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Rejected Services At Large - One Temper The Power of the Scalawag A FORESTRY Commissioner had just felled a giant tree when, seeing an honest man approaching, he dropped his axe and fled. The next day when he cautiously returned to get his axe, he found the following lines pencilled on the stump: “What nature reared by centuries of toil, A scalawag in half a day can spoil; An equal fate for him may Heaven provide - Damned in the moment of his tallest pride.” Contents Rejected Services At Large - One Temper

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The Power of the Scalawag A FORESTRY Commissioner had just felled a giant tree when, seeing an honest man approaching, he dropped his axe and fled. The next day when he cautiously returned to get his axe, he found the following lines pencilled on the stump: “What nature reared by centuries of toil, A scalawag in half a day can spoil; An equal fate for him may Heaven provide - Damned in the moment of his tallest pride.”

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The Power of the Scalawag

A FORESTRY Commissioner had just felled a giant tree when, seeing an honest man approaching, he dropped his axe and fled. The next day when he cautiously returned to get his axe, he found the following lines pencilled on the stump:

“What nature reared by centuries of toil, A scalawag in half a day can spoil; An equal fate for him may Heaven provide - Damned in the moment of his tallest pride.”

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Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: The Seeker and the Sought

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The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales

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The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales

  • Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?
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  • Current Events This Week: January 2023
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  • Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
  • The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales