| No. | | Page |
| 1.— | Book Cover. | [Frontispiece.] |
| 2.— | Title Page | [1] |
| 3.— | The Founder of the Village (Initial Letter) | [25] |
| 4.— | A Professor of Music | [26] |
| 5.— | A Disgusted Agriculturist | [28] |
| 6.— | New Castle from the River (Full Page) | [32] |
| 7.— | The Real Peasant-Girl (Initial Letter) | [36] |
| 8.— | A Dangerous Invention | [37] |
| 9.— | The Early Morning Fire | [39] |
| 10.— | The Ideal Peasant-Girl | [42] |
| 11.— | Unsymmetrical Cold Beef | [43] |
| 12.— | The View down the River (Full Page) | [46] |
| 13.— | A Family Jar (Initial Letter) | [47] |
| 14.— | A Musical Navigator | [48] |
| 15.— | The Nocturnal Dog | [49] |
| 16.— | Mr. Sawyer's Nose | [52] |
| 17.— | The Man with the Century Plant | [53] |
| 18.— | A Lively Vegetable | [54] |
| 19.— | Judge Pitman's Bag (Initial Letter) | [56] |
| 20.— | The Judge introduces Himself | [57] |
| 21.— | Pitman's Musical Experiment | [59] |
| 22.— | That Infamous Egg | [60] |
| 23.— | The Dog by the Wayside | [61] |
| 24.— | Catching the Train | [61] |
| 25.— | Hauled In | [62] |
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| 26.— | An Altercation with Cooley | [64] |
| 27.— | My Lung Exercise | [66] |
| 28.— | A Female Professor (Initial Letter) | [68] |
| 29.— | The Lamp Turned Low | [68] |
| 30.— | Studying Up | [69] |
| 31.— | Parker Relating his Woes | [69] |
| 32.— | Magruder's Wooing | [72] |
| 33.— | A Queer Feeling in his Head | [72] |
| 34.— | Magruder Tells his Brother | [73] |
| 35.— | The Class Going Up | [74] |
| 36.— | A Secreted Observer | [74] |
| 37.— | A General Attack on the Subject (Full Page) | [78] |
| 38.— | Peeping Through the Crack | [79] |
| 39.— | A Furious Husband | [80] |
| 40.— | An Asinine Being (Initial Letter) | [84] |
| 41.— | The Colonel's Bravery | [85] |
| 42.— | An Interview with Cooley | [86] |
| 43.— | That Tombstone | [87] |
| 44.— | Mr. Mullins Explains | [88] |
| 45.— | Exit Murphy | [89] |
| 46.— | A Late Call | [91] |
| 47.— | A Captive Maiden | [91] |
| 48.— | Excavating Her | [92] |
| 49.— | Her Feet | [92] |
| 50.— | That Antiquarian | [92] |
| 51.— | The Raging Rhinoceros | [94] |
| 52.— | The King of Beasts | [94] |
| 53.— | The Rival Lovers | [96] |
| 54.— | On the Settee | [96] |
| 55.— | She Sat on Him | [97] |
| 56.— | Too Thin | [97] |
| 57.— | The Wild Man | [98] |
| 58.— | The Fat Woman | [98] |
| 59.— | The Boy of the Period (Initial Letter) | [99] |
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| 60.— | The Battery (Full Page) | [102] |
| 61.— | An Ancient Warrior | [103] |
| 62.— | A Raid on the Melon-Patch | [105] |
| 63.— | Communing with Jones's Boy | [106] |
| 64.— | Held Fast | [107] |
| 65.— | The Solemnity of Jones | [107] |
| 66.— | Taking him Out | [108] |
| 67.— | Not Matched | [109] |
| 68.— | Dosing a Cur | [110] |
| 69.— | Over the Fence and Back Again | [110] |
| 70.— | Much too Faithful | [111] |
| 71.— | Cruelty to an Animal | [112] |
| 72.— | Removing a Mouthful | [112] |
| 73.— | A Patron of the "Argus" (Initial Letter) | [113] |
| 74.— | The Poet | [114] |
| 75.— | The Editor Explaining his Views | [115] |
| 76.— | The Throes of Composition | [116] |
| 77.— | A Row of Readers | [117] |
| 78.— | Taking a Peep | [117] |
| 79.— | The Scene in the Sanctum | [118] |
| 80.— | That Monkey | [119] |
| 81.— | Mrs. Smith's Woe | [120] |
| 82.— | Bartholomew's Indignant Father | [122] |
| 83.— | Mr. Mcfadden | [124] |
| 84.— | The Editor meets the Poet | [126] |
| 85.— | The Colonel in a Tight Place | [127] |
| 86.— | Going up Stairs | [128] |
| 87.— | In Highland Costume | [130] |
| 88.— | Why Bob Stayed | [130] |
| 89.— | Sawing him Out | [131] |
| 90.— | Mrs. Adeler's Views | [132] |
| 91.— | Bob's Trousers | [133] |
| 92.— | The New Mazeppa (Initial Letter) | [134] |
| 93.— | Cooley at an Auction | [135] |
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| 94.— | Our Urbane Horse | [136] |
| 95.— | Trying to Catch Up | [138] |
| 96.— | Kicking | [139] |
| 97.— | A Nightmare | [140] |
| 98.— | Haunted | [141] |
| 99.— | An Artificial Tail | [142] |
| 100.— | A Demoralized Horse | [142] |
| 101.— | It Came Off! | [143] |
| 102.— | The Melodramatic Freebooter | [144] |
| 103.— | Mrs. Jones's Pirate | [145] |
| 104.— | Sweeping the Horizon | [146] |
| 105.— | The Weekly Wash | [146] |
| 106.— | Hailing the "Mary Jane" | [147] |
| 107.— | A General Massacre | [147] |
| 108.— | The Paternal Jones | [148] |
| 109.— | She Puts on her Things | [148] |
| 110.— | Slaying the Captain | [149] |
| 111.— | "False! False!" | [150] |
| 112.— | More Butchery | [150] |
| 113.— | Suicide of the Widow | [150] |
| 114.— | The Wreck of Mrs. Jones | [151] |
| 115.— | A Chorister (Initial Letter) | [152] |
| 116.— | The Spire | [153] |
| 117.— | Sinful Games | [154] |
| 118.— | The Old Church (Full Page) | [156] |
| 119.— | A Chinese Prayer | [157] |
| 120.— | The Minister and I | [157] |
| 121.— | In the Pipe | [158] |
| 122.— | Bob in the Choir | [158] |
| 123.— | The Undertaker's Sign | [159] |
| 124.— | A Gloomy Man | [160] |
| 125.— | Very Warm Work | [161] |
| 126.— | Collamer Falls In | [161] |
| 127.— | The Clergyman | [162] |
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| 128.— | Collamer Sings | [162] |
| 129.— | He Asks a Question | [163] |
| 130.— | A Ribald Boy | [163] |
| 131.— | A Fisherman (Initial Letter) | [164] |
| 132.— | Bringing 'em Home | [164] |
| 133.— | Pushing Off | [165] |
| 134.— | We Change Places | [165] |
| 135.— | Cooling Off | [166] |
| 136.— | Waiting for Bites | [166] |
| 137.— | Anchor Gone | [166] |
| 138.— | Fixing an Oar | [167] |
| 139.— | Lost Him | [167] |
| 140.— | Saved | [167] |
| 141.— | A Tangle | [168] |
| 142.— | The Man who Owned the Boat | [168] |
| 143.— | A Successor of Izaak Walton | [169] |
| 144.— | A Disheartened Digger | [170] |
| 145.— | Tears | [171] |
| 146.— | Watching the Cork | [171] |
| 147.— | A Naked Hook | [171] |
| 148.— | The Last Match | [172] |
| 149.— | Caught on a Limb | [173] |
| 150.— | A Playful Eel | [174] |
| 151.— | Wriggling | [174] |
| 152.— | Pulling In | [175] |
| 153.— | That Infamous Boy | [175] |
| 154.— | A South Sea Islander | [177] |
| 155.— | Mr. Blodgett, Missionary | [177] |
| 156.— | Going to the Picnic | [177] |
| 157.— | The Vestry Meeting | [178] |
| 158.— | Putting them to Sleep | [178] |
| 159.— | The Funeral Service | [179] |
| 160.— | The Remaining Warden | [179] |
| 161.— | Going Home | [180] |
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| 162.— | He Paddled his own Canoe | [180] |
| 163.— | Smashing poor Mott | [181] |
| 164.— | A Fijian | [182] |
| 165.— | Our Plumber (Initial Letter) | [183] |
| 166.— | He Examines the Range | [184] |
| 167.— | I Meet Him | [184] |
| 168.— | How he Goes to Wilmington | [184] |
| 169.— | An Indignant Artisan | [185] |
| 170.— | On the Asparagus Bed | [185] |
| 171.— | The Condition of my Grass-plot | [186] |
| 172.— | At the Front Gate | [186] |
| 173.— | A View of the Ruins | [187] |
| 174.— | Watching | [188] |
| 175.— | One of the Robbers | [188] |
| 176.— | Mr. Nippers Enters | [188] |
| 177.— | I Expostulate with Nippers | [189] |
| 178.— | Mrs. Cooley's Servant | [190] |
| 179.— | She Shakes Henry | [190] |
| 180.— | Bob as an Author | [191] |
| 181.— | Young Chubb | [191] |
| 182.— | Mysterious Music | [192] |
| 183.— | "What does this Mean?" | [193] |
| 184.— | Trying to Make him Disgorge | [193] |
| 185.— | HEnry's Brother tries Pressure | [194] |
| 186.— | Exit with the Sexton | [194] |
| 187.— | The Tomb of Chubb | [195] |
| 188.— | General Chubb's Legs | [196] |
| 189.— | The Influence of Art | [197] |
| 190.— | The General Dives In | [197] |
| 191.— | Through the Canvas | [197] |
| 192.— | Pilloried (Initial Letter) | [200] |
| 193.— | Infant Spectators | [201] |
| 194.— | The Whipping-post | [201] |
| 195.— | An Ancient Custom | [202] |
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| 196.— | That Remarkable Judge | [204] |
| 197.— | George Washington Busby | [205] |
| 198.— | The Jury | [205] |
| 199.— | Maternal Love | [206] |
| 200.— | Manhood's Toil | [206] |
| 201.— | Busby Whispers to the Tipstaff | [207] |
| 202.— | More Hopeful Still | [207] |
| 203.— | His Infant Steps | [208] |
| 204.— | Busby's Heart grows Lighter | [209] |
| 205.— | The Thunderbolt Falls | [209] |
| 206.— | Leading him Out | [210] |
| 207.— | Wielding the Lash (Initial Letter) | [211] |
| 208.— | Hob-nobbing | [212] |
| 209.— | The Major in a Sulk | [213] |
| 210.— | The Lovers | [215] |
| 211.— | "Where did You get That?" | [217] |
| 212.— | The Flight by the River | [219] |
| 213.— | Dick Confesses | [226] |
| 214.— | Wearing the Wooden Collar | [228] |
| 215.— | A Flogging Seventy Years Ago (Full Page) | [230] |
| 216.— | Pardoned | [233] |
| 217.— | A Broken Man | [235] |
| 218.— | The Market Green and the Old Church | [236] |
| 219.— | A Juvenile Musician (Initial Letter) | [237] |
| 220.— | Caught | [238] |
| 221.— | Can't Reach It | [238] |
| 222.— | Creeping Out | [239] |
| 223.— | Back Again in a Hurry | [239] |
| 224.— | A Mighty Ugly Situation | [240] |
| 225.— | Listening | [240] |
| 226.— | Parker Exults | [241] |
| 227.— | The Second Hornpipe | [241] |
| 228.— | He Surveys her Dwelling | [241] |
| 229.— | Old Sparks's Sacred Dust | [244] |
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| 230.— | A Conscientious Tombstone | [244] |
| 231.— | Bishop Potts | [246] |
| 232.— | A Warm Welcome | [246] |
| 233.— | A Surprise for the Bishop | [247] |
| 234.— | The Bride goes Home in a Row | [248] |
| 235.— | Potts Meditates | [249] |
| 236.— | Waving Farewell | [249] |
| 237.— | The Bishop is Confounded | [250] |
| 238.— | Starting the Third Time | [252] |
| 239.— | Potts Becomes Hysterical | [253] |
| 240.— | The Peruvian Monk | [253] |
| 241.— | The Maniac Doctor | [253] |
| 242.— | Bob gives an Opinion | [254] |
| 243.— | Potts's Child | [254] |
| 244.— | On the Ramparts (Initial Letter) | [255] |
| 245.— | The Site of Fort Kasimir (Full Page) | [258] |
| 246.— | Modern Warriors | [259] |
| 247.— | A Dutch Goblin | [260] |
| 248.— | Pitman tells of his Griefs | [260] |
| 249.— | A Troublesome Cow | [261] |
| 250.— | That Scandalous Blind-board | [261] |
| 251.— | The Temperance Society makes an Inspection | [262] |
| 252.— | "I'll Knock the Stuffin' out o' him" | [262] |
| 253.— | The Judge's Bitters Advertisements | [263] |
| 254.— | He Takes a Tonic | [263] |
| 255.— | Another Dozen | [264] |
| 256.— | Cooley's Illuminated Nose | [265] |
| 257.— | "Out, Brief Candle" | [266] |
| 258.— | "There was Mrs. Cooley a-Watchin'" | [266] |
| 259.— | Dr. Hopkins is Amazed | [267] |
| 260.— | Appalling Intelligence | [268] |
| 261.— | The Commodore's Tomb | [269] |
| 262.— | The Fall of Simms | [270] |
| 263.— | "Knock 'em with a Pole" | [270] |
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| 264.— | Hit by an Apple | [271] |
| 265.— | Tim Keyser's Nose | [272] |
| 266.— | "He Slid Around so Quick" | [272] |
| 267.— | "He Cut an Opening in the Ice" | [273] |
| 268.— | The Pickerel Bites | [273] |
| 269.— | "The Better of the Fight" | [274] |
| 270.— | "And Pulled Tim Keyser Through" | [274] |
| 271.— | Under Water | [275] |
| 272.— | An Awful Sneeze | [275] |
| 273.— | He Floats Ashore | [276] |
| 274.— | "He Very Roundly Swore" | [276] |
| 275.— | At Dinner | [277] |
| 276.— | A Very Wet Time (Initial Letter) | [278] |
| 277.— | A Damp Fisherman | [279] |
| 278.— | Forlorn | [279] |
| 279.— | The Comic Umbrella | [280] |
| 280.— | Delicate Warriors | [281] |
| 281.— | The Experiment of Coombs | [281] |
| 282.— | An Embarrassed Panther | [282] |
| 283.— | Bringing Home the Monster | [282] |
| 284.— | Getting Ready for Action | [283] |
| 285.— | The Medicine Man Dies | [283] |
| 286.— | Cooley Awaits the Simoom | [286] |
| 287.— | The Judge Enjoys the Weather | [290] |
| 288.— | Perfectly Satisfied | [291] |
| 289.— | The Genuine Weather-Gauge | [292] |
| 290.— | "A Friend of Man" (Initial Letter) | [293] |
| 291.— | The Impetuosity of Bob | [296] |
| 292.— | A Somnambulist | [297] |
| 293.— | A Precautionary Measure | [297] |
| 294.— | Dreaming of Magruder | [297] |
| 295.— | Under the Bed | [298] |
| 296.— | Bob is Amazed | [298] |
| 297.— | Hunting for Henry | [298] |
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| 298.— | The Mystery Unraveled | [299] |
| 299.— | "Perfectly Still" | [300] |
| 300.— | The Consequences of a Sneeze | [301] |
| 301.— | The Dog Leaves | [301] |
| 302.— | I Suddenly Climb the Fence | [301] |
| 303.— | Sold | [302] |
| 304.— | "Commere To Me" | [302] |
| 305.— | A Victim | [303] |
| 306.— | A Human Echo | [304] |
| 307.— | It Won't Answer | [304] |
| 308.— | After That Boy | [305] |
| 309.— | A Bald-headed Party (Initial Letter) | [306] |
| 310.— | A Deluge of Letters | [308] |
| 311.— | Mrs. Singerly's Poodle | [309] |
| 312.— | The Rally of the Baldheaded | [309] |
| 313.— | A Microscopic Examination | [310] |
| 314.— | Benjamin P. Gunn | [313] |
| 315.— | A Visit to Mrs. Kemper | [315] |
| 316.— | Gunn Waits with the Doctor | [317] |
| 317.— | Pounding on the Partition | [317] |
| 318.— | Up the Steeple | [318] |
| 319.— | Into the Crater | [318] |
| 320.— | Benjamin is Ejected | [319] |
| 321.— | Portrait of Gunn | [319] |
| 322.— | On the War Path | [323] |
| 323.— | General Gage and the Boy (Initial Letter) | [324] |
| 324.— | The Judge is Puzzled | [329] |
| 325.— | Catechizing Him | [329] |
| 326.— | The Doctors at Hillegass's House | [330] |
| 327.— | Hillegass Recovers | [331] |
| 328.— | The Joke on the Chief | [332] |
| 329.— | A Deluge | [332] |
| 330.— | The Combat on the Stairs | [333] |
| 331.— | A Fireman | [333] |
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| 332.— | The Bone Controversy (Initial Letter) | [334] |
| 333.— | Examining the Premises | [335] |
| 334.— | We Proceed Carefully | [336] |
| 335.— | An Explosion at Cooley's | [339] |
| 336.— | The Remains Scatter | [340] |
| 337.— | "Fooling with a Gun" | [341] |
| 338.— | Selfridge Argues with Smith | [342] |
| 339.— | The Rival Juries | [343] |
| 340.— | Cooley Turns Up | [344] |
| 341.— | "Tossed the Little Baby" | [348] |
| 342.— | That Mummy | [349] |
| 343.— | A Patent-Office Report (Initial Letter) | [350] |
| 344.— | Pub. Docs | [351] |
| 345.— | Alphonso Lies in Wait | [353] |
| 346.— | Lucullus, the Serenader | [353] |
| 347.— | Death of Alphonso | [354] |
| 348.— | Lucullus Breaks Jail | [354] |
| 349.— | Smith Bombards the Artists | [355] |
| 350.— | The Lovers Float Ashore | [356] |
| 351.— | A Parting Scene | [357] |
| 352.— | Smiley is Intoxicated | [358] |
| 353.— | "He Leaped into the Sea" | [360] |
| 354.— | Bob is Rescued | [361] |
| 355.— | Nursing the Invalid | [362] |
| 356.— | Tail-piece | [362] |
| 357.— | Before the Mass Meeting (Initial Letter) | [363] |
| 358.— | The Serenaders at Pitman's | [365] |
| 359.— | Cooley Argues with Daniel Webster | [366] |
| 360.— | The Discomfited Drummer | [367] |
| 361.— | The Kickapoo's Mistake | [369] |
| 362.— | A Patriotic Dutchman | [370] |
| 363.— | Collapsed | [370] |
| 364.— | Commodore Scudder's Dog | [371] |
| 365.— | The Committee Welcomes Me | [373] |
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| 366.— | The Cold-eyed Drummer | [375] |
| 367.— | "Go, Mark him Well" | [376] |
| 368.— | Mr. Hotchkiss's Joke | [379] |
| 369.— | The Drummer Glares at Me | [381] |
| 370.— | I Retreat in Despair | [386] |
| 371.— | A Solemn Vow | [386] |
| 372.— | The Waiter (Initial Letter) | [387] |
| 373.— | The Collars in his Trunk | [389] |
| 374.— | A Shirt-button Lost | [390] |
| 375.— | Waiting for the Bride | [390] |
| 376.— | At the Reception | [392] |
| 377.— | Pitman Expresses his Views | [394] |
| 378.— | "We Flung a Shoe after Them" | [394] |
| 379.— | The Final Bow | [398] |
