Fantastic Fables. Амброз Бирс

The Member and the Soap

       Alarm and Pride

       A Causeway

       Two in Trouble

       The Witch’s Steed

       The All Dog

       The Farmer’s Friend

       Physicians Two

       The Overlooked Factor

       A Racial Parallel

       The Honest Cadi

       The Kangaroo and the Zebra

       A Matter of Method

       The Man of Principle

       The Returned Californian

       The Compassionate Physician

       Two of the Damned

       The Austere Governor

       Religions of Error

       The Penitent Elector

       The Tail of the Sphinx

       A Prophet of Evil

       The Crew of the Life-boat

       A Treaty of Peace

       The Nightside of Character

       The Faithful Cashier

       The Circular Clew

       The Devoted Widow

       The Hardy Patriots

       The Humble Peasant

       The Various Delegation

       The No Case

       A Harmless Visitor

       The Judge and the Rash Act

       The Prerogative of Might

       An Inflated Ambition

       Rejected Services

       The Power of the Scalawag

       At Large—One Temper

       The Seeker and the Sought

       His Fly-Speck Majesty

       The Pugilist’s Diet

       The Old Man and the Pupil

       The Deceased and his Heirs

       The Politicians and the Plunder

       The Man and the Wart

       The Divided Delegation

       A Forfeited Right

       Revenge

       An Optimist

       A Valuable Suggestion

       Two Footpads

       Equipped for Service

       The Basking Cyclone

       At the Pole

       The Optimist and the Cynic

       The Poet and the Editor

       The Taken Hand

       An Unspeakable Imbecile