Samuel Shortridge
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Samuel Shortridge
Like a worn mother he attempts in vain
To still the unruly Crier of his brain:
The more he rocks the cradle of his chin
The more uproarious grows the brat within.
About Ambrose Bierce
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Summary
Introduction
The Key Note
Cain
An Obituarian
A Commuted Sentence
A Lifted Finger
Two Statesmen
Matter for Gratitude
Three Kinds of a Rogue
A Man
Y'e For to Cathaye
Samuel Shortridge
Surprised
Posterity's Award
An Art Critic
The Spirit of a Sponge
Ornithanthropos
To E.S. Solomon
Dennis Kearney
Finis *************** Veteran
An 'Exhibit'
The Transmigrations of a Soul
An Actor
Famine's Realm
The Mackaiad
A Song in Praise
A Poet's Father
A Coward
To My Liars
'Phil' Crimmins
Codex Honoris
To W.H.L.B.
Emancipation
Johndonkey
Hell
By False Pretenses
Lucifer of the Torch
The 'Whirligig of Time'
A Railroad Lackey
The Legatee
'Died of a Rose'
A Literary Hangman
At the Eleventh Hour
A Controversialist
Mendax
The Retrospective Bird
The Oakland Dog
The Unfallen Brave
A Celebrated Case
Couplets
A Retort
A Vision of Resurrection
Master of Three Arts
Thersites
A Society Leader
Expositor Veritatis
To 'Colonel' Dan. Burns
George A. Knight
Unarmed
A Political Violet
The Subdued Editor
Black Bart, Po8
A 'Scion of Nobility'
The Night of Election
The Convict's Ball
A Prayer
To One Detested
The Boss's Choice
A Merciful Governor
An Interpretation
A Soaring Toad
An Undress Uniform
The Perverted Village
Mr. Sheets
A Jack-at-all-Views
My Lord Poet
To the Fool-Killer
One and One are Two
Montague Leverson
The Woeful Tale of Mr. Peters
Twin Unworthies
Another Plan
A Political Apostate
Tinker Dick
Bats in Sunshine
A Word to the Universe
On the Platform
A Dampened Ardor
Adair Welcker, Poet
To a Word-Warrior
A Culinary Candidate
The Oleomargarine Man
Genesis
Llewellen Powell
The Sunset Gun
The 'Viduate Dame'
Four of a Kind
Reconcilliation
A Vision of Climate
A 'Mass' Meeting
For President, Leland Stanford
For Mayor
A Cheating Preacher
A Crocodile
The American Party
Uncoloneled
The Gates Ajar
Tidings of Good
Arboriculture
A Silurian Holiday
Rejected
Judex Judicatus
On the Wedding of an A********* Hasty Inference
A Voluptuary
Ad Cattonum
The National Guardsman
The Barking Weasel
A Rear Elevation
In Upper San Francisco
Nimrod
Censor Literarum
Borrowed Brains
The Fyghtynge Seventh
Indicted
Over the Border
One Judge
To an Insolent Attorney
Accepted
A Promised Fast Train
One of the Saints
A Military Incident
Substance versus Shadow
The Committee on Public Morals
California
De Young: A Prophecy
To Either
Disappointment
The Valley of the Shadow of Theft
Down Among the Dead Men
The Last Man
Arbor Day
The Piute
Fame
One of the Redeemed
A Critic
A Question of Eligibility
Fleet Strother
The Foot-Hill Resort
At Anchor
The In-Coming Climate
A Long-Felt Want
To the Happy Hunting Grounds
Slander
James L. Flood
Four Candidates for Senator
A Growler
Ad Moodium
An Epitaph
A Spade
The Van Nessiad
A Fish Commissioner
To a Stray Dog
In His Hand
A Demagogue
Ignis Fatuus
From Top to Bottom
An Idler
The Dead King
A Patter Song
A Caller
The Shafter Shafted
The Two Cavees
Metempsychosis
Slickens
'Peaceable Expulsion'
Aspirants Three
The Birth of the Rail
A Bad Night
On Stone
A Wreath of Immortelles
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