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A short story by Ambrose Bierce

The Christian Serpent

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Title:     The Christian Serpent
Author: Ambrose Bierce [More Titles by Bierce]

A Rattlesnake came home to his brood and said: "My children, gather about and receive your father's last blessing, and see how a Christian dies."

"What ails you, Father?" asked the Small Snakes.

"I have been bitten by the editor of a partisan journal," was the reply, accompanied by the ominous death-rattle.








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Ambrose Bierce's short story: The Christian Serpent

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