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First publication: The Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce, Picador / Pan Books, 1988
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We have the story in these editions:
All of the stories in the Fantastic Fables series:
The Fogy and the Sheik
The Fugitive Office
The Good Government
The Hardy Patriots
The Highwayman and the Traveler
The Honest Cadi
The Honest Citizen
The Humble Peasant
The Ingenious Blackmailer
The Judge and the Plaintiff
The Judge and the Rash Act
The Justice and His Accuser
The Kangaroo and the Zebra
The Lassoed Bear
The Legislator and the Citizen
The Life-Saver
The Life-Savers
The Lion and the Rattlesnake
The Man and the Bird
The Man and the Lightning
The Man and the Wart
The Man of Principle
The Massacre
The Member and the Soap
The Mine Owner and the Jackass
The Mirror
The Mourning Brothers
The Nightside of Character
The No Case
The Noser and the Note
The Old Man and the Pupil
The Opossum of the Future
The Optimist and the Cynic
The Overlooked Factor
The Party Manager and the Gentleman
The Patriot and the Banker
The Pavoir
The Penitent Elector
The Piping Fisherman
The Poet and the Editor
The Policeman and the Citizen
The Politicians and the Plunder
The Power of the Scalawag
The Prerogative of Might
The Pugilist’s Diet
The Rainmaker
The Return of the Representative
The Returned Californian
The Sagacious Rat
The Seeker and the Sought
The Self-Made Monkey
The Shadow of the Leader
The Sportsman and the Squirrel
The Statesman and the Horse
The Taken Hand
The Thief and the Honest Man
The Thistles Upon the Grave
The Christian Serpent
The Thrift of Strength
An Officer and a Thug
The Treasury and the Arms
The Tried Assassin
The Two Poets
The Tyrant Frog
The Unchanged Diplomatist
The Various Delegation
The Wolf and the Lion
The Thoughtful Warden
The Writer and the Tramps
Three of a Kind
Three Recruits
Two Dogs
The Moral Sentiment
Two Footpads
The Politicians
Two in Trouble
Two of the Damned
Two of the Pious
Two Politicians
Uncalculating Zeal
Wasted Sweets
How Leisure Came
The Ineffective Rooter
The City of Political Distinction
The Flying-Machine
The Critics
The Moral Principle and the Material Interest
The Poet’s Doom
The Discontented Malefactor
The Poetess of Reform
The Crimson Candle
The Angel’s Tear
The Ingenious Patriot
The Conscientious Official
A Call to Quit
The Party Over There
Two Kings
A Defective Petition
An Intrusion
Cause and Effect
Disappointment
The Witch’s Steed
Sheep and Lion
Father and Son
The Inconsolable Widow
The Tail of the Sphinx
The Broom of the Temple
The Reform School Board
The Powerless Poet
A Hasty Settlement
The Statue at Bumboogle
The Foolish Woman
Twin Intolerables
The Literary Astronomer
A Born Captain
A Protagonist of Silver
A Chained Eagle
The Wooden Guns
A Condition Precedent
The Holy Deacon
A Discomfitted Philosopher
The Man with No Enemies
A Faulty Performance
A Half Loaf
A Monarch Forearmed
A Niggardly Offer
A Causeway
A Part of the Wages
A Creaking Tail
Aftermath
A Fatal Disorder
As Usual
A Flourishing Industry
Atonement
A Forfeited Right
By the River Marge
A Harmless Visitor
Consolation
A Matter of Method
A Needful War
Diplomacy
A Needless Labor
Environment
A Prophet of Evil
Famine Versus Pestilence
A Racial Parallel
From General to Particular
A Revivalist Revived
Her Honor the Mayor
Improvidence
A Ship and a Man
In Advance of His Time
A Smiling Idol
A Statesman
Revelation
A Talisman
Saint and Soul
A Transposition
Soldier and Vulture
A Treaty of Peace
A Valuable Suggestion
The Ambitious Statesman
A Weary Echo
The Fortunate Explorer
Alarm and Pride
The Honorable Member
An Antidote
The Incredulous Subordinate
An Inadequate Fee
The Limit
An Inflated Ambition
The Main Thing
An Invitation
The Merciful Aspirant
An Optimist
The Monarchist Reclaimed
An Unspeakable Imbecile
The Mysterious Word
An Ærophobe
The Plaudits of the People
At Heaven’s Gate
The Reformed Anarchist
At Large—One Temper
The Secret of Happiness
At the Pole
The Tolerant Soveriegn
Congress and the People
The Unshrewd Assassin
Equipped for Service
Fortune and the Fabulist
Two Parrots
From the Minutes
Two Sceptics
Two Sons
His Fly-Speck Majesty
Widow and Soldier
Wolf and Tortoise
Philosophers Three
Physicians Two
Rejected Services
Religions of Error
Revenge
Saint and Sinner
Six and One
The Alderman and the Racoon
The All Dog
The Ancient Order
The Appropriate Memorial
The Ashes of Madame Blavatsky
The Austere Governor
The Australian Grasshopper
The Basking Cyclone
The Bellamy and the Members
The Blotted Escutcheon and the Soiled Ermine
The Boneless King
The Bumbo of Jiam
The Cat and the King
The Catted Anarchist
The Circular Clew
The Citizen and the Snakes
The Compassionate Physician
The Crew of the Life-Boat
The Debaters
The Deceased and His Heirs
The Desperate Object
The Devoted Widow
The Disinterested Arbiter
The Divided Delegation
The Dog and the Physician
The Dutiful Son
The Eligible Son-in-Law
The Expatriated Boss
The Fabulist and the Animals
The Faithful Cashier
The Farmer’s Friend
