THE COLLECTED

WORKS OF

AMBROSE BIERCE

VOLUME VIII

NEGLIGIBLE TALES

ON WITH THE DANCE

EPIGRAMS

NEW YORK
GORDIAN PRESS, INC.
1966

Originally Published 1911
Reprinted 1966

Published by
GORDIAN PRESS, INC.

Library of Congress Card Catalog No 66-14638

Printed in the U.S.A. by
EDWARD BROTHERS INC.
Ann Arbor, Michigan

CONTENTS

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