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Fables for the Times

by H. W. Phillips

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On the Not-Altogether-Credible Habits of the Ostrich

An ostrich, who was closely pursued by a hunter, suddenly thrust his head deep down into the sand.

“Ah! ah!” exulted the hunter, “I have the silly thing at last.” He advanced to place a rope around the bird’s legs; but the ostrich, who had accurately timed his arrival, landed a kick in the pit of his stomach that sent him into the hereafter like a bullet through a fog-bank.

IMMORAL:

“Umph,” said the ostrich as he surveyed his victim, “because a man looks sad at the opening of a jack-pot, it doesn’t necessarily follow that he’s only got ace-high.”

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