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[Accompanied on the Flute]	F. Anstey	1
[The Troubles of a Triplet]	W. Beatty-Kingston	8
[Slightly Deaf]	Bracebridge Hemming	10
[The Lady Freemason]	H. T. Craven	18
[What Happened Last Night!]	F. B. Harrison	24
[The Fatal Legs]	Walter Browne	27
[The Caliph's Jester]	From the Arabic	29
[A Journey in Search of Nothing]	Wilkie Collins	32
[Gemini and Virgo]	C. S. Calverley	37
[King Bibbs]	James Albery	41
[Molly Muldoon]	Anonymous	48
[The Harmonious Lobsters]	Robert Reece	52
[The Provincial Landlady]	H. Chance Newton	57
[My Matrimonial Predicament]	Leopold Wagner	58
[Etiquette]	W. S. Gilbert	62
[A Lost Shepherd]	Frank Barrett	65
[A Mathematic Madness]	F. P. Dempster	70
[Waiting at Tottlepot]	J. Ashby-Sterry	72
[Married to a Giantess]	Walter Parke	75
[The Vision of the Alderman]	Henry S. Leigh	79
[The Demon Snuffers]	Geo. Manville Fenn	80
[The Walrus and the Carpenter]	Lewis Carroll	86
[My Brother Henry]	J. M. Barrie	89
[A Night with a Stork]	W. E. Wilcox	92
[The Faithful Lovers]	F. C. Burnand	95
[The Wail of a Banner-Bearer]	Arthur Matthison	96
[The Dream of the Bilious Beadle]	Arthur Shirley	99
[My Friend Treacle]	Watkin-Elliott	101
[The Voice of the Sluggard]	Anonymous	107
[Artemus Ward's Visit to the Tower of London]	Chas. Farrar Browne	108
[Mr. Caudle has lent an Acquaintance the Family Umbrella]	Douglas Jerrold	111
[Domestic Asides]	Tom Hood	113
[The Charity Dinner]	Litchfield Moseley	115
[Acting with a Vengeance]	W. Sapte, Jun.	120
[My Fortnight at Wretchedville]	George Augustus Sala	126
[The Sorrows of Werther]	W. M. Thackeray	132
[Moral Music]	Anonymous	133
[Billy Dumps, the Tailor]	Charles Clark	136
[On Punning]	Theodore Hook	139
[Seaside Lodgings]	Percy Reeve	140