An Antidote | 解药

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A young ostrich came to its mother, groaning with pain and with its wings tightly crossed upon its stomach.

"What have you been eating?" the mother asked, with solicitude.

"Nothing but a keg of nails," was the reply.

"What!" exclaimed the mother; "a whole keg of nails, at your age! Why, you will kill yourself that way. Go quickly, my child, and swallow a claw-hammer."

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