Excerpt from John Ingerfield, and Other Stories

Once upon a time, I wrote a little story of a woman who was crushed to death by a python. A day or two after its publication, a friend stopped me in the street "Charming little story of yours," he said, "that about the woman and the snake; but its not as funny as some of your things!" The next week, a newspaper, referring to the tale, remarked, "We have heard the incident related before with infinitely greater humor."

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