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Title: The Snake And The Swallow Author: Ambrose Bierce [More Titles by Bierce] A Swallow who had built her nest in a court of justice reared a fine family of young birds. One day a Snake came out of a chink in the wall and was about to eat them. The Just Judge at once issued an injunction, and making an order for their removal to his own house, ate them himself. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |