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The Crab and His Son

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Title:     The Crab and His Son
Author: Ambrose Bierce [More Titles by Bierce]

A LOGICAL Crab said to his Son, "Why do you not walk straight forward? Your sidelong gait is singularly ungraceful."

"Why don't you walk straight forward yourself," said the Son.

"Erring youth," replied the Logical Crab, "you are introducing new and irrelevant matter."


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Ambrose Bierce's short story: The Crab and His Son

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