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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
Sunday's Word Jumble answers from that issue of the Villages Daily Sun:
Larva.
Flabby.
Augur.
Tallow.
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Ben Franklin as a Delegate from Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress may have mentioned a parable probably conceived in the light of a
tallow candle about a
flabby two headed snake. This
augured some of the problems of other bicameral US Congresses. The snake may also have been hunting for water as well as for
larva of various insects as well as other game. Other Members of Congress could have argued that the one headed snake might have had too much of a focus and became flabby because of this.
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Has not the famous political Fable of the Snake, with two Heads and one Body, some useful Instruction contained in it? She was going to a Brook to drink, and in her Way was to pass thro' a Hedge, a Twig of which opposed her direct Course; one Head chose to go on the right side of the Twig, the other on the left; so that time was spent in the Contest, and, before the Decision was completed, the poor Snake died with thirst.
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