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THERE ARE MANY things in the field of natural phenomena that are puzzling to a fayman such as I. Let me mention a few.

A dear lady told me that if I made it a practice to trim my toenails when the moon was pointing up I would never be troubled with in-growing nails. It works, but it is a problem getting socks on, over those curled up toenails; and oh the bedsheets that are ripped to ribbons.

While visiting friends in my home state we spoke of several things of mutual interest. Of course the weather and the recent floods came into our conversation. One made a statement that he had seen a fish in a puddle after a heavy rain. I told them that I had witnessed a phenomenon that puzzled me, that after heavy rains I had seen young frogs hopping about. *

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