While thinking of ideas for my column

FEMINIST FABLES

time, I began leafing through one of my son's rhyme books. So very many of the rhymes

and riddles had sexist thought flowing all through them that it was really quite depressing, but I found a few goodies.....

Once upon a time, there was an army of ants who marched from place to place. They were known as Ants, Inc., and were respected by all the other animals of the neighborhood.

One day, Mark Ant-ony, fearless leader of Ants, Inc., called a meeting. The ants soon learned the details of their new adventure. Five seconds after telling the ants the details of their new mission, Mark Ant-ony self-destructed. New bids for "fearless leaders" were then opened.

The ants soon started out on their new mission, which was to rescue their cohort, Ant-y Oakley, from the clutches of the Great Anteater.

Meanwhile, the Great Anteater had Ant-y tied up on a post as he was deciding her fate. While he was thus engaged, the ants marched up his legs and began to torture him unmercifully.

The near-sighted Anteater, who had a week before been attacked by a horde of bees, when he had mistaken their hive for an ant-hill, would gladly have returned to be spared the pain he was feeling now.

He freed Ant-y Oakley and agreed to the terms the ants put before him, never to bother them again.

Moral: It is better to have bees in your bonnet, than ants in your pants.

Welcome to our 15th issue!

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DARE

"What kind of an answer is that?"

Come riddle me, riddle me

And riddle me some more A riddle a day

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Credited to the "Real Mother Goose Rhymes"

WHERE ARE YOU GOING, MY PRETTY MAID "Where are you going my pretty maid?" "I'm going a-milking sir," she said. "May I go with you, my pretty maid?" "You're kindly welcome, sir," she said. "What is your father, my pretty maid?" "My father's a farmer, sir," she said. "What is your fortune, my pretty maid?" "My face is my fortune, sir," she said. "Then I can't marry you, my pretty maid." "Nobody asked you, mister," she said.

SHALL WE GO A--SHEARING

"Old man, old man, shall we go a-shearing?” "Speak a little louder, ma'am, I am very thick of hearing."

"Old man, old man, shall I kiss you dearly?" "Thank you, ma'am, I hear you very clearly."

LOCK & KEY

"I am a gold lock." "I am a gold key.' "I am a silver lock. "I am a silver key. "I am a brass lock.” "I am a brass key. "I am a lead lock, "I am a lead key."

"I am a don lock. "I am a don key."

With a little bit of creativity and a whole lot of thought (preferably on a feminist level) there may yet be some hope for the "little people" of the coming generations to grow up with some freer ideas.

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