CONTENTS
VOLUME II
| PAGE | |
| SOL SMITH | |
| A Bully Boat and a Brag Captain | [1] |
| AMBROSE BIERCE | |
| The Dog and the Bees | [8] |
| OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES | |
| Dislikes | [9] |
| G. H. DERBY (“Phœnix,” “Squibob”) | |
| Illustrated Newspapers | [13] |
| Tushmaker’s Toothpuller | [67] |
| MARY MAPES DODGE | |
| Miss Malony on the Chinese Question | [22] |
| JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL | |
| The Courtin’ | [27] |
| A Letter from Mr. Ezekiel Bigelow | [59] |
| JOHN GODFREY SAXE | |
| The Coquette—A Portrait | [31] |
| SAMUEL L. CLEMENS (“Mark Twain”) | |
| Colonel Mulberry Sellers | [33] |
| FREDERICK WILLIAM SHELTON | |
| Incidents in a Retired Life | [43] |
| BRET HARTE | |
| Melons | [49] |
| The Society upon the Stanislaus | [71] |
| CHARLES GODFREY LELAND | |
| Ballad | [65] |
| JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE | |
| The V-a-s-e | [74] |
| FRANK R. STOCKTON | |
| Pomona’s Novel | [76] |
| JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE | |
| Fred Trover’s Little Iron-clad | [96] |
| ROBERT JONES BURDETTE | |
| The Artless Prattle of Childhood | [120] |
| ANONYMOUS | |
| St. Peter at the Gate | [130] |
| HENRY GUY CARLETON | |
| The Thompson Street Poker Club | [134] |
| GEORGE T. LANIGAN | |
| The Fox and the Crow | [140] |
| HENRY CUYLER BUNNER | |
| Behold the Deeds! | [141] |
| FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN | |
| A Rhyme for Priscilla | [146] |
| THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH | |
| A Rivermouth Romance | [149] |
| GELETT BURGESS | |
| The Bohemians of Boston | [161] |
| MARION COUTHOUY SMITH | |
| The Composite Ghost | [164] |
| BILL NYE | |
| A Fatal Thirst | [175] |
| GEORGE W. PECK | |
| Peck’s Bad Boy | [178] |
| MISCELLANEOUS | |
| Susan Simpson | [21] |
| A Boston Lullaby | [119] |
| The House That Jack Built | [127] |
| An Insurance Agent’s Story | [144] |
| An Epitaph | [148] |
| Some Messages Received by Teachers in Brooklyn Public Schools | [171] |
| The Trout’s Appeal | [174] |