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Owed Two A Spell Chequer
Eye halve a spelling chequer,
it came with my pea sea.
It plainly marques, four my revue,
miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
and weight four it two say,
Weather eye am wrong oar write
it shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid,
it nose bee fore two long.
And eye can put the error rite
it's rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it,
I am shore your pleased two no.
Its letter perfect awl the weigh,
my chequer tolled me sew.

This oft passed on poem came to Casey via a subscription joke newsletter. Seen it before but note it here because I'm trying to trace a very cool piece of writing that has a whole lot of word usages in it that would be the opposite of the counterpart word - except that that the counterpart doesn't have an opposite. Pretty much the only word I recall was chalant (being the opposite of nonchalant) and I would love to find it again as it was very clever. Any ideas?

An un-edited novelette by Case.

"We must continue fighting. We have come this far and yet lost many friends but if we work together we will succeed." "Yes king Leonard is right grab your swords and begin the battle." Everyone in the army charged forward towards the crowd of soldiers from the other team. Their heads held up high, their eyes burnt by the sun and their courage pushing them on. The hot sand bellow their boots caught in the wind and blew against the soldiers faces. The army kept marching until they came face to face with their enemies. "Fight!" screamed the men in black suits as they ran of to take cover. Gun bullets started pouring down like rain. King Leonard was in trouble, he tried to stand up and walk away but his old legs would carry him no longer. Finally he fell on to the rough dirt bellow him. "Help" shouted his assistant as she came back in her red high heels. "King Leonard has fallen." It was at that moment when I heard the word king that I ran up to the hut and bent down on my knees. "You are right my lady I shell take care of him, just leave it to me." Then I realised what I had brought upon myself. I carried King Leonard off on my donkey. It was a tough journey and my army suit was sticky and sweaty inside. I imagined being a bear and having layers of fur lying on my back. I imagined the heat beating down on by brown body and at the thought of that I took the rope that was tied around the donkeys neck and kept walking. After a while a village was in sight, King Leonard had woken and was feeling unconscious so the donkey and I stopped outside the town. I lifted King Leonard and helped him along the path. "Stop." Came a voice "Drop your gun and tell us what you are doing here." I didn't even touch my gun I just let go of King Leonard and stared in astonishment, standing in front of me was a group of young monkeys. When I was ready to begin I told them how I was fighting for peace and they stopped me and said "what find peace in death how do you do that?" Now that was one question I could not answer so with out replying I told them what had happened to my king. "Leave your king with us." They croaked. "We will take care of them until you return." The lifted up King Leonard and before I could open my mouth they had disappear into the long dark streets of their village. "Come on donkey." I said as I reached where I had left him. "we've got a lot of travelling to do." So we set off back to the Irena. My brown boots were squeezed around my feet and I was in pain but the little critters I had just met had taught me a thing or to. Late at night as I was cuddled up in bed my mind dozed of and I began to dream.¹ When I woke up I thought about my dream, rubbed my eyes and then shouted "That's it that's what the monkeys meant.²

I ran out on to the battle fields (then ran back.) It would b better to have some pants on I thought. After changing I walked out again and began to speak. As I opened my mouth some men took me and locked me up. "this ust be a mistake." I convinced "I have done nothing and I have important news." The guards just laughed and closed the door behind them. I looked around all the venting systems were barred up their was no escape I just had to wait. Sooner or later the judge walked in. "If you promise to not talk in the battle grounds I will let you go, but if you open your smart mouth again you will stay here forever. Understand." "Yes sir." I said. Now I must go out and tell the army to stop. "but, but." I said "But I am a leader, I can shout if I have to. "yes sirrrrrrr." I followed him out and walked over to the soldiers. When he opened his smart mouth and told all the men to stop I opened my smart mouth and yelled "For ever you see w… figh… for pea…" the strong man released his hand and took it of my mouth "You were saying." he said. "I was saying why fight for peace, peace is not blood nor death peace is love." Every one in the crowd dropped their guns.

That was my dream but the end of my story. My mind was right even though it was half asleep it still knew that love was found in life not death.

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1 I can not tell you what I dreamt of of course cause that will ruin the whole story.
2 I can not tell you what it meant either that is a surprise.

My eyes, my heart, my soul, my Lord

Will give to me some day

And I will wait and pray to him

Then he will kindly say

Your life on earth has ended

Your mind will finally sleep

And you will rise up to the sky

Your love your friends will keep

 

My angels sent a letter

Let's see what it says

It's from your lovely family

They will love you always

another wee find of Casey's. Now aged 9.

With this diary i keep mt secrets.
Only the fairys sitting beside me and the other magical creatures on my lap have seen this. You are the 7093 vistor and the only human who has ever seen this page, it was written many years ago when my father was out at sea. He was the only one on his gigantic ship and was relaxing near shore. He was smiling happily to himself when dragon laccoon swooped out of a cave. His evil eyes flickered in the wind, he saw the ship and atacked it. The next day i received a letter that i found in my garden a cloud had sent it.Not knowing if it was sent to me ripped it open. It was a letter from zack, My father he had sent it last night from the bottom of his ship. "I have seen a dragon he has split my ship, soon i wil sink into the water. I thought i would send you a letter my dear as i will never see you again, love your frightened father. My mum was always telling that monsters werent real but i was about to find out they were. "No" i screamed "how can this be" just then mother came running out into the garden but before she coulds see me i ran north. "Dad, Dad." i shouted. But it was to late the dragon had destroyed the ship and now he was after me. I looked around and found a hole. soon I was in a magical land. There were fairys:7092 of 'em. there were rivers of gold and flower beds. "Dad" i called in to the air. "Dad." When i finaly gave in fairys lay me down in the sun. I thought about mum losing her daughter then realising her husband had died at see. she was probably at home crying. And that was what i was doing too except i was in a new home. a magical land, and thats where my adventure began. I galloped through forest of daiseis on horse back. I danced with the stars in the dark of the night. "Waiting and waiting for a man, a friend of some kind, (human). I stood in my silk dress and tapped my glass slippers. My long hair blew in the wind and the birds listened to my beautiful voice. I had a feeling my tiara was going to fall of so i gently placed it further forward on my head. "Penery." I heard someone call. I am penary i thought but as careless as i was i dozed off."Ha, what, Who is it." I opened my eyes to find a young man about my age. I smiled. He smiled too. After showing him our countrey we ran off in search for adventure and the andventure was right in front of us. we came to a pond. The swans had died the trees were withered and the grass was dry. We stepped back holding hands. Pie whispered something into my ear but i could not hear him so i just followed him to the middle of the woods. " what are you doing." he said "I told you to go back where it is safe. I stood there speechless. We were lost and cold. SO we lay down and caught some sleep. When i woke up he was gone. I looked round i was back in the garden. All of a sudden the fairies flew over to me "are you all right?", Do you want a drink?.", "you look pale.", ""heres a blanket", 'do you feel OK?". "gies, gies i'm fine but where is pie." "hes still over in mysterious woods." they replyed. "What." i yelled "you left him there." I stood up "Go get him." The creatures ran off and came back with him in their arms. He was still asleep bet looked hurt and sick. "Whats wrong with him" i asked as the faireis lay him down on the grass. "He is suffering frome nuthmia, he could dye." "oh no." i said "oh no, oh no, oh no."

Yet another scrap of paper found lying around that discloses the mechanics of young Casey's (then) 8 year old mind. As usual - type verbatim.

We are talking about what eats what. Well the bird eats the worm, the cat eats the bird and the dog eats part of the cat when the we kill the dog and sometimes eat it so well you know one food fact. We eat a worm a bird a cat but we think we are only eating a dog. We are always at the top of the food chain. But if the worm ate the dirt and the cat ate the bird that ate the worm and th dog ate part of the cat then we are actually eating right from the start of dirt. OO yuck. Well that was interesting.

Well, I though that was interesting - so chucked it in here before throwing the paper in the recycle.

yep - she's back

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