Ambrose Bierce's The Shadow of the Leader
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An observation from 1899 relevant to today's headlines:
A Political Leader was walking out one sunny day, when he observed his Shadow leaving him and walking rapidly away.
Come back here, you scoundrel, he cried.
If I had been a scoundrel, answered the Shadow,
increasing its speed, I should not have left you.
*Source: FANTASTIC FABLES By AMBROSE BIERCE
New York and London:
G. P. PUTNAM?S SONS, The Knickerbocker Press 1899
A Political Leader was walking out one sunny day, when he observed his Shadow leaving him and walking rapidly away.
Come back here, you scoundrel, he cried.
If I had been a scoundrel, answered the Shadow,
increasing its speed, I should not have left you.
*Source: FANTASTIC FABLES By AMBROSE BIERCE
New York and London:
G. P. PUTNAM?S SONS, The Knickerbocker Press 1899
John Lubans - portrait by WSJ