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Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: An Officer and a Thug
Two Kings The Conscientious Official An Officer and a Thug A CHIEF of Police who had seen an Officer beating a Thug was very indignant, and said he must not do so any more on pain of…Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: Physicians Two
The Farmer's Friend The Overlooked Factor Physicians Two A WICKED Old Man finding himself ill sent for a Physician, who prescribed for him and went away. Then the Wicked Old Man sent…Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: The Overlooked Factor
Physicians Two A Racial Parallel The Overlooked Factor A MAN that owned a fine Dog, and by a careful selection of its mate had bred a number of animals but a little lower than the…Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: A Racial Parallel
The Overlooked Factor The Honest Cadi A Racial Parallel SOME White Christians engaged in driving Chinese Heathens out of an American town found a newspaper published in Peking in the…Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: The Honest Cadi
A Racial Parallel The Kangaroo and the Zebra The Honest Cadi A ROBBER who had plundered a Merchant of one thousand pieces of gold was taken before the Cadi, who asked him if he had…Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: The Kangaroo and the Zebra
The Honest Cadi A Matter of Method The Kangaroo and the Zebra A KANGAROO hopping awkwardly along with some bulky object concealed in her pouch met a Zebra, and desirous of keeping his…Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: A Matter of Method
The Kangaroo and the Zebra The Man of Principle A Matter of Method A PHILOSOPHER seeing a Fool beating his Donkey, said: "Abstain, my son, abstain, I implore. Those who resort to…Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: The Man of Principle
A Matter of Method The Returned Californian The Man of Principle DURING a shower of rain the Keeper of a Zoological garden observed a Man of Principle crouching beneath the belly of…Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: The Returned Californian
The Man of Principle The Compassionate Physician The Returned Californian A MAN was hanged by the neck until he was dead. "Whence do you come?" Saint Peter asked when the Man…Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: The Compassionate Physician
The Returned Californian Two of the Damned The Compassionate Physician A KIND-HEARTED Physician sitting at the bedside of a patient afflicted with an incurable and painful disease,…Trending
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