The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 12 / In Motley

by Ambrose Bierce

Copyright, 1912, by
The Neale Publishing Company

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CONTENTS

• KINGS OF BEASTS
• [The Rat]
• [Buttygoats]
• [Cats]
• [The Crane]
• [The Snake]
• [Frogs]
• [Dogs]
• [The Pig]
• [Kangaroons]
• [Ephalents]
• [The Tootsy Wootsy]
• [Grass Hoppers]
• [Domestical Hens]
• [The Buflo]
• [Sheeps]
• [Ducks]
• [The Numporaucus]
• [Moles]
• [The Gofurious]
• [The Rhi Nosey Rose]
• [Swans]
• [The Hipporippus]
• [Jackusses]
• [Soljers]
• [Fish]
• [The Pol Patriot]
• [Cows]
• [Buzards]
• [The Camel]
• [Flies]
• [Munkys]
• [Bears]
• [The Tail End]
• TWO ADMINISTRATIONS
• [A Provisional Settlement]
• [Aspirants Three]
• [At Santiago]
• [A Cabinet Conference]
• [An Indemnity]
• [For Intervention]
• [The Ordeal]
• [Frosting a Bud]
• [A Baffled Ambition]
• [The Genesis of a Nation]
• [A White House Idyl]
• [Two Favorites]
• [A Diplomatic Triumph]
• [A Sucked Orange]
• [A Twisted Tale]
• [Post Mortem]
• [A Strained Relation]
• [A Wireless Antepenultimatum]
• [A Presidential Progress]
• MISCELLANEOUS
• [The Sample Counter]
• [The Great Strike of 1895]
• [A Thumb-Nail Sketch]
• [Mortality in the Foot-Hills]
• [The A. L. C. B.]
• [Two Conversations]
• [A Story at the Club]
• [The Wizard of Bumbassa]
• [The Future Historian]
• [Objective Ideas]
• [My Credentials]
• [The Fool]
• [Our Smart Set]
• [The Evolution of a Story]
• [The Allotment]
• [Lacking Factors]
• [A Californian Statesman]

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KINGS OF BEASTS

BY

Little Johnny

(Edited to a Low and Variable Degree
of Intelligibility by the Author’s
Uncle Edward.)

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