<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342956" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Legatee</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In fair San Francisco a good man did dwell,<br>And he wrote out a will, for he didn't feel well.<br>Said he: 'It is proper, when making a gift,<br>To stimulate virtue by comforting thrift.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So he left all his property, legal and straight,<br>To 'the cursedest rascal in all of the State.'<br>But the name he refused to insert, for, said he:<br>'Let each man consider himself legatee.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In due course of time that philanthropist died,<br>And all San Francisco, and Oakland beside-<br>Save only the lawyers-came each with his claim,<br>The lawyers preferring to manage the same.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The cases were tried in Department Thirteen,<br>Judge Murphy presided, sedate and serene,<br>But couldn't quite specify, legal and straight,<br>The cursedest rascal in all of the State.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so he remarked to them, little and big-<br>To claimants: 'You skip!' and to lawyers: 'You dig!'<br>They tumbled, tumultuous, out of his court<br>And left him victorious, holding the fort.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Twas then that he said: 'It is plain to my mind<br>This property's ownerless-how can I find<br>The cursedest rascal in all of the State?'<br>So he took it himself, which was legal and straight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ambrose+Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342956" data-title="The Legatee de Ambrose Bierce" data-description="In fair San Francisco a good man did dwell, And he wrote out a will, for he didn't feel well. Said he: 'It is proper, when making a gift, To stimulate virtue by comforting thrift.' So he left all his property, legal and straight, To 'the cursedes..."></div> </div> </div>

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