Ambrose Bierce(1842–1914?) · The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume IV · The Scrap Heap · 1910?
“I never have been able to determine Just how it is that the judicial ermine Is safely guarded from predacious vermin.” “It is not so, my friend: though in a garret ’Tis kept in camphor, and you often air it, The vermin will get into it and wear it.”