The Fiend's DelightFront matterReading editionChapter navigation73 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…Front matterTO 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,PREFACE“One More Unfortunate.”The Strong Young Man of Colusa.The Glad New Year.The Late Dowling, Senior“Love’s Labour Lost”A ComforterLittle IsaacThe Heels of HerA Tale of Two FeetThe Scolliver PigMr. Hunker’s MournerA Bit of ChivalryThe Head of the FamilyDeathbed RepentanceThe New Church that was not BuiltA Tale of the Great QuakeJohnnyThe Child’s ProviderBoys who Began WrongA Kansas IncidentMr. Grile’s GirlHis RailwayMr. Gish Makes a PresentA Cow-County PleasantryThe Optimist, and What He Died OfThe Root of EducationRetributionThe Faithful Wife.Margaret the ChildlessThe Discomfited DemonThe Mistake of a LifeL. S.The Baffled AsianA Call to DinnerOn Death and ImmortalityMusic—Muscular and MechanicalThe Good Young ManThe Average ParsonDid We Eat One Another?Your Friend’s FriendLe Diable est aux Vaches.Angels and AnglesA Wingless InsectPork on the HoofThe Young PersonA Certain Popular FallacyPastoral JournalismMendicity’s MistakeInsects.Picnicking considered as a MistakeThanksgiving DayFloggingReflections upon the Beneficent Influence of the PressCharityThe Study of Human NatureAdditional Talk—Done in the CountryCURRENT JOURNALINGSCHRISTIANSPAGANSMUSINGS, PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICALLAUGHORISMS“ITEMS” FROM THE PRESS OF INTERIOR CALIFORNIA.Ye Idyll of Ye HippopopotamusEpitaph on George Francis TrainJerusalem, Old and NewCommuning with NatureConservatism and ProgressInter Arma Silent LegesQuintessenceResurgamBeginning of this editionNext chapter →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,All chapters and sections (73)Opening pagesFront matterOther sectionsTO 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,PREFACE“One More Unfortunate.”The Strong Young Man of Colusa.The Glad New Year.The Late Dowling, Senior“Love’s Labour Lost”A ComforterLittle IsaacThe Heels of HerA Tale of Two FeetThe Scolliver PigMr. Hunker’s MournerA Bit of ChivalryThe Head of the FamilyDeathbed RepentanceThe New Church that was not BuiltA Tale of the Great QuakeJohnnyThe Child’s ProviderBoys who Began WrongA Kansas IncidentMr. Grile’s GirlHis RailwayMr. Gish Makes a PresentA Cow-County PleasantryThe Optimist, and What He Died OfThe Root of EducationRetributionThe Faithful Wife.Margaret the ChildlessThe Discomfited DemonThe Mistake of a LifeL. S.The Baffled AsianA Call to DinnerOn Death and ImmortalityMusic—Muscular and MechanicalThe Good Young ManThe Average ParsonDid We Eat One Another?Your Friend’s FriendLe Diable est aux Vaches.Angels and AnglesA Wingless InsectPork on the HoofThe Young PersonA Certain Popular FallacyPastoral JournalismMendicity’s MistakeInsects.Picnicking considered as a MistakeThanksgiving DayFloggingReflections upon the Beneficent Influence of the PressCharityThe Study of Human NatureAdditional Talk—Done in the CountryCURRENT JOURNALINGSCHRISTIANSPAGANSMUSINGS, PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICALLAUGHORISMS“ITEMS” FROM THE PRESS OF INTERIOR CALIFORNIA.Ye Idyll of Ye HippopopotamusEpitaph on George Francis TrainJerusalem, Old and NewCommuning with NatureConservatism and ProgressInter Arma Silent LegesQuintessenceResurgam[Illustration]The Fiend’s Delightby Dod Grile“Count that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no worthy action done.”New York: 1873.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, →
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