TEN REPRESENTATIVE HUMOROUS STORIES
“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” Mark Twain, in Short Stories and Sketches, Vol. I.
“Mike Grady’s Safety,” Will Lewis, Everybody’s Magazine, Aug., 1905.
“Their First Formal Call,” Grace MacGowan Cooke, in volume of same title.
“The Day of the Dog,” George Barr McCutcheon, in volume of same title.
“Edgar, the Choir-Boy Uncelestial,” McClure’s Magazine, Jan., 1902.
“The Pope’s Mule,” Alphonse Daudet, translated in Short-Story Masterpieces.
“Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff,” Bret Harte, Harper’s Magazine, Mar., 1901.
“The Phonograph and the Graft,” O. Henry, in Cabbages and Kings.
“The King of Boyville,” William Allen White, in Tales from McClure’s.
“The Bob-tailed Car,” Brander Matthews, in The Family Tree.
FOOTNOTES:
[23] Copyright, 1910, by Doubleday, Page and Co., and used by permission.
V
STORIES OF SETTING
The Outcasts of Poker Flat.—Bret Harte
Moonlight.—Guy de Maupassant
It is the habit of my imagination to strive after as full a vision of the medium in which a character moves as of the character itself. The psychological causes which prompted me to give such details of Florentine life and history as I have given [in Romola] are precisely the same as those which determined me in giving the details of English village life in Silas Marner or the “Dodson” life, out of which were developed the destinies of poor Tom and Maggie.—George Eliot, quoted in her Life by J. W. Cross.