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The Ass and the Grasshoppers |
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Title: The Ass and the Grasshoppers Author: Ambrose Bierce [More Titles by Bierce] A STATESMAN heard some Labourers singing at their work, and wishing to be happy too, asked them what made them so. "Honesty," replied the Labourers. So the Statesman resolved that he too would be honest, and the result was that he died of want. -THE END- GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |