Title:  Black Beetles in Amber

Author:  Ambrose Bierce

Release Date:  July 21, 2004 [EBook #12977]

Language:  English

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[Illustration:  Ambrose Bierce.]

BLACK BEETLES IN AMBER

BY

AMBROSE BIERCE

1892

THE ORDER IN WHICH THE BEETLES ARE SHOWN

  In explanation
  the key note
  Cain
  an OBITUARIAN
  A commuted sentence
  A lifted finger
  two statesmen
  matter for gratitude
  three kinds of A rogue
  A man
  ye foe to CATHAYE
  Samuel Shortridge
  surprised
  POSTERITY’S award
  an art critic
  the spirit of A sponge
  ORNITHANTHROPOS
  to E.S.  Salomon
  Dennis Kearney
  finis AETERNITATIS
  the veteran
  an “Exhibit”
  The TRANSMIGRATIONS of A soul
  an actor
  famine’s realm
  the MACKAIAD
  A song in praise
  A poet’s father
  A coward
  to my liars
  Phil Crimmins
  codex HONORIS
  to W.H.L.B. 
  Emancipation
  JOHNDONKEY
  hell
  by false pretenses
  Lucifer of the torch
  the “Whirligig of time”
  A railroad lackey
  the legatee
  “Died of A rose”
  A literary hangman
  at the eleventh hour
  A controversialist
  MENDAX
  the retrospective bird
  the Oakland dog
  the UNFALLEN brave
  A celebrated case
  couplets
  A retort
  A vision of Resurrection
  master of three arts
  Thersites
  A society leader
  expositor VERITATIS
  to “Colonel” Dan burns
  George A. Knight
  unarmed
  A political violet
  the subdued editor
  “Black Bart, Po8”
  A “Scion of Nobility”
  The night of election
  the convicts’ ball
  A prayer
  to one detested
  the BOSS’S choice
  A merciful Governor
  an interpretation
  A soaring toad
  an undress uniform
  the perverted village
  Mr. Sheets
  A Jack-at-all-views
  my lord poet
  to the fool Killer
  one and one are two
  Montague Leverson
  the woful tale of Mr. Peters
  twin UNWORTHIES
  another plan
  A political apostate
  tinker Dick
  bats in sunshine
  A word to the unwise
  on the platform
  A dampened ardor
  Adair Welcker, poet
  to A word-warrior
  A culinary candidate
  the oleomargarine man
  Genesis
  LLEWELLEN Powell
  the sunset gun