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1842–1914

AN EXPLANATION.

Ambrose Bierce

“I never yet exactly could determine Just how it is that the judicial ermine Is kept so safely from predacious vermin.” “It is not so, my friend: though in a garret

‘ Tis kept in camphor, and you often air it, The vermin will get into it and wear it.”

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