Puzzle #600! - Everybody come play!

[mrspunkysmom]

An answer or reply anyone?

Did I usurp your prerogative, Karen?

[Karen]

We can close this puzzle. The answer, which both Pinot's Mom and mrspunkysmom missed by one letter each (different words) was:


I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd
I stand and look at them and long.
They do not sweat and complain about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
No one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
No one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
So they show their relations to me and I accept them,
They bring me tokens of myself, they evince them plainly in their possession.

Walt Whitman, Song of Myself


The final tallies or letters guessed:
Felicia's Mom: R(18) D(26) = 44
mrspunkysmom: S(35) T(52) P(9)G (8) W(10) B(3) Y(13) = 130
Randi: N(51) = 51
Pinot's Mom: H(31) F(9) C(11) V(4) = 55
Freckles: K(9) L (19) = 28
Killearn Kitties: M(14) = 14
Asiel: U(7) O(49) = 112
Maya & Inka's mommy: E(57) = 114

So, Anne, would you like to host the next one?

[mrspunkysmom]

We can close this puzzle. The answer, which both Pinot's Mom and mrspunkysmom missed by one letter each (different words) was:

..........


The final tallies or letters guessed:
Felicia's Mom: R(18) D(26) = 44
mrspunkysmom: S(35) T(52) P(9)G (8) W(10) B(3) Y(13) = 130
Randi: N(51) = 51
Pinot's Mom: H(31) F(9) C(11) V(4) = 55
Freckles: K(9) L (19) = 28
Killearn Kitties: M(14) = 14
Asiel: U(7) O(49) = 112
Maya & Inka's mommy: E(57) = 114

So, Anne, would you like to host the next one?

Yeah, I can do it. I'll be out of commission for a day or two. So by Friday or Saturday I can start one. I probably won't want to go anywhere for a few days anyway.

[Pinot's Mom]

I'm so glad this is settled!

[mrspunkysmom]

I'm so glad this is settled!

So am I! Gives me something to think about for a few days.