The Treasury and the Arms

Name: Fantastic Fables - The Treasury and the Arms
Author: Ambrose Bierce

A PUBLIC Treasury, feeling Two Arms lifting out its contents, exclaimed:

"Mr. Shareman, I move for a division."

"You seem to know something about parliamentary forms of speech," said the Two Arms.

"Yes," replied the Public Treasury, "I am familiar with the hauls of legislation."

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Chicago: Ambrose Bierce, "The Treasury and the Arms," Fantastic Fables in Fantastic Fables (New York: The Century Co., 1899), Original Sources, accessed July 14, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=D3SCD6A9SRJWYCQ.

MLA: Bierce, Ambrose. "The Treasury and the Arms." Fantastic Fables, in Fantastic Fables, New York, The Century Co., 1899, Original Sources. 14 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=D3SCD6A9SRJWYCQ.

Harvard: Bierce, A, 'The Treasury and the Arms' in Fantastic Fables. cited in 1899, Fantastic Fables, The Century Co., New York. Original Sources, retrieved 14 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=D3SCD6A9SRJWYCQ.