The Devil's Dictionary

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a birch-bound paper book

The writing is in Anglic, and reads:
   The Devil's Dictionary

    A small paper volume bound with a pair of birch covers.  A title is stained into the front
cover.  It is open to page one of three hundred ninety-three.  It is open to page one of three
hundred ninety-three.  You estimate its value at about one hundred gold.  
    It is in perfect condition.  
    It looks about two fifths of a dimin long, three dimins wide, and four dimins tall.  It weighs
about two and a quarter dekans.

    The commands 'open <item>', 'close <item>', and 'turn page [in <item>] [to <number>]' may be
used with it.  Keeping the birch-bound paper book costs seven keep points.  The birch-bound paper
book was created by Lost Souls; the source code was last updated Sun Feb 21 04:25:44 2016.  The
material birch was created by Lost Souls; the source code was last updated Tue Mar 15 02:18:39
2016.  The material paper was created by Lost Souls; the source code was last updated Tue Mar 15
02:18:43 2016.

Text

                      THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY

                                by 

                          AMBROSE BIERCE



                              PREFACE

_The Devil's Dictionary_ was begun in a weekly paper in 1881, and was 
continued in a desultory way at long intervals until 1906.  In that 
year a large part of it was published in covers with the title _The 
Cynic's Word Book_, a name which the author had not the power to 
reject or happiness to approve.  To quote the publishers of the 
present work:
    "This more reverent title had previously been forced upon him by 
the religious scruples of the last newspaper in which a part of the 
work had appeared, with the natural consequence that when it came out 
in covers the country already had been flooded by its imitators with a 
score of 'cynic' books -- _The Cynic's This_, _The Cynic's That_, and 

It is open to page one of three hundred ninety-three. 

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