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The fiend's delight

Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914?)
  
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[dedication]
  
PREFACE.

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SOME FICTION.
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TALL TALK.
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CURRENT JOURNALINGS.
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OBITUARY NOTICES.
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MUSINGS, PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL.
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III.
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IV.
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V.
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VI.
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VII.
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VIII.
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XI.
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XII.
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XIII.
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XIV.
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XV.
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XVI.
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XVII.
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XVIII.
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XIX.
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XX.
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XXI.
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XXII.
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XXIII.
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XXIV.
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XXVII.
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XXVIII.
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XXIX.
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XXX.
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XXXI.
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XXXIII.
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XXXIV.
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LAUGHORISMS.
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“ITEMS” FROM THE PRESS OF INTERIOR CALIFORNIA.
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POESY.

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IV.

.... A cow in walking does not, as
is popularly supposed, pick up all her feet at once,
but only one of them at a time. Which one
depends upon circumstances. The cow is but an
indifferent pedestrian. Hœc fabula docet that one
should not keep three-fourths of his capital lying
idle.

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