The Christian Serpent

by Ambrose Bierce

  A RATTLESNAKE came home to his brood and said: "My children, gather about and receive your father's last blessing, and see how a Christian dies.""What ails you, Father?" asked the Small Snakes."I have been bitten by the editor of a partisan journal," was the reply, accompanied by the ominous death-rattle.


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