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Present Tense
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He laid the gun down.
She set the pot on the fire.
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It seems that Abe makes the books tell him more than they do other people.
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He laid the gun down.
She set the pot on the fire.
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When Abe got hold of a story book and read about a boat that came near a magnetic rock, and how the magnets in the rock pulled all the nails out of the boat so that it sank, but none of the people drowned, Abe thought it was funny and told it to other people.
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After Abe read Robert Burns's poems, Abe began to write rhymes himself.
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He laid the gun down.
She set the pot on the fire.
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When he came home from work, he used to sit down and read even before he ate.
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He laid the gun down.
She set the pot on the fire.
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The habit of reading aloud grew on him.
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He laid the gun down.
She set the pot on the fire.
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(January 10, 2006)
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