Black Beetles in Amber eBook

Ambrose Bierce

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Start of eBook	1
Title: Black Beetles in Amber	1
BLACK BEETLES IN AMBER	1
AMBROSE BIERCE	1
THE ORDER IN WHICH THE BEETLES ARE SHOWN	1
THE KEY NOTE	3
CAIN	4
AN OBITUARIAN	4
A COMMUTED SENTENCE	4
A LIFTED FINGER	6
TWO STATESMEN	7
MATTER FOR GRATITUDE	7
THREE KINDS OF A ROGUE	8
I	8
II	9
III	9
A MAN	10
Y’E FOE TO CATHAYE	11
SAMUEL SHORTRIDGE	11
SURPRISED	11
POSTERITY’S AWARD	12
AN ART CRITIC	12
THE SPIRIT OF A SPONGE	13
ORNITHANTHROPOS	13
TO E.S. SALOMON	13
DENNIS KEARNEY	14
FINIS AETERNITATIS	14
THE VETERAN	15
AN “EXHIBIT”	16
THE TRANSMIGRATIONS OF A SOUL	16
AN ACTOR	17
FAMINE’S REALM	18
THE MACKAIAD	19
A SONG IN PRAISE	20
A POET’S FATHER	20
A COWARD	21
TO MY LIARS	21
“PHIL” CRIMMINS	22
CODEX HONORIS	22
TO W.H.L.B.	23
EMANCIPATION	23
JOHNDONKEY	23
HELL	24
BY FALSE PRETENSES	24
LUCIFER OF THE TORCH	24
THE “WHIRLIGIG OF TIME”	25
A RAILROAD LACKEY	25
THE LEGATEE	26
A LITERARY HANGMAN	27
AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR	27
A CONTROVERSIALIST	27
MENDAX	27
THE RETROSPECTIVE BIRD	28
THE OAKLAND DOG	28
THE UNFALLEN BRAVE	29
A CELEBRATED CASE	29
COUPLETS	30
A RETORT	31
A VISION OF RESURRECTION	31
MASTER OF THREE ARTS	32
THERSITES	32
A SOCIETY LEADER	33
EXPOSITOR VERITATIS	34
TO “COLONEL” DAN. BURNS	34
GEORGE A. KNIGHT	34
UNARMED	35
A POLITICAL VIOLET	36
THE SUBDUED EDITOR	36
A “SCION OF NOBILITY”	38
THE NIGHT OF ELECTION	38
THE CONVICTS’ BALL	38
A PRAYER	39
TO ONE DETESTED	39
THE BOSS’S CHOICE	39
A MERCIFUL GOVERNOR	40
AN INTERPRETATION	40
A SOARING TOAD	40
AN UNDRESS UNIFORM	41
THE PERVERTED VILLAGE	41
MR. SHEETS	42
A JACK-AT-ALL-VIEWS	42
MY LORD POET	42
TO THE FOOL-KILLER	43
ONE AND ONE ARE TWO	43
MONTAGUE LEVERSON	44
THE WOFUL TALE OF MR. PETERS	44
TWIN UNWORTHIES	45
ANOTHER PLAN	46
A POLITICAL APOSTATE	46
TINKER DICK	47
BATS IN SUNSHINE	47
A WORD TO THE UNWISE	47
ON THE PLATFORM	48
A DAMPENED ARDOR	49
ADAIR WELCKER, POET	49
TO A WORD-WARRIOR	49
A CULINARY CANDIDATE	50
THE OLEOMARGARINE MAN	50
GENESIS	51
LLEWELLEN POWELL	51
THE SUNSET GUN.	52
THE “VIDUATE DAME”	52
FOUR OF A KIND	52
ALFRED CLARKE JR.	53
JUDGE RUTLEDGE	53
W.H.L. BARNES	53
RECONCILIATION	53
A VISION OF CLIMATE	53
A “MASS” MEETING	54
FOR PRESIDENT, LELAND STANFORD	55
FOR MAYOR	55
A CHEATING PREACHER	55
A CROCODILE	56
THE AMERICAN PARTY	56
UNCOLONELED	56
THE GATES AJAR	57
TIDINGS OF GOOD	57
ARBORICULTURE	58
A SILURIAN HOLIDAY	58
REJECTED	59
JUDEX JUDICATUS	59
ON THE WEDDING OF AN AERONAUT	59
A HASTY INFERENCE	60
A VOLUPTUARY	60
AD CATTONUM	60
THE NATIONAL GUARDSMAN	61
THE BARKING WEASEL	61
A REAR ELEVATION	62
IN UPPER SAN FRANCISCO	62
NIMROD	63
CENSOR LITERARUM	63
BORROWED BRAINS	63
THE FYGHTYNGE SEVENTH	64
INDICTED	64
OVER THE BORDER	64
ONE JUDGE	65
TO AN INSOLENT ATTORNEY	65
ACCEPTED	66
A PROMISED FAST TRAIN	66
ONE OF THE SAINTS	67
A MILITARY INCIDENT	67
SUBSTANCE VERSUS SHADOW	67
THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC MORALS	68
CALIFORNIA	68
DE YOUNG—A PROPHECY	69
TO EITHER	69
THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF THEFT	70
DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN	70
THE LAST MAN	71
ARBOR DAY	71
THE PIUTE	71
FAME	72
ONE OF THE REDEEMED	72
A CRITIC	73
A QUESTION OF ELIGIBILITY	73
FLEET STROTHER	74
CALIFORNIAN SUMMER PICTURES	74
AT ANCHOR	74
THE IN-COMING CLIMATE	74
A LONG-FELT WANT	75
TO THE HAPPY HUNTING GROUNDS	75
SLANDER	75
JAMES L. FLOOD	75
FOUR CANDIDATES FOR SENATOR	75
A GROWLER	76
AD MOODIUM	76
AN EPITAPH	77
A SPADE	77
THE VAN NESSIAD	77
A FISH COMMISSIONER	78
TO A STRAY DOG	78
IN HIS HAND	79
A DEMAGOGUE	79
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM	80
AN IDLER	80
THE DEAD KING	81
A PATTER SONG	81
A CALLER	81
THE SHAFTER SHAFTED	82
THE MUMMERY	82
DRAMATIS PERSONAE.	82
FITCH:	82
PICKERING:	83
METEMPSYCHOSIS	85
SLICKENS	87
NOZZLE:	88
DRAMATIS PERSONAE.	90
MOUNTWAVE:	90
ASPIRANTS THREE	92
DE YOUNG:	92
THE BIRTH OF THE RAIL	95
COWBOY CHARLEY:	96
A BAD NIGHT	97
SARALTHIA:	97
SARALTHIA	100
ON STONE	100
A WREATH OF IMMORTELLES	101
A WATER-PIRATE	101
C.P. BERRY	101
THE REV. JOSEPH	101

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