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A short story by Ambrose Bierce

The Wolf Who Would Be a Lion

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Title:     The Wolf Who Would Be a Lion
Author: Ambrose Bierce [More Titles by Bierce]

A FOOLISH Fellow who had been told that he was a great man believed it, and got himself appointed a Commissioner to the Interasylum Exposition of Preserved Idiots. At the first meeting of the Board he was mistaken for one of the exhibits, and the janitor was ordered to remove him to his appropriate glass case.

"Alas!" he exclaimed as he was carried out, "why was I not content to remain where the cut of my forehead is so common as to be known as the Pacific Slope?"


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Ambrose Bierce's short story/fable: The Wolf Who Would Be a Lion

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