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title page

Table of Contents

Twelve volumes in facsimile:

  1. image Ashes of the beacon. The land beyond the blow. For the Ahkoond. John Smith, liberator. Bits of autobiography.
  2. image In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
  3. image Can such things be? The way of ghosts. Soldier-folk. Some haunted houses
  4. image Shapes of clay. Some ante-mortem epitaphs. The scrap heap.
  5. image Black beetles in amber. The mummery. On stone.
  6. image The monk and the hangman’s daughter. Fantastic fables. Fables from “Fun.” Aesopus emendatus. Old saws with new teeth. Fables in rhyme.
  7. image The devil’s dictionary.
  8. image Negligible tales. The Parenticide club. The fourth estate. The ocean wave. “On with the dance!” Epigrams
  9. image Tangential views.
  10. image The opinionator. The reviewer. The controversialist. The timorous reporter. The March hare.
  11. image Antepenultimate.
  12. image In motley; Kings of beasts. Two administrations. Miscellaneous.

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