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The Old Woman and the Wine-Jar

You must know that sometimes old women like a glass of wine. One of this sort once found a Wine-jar lying in the road, and eagerly went up to it hoping to find it full. But when she took it up she found that all the wine had been drunk out of it. Still she took a long sniff at the mouth of the Jar. "Ah," she cried,

"What memories cling 'round the instruments of our pleasure."

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2001-10-31 04:28 PM - Cortney May
THE OLD WOMAN AND THE WINE JAR
TOPIC SENTENCE: The story was actually short for a woman to be a character. My story was excellcent
for me, while the woman was walking down the street.Then once she look down she found a wine-jar lying in the middle of the road, then she finally look down and got the jar from the ground
but, she after all wonder why the jar was filling so light , then she look up and there she saw the
bottle was empty.Then she cried ............






















































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