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The Fiend’s Delight

by Dod Grile

“Count that day lost whose low descending sun
Views from thyhand no worthy action done.”

New York:

1873.

TO THE IMMUTABLE AND INFALLIBLE GODDESS, GOOD TASTE,
IN GRATITUDEFOR HER CONDEMNATION OF ALL SUPERIOR AUTHORS,
AND IN THE HOPE OFPROPITIATING HER CREATORS AND EXPOUNDERS,

This Volume isreverentially
Dedicated BY HER DEVOUT WORSHIPPER,

THE AUTHOR.


Contents

PREFACE

SOME FICTION
One More Unfortunate
The Strong Young Man of Colusa
The Glad New Year
The Late Dowling, Senior
“Love’s Labour Lost”
A Comforter
Little Isaac
The Heels of Her
A Tale of Two Feet
The Scolliver Pig
Mr. Hunker’s Mourner
A Bit of Chivalry
The Head of the Family
Deathbed Repentance
The New Church that was not Built
A Tale of the Great Quake
Johnny
The Child’s Provider
Boys who Began Wrong
A Kansas Incident
Mr. Grile’s Girl
His Railway
Mr. Gish Makes a Present
A Cow-County Pleasantry
The Optimist, and What He Died Of
The Root of Education
Retribution
The Faithful Wife
Margaret the Childless
The Discomfited Demon
The Mistake of a Life
L. S.
The Baffled Asian

TALL TALK
A Call to Dinner
On Death and Immort
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