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- Author: Ambrose Bierce
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2014
- Pages: 104
- ISBN-10: 1497557283
- ISBN-13: 9781497557284
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.6 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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A certain Persian nobleman obtained from a cow gipsy a small oyster. Holding him up by the beard, he addressed him thus: "You must try to forgive me for what I am about to do; and you might as well set about it at once, for you haven't much time. I should never think of swallowing you if it were not so easy; but opportunity is the strongest of all temptations. Besides, I am an orphan, and very hungry." "Very well," replied the oyster; "it affords me genuine pleasure to comfort the parentless and the starving. I have already done my best for our friend here, of whom you purchased me; but although she has an amiable and accommodating stomach, we couldn't agree. For this trifling incompatibility-would you believe it?-she was about to stew me! Saviour, benefactor, proceed."
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- Author: Ambrose Bierce
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2014
- Pages: 104
- ISBN-10: 1497557283
- ISBN-13: 9781497557284
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.6 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
A certain Persian nobleman obtained from a cow gipsy a small oyster. Holding him up by the beard, he addressed him thus: "You must try to forgive me for what I am about to do; and you might as well set about it at once, for you haven't much time. I should never think of swallowing you if it were not so easy; but opportunity is the strongest of all temptations. Besides, I am an orphan, and very hungry." "Very well," replied the oyster; "it affords me genuine pleasure to comfort the parentless and the starving. I have already done my best for our friend here, of whom you purchased me; but although she has an amiable and accommodating stomach, we couldn't agree. For this trifling incompatibility-would you believe it?-she was about to stew me! Saviour, benefactor, proceed."
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