Take It Away, Ernest

Posted 5 April 2011 by Slim Charles
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Casey at the Bat By Ernest Lawrence Thayer The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day: The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play. And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same, A sickly silence fell upon the patrons of the game.   A [...]

Chair Recognize Slim Charles

Posted 31 March 2011 by Slim Charles
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The flesh of his middle and index fingers presses against white hide and red wax-covered thread. His medieval weapon of an arm rears up and crests the plane above his head. Electrical impulses have already left his brain and are racing to his hand to tell his thumb to move out of the way at [...]