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1842–1914

A FISH COMMISSIONER

Ambrose Bierce

Great Joseph D. Redding — illustrious name!— Considered a fish-horn the trumpet of Fame. That goddess was angry, and what do you think? Her trumpet she filled with a gallon of ink,

And all through the Press, with a devilish glee, She sputtered and spattered the name of J. D.

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