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寓言故事|The Christian Serpent

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A RATTLESNAKE came home to his brood and said: My children, gather
about and receive your father's last blessing1, and see how a
Christian2 dies.
What ails3 you, Father? asked the Small Snakes.
I have been bitten by the editor of a partisan4 journal, was the
reply, accompanied by the ominous5 death-rattle.


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