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A Creaking Tail Six and One Wasted Sweets A CANDIDATE canvassing his district met a Nurse wheeling a Baby in a carriage, and, stooping, imprinted a kiss upon the Baby’s clammy muzzle. Rising, he saw a Man, who laughed. “Why do you laugh?” asked the Candidate. “Because,” replied the Man, “the Baby belongs to the Orphan Asylum.” “But the Nurse,” said the Candidate - “the Nurse will surely relate the touching incident wherever she goes, and perhaps write to her former master.” “The Nurse,” said the Man who had laughed, “is an inmate of the Institution for the Illiterate-Deaf-and-Dumb.” Contents A Creaking Tail Six and One
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Wasted Sweets A CANDIDATE canvassing his district met a Nurse wheeling a Baby in a carriage, and, stooping, imprinted a kiss upon the Baby’s clammy muzzle. Rising, he saw a Man, who laughed. “Why do you laugh?” asked the Candidate. “Because,” replied the Man, “the Baby belongs to the Orphan Asylum.” “But the Nurse,” said the Candidate - “the Nurse will surely relate the touching incident wherever she goes, and perhaps write to her former master.” “The Nurse,” said the Man who had laughed, “is an inmate of the Institution for the Illiterate-Deaf-and-Dumb.”
Contents A Creaking Tail Six and One
Wasted Sweets
A CANDIDATE canvassing his district met a Nurse wheeling a Baby in a carriage, and, stooping, imprinted a kiss upon the Baby’s clammy muzzle. Rising, he saw a Man, who laughed.
“Why do you laugh?” asked the Candidate.
“Because,” replied the Man, “the Baby belongs to the Orphan Asylum.”
“But the Nurse,” said the Candidate - “the Nurse will surely relate the touching incident wherever she goes, and perhaps write to her former master.”
“The Nurse,” said the Man who had laughed, “is an inmate of the Institution for the Illiterate-Deaf-and-Dumb.”
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- Fantastic Fables, Ambrose Bierce: Wasted Sweets
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The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales
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Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
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Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales
- Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?
- The Twelve Dancing Princesses
- Current Events This Week: January 2023
- African Americans by the Numbers
- Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
- The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales
