Posted on 06/01/2009 7:19:21 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
100 years to life!
Wow, guilty as he**!
The Penitent ThiefA Boy who had been taught by his Mother to steal grew to be a man and was a professional public official. One day he was taken in the act and condemned to die. While going to the place of execution he passed his Mother and said to her:
“Behold your work! If you had not taught me to steal, I should not have come to this.”
“Indeed!” said the Mother. “And who, pray, taught you to be detected?”
— Ambrose Bierce, Aesopus Emendatus.
Thet poor woman done been beat wit’ an ugly stick, eh?
Mebbe the whole darned tree?
Definitely a Ma “Barker”...
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