Index:Bierce - Collected Works - Volume 05.djvu

TitleThe Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 5
AuthorAmbrose Bierce
Year1910
PublisherThe Neale Publishing Company
LocationNew York & Washington
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CONTENTS

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Avalon
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19

Cain 21

One Judge 22

An Obituarian 23

A Commuted Sentence 24

A Lifted Finger 27

Two Delegates 29

Matter for Gratitude 31

Three Kinds of a Rogue 33

A Man 37

Ye Foe to Cathaye 40

Samuel Shortridge 40

At a "National Encampment" 40

Theosophistry 42

Azrael 44

Competition 45

A Vision of Doom 46

Genesis 49

Religious Progress 50

The Fall of Miss Larkin 51

A Rendezvous 54

Yorick 54

Stanford's Welcome 56

Posterity's Award 58

An Art Critic 60

The Spirit of a Sponge 60

Ornithanthropos 61

To E. S. Salomon 62

Dennis Kearney 65

Finis Æternitatis 65

The Veteran 68

An "Exhibit" 68

The Transmigrations of a Soul 70

Indictment on Evidence 73

To an Aspirant 75

At the White House 76

Tidings of Good 77

An Actor 79

Famine's Realm 80

The Mackaiad 82

A Song in Praise 85

A Poet's Father 86

A Coward 87

To My Liars 88

"Phil" Crimmins 91

On the Scales 91

Codex Honoris 93

To W. H. L. B. 94

Emancipation 94

Johndonkey
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95

Hell 96

By False Pretenses 97

Lucifer of the Torch 98

"The Whirligig of Time" 100

A Railroad Lackey 100

The Legatee 102

"Died of a Rose" 103

A Literary Hangman 104

At the Eleventh Hour 104

A Controversialist 105

Mendax 106

The Retrospective Bird 107

The Oakland Dog 108

The Unfallen Brave 111

A Celebrated Case 112

Couplets 114

A Retort 116

A Vision of Resurrection 116

Master of Three Arts 119

Thersites 120

A Society Leader 121

Expositor Veritatis 123

The Troubadour 124

A Finger on the Lips 125

Three Highwaymen 126

To "Colonel" Dan Burns 127

George A. Knight 128

Unarmed 130

A Political Violet 132

The Subdued Editor 134

"Black Bart, Poh" 136

A "Scion of Nobility" 138

The Night of the Election 139

The Convicts' Ball 140

To One Detested 142

The Boss's Choice 143

A Merciful Governor 144

An Interpretation 145

A Soaring Toad 146

An Undress Uniform 147

The Perverted Village 148

Mr. Sheets 149

A Jack-At-All-Views 150

My Lord Poet 151

To the Fool-Killer 152

One and One are Two 154

Montague Leverson 155

The Woful Tale of Mr. Peters 156

Twin Unworthies 159

Art 16o

A War Cry 160

In Dissuasion 161

A Prediction 162

Another Plan 164

A Political Apostate 165

Tinker Dick 168

A Peaceful Community
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With a Book 170

A Competitor 170

Generosity 172

Bats in Sunshine 172

A Word to the Unwise 173

On the Platform 175

Judge Not 176

Desperation 177

To Dog 177

To a Grabber 178

Memorial Day 179

A Dampened Ardor 179

Adair Welcker, Poet 180

To a Word-Warrior 180

A Culinary Candidate 183

To One Acquitted 184

Content 185

At the Observatory 185

The Oleomargarine Man 187

The Genesis of Crime 189

Llewellyn Powell 190

The Sunset Gun 192

The "Viduate Dame" 194

Four of a Kind 195

Reconciliation 197

A Vision of Climate 197

A "Mass" Meeting 199

The New Dennis 200

A Rational Anthem 201

Incivism 202

Famine in Prosperity 202

An Epigrammatist 203

Figleaf 203

For President, Leland Stanford 205

For Mayor 206

A Mine for Reformers 207

In Pickle 207

James Montague, Poet 209

A Cheating Preacher 209

A Crocodile 211

The American Party 211

Uncoloneled 213

The Gates Ajar 213

To A Bully 215

A Land Fight 218

Compliance 219

Arboriculture 219

A Holiday 220

Rejected 221

Judex Judicatus 222

On the Wedding of an Aeronaut 224

A Hasty Inference 224

A Voluptuary 226

Ad Cattonum 226

The National Guardsman 228

A Rear Elevation 229

In Upper San Francisco 230

Nimrod 232

The New Decalogue 233

Ultra Crepidam 234

Censor Literarum 234

Borrowed Brains 236

Ye Fyghtynge Seventh 237

Indicted 238

Over the Border 239

To an Insolent Attorney 240

Accepted 243

A Promised Fast Train 243

From the Death-Column 244

The Farmer's Prayer 245

One of the Saints 246

A Military Incident 247

Substance or Shadow 248

The Committee on Public Morals 250

A Playwright 250

The Leader of the Minority 252

California 253

George C. Perkins 254

To Either 255

Disappointment 257

The Valley of the Shadow of Theft 258

Down among the Dead Men 259

The Last Man 261

Arbor Day 263

The Piute 263

Fame 265

One of the Redeemed 266

A Critic 268

A Question of Eligibility 269

Fleet Strother 272

Reciprocity 272

Californian Summer Pictures 276

Slander 278

James L. Flood 278

Three Candidates for Senator 279

A Growler 280

Ad Moodium 281

A Spade 283

The Van Nessiad 284

Valedictory 286

A Fish Commissioner 289

To a Stray Dog 289

In His Hand 290

A Demagogue 291

Ignis Fatuus 292

From Top to Bottom 293

An Idler 295

The Dead King 296

A Patter Song 296

A Caller 298

The Shafter Shafted 299

To One Out of Favor 300

Privation 301

To One in Custody 302

For a Revised Version 303

The Mormon Question 304

An Election Expense 305

William F. Smith 306

Juventus Mundi 307

Two Guides 307

In Warning 308

Apparition 310

A Creditable Collision 311

An Emigrant 313

Contempt of Court 315

A Partial Eclipse
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THE MUMMERY
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317

The Two Cavees 319

Metempsychosis 326

Slickens 334

"Peaceful Expulsion" 341

Aspirants Three 346

The Birth of the Rail 356

A Bad Night 362

ON STONE
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371

Loring Pickering 373

A Water-Pirate 374

The Rev. Joseph Hemphill 374

Others 374