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The fiend's delight
Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914?)
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[dedication]
PREFACE.
1.
SOME FICTION.
1.
“One More Unfortunate.”
2.
The Strong Young Man of Colusa.
3.
The Glad New Year.
4.
The Late Dowling, Senior.
5.
“Love's Labour Lost.”
6.
A Comforter.
7.
Little Isaac.
8.
The Heels of Her.
9.
A Tale of Two Feet.
10.
The Scolliver Pig.
11.
Mr. Hunker's Mourner.
12.
A Bit of Chivalry.
13.
The Head of the Family.
14.
Deathbed Repentance.
15.
The New Church that was not Built.
16.
A Tale of the Great Quake.
17.
Johnny.
18.
The Child's Provider.
19.
Boys who Began Wrong.
20.
A Kansas Incident.
21.
Mr. Grile's Girl.
22.
His Railway.
23.
Mr. Gish Makes a Present.
24.
A Cow-County Pleasantry.
25.
The Optimist, and What He Died Of.
26.
The Root of Education.
27.
Retribution.
28.
The Faithful Wife.
29.
Margaret the Childless.
30.
The Discomfited Demon.
31.
The Mistake of a Life.
32.
L. S.
33.
The Baffled Asian.
2.
TALL TALK.
3.
CURRENT JOURNALINGS.
4.
OBITUARY NOTICES.
5.
MUSINGS, PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL.
6.
LAUGHORISMS.
7.
“ITEMS” FROM THE PRESS OF INTERIOR CALIFORNIA.
8.
POESY.
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A woman and a cow are the two most beautiful
creatures in the world. For proof of the beauty of
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a cow, the reader is referred to an ox; for proof
of the beauty of a woman, an ox is referred to the
reader.
XXVI. The fiend's delight