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Passage 1 But then a few days later Mr. Sawyer came to Mother, his face beaming, and said they’d be leaving for Michigan the next day. And Mrs. Sawyer looked radiant, too, and for the first time gobbled up her dinner like a little pig. Afterward she took Mother into her room for a long talk. “What do you suppose struck them?” Father asked Mother when they went to bed. “All this time they couldn’t leave, just had to stay here, and now they’re off in this awful hurry, it sure is a mystery.” “No, it isn’t,” said Mother, “She told me why. She’s going to have a baby.” “Oh, she is. Well, that’s good. That’ll cheer her up. But it’s still no reason for this hasty exit.” “I think she’s a little crazy,” said Mother. “She told me she had to stay here until she got pregnant, that if she went away before, she knew she would not get pregnant.” “Of all the loony ideas!” snorted Father. “Couldn’t she get pregnant back in Michigan? Any particular magic in this house?” Maybe,” said Mother. Father pondered on that. “What do you mean by ‘maybe’?” “Well… Rose Kane is going to have one.” “Oh, well, that’s fine.” “And,” added Mother, “We are, too.” “Great Jumping grasshoppers!” cried Father. “Why don’t you tell a fellow?” Passage 2 Leisure Will Kill You This country is producing so much leisure equipment for the home that nobody has any leisure time anymore to enjoy it. A few months ago I bought a television tape recorder to make copies of programs when I was out of the house. Last week I recorded the Nebraska-Oklahoma football game. When I came home in the evening, I decided to play it back. But my son wanted to play “Baseball” on the TV screen with his Atari Computer. We finished four innings when my wife came in the room and asked me if I would like to listen to the Vienna Opera on our hi-fi stereo set. I told her I was waiting to finish the baseball match so I could watch the football game I had recorded. She said if I watched the football game for three hours, I would miss Love