Peck's Compendium of Fun / Comprising the Choicest Gems of Wit, Humor, Sarcasm and Pathos of America's Favorite Humorist

by George W. Peck

GEORGE W. PECK,

Editor of “PECK’S SUN” Milwaukee.

ILLUSTRATED BY EMINENT ARTISTS.

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CHICAGO:

1886.

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[CONTENTS.]

• [About Hell]
• [Another Dead Failure]
• [Anna Dickinson]
• [A Bald-headed Man Most Crazy]
• [A Case of Paralysis]
• [A Doctor of Laws]
• [A Hot Box at a Picnic]
• [A Lively Train Load]
• [A Mad Minister]
• [A Musical Critique]
• [A Peck at the Cheese]
• [A Plea for the Bull Head]
• [A Sewing Machine Given to the Boss Girl]
• [A Safe Investment]
• [A Tony Slaughter-House]
• [A Trying Situation]
• [An Arm That is not Reliable]
• [An Editor Burglarized]
• [Banks and Banking]
• [Bounced from Church for Dancing]
• [Boys and Circuses]
• [Boys will be Boys]
• [Broke up a Prayer Meeting]
• [Buying a Stone Crusher]
• [“Cash!”]
• [Camp Meetings in the Dark of the Moon]
• [Church Keno]
• [Colored Concert Troupes]
• [Dogs and Human Beings]
• [Effects of Mineral Water]
• [Expedition in Search of a Doughnut]
• [Failure of a Solid Institution]
• [Fishing for Pieces of Women]
• [Fooling with the Bible]
• [George Washington]
• [Granite Head Cheese]
• [Internal Improvements]
• [Joke on the Hat]
• [Killing Big Game]
• [Large Mouths are Fashionable]
• [La Crosse Nebecudnezzer Water]
• [Laying up Apples in Heaven]
• [Mr. Peck’s Sunday Lecture]
• [Nearly Broke up the Ball]
• [Our Blue-Coated Dog-Poisoners]
• [Our Christian Neighbors Have Gone]
• [Palace Cattle Cars]
• PECK’S BAD BOY AND HIS PA.
  • [He Becomes a Druggist]
  • [He is too Healthy]
  • [He Quits the Drug Business]
  • [His Pa an Inventor]
  • [His Pa Dissected]
  • [His Pa Goes Calling]
  • [His Pa Goes Skating]
  • [His Pa Gets Boxed]
  • [His Pa Gets Mad]
  • [His Pa Joins a Temperance Society]
  • [His Pa Jokes Him]
  • [His Pa is Discouraged]
  • [His Pa Kills Him]
  • [His Pa Mortified]
• [Religion and Fish]
• [Rope Ladders]
• [Sardineindianapolis]
• [Seven Year Old Horses]
• [Summer Resorting]
• [Take Your Latin Straight]
• [Terror in Church]
• [The Bob-Tailed Badger]
• [The Boy and the Goat]
• [The Difference]
• [The Difference in Horses]
• [The Fire New Year’s Day]
• [The Giddy Girl’s Quarrel]
• [The Gospel Car]
• [The Infidel and His Silver Mine]
• [The Knight and the Bridal Chamber]
• [The Legend of the Lake]
• [The Man from Dubuque]
• [The Mistake About It]
• [The Naughty But Nice Church Choir]
• [The New Coal Stove]
• [The Sudden Fire-Works at Racine]
• [The Uses of the Paper Bag]
• [The Waters of La Crosse]
• [The Way to Name Children]
• [The Way Women Boss a Pillow]
• [The Woodcock]
• [Those Bold Bad Drummers]
• [Those Step Ladders!]
• [Tragedy on the Stage]
• [Trains Without Conductors]
• [Try to Save Two Shillings]
• [Unscrewing the Top of a Fruit Jar]
• [Why the Fever Did’nt Spread]
• [Woman-Dozing a Democrat]
• [Wonders of the Stage]