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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. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |