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Free Zuccini

From: Robert Karl Skoglund
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Zuccini is always free in the summer

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Once upon a time Aunt Margaret down in Washington County, which is as far east as you can go in the United States, put out by the road in front of her house a basket full of zuccini. By the basket she put up a big sign that said, ?Free.? A car bearing New York license plates stopped by the basket. A woman got out of the car and walked up to the house and knocked on the door. When Aunt Margaret answered, the New York woman asked if the contents of the basket were really free. When assured that they were indeed free, she asked how many she could take. ?Well,? she was told: ?as many as you can use.? Whereupon, the New York woman said, ?What are they??
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