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incapable of swallowing, and thus by his greedi- 

 ness he brought on his doom. 



Noticing his stomach was in a distended 

 shape caused me to rip it open with my knife, 

 and out tumbled the remains of a smaller white- 

 fish, almost quite digested, which had been swal- 

 lowed whole and would have measured nearly a 

 foot long. 



It was gluttony and not hunger that caused 

 him to reach an untimely end, a moral for 

 greedy little boys. 



