Contents
Ambrose Bierce
PREFACE
SOME FICTION
One More Unfortunate
The Strong Young Man of Colusa
The Glad New Year
The Late Dowling, Senior
“Love’s Labour Lost”
A Comforter
Little Isaac
The Heels of Her
A Tale of Two Feet
The Scolliver Pig
Mr. Hunker’s Mourner
A Bit of Chivalry
The Head of the Family
Deathbed Repentance
The New Church that was not Built
A Tale of the Great Quake
Johnny
The Child’s Provider
Boys who Began Wrong
A Kansas Incident
Mr. Grile’s Girl
His Railway
Mr. Gish Makes a Present
A Cow-County Pleasantry
The Optimist, and What He Died Of
The Root of Education
Retribution
The Faithful Wife
Margaret the Childless
The Discomfited Demon
The Mistake of a Life
L. S.
The Baffled Asian
TALL TALK
A Call to Dinner
On Death and Immortality
Music—Muscular and Mechanical
The Good Young Man
The Average Parson
Did We Eat One Another?
Your Friend’s Friend
Le Diable est aux Vaches
Angels and Angles
A Wingless Insect
Pork on the Hoof
The Young Person
A Certain Popular Fallacy
Pastoral Journalism
Mendicity’s Mistake
Insects
Picnicking considered as a Mistake
Thanksgiving Day
Flogging
Reflections upon the Beneficent Influence of the Press
Charity
The Study of Human Nature
Additional Talk—Done in the Country
Current Journalings
OBITUARY NOTICES
CHRISTIANS
PAGANS
MUSINGS, PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL
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