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Ida Marie Hazlet

Ida Marie Hazlet

Female 1898 - 2000  (101 years)

 

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Esau Wood

A "ditty" that my grandmother, Ida Horton, used to recite
- Robin Richmond

This ditty - sometimes characterized as a tongue-twister - was one of my grandmother Ida Horton's favorites, and she always performed it with relish, even on her 100th birthday. (And I do mean performed; she never just said it.) This version, from Wikipedia, isn't exactly the same as hers, but it's certainly close.

Esau Wood

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Esau Wood sawed wood. Esau Wood would saw wood.

All the wood Esau Wood saw, Esau Wood would saw. In other words, all the wood Esau saw to saw, Esau sought to saw. Oh, the wood Wood would saw! And, oh the wood-saw with which Wood would saw wood!

But one day, Wood's wood-saw would saw no wood, and thus the wood Wood sawed was not the wood Wood would saw if Wood's wood-saw would saw wood. Now, Wood would saw wood with a wood-saw that would saw wood, so Esau sought a saw that would saw wood.

One day, Esau saw a saw saw wood as no other wood-saw Wood saw would saw wood. In fact, of all the wood-saws Wood ever saw saw wood, Wood never saw a wood-saw that would saw wood as the wood-saw Wood saw saw wood would saw wood, and I never saw a wood-saw that would saw as the wood-saw Wood saw would saw until I saw Esau Wood saw wood with the wood-saw Wood saw saw wood.

Now Wood saws wood with the wood-saw Wood saw saw wood.



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