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Choice of ugliest girl as bride.
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Each likes his own children best. Snipe asks sportsman to spare its small ones, easily recognized as being the prettiest in the forest. To be on the safe side he shoots only the ugliest he can find. They are the young snipes. (Often told of the ape.)
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Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
· Chapter 67
LXVII. THE UGLIEST MAN.