CONTENTS

VOLUME II

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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]

SOL SMITH