Index:Bierce - Collected Works - Volume 05.djvu
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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
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
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
The Two Cavees 319 Metempsychosis 326 Slickens 334 "Peaceful Expulsion" 341 Aspirants Three 346 The Birth of the Rail 356 A Bad Night 362
Loring Pickering 373 A Water-Pirate 374 The Rev. Joseph Hemphill 374 Others 374 |
