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The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 12 / In Motley

Chapter 30: BUZARDS
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A varied collection of short pieces blending comic animal fables, biting political sketches, and miscellaneous satirical essays. Many items anthropomorphize creatures to expose human folly, while other pieces lampoon administrations, public rituals, and social pretensions with sharp irony. The arrangement alternates brief humorous vignettes, longer satirical narratives, and epigrammatic observations, employing parody, grotesque exaggeration, and deadpan aphorism. Recurring themes include ambition, hypocrisy, mortality, and the absurdities of public life. The tone shifts between playful wordplay and darker cynicism, producing a brisk assortment that delivers both light entertainment and pointed moral skepticism.

BUZARDS

I AST my sister: “Dont you think buzards is awfle nasty fellers for to eat sech things as they do?”

My sister she said: “What can you xpect of birds that live on a carry on diet?”

Thats like old Gaffer Peters, which has got the bald head. My mother she said to him: “Gaffer, the sun is mighty hot to day.”

Old Gaffer he said: “Yes, mam, there aint nothing like a warm day for to heat up the sun.”

There is folks in Pershia which worships the sun, and one day one of them fellers was down on his kanees a worshipin as hard as he culd, and a good mitionary preacher come a long and said: “What a poor ignant heathener, for to worship some thing that you can see!”

But the feller which was to his devotions he said: “I aint sech a fool as you think, for Ime as blind as a bat.”

There was a hum bird a sippin neckter out of a hunny suckle and there was a buzerd, and the buz he said to the hum: “I would rather starv than eat sech stuff as that.”

The hum said: “I am drove to it. When ever I try for to eat a dead horse one of you fellers says: 'Let that a lone, sonny, for it is pizen. It hasnt been long enoughf dead.’”

The buz he said: “Well, if you want to pizen your self you may as well do it with hunny suckles as by spilin our dinner fore it is ready.”

But fore I would eat any thing which is dead Ide live on salt pork.