The Manslayer

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The Manslayer
        A MAN committed a murder, and was pursued by the relations of the
        man whom he murdered.  On his reaching the river Nile he saw a
        Lion on its bank and being fearfully afraid, climbed up a tree.
        He found a serpent in the upper branches of the tree, and again
        being greatly alarmed, he threw himself into the river, where a
        crocodile caught him and ate him.  Thus the earth, the air, and
        the water alike refused shelter to a murderer.