by AMBROSE BIERCE
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
_The Devil's Dictionary_ was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and
wascontinued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906.In thatyear
a larg...
by Jack London (1876-1916) 1913
CHAPTER I
It all came to me one election day. It was on a warm California
afternoon, and I had ridden down into the Valley of the Moon from the
ranc...