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.

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Ambrose Bierce's short story: Mercury And The Woodchopper

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