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The Fiend’s Delight

by Ambrose Bierce

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  1. 1Epigraph — Dedication
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Some Fiction
  4. 4The Strong Young Man of Colusa
  5. 5The Glad New Year
  6. 6The Late Dowling, Senior
  7. 7“Love’s Labour Lost”
  8. 8A Comforter
  9. 9Little Isaac
  10. 10The Heels of Her
  11. 11A Tale of Two Feet
  12. 12The Scolliver Pig
  13. 13Mr. Hunker’s Mourner
  14. 14A Bit of Chivalry
  15. 15The Head of the Family
  16. 16Deathbed Repentance
  17. 17The New Church That Was Not Built
  18. 18A Tale of the Great Quake
  19. 19Johnny
  20. 20The Child’s Provider
  21. 21Boys Who Began Wrong
  22. 22A Kansas Incident
  23. 23Mr. Grile’s Girl
  24. 24His Railway
  25. 25Mr. Gish Makes a Present
  26. 26A Cow-County Pleasantry
  27. 27The Optimist, and What He Died of
  28. 28The Root of Education
  29. 29Retribution
  30. 30The Faithful Wife
  31. 31Margaret the Childless
  32. 32The Discomfited Demon
  33. 33The Mistake of a Life
  34. 34L. S.
  35. 35The Baffled Asian
  36. 36Tall Talk
  37. 37On Death and Immortality
  38. 38Music — Muscular and Mechanical
  39. 39The Good Young Man
  40. 40The Average Parson
  41. 41Did We Eat One Another?
  42. 42Your Friend’s Friend
  43. 43Le Diable Est aux Vaches
  44. 44Angels and Angles
  45. 45A Wingless Insect
  46. 46Pork on the Hoof
  47. 47The Young Person
  48. 48A Certain Popular Fallacy
  49. 49Pastoral Journalism
  50. 50Mendicity’s Mistake
  51. 51Insects
  52. 52Picnicking Considered as a Mistake
  53. 53Thanksgiving Day
  54. 54Flogging
  55. 55Reflections Upon the Beneficent Influence of the Press
  56. 56Charity
  57. 57The Study of Human Nature
  58. 58Additional Talk — Done in the Country
  59. 59Current Journalings
  60. 60Obituary Notices
  61. 61Pagans
  62. 62Musings, Philosophical and Theological
  63. 63Laughorisms
  64. 64“Items” From the Press of Interior California
  65. 65Poesy
  66. 66Epitaph on George Francis Train
  67. 67Jerusalem, Old and New
  68. 68Communing With Nature
  69. 69Conservatism and Progress
  70. 70Inter Arma Silent Leges
  71. 71Quintessence
  72. 72Resurgam

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