Ambrose Bierce's The Ineffective Rooter*
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A Drunken Man was lying in the road with a bleeding nose, upon which he had fallen, when a Pig passed that way.
You wallow fairly well, said the Pig,
but, my fine fellow, you have much to learn about
rooting.
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I've un-embargoed this fable. I was going to use it for a New Year's eve, when It's Commode Huggin' Time in the Country, but decided to post it sooner in keeping with my recent run of Ambrose Bierce fables.
Down the hatch!
* *Source: FANTASTIC FABLES By AMBROSE BIERCE
New York and London:
G. P. PUTNAM?S SONS, The Knickerbocker Press 1899
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