Excerpt from The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. 8: Negligible Tales; The Parenticide Club; The Fourth Estate; The Ocean Wave; "On With the Dance!" Epigrams Inexpressibly delighted by this proof of my mother's confidence, and by the chance to dis tinguish myself by an act that squared with my natural disposition, I knelt before her, car ried her hand to my lips and bathed it with tears of sensibility. Before five o'clock that afternoon I had removed the Coroner. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.