The Fiend's Delight
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1. Front matter2. TO THE IMMUTABLE AND INFALLIBLE GODDESS, GOOD TASTE, IN GRATITUDE FOR HER CONDEMNATION OF ALL SUPERIOR AUTHORS, AND IN THE HOPE OF PROPITIATING HER CREATORS AND EXPOUNDERS, This Volume is reverentially Dedicated BY HER DEVOUT WORSHIPPER,3. PREFACE4. “One More Unfortunate.”5. The Strong Young Man of Colusa.6. The Glad New Year.7. The Late Dowling, Senior8. “Love’s Labour Lost”9. A Comforter10. Little Isaac11. The Heels of Her12. A Tale of Two Feet13. The Scolliver Pig14. Mr. Hunker’s Mourner15. A Bit of Chivalry16. The Head of the Family17. Deathbed Repentance18. The New Church that was not Built19. A Tale of the Great Quake20. Johnny21. The Child’s Provider22. Boys who Began Wrong23. A Kansas Incident24. Mr. Grile’s Girl25. His Railway26. Mr. Gish Makes a Present27. A Cow-County Pleasantry28. The Optimist, and What He Died Of29. The Root of Education30. Retribution31. The Faithful Wife.32. Margaret the Childless33. The Discomfited Demon34. The Mistake of a Life35. L. S.36. The Baffled Asian37. A Call to Dinner38. On Death and Immortality39. Music—Muscular and Mechanical40. The Good Young Man41. The Average Parson42. Did We Eat One Another?43. Your Friend’s Friend44. Le Diable est aux Vaches.45. Angels and Angles46. A Wingless Insect47. Pork on the Hoof48. The Young Person49. A Certain Popular Fallacy50. Pastoral Journalism51. Mendicity’s Mistake52. Insects.53. Picnicking considered as a Mistake54. Thanksgiving Day55. Flogging56. Reflections upon the Beneficent Influence of the Press57. Charity58. The Study of Human Nature59. Additional Talk—Done in the Country60. CURRENT JOURNALINGS61. CHRISTIANS62. PAGANS63. MUSINGS, PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL64. LAUGHORISMS65. “ITEMS” FROM THE PRESS OF INTERIOR CALIFORNIA.66. Ye Idyll of Ye Hippopopotamus67. Epitaph on George Francis Train68. Jerusalem, Old and New69. Communing with Nature70. Conservatism and Progress71. Inter Arma Silent Leges72. Quintessence73. Resurgam