Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: The Christian Serpent
Updated May 14, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
The Christian Serpent
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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