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A short story by Henry Wallace Phillips |
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The Dog and the Meat |
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Title: The Dog and the Meat Author: Henry Wallace Phillips [More Titles by Phillips] A dog with a piece of meat in his mouth was crossing a bridge over a placid stream. On looking down he saw another dog with a precisely similar piece of meat in the water below him. "That's a singular incident," he thought to himself as he prepared to jump in. "But hold a minute! The angle of incidence is always equal to the angle of reflection. Upon reflection, I find that the other dog and the meat are only optical phenomena." And he trotted on his way to Boston without further thought about the matter. [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |