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The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce

Volume 1

1909

Contents

Ashes of the Beacon

An Historical Monograph Written in 4930

The Land Beyond the Blow

(After the method of Swift, who followed Lucian, and was himself followed by Voltaire and many others.)

Thither

Sons of the Fair Star

An Interview with Gnarmag-Zote

The Tamtonians

Marooned On Ug

The Dog in Ganegwag

A Conflagration in Ghargaroo

An Execution In Batrugia

The Jumjum Of Gokeetle-Guk

The Kingdom of Tortirra

Hither

For the Ahkoond

John Smith, Liberator

(From a Newspaper of the Far Future)

Bits Of Autobiography

On a Mountain

What I Saw of Shiloh

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

X

XI

XII

A Little of Chickamauga

The Crime at Pickett’s Mill

Four Days in Dixie

What Occurred at Franklin

‘Way Down in Alabam’

Working for an Empress

Across the Plains

The Mirage

A Sole Survivor

THE SONG

PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

CONTENTS

CIVILIANS

SOLDIERS

A HORSEMAN IN THE SKY

AN OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE

CHICKAMAUGA

A SON OF THE GODS

ONE OF THE MISSING

KILLED AT RESACA

THE AFFAIR AT COULTER'S NOTCH

THE COUP DE GRÂCE

PARKER ADDERSON, PHILOSOPHER

AN AFFAIR OF OUTPOSTS

THE STORY OF A CONSCIENCE

ONE KIND OF OFFICER

ONE OFFICER, ONE MAN

GEORGE THURSTON

THE MOCKING-BIRD

CIVILIANS

THE MAN OUT OF THE NOSE

AN ADVENTURE AT BROWNVILLE1

THE FAMOUS GILSON BEQUEST

THE APPLICANT

A WATCHER BY THE DEAD

THE MAN AND THE SNAKE

A HOLY TERROR

THE SUITABLE SURROUNDINGS

THE BOARDED WINDOW

A LADY FROM REDHORSE

THE EYES OF THE PANTHER

VOLUME VIII

NEGLIGIBLE TALES

ON WITH THE DANCE

EPIGRAMS NEW YORK GORDIAN PRESS, INC. 1966

Originally Published 1911 Reprinted 1966

Published by GORDIAN PRESS, INC.

Library of Congress Card Catalog No 66-14638

Printed in the U.S.A. by EDWARD BROTHERS INC. Ann Arbor, Michigan

CONTENTS

NEGLIGIBLE TALES

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

THE PARENTICIDE CLUB

MY FAVORITE MURDER

OIL OF DOG

AN IMPERFECT CONFLAGRATION

THE HYPNOTIST

THE FOURTH ESTATE

MR. MASTHEAD, JOURNALIST

WHY I AM NOT EDITING "THE STINGER"

CORRUPTING THE PRESS

"THE BUBBLE REPUTATION"

HOW ANOTHER MAN'S WAS SOUGHT AND PRICKED

THE OCEAN WAVE

A SHIPWRECKOLLECTION

THE CAPTAIN OF "THE CAMEL"

THE MAN OVERBOARD

I

II

A CARGO OF CAT

"ON WITH THE DANCE!" A REVIEW I

THE PRUDE IN LETTERS AND LIFE

II

THE BEATING OF THE BLOOD

III

THERE ARE CORNS IN EGYPT

IV

A REEF IN THE GABARDINE

V

ENTER A TROUPE OF ANCIENTS, DANCING

VI

CAIRO REVISITED

VII

JAPAN WEAR AND BOMBAY DUCKS

VIII

IN THE BOTTOM OF THE CRUCIBLE

IX

COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENSE

X

THEY ALL DANCE

XI

LUST, QUOTH'A!

XII

OUR GRANDMOTHERS' LEGS

EPIGRAMS

A Cynic Looks at Life Ambrose Bierce

HALDEMAN-JULIUS COMPANY GIRARD, KANSAS

A CYNIC LOOKS AT LIFE

CIVILIZATION

I

II

III

THE GIFT O' GAB

NATURA BENIGNA

THE DEATH PENALTY

I

II

III

IV

V

IMMORTALITY

EMANCIPATED WOMAN

A MAD WORLD

EPIGRAMS OF A CYNIC

THE SHADOW ON THE DIAL AND OTHER ESSAYS By Ambrose Bierce Edited by S. O. HOWES

Copyright 1909

A NOTE BY THE AUTHOR

PREFACE

THE SHADOW ON THE DIAL

I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

CIVILIZATION

I.

II.

THE GAME OF POLITICS

I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

VIII.

IX

SOME FEATURES OF THE LAW

I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

ARBITRATION

INDUSTRIAL DISCONTENT

I.

II.

III.

CRIME AND ITS CORRECTIVES

I.

II.

III.

THE DEATH PENALTY

I.

II.

III.

RELIGION

I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

VI.

VII.

IMMORTALITY

OPPORTUNITY

CHARITY

EMANCIPATED WOMAN

THE OPPOSING SEX

THE AMERICAN SYCOPHANT

A DISSERTATION ON DOGS

THE ANCESTRAL BOND

THE RIGHT TO WORK

THE RIGHT TO TAKE ONESELF OFF

THE MONK AND THE HANGMAN'S DAUGHTER By Adolphe Danziger De Castro and Ambrose Bierce

1911

THE MONK AND THE HANGMAN'S DAUGHTER

THE DAMNED THING