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Black Beetles in Amber

by Ambrose Bierce

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  1. 1In Explanation
  2. 2The Key Note
  3. 3Cain
  4. 4An Obituarian
  5. 5A Commuted Sentence
  6. 6A Lifted Finger
  7. 7Two Statesmen
  8. 8Matter for Gratitude
  9. 9Three Kinds of a Rogue
  10. 10A Man
  11. 11Samuel Shortridge
  12. 12Surprised
  13. 13Posterity’s Award
  14. 14An Art Critic
  15. 15The Spirit of a Sponge
  16. 16Ornithanthropos
  17. 17To E.S. Salomon
  18. 18Dennis Kearney
  19. 19Finis Fternitatis
  20. 20The Veteran
  21. 21An “Exhibit”
  22. 22The Transmigrations of a Soul
  23. 23An Actor
  24. 24Famine’s Realm
  25. 25The Mackaiad
  26. 26A Song in Praise
  27. 27A Poet’s Father
  28. 28A Coward
  29. 29To My Liars
  30. 30Codex Honoris
  31. 31To W.H.L.B.
  32. 32Emancipation
  33. 33Johndonkey
  34. 34Hell
  35. 35By False Pretenses
  36. 36Lucifer of the Torch
  37. 37The “Whirligig of Time” — A Railroad Lackey
  38. 38The Legatee
  39. 39A Literary Hangman — At the Eleventh Hour
  40. 40A Controversialist
  41. 41Mendax
  42. 42The Retrospective Bird
  43. 43The Oakland Dog
  44. 44The Unfallen Brave
  45. 45A Celebrated Case
  46. 46Couplets
  47. 47A Retort
  48. 48A Vision of Resurrection
  49. 49Master of Three Arts
  50. 50Thersites
  51. 51A Society Leader
  52. 52Expositor Veritatis
  53. 53To “Colonel” Dan. Burns
  54. 54George A. Knight
  55. 55Unarmed
  56. 56A Political Violet
  57. 57The Subdued Editor
  58. 58A “Scion of Nobility”
  59. 59The Night of Election
  60. 60The Convicts’ Ball
  61. 61A Prayer
  62. 62To One Detested
  63. 63The Boss’s Choice
  64. 64A Merciful Governor
  65. 65An Interpretation
  66. 66A Soaring Toad
  67. 67An Undress Uniform
  68. 68The Perverted Village
  69. 69Mr. Sheets
  70. 70A Jack-at-All-Views
  71. 71My Lord Poet
  72. 72To the Fool-Killer
  73. 73One and One Are Two
  74. 74Montague Leverson
  75. 75The Woful Tale of Mr. Peters
  76. 76Twin Unworthies
  77. 77Another Plan
  78. 78A Political Apostate
  79. 79Tinker Dick
  80. 80Bats in Sunshine
  81. 81A Word to the Unwise
  82. 82On the Platform
  83. 83A Dampened Ardor
  84. 84Adair Welcker, Poet — To a Word-Warrior
  85. 85A Culinary Candidate
  86. 86The Oleomargarine Man
  87. 87Genesis
  88. 88Llewellen Powell
  89. 89The Sunset Gun
  90. 90The “Viduate Dame”
  91. 91Four of a Kind
  92. 92Reconciliation
  93. 93A Vision of Climate
  94. 94A “Mass” Meeting
  95. 95For President, Leland Stanford
  96. 96For Mayor
  97. 97A Cheating Preacher
  98. 98A Crocodile
  99. 99The American Party
  100. 100Uncoloneled
  101. 101The Gates Ajar
  102. 102Tidings of Good
  103. 103Arboriculture
  104. 104A Silurian Holiday
  105. 105Rejected
  106. 106Judex Judicatus
  107. 107On the Wedding of an Akronaut
  108. 108A Hasty Inference
  109. 109A Voluptuary
  110. 110AD Cattonum
  111. 111The National Guardsman
  112. 112The Barking Weasel
  113. 113A Rear Elevation
  114. 114In Upper San Francisco
  115. 115Nimrod
  116. 116Censor Literarum
  117. 117Borrowed Brains
  118. 118The Fyghtynge Seventh
  119. 119Indicted
  120. 120Over the Border
  121. 121One Judge
  122. 122To an Insolent Attorney
  123. 123Accepted
  124. 124A Promised Fast Train
  125. 125One of the Saints
  126. 126A Military Incident
  127. 127Substance Versus Shadow
  128. 128The Committee on Public Morals
  129. 129California
  130. 130De Young — A Prophecy
  131. 131To Either
  132. 132Disappointment
  133. 133The Valley of the Shadow of Theft
  134. 134Down Among the Dead Men
  135. 135The Last Man
  136. 136Arbor Day — The Piute
  137. 137Fame
  138. 138One of the Redeemed
  139. 139A Critic
  140. 140A Question of Eligibility
  141. 141Fleet Strother — Californian Summer Pictures
  142. 142Slander — James L. Flood
  143. 143Four Candidates for Senator
  144. 144A Growler
  145. 145AD Moodium
  146. 146An Epitaph
  147. 147A Spade
  148. 148The van Nessiad
  149. 149A Fish Commissioner
  150. 150To a Stray Dog
  151. 151In His Hand
  152. 152A Demagogue
  153. 153Ignis Fatuus
  154. 154From Top to Bottom
  155. 155An Idler
  156. 156The Dead King
  157. 157A Patter Song
  158. 158The Shafter Shafted
  159. 159The Mummery
  160. 160Metempsychosis
  161. 161Slickens
  162. 162Aspirants Three
  163. 163The Birth of the Rail
  164. 164A Bad Night
  165. 165On Stone — A Wreath of Immortelles

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