 | The collected works of Ambrose Bierce |  |
AN ERROR
“I never have been able to determineJust how it is that the judicial ermine
Is safely guarded 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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