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The Lady Or The Tiger, By Frank R. Stockton
In the short story, “ The Lady, or the Tiger “ by Frank R. Stockton there lived a barbaric king who is blander and genial who made his prisoner choose between two doors to determine there life after they leave the arena. In one of those two doors there is a tiger that will kill him if he chooses that door. The other door has the lady who will marry him if he chooses her. The prisoner knew which door the lady was in and which door the tiger was in. He saw her coming in. The story does not say what door he chose but with the evidence they gave us it is reasonable that he chose the
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