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The fiend's delight
Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914?)
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PREFACE.
1.
SOME FICTION.
2.
TALL TALK.
1.
A Call to Dinner.
2.
On Death and Immortality.
3.
Music—Muscular and Mechanical.
4.
The Good Young Man.
5.
The Average Parson.
6.
Did We Eat One Another?
7.
Your Friend's Friend.
8.
Le Diable est aux Vaches.
9.
Angels and Angles.
10.
A Wingless Insect.
11.
Pork on the Hoof.
12.
The Young Person.
13.
A Certain Popular Fallacy.
14.
Pastoral Journalism.
15.
Mendicity's Mistake.
16.
Insects.
17.
Picnicking considered as a Mistake.
18.
Thanksgiving Day.
19.
Flogging.
20.
Reflections upon the Beneficent Influence of the Press.
21.
Charity.
22.
The Study of Human Nature.
23.
Additional Talk—Done in the Country.
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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19. XIX.
Give an American a newspaper and a pie and he
will make himself comfortable anywhere.
XIX. The fiend's delight