THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY Ambrose Bierce - Sunny Hills High School

The weeds were in the gravel path,
The owl was on the roof.
"He's gone afar, he'll come no more,"
The neighbors sadly say.
And so they batter in the door
To take his goods away.
Dead, pipe in mouth, the youngster lay,
Nut‐brown in face and limb.
"That pipe's a lovely white," they say,
"But it has colored him!"
The moral there's small need to sing‐‐
'Tis plain as day to you:
Don't play your game on any thing
That is a gamester too.
Martin Bulstrode
MENDACIOUS, adj. Addicted to rhetoric.
Ambrose Bierce The Devil’s Dictionary
MERCHANT, n. One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial
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