The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales

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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"

THE OCEAN WAVE
A Shipwreckollection
The Captain of "The Camel"
The Man Overboard
A Cargo af Cat

"ON WITH THE DANCE!" A REVIEW
The Prude in Letters and Life
The Beating of the Blood
There are Corns in Egypt
A Reef in the Gabardine
Enter a Troupe of Ancients, Dancing
Cairo Revisited
Japan Wear and Bombay Ducks
In the Bottom of the Crucible
Counsel for the Defense
They all Dance
Lust, Quoth'a
Our Grandmothers' Legs

EPIGRAMS