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Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)

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by Bierce, Ambrose


  THE EYES OF THE PANTHER

  THE DEATH OF HALPIN FRAYSER

  THE SECRET OF MACARGER’S GULCH

  ONE SUMMER NIGHT

  THE MOONLIT ROAD

  A DIAGNOSIS OF DEATH

  MOXON’S MASTER

  A TOUGH TUSSLE

  ONE OF TWINS

  THE HAUNTED VALLEY

  A JUG OF SIRUP

  STALEY FLEMING’S HALLUCINATION

  A RESUMED IDENTITY

  A BABY TRAMP

  THE NIGHT-DOINGS AT “DEADMAN’S”

  BEYOND THE WALL

  A PSYCHOLOGICAL SHIPWRECK

  THE MIDDLE TOE OF THE RIGHT FOOT

  JOHN MORTONSON’S FUNERAL

  THE REALM OF THE UNREAL

  JOHN BARTINE’S WATCH

  THE DAMNED THING

  HAITA THE SHEPHERD

  AN INHABITANT OF CARCOSA

  THE STRANGER

  THE MORAL PRINCIPLE AND THE MATERIAL INTEREST

  THE CRIMSON CANDLE

  THE BLOTTED ESCUTCHEON AND THE SOILED ERMINE

  THE INGENIOUS PATRIOT

  TWO KINGS

  AN OFFICER AND A THUG

  THE CONSCIENTIOUS OFFICIAL

  HOW LEISURE CAME

  THE MORAL SENTIMENT

  THE POLITICIANS

  THE THOUGHTFUL WARDEN

  THE TREASURY AND THE ARMS

  THE CHRISTIAN SERPENT

  THE BROOM OF THE TEMPLE

  THE CRITICS

  THE FOOLISH WOMAN

  FATHER AND SON

  THE DISCONTENTED MALEFACTOR

  A CALL TO QUIT

  THE MAN AND THE LIGHTNING

  THE LASSOED BEAR

  THE INEFFECTIVE ROOTER

  A PROTAGONIST OF SILVER

  THE HOLY DEACON

  A HASTY SETTLEMENT

  THE WOODEN GUNS

  THE REFORM SCHOOL BOARD

  THE POET’S DOOM

  THE NOSER AND THE NOTE

  THE CAT AND THE KING

  THE LITERARY ASTRONOMER

  THE LION AND THE RATTLESNAKE

  THE MAN WITH NO ENEMIES

  THE ALDERMAN AND THE RACCOON

  THE FLYING–MACHINE

  THE ANGEL’S TEAR

  THE CITY OF POLITICAL DISTINCTION

  THE PARTY OVER THERE

  THE POETESS OF REFORM

  THE UNCHANGED DIPLOMATIST

  AN INVITATION

  THE ASHES OF MADAME BLAVATSKY

  THE OPOSSUM OF THE FUTURE

  THE LIFE–SAVERS

  THE AUSTRALIAN GRASSHOPPER

  THE PAVIOR

  THE TRIED ASSASSIN

  THE BUMBO OF JIAM

  THE TWO POETS

  THE THISTLES UPON THE GRAVE

  THE SHADOW OF THE LEADER

  THE SAGACIOUS RAT

  THE MEMBER AND THE SOAP

  ALARM AND PRIDE

  A CAUSEWAY

  TWO IN TROUBLE

  THE WITCH’S STEED

  THE ALL DOG

  THE FARMER’S FRIEND

  PHYSICIANS TWO

  THE OVERLOOKED FACTOR

  A RACIAL PARALLEL

  THE HONEST CADI

  THE KANGAROO AND THE ZEBRA

  A MATTER OF METHOD

  THE MAN OF PRINCIPLE

  THE RETURNED CALIFORNIAN

  THE COMPASSIONATE PHYSICIAN

  TWO OF THE DAMNED

  THE AUSTERE GOVERNOR

  RELIGIONS OF ERROR

  THE PENITENT ELECTOR

  THE TAIL OF THE SPHINX

  A PROPHET OF EVIL

  THE CREW OF THE LIFE-BOAT

  A TREATY OF PEACE

  THE NIGHTSIDE OF CHARACTER

  THE FAITHFUL CASHIER

  THE CIRCULAR CLEW

  THE DEVOTED WIDOW

  THE HARDY PATRIOTS

  THE HUMBLE PEASANT

  THE VARIOUS DELEGATION

  THE NO CASE

  A HARMLESS VISITOR

  THE JUDGE AND THE RASH ACT

  THE PREROGATIVE OF MIGHT

  AN INFLATED AMBITION

  REJECTED SERVICES

  THE POWER OF THE SCALAWAG

  AT LARGE — ONE TEMPER

  THE SEEKER AND THE SOUGHT

  HIS FLY–SPECK MAJESTY

  THE PUGILIST’S DIET

  THE OLD MAN AND THE PUPIL

  THE DECEASED AND HIS HEIRS

  THE POLITICIANS AND THE PLUNDER

  THE MAN AND THE WART

  THE DIVIDED DELEGATION

  A FORFEITED RIGHT

  REVENGE

  AN OPTIMIST

  A VALUABLE SUGGESTION

  TWO FOOTPADS

  EQUIPPED FOR SERVICE

  THE BASKING CYCLONE

  AT THE POLE

  THE OPTIMIST AND THE CYNIC

  THE POET AND THE EDITOR

  THE TAKEN HAND

  AN UNSPEAKABLE IMBECILE

  A NEEDFUL WAR

  THE MINE OWNER AND THE JACKASS

  THE DOG AND THE PHYSICIAN

  THE LEGISLATOR AND THE CITIZEN

  THE RAINMAKER

  THE CITIZEN AND THE SNAKES

  FORTUNE AND THE FABULIST

  A SMILING IDOL

  PHILOSOPHERS THREE

  THE BONELESS KING

  UNCALCULATING ZEAL

  A TRANSPOSITION

  THE HONEST CITIZEN

  A CREAKING TAIL

  WASTED SWEETS

  SIX AND ONE

  THE SPORTSMAN AND THE SQUIRREL

  THE FOGY AND THE SHEIK

  AT HEAVEN’S GATE

  THE CATTED ANARCHIST

  THE HONOURABLE MEMBER

  THE EXPATRIATED BOSS

  AN INADEQUATE FEE

  THE JUDGE AND THE PLAINTIFF

  THE RETURN OF THE REPRESENTATIVE

  A STATESMAN

  TWO DOGS

  THREE RECRUITS

  THE MIRROR

  SAINT AND SINNER

  AN ANTIDOTE

  A WEARY ECHO

  THE INGENIOUS BLACKMAILER

  A TALISMAN

  THE ANCIENT ORDER

  A FATAL DISORDER

  THE MASSACRE

  A SHIP AND A MAN

  CONGRESS AND THE PEOPLE

  THE JUSTICE AND HIS ACCUSER

  THE HIGHWAYMAN AND THE TRAVELLER

  THE POLICEMAN AND THE CITIZEN

  THE WRITER AND THE TRAMPS

  TWO POLITICIANS

  THE FUGITIVE OFFICE

  THE TYRANT FROG

  THE ELIGIBLE SON-IN-LAW

  THE STATESMAN AND THE HORSE

  AN AEROPHOBE

  THE THRIFT OF STRENGTH

  THE GOOD GOVERNMENT

  THE MAN AND THE BIRD

  FROM THE MINUTES

  THREE OF A KIND

  THE FABULIST AND THE ANIMALS

  A REVIVALIST REVIVED

  THE DEBATERS

  TWO OF THE PIOUS

  THE DESPERATE OBJECT

  THE APPROPRIATE MEMORIAL

  A NEEDLESS LABOUR

  A FLOURISHING INDUSTRY

  THE SELF–MADE MONKEY

  THE PATRIOT AND THE BANKER

  THE MOURNING BROTHERS

  THE DISINTERESTED ARBITER

  THE THIEF AND THE HONEST MAN

  THE DUTIFUL SON

  THE CAT AND THE YOUTH

  THE FARMER AND HIS SONS

  JUPITER AND THE BABY SHOW

  THE MAN AND THE DOG

  THE CAT AND THE BIRDS

  MERCURY AND THE WOODCHOPPER

  THE FOX AND THE GRAPES

  THE PENITENT THIEF

  THE ARCHER AND THE EAGLE

  TRUTH AND THE TRAVELLER

  THE WOLF AND THE LAMB

  THE LION AND THE BOAR

  THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE ANT

  THE FISHER AND THE FISHED

  THE FARMER AND THE FOX

  DAME FORTUNE AND THE TRAVELLER

  THE VICTOR AND THE VICTIM

  THE WOLF AND THE SHEPHERDS

  THE GOOSE AND THE SWAN

/>   THE LION, THE COCK, AND THE ASS

  THE SNAKE AND THE SWALLOW

  THE WOLVES AND THE DOGS

  THE HEN AND THE VIPERS

  A SEASONABLE JOKE

  THE LION AND THE THORN

  THE FAWN AND THE BUCK

  THE KITE, THE PIGEONS, AND THE HAWK

  THE WOLF AND THE BABE

  THE WOLF AND THE OSTRICH

  THE HERDSMAN AND THE LION

  THE MAN AND THE VIPER

  THE MAN AND THE EAGLE

  THE WAR-HORSE AND THE MILLER

  THE DOG AND THE REFLECTION

  THE MAN AND THE FISH-HORN

  THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE

  HERCULES AND THE CARTER

  THE LION AND THE BULL

  THE MAN AND HIS GOOSE

  THE WOLF AND THE FEEDING GOAT

  JUPITER AND THE BIRDS

  THE LION AND THE MOUSE

  THE NORTH WIND AND THE SUN

  THE MOUNTAIN AND THE MOUSE

  THE BELLAMY AND THE MEMBERS

  THE WOLF AND THE CRANE

  THE LION AND THE MOUSE

  THE HARES AND THE FROGS

  THE BELLY AND THE MEMBERS

  THE PIPING FISHERMAN

  THE ANTS AND THE GRASSHOPPER

  THE DOG AND HIS REFLECTION

  THE LION, THE BEAR, AND THE FOX

  THE ASS AND THE LION’S SKIN

  THE ASS AND THE GRASSHOPPERS

  THE WOLF AND THE LION

  THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE

  THE MILKMAID AND HER BUCKET

  KING LOG AND KING STORK

  THE WOLF WHO WOULD BE A LION

  THE MONKEY AND THE NUTS

  THE BOYS AND THE FROGS

  A BOTTOMLESS GRAVE

  JUPITER DOKE, BRIGADIER-GENERAL

  THE WIDOWER TURMORE

  THE CITY OF THE GONE AWAY

  THE MAJOR’S TALE

  CURRIED COW

  A REVOLT OF THE GODS

  THE BAPTISM OF DOBSHO

  THE RACE AT LEFT BOWER

  THE FAILURE OF HOPE & WANDEL

  PERRY CHUMLY’S ECLIPSE

  A PROVIDENTIAL INTIMATION

  MR. SWIDDLER’S FLIP-FLAP

  THE LITTLE STORY

  MY FAVORITE MURDER

  OIL OF DOG

  AN IMPERFECT CONFLAGRATION

  THE HYPNOTIST

  MR. MASTHEAD, JOURNALIST

  WHY I AM NOT EDITING “THE STINGER”

  CORRUPTING THE PRESS

  THE BUBBLE REPUTATION

  A SHIPWRECKOLLECTION

  THE CAPTAIN OF “THE CAMEL”

  THE MAN OVERBOARD

  A CARGO OF CAT

  EPIGRAMS

  THE RAT

  BUTTYGOATS

  CATS

  THE CRANE

  THE SNAKE

  FROGS

  DOGS

  THE PIG

  KANGAROONS

  EPHALENTS

  THE TOOTSY WOOTSY

  GRASS HOPPERS

  DOMESTICAL HENS

  THE BUFLO

  SHEEPS

  DUCKS

  THE NUMPORAUCUS

  MOLES

  THE GOFURIOUS

  THE RHI NOSEY ROSE

  SWANS

  THE HIPPORIPPUS

  JACKUSSES

  SOLJERS

  FISH

  THE POL PATRIOT

  COWS

  BUZARDS

  THE CAMEL

  FLIES

  MUNKYS

  BEARS

  THE TAIL END

  A PROVISIONAL SETTLEMENT

  ASPIRANTS THREE

  AT SANTIAGO

  A CABINET CONFERENCE

  AN INDEMNITY

  FOR INTERVENTION

  THE ORDEAL

  FROSTING A BUD

  A BAFFLED AMBITION

  THE GENESIS OF A NATION

  A WHITE HOUSE IDYL

  TWO FAVORITES

  A SUCKED ORANGE

  A TWISTED TALE

  POST MORTEM

  A STRAINED RELATION

  A WIRELESS ANTEPENULTIMATUM

  A PRESIDENTIAL PROGRESS

  LIST OF SHORT STORIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

  A-D E-H I-L M-O P-S T-V W-Z

  A BABY TRAMP

  A BAFFLED AMBITION

  A BAFFLED AMBUSCADE

  A BIT OF CHIVALRY.

  A BOTTOMLESS GRAVE

  A CABINET CONFERENCE

  A CALL TO DINNER.

  A CALL TO QUIT

  A CARGO OF CAT

  A CAUSEWAY

  A CERTAIN POPULAR FALLACY.

  A COLD GREETING

  A COMFORTER.

  A COW–COUNTY PLEASANTRY.

  A CREAKING TAIL

  A DIAGNOSIS OF DEATH

  A FATAL DISORDER

  A FLOURISHING INDUSTRY

  A FORFEITED RIGHT

  A FOWL WITCH.

  A FRUITLESS ASSIGNMENT

  A HARMLESS VISITOR

  A HASTY SETTLEMENT

  A HOLY TERROR

  A HORSEMAN IN THE SKY

  A JUG OF SIRUP

  A KANSAS INCIDENT.

  A LADY FROM REDHORSE

  A MAN WITH TWO LIVES

  A MATTER OF METHOD

  A NEEDFUL WAR

  A NEEDLESS LABOUR

  A PRESIDENTIAL PROGRESS

  A PROPHET OF EVIL

  A PROTAGONIST OF SILVER

  A PROVIDENTIAL INTIMATION

  A PROVISIONAL SETTLEMENT

  A PSYCHOLOGICAL SHIPWRECK

  A RACIAL PARALLEL

  A RESUMED IDENTITY

  A REVIVALIST REVIVED

  A REVOLT OF THE GODS

  A SEASONABLE JOKE

  A SHIP AND A MAN

  A SHIPWRECKOLLECTION

  A SMILING IDOL

  A SON OF THE GODS

  A STATESMAN

  A STRAINED RELATION

  A SUCKED ORANGE

  A TALE OF SPANISH VENGEANCE.

  A TALE OF THE BOSPHORUS.

  A TALE OF THE GREAT QUAKE.

  A TALE OF TWO FEET.

  A TALISMAN

  A TOUGH TUSSLE

  A TRANSPOSITION

  A TREATY OF PEACE

  A TWISTED TALE

  A VALUABLE SUGGESTION

  A VINE ON A HOUSE

  A WATCHER BY THE DEAD

  A WEARY ECHO

  A WHITE HOUSE IDYL

  A WINGLESS INSECT.

  A WIRELESS ANTEPENULTIMATUM

  A WIRELESS MESSAGE

  ADDITIONAL TALK–DONE IN THE COUNTRY.

  ALARM AND PRIDE

  AN ADVENTURE AT BROWNVILLE

  AN AEROPHOBE

  AN AFFAIR OF OUTPOSTS

  AN ANTIDOTE

  AN ARREST

  AN IMPERFECT CONFLAGRATION

  AN INADEQUATE FEE

  AN INDEMNITY

  AN INFLATED AMBITION

  AN INHABITANT OF CARCOSA

  AN INVITATION

  AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE

  AN OFFICER AND A THUG

  AN OPTIMIST

  AN UNFINISHED RACE

  AN UNSPEAKABLE IMBECILE

  ANGELS AND ANGLES.

  ASPIRANTS THREE

  AT HEAVEN’S GATE

  AT LARGE — ONE TEMPER

  AT OLD MAN ECKERT’S

  AT SANTIAGO

  AT THE POLE

  BEARS

  BEYOND THE WALL

  BOYS WHO BEGAN WRONG.

  BUTTYGOATS

  BUZARDS

  CATS

  CHARITY.

  CHARLES ASHMORE’S TRAIL

  CHICKAMAUGA

  CHRISTIANS.

  CONGRESS AND THE PEOPLE

  CONVERTING A PRODIGAL.

  CORRUPTING THE PRESS

  COWS

  CURRIED COW

  DAME FORTUNE AND THE TRAVELLER

  DEATHBED REPENTANCE.

  DID WE EAT ONE ANOTHER?

  DIVERS TALES.

  DOGS

  DOMESTICAL HENS

  DR. DEA
DWOOD, I PRESUME.

  DUCKS

  EPHALENTS

  EPIGRAMS

  EQUIPPED FOR SERVICE

  FABLES OF ZAMBRI, THE PARSEE.

  FATHER AND SON

  FEODORA.

  FISH

  FLIES

  FLOGGING.

  FOLLOWING THE SEA.

  FOR INTERVENTION

  FORTUNE AND THE FABULIST

  FOUR JACKS AND A KNAVE.

  FROGS

  FROM THE MINUTES

  FROSTING A BUD

  GEORGE THURSTON

  GRASS HOPPERS

  HAITA THE SHEPHERD

  HERCULES AND THE CARTER

  HIS FLY–SPECK MAJESTY

  HIS RAILWAY.

  HOW LEISURE CAME

  JACKUSSES

  JIM BECKWOURTH’S POND.

  JOHN BARTINE’S WATCH

  JOHN MORTONSON’S FUNERAL

  JOHN SMITH, LIBERATOR

  JOHNNY.

  JUNIPER.

  JUPITER AND THE BABY SHOW

  JUPITER AND THE BIRDS

  JUPITER DOKE, BRIGADIER-GENERAL

  KANGAROONS

  KILLED AT RESACA

  KING LOG AND KING STORK

  L. S.

  LE DIABLE EST AUX VACHES.

  LITTLE ISAAC.

  LOVE’S LABOUR LOST.

  MARGARET THE CHILDLESS.

  MAUD’S PAPA.

  MENDICITY’S MISTAKE.

  MERCURY AND THE WOODCHOPPER

  MOLES

  MOXON’S MASTER

  MR. GISH MAKES A PRESENT.

  MR. GRILE’S GIRL.

  MR. HUNKER’S MOURNER.

  MR. MASTHEAD, JOURNALIST

  MR. SWIDDLER’S FLIP-FLAP

  MRS. DENNISON’S HEAD.

  MUNKYS

  MUSIC–MUSCULAR AND MECHANICAL.

  MY FAVORITE MURDER

  MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES

  NO CHARGE FOR ATTENDANCE.

  NUT-CRACKING.

  OIL OF DOG

  ON DEATH AND IMMORTALITY.

  ONE KIND OF OFFICER

  ONE MORE UNFORTUNATE.

  ONE OF THE MISSING

  ONE OF TWINS

  ONE OFFICER, ONE MAN

  ONE SUMMER NIGHT

  PAGANS.

  PARKER ADDERSON, PHILOSOPHER

  PASTORAL JOURNALISM.

  PERNICKETTY’S FRIGHT.

  PERRY CHUMLY’S ECLIPSE

  PHILOSOPHERS THREE

  PHYSICIANS TWO

  PICNICKING CONSIDERED AS A MISTAKE.

  PORK ON THE HOOF.

  POST MORTEM

  PRESENT AT A HANGING

  REFLECTIONS UPON THE BENEFICENT INFLUENCE OF THE PRESS.

  REJECTED SERVICES

  RELIGIONS OF ERROR

  RETRIBUTION.

  REVENGE

  SAINT AND SINNER

  SCIENCE TO THE FRONT

  SEAFARING.

  SHEEPS

  SIX AND ONE

  SNAKING.

  SOLJERS

  STALEY FLEMING’S HALLUCINATION

  STRINGING A BEAR.

  SUNDERED HEARTS.

  SWANS

  THANKSGIVING DAY.

  THE AFFAIR AT COULTER’S NOTCH

  THE ALDERMAN AND THE RACCOON

  THE ALL DOG

  THE ANCIENT ORDER

  THE ANGEL’S TEAR

  THE ANTS AND THE GRASSHOPPER

  THE APPLICANT

  THE APPROPRIATE MEMORIAL

  THE ARCHER AND THE EAGLE

  THE ASHES OF MADAME BLAVATSKY

  THE ASS AND THE GRASSHOPPERS

  THE ASS AND THE LION’S SKIN

  THE AUSTERE GOVERNOR

  THE AUSTRALIAN GRASSHOPPER

 

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