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A dog bit his master

who in order to leave to posterity an account of this disaster

took an unusually large piece of pink-and-yellow mottled alabaster

which, having been found at the mouth of a Pyrenean river

did not, by that unforeseen circumstance, cost him anything at all: not so much as a stiver.