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Fantastic Fables
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The Catted Anarchist
AN Anarchist Orator who had been struck in the face with a Dead Cat by some Respector of Law to him unknown, had the Dead Cat arrested and taken before a Magistrate.
"Why do you appeal to the law?" said the Magistrate - "You who go in for the abolition of law."
"That," replied the Anarchist, who was not without a certain hardness of head, "that is none of your business; I am not bound to be consistent. You sit here to do justice between me and this Dead Cat."
"Very well," said the Magistrate, putting on the black cap and a solemn look; "as the accused makes no defence, and is undoubtedly guilty, I sentence her to be eaten by the public executioner; and as that position happens to be vacant, I appoint you to it, without bonds."
One of the most delighted spectators at the execution was the anonymous Respector of Law who had flung the condemned.
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Chicago: Ambrose Bierce, "The Catted Anarchist," Fantastic Fables in Fantastic Fables (New York: The Century Co., 1899), Original Sources, accessed May 28, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L3ME79RZXFUI4N8.
MLA: Bierce, Ambrose. "The Catted Anarchist." Fantastic Fables, in Fantastic Fables, New York, The Century Co., 1899, Original Sources. 28 May. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L3ME79RZXFUI4N8.
Harvard: Bierce, A, 'The Catted Anarchist' in Fantastic Fables. cited in 1899, Fantastic Fables, The Century Co., New York. Original Sources, retrieved 28 May 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=L3ME79RZXFUI4N8.
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