Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce
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mothers. You and I are not entirely alike ourselves."
A Racial Parallel SOME White Christians engaged in driving Chinese Heathens out of an American town found a newspaper published in Peking in the Chinese tongue, and compelled one of their victims to translate an editorial. It turned out to be an appeal to the people of the Province of Pang Ki to drive the foreign devils out of the country and burn their dwellings and churches. At this evidence of Mongolian barbarity the White Christians were so greatly incensed that they carried out their original design. The Honest Cadi A ROBBER who had plundered a Merchant of one thousand pieces of gold was taken before the Cadi, who asked him if he had anything to say why he should not be decapitated. "Your Honour," said the Robber, "I could do no otherwise than take the money, for Allah made me that way." |
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