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Fantastic Fables, Ambrose Bierce, 1899 Edition. Scanned and proofed
by David Price, email [email protected] *** Fantastic Fables

Contents:
The Moral Principle and the Material Interest The Crimson Candle The
Blotted Escutcheon and the Soiled Ermine The Ingenious Patriot Two
Kings An Officer and a Thug The Conscientious Official How Leisure
Came The Moral Sentiment The Politicians The Thoughtful Warden
The Treasury and the Arms The Christian Serpent The Broom of the
Temple The Critics The Foolish Woman Father and Son The
Discontented Malefactor A Call to Quit The Man and the Lightning
The Lassoed Bear The Ineffective Rooter A Protagonist of Silver The
Holy Deacon A Hasty Settlement The Wooden Guns The Reform
School Board The Poet's Doom The Noser and the Note The Cat and
the King The Literary Astronomer The Lion and the Rattlesnake The
Man with No Enemies The Alderman and the Raccoon The
Flying-Machine The Angel's Tear The City of Political Distinction The
Party Over There The Poetess of Reform The Unchanged Diplomatist
An Invitation The Ashes of Madame Blavatsky The Opossum of the
Future The Life-Savers The Australian Grasshopper The Pavior The
Tried Assassin The Bumbo of Jiam The Two Poets The Thistles upon
the Grave The Shadow of the Leader The Sagacious Rat The Member
and the Soap Alarm and Pride A Causeway Two in Trouble The
Witch's Steed The All Dog The Farmer's Friend Physicians Two The
Overlooked Factor A Racial Parallel The Honest Cadi The Kangaroo

and the Zebra A Matter of Method The Man of Principle The Returned
Californian The Compassionate Physician Two of the Damned The
Austere Governor Religions of Error The Penitent Elector The Tail of
the Sphinx A Prophet of Evil The Crew of the Life-boat A Treaty of
Peace The Nightside of Character The Faithful Cashier The Circular
Clew The Devoted Widow The Hardy Patriots The Humble Peasant
The Various Delegation The No Case A Harmless Visitor The Judge
and the Rash Act The Prerogative of Might An Inflated Ambition
Rejected Services The Power of the Scalawag At Large - One Temper
The Seeker and the Sought His Fly-Speck Majesty The Pugilist's Diet
The Old Man and the Pupil The Deceased and his Heirs The Politicians
and the Plunder The Man and the Wart The Divided Delegation A
Forfeited Right Revenge An Optimist A Valuable Suggestion Two
Footpads Equipped for Service The Basking Cyclone At the Pole The
Optimist and the Cynic The Poet and the Editor The Taken Hand An
Unspeakable Imbecile A Needful War The Mine Owner and the
Jackass The Dog and the Physician The Party Manager and the
Gentleman. The Legislator and the Citizen The Rainmaker The Citizen
and the Snakes Fortune and the Fabulist A Smiling Idol Philosophers
Three The Boneless King Uncalculating Zeal A Transposition The
Honest Citizen A Creaking Tail Wasted Sweets Six and One The
Sportsman and the Squirrel The Fogy and the Sheik At Heaven's Gate
The Catted Anarchist The Honourable Member The Expatriated Boss
An Inadequate Fee The Judge and the Plaintiff The Return of the
Representative A Statesman Two Dogs Three Recruits The Mirror
Saint and Sinner An Antidote A Weary Echo The Ingenious
Blackmailer A Talisman The Ancient Order A Fatal Disorder The
Massacre A Ship and a Man Congress and the People The Justice and
His Accuser The Highwayman and the Traveller The Policeman and
the Citizen The Writer and the Tramps Two Politicians The Fugitive
Office The Tyrant Frog The Eligible Son-in-Law The Statesman and
the Horse An AErophobe The Thrift of Strength The Good
Government The Life-Saver The Man and the Bird From the Minutes
Three of a Kind The Fabulist and the Animals A Revivalist Revived
The Debaters Two of the Pious The Desperate Object The Appropriate
Memorial A Needless Labour A Flourishing Industry The Self-Made
Monkey The Patriot and the Banker The Mourning Brothers The

Disinterested Arbiter The Thief and the Honest Man The Dutiful Son
Aesopus Emendatus
The Cat and the Youth The Farmer and His Sons Jupiter and the Baby
Show The Man and the Dog The Cat and the Birds Mercury and the
Woodchopper The Fox and the Grapes The Penitent Thief The Archer
and the Eagle Truth and the Traveller The Wolf and the Lamb The Lion
and the Boar The Grasshopper and the Ant The Fisher and the Fished
The Farmer and the Fox