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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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