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# Getting Married & The Conspirators **"Getting Married"** by Caryl Bane is a humorous domestic-relations piece about a couple negotiating marriage terms. The bride-to-be insists on keeping her own name, refuses to promise eternal devotion, and admits she can't cook—each revelation nearly derails the engagement. The joke satirizes modern women's independence (circa 1920s Judge era) and the friction between traditional masculine expectations and female autonomy. The husband ultimately accepts her terms, resigned that single life is worse. **"The Conspirators"** by H.P. Toler is a golf poem describing "elfin hands" and "Nature's minions" sabotaging a golfer's game—losing balls, creating distractions, ruining his swing. It's whimsical nature-poetry framed as mischievous spirits interfering with sport, culminating in the ironic observation that scenery matters more than actual golfing ability.
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