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A short story by Ambrose Bierce |
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Mercury And The Woodchopper |
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Title: Mercury And The Woodchopper Author: Ambrose Bierce [More Titles by Bierce] A Woodchopper, who had dropped his axe into a deep pool, besought Mercury to recover it for him. That thoughtless deity immediately plunged into the pool, which became so salivated that the trees about its margin all came loose and dropped out. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |