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Show If your child is a poor reader January Storm When his cries shake the house, I surmise that my spouse Has started to edit My Christmas credit. Belly Billipp -- see how phonics can help him QUIPS AND QUOTES d husband "My wife," a told the psychiatrist, "is in need of help. She bursts into tears at the drop of a hat. This morning she wept for almost an hour because she saw a little dog with a broken leg." "That's not so bad," said the psychiatrist "Many women are particularly sensitive about the suffering of animals. I think my own wife might even cry at the sight of a dog with a broken leg." "But doctor," said the husband, "this dog was in a box of animal Gloria Bier crackers." sad-eye- Kay: "What a lovely fur coat you have on, dear. Your husband must have changed jobs." Fay: "Oh, no, I changed bands." ' Then there's the man who knew he was in trouble the moment he was married. His wife's mother and father sent him a Hem Albright thank-you-not- e. 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