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

by George W. Peck

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]

ELECTRIC FLASHES.

• [Anna Dickinson as “Mazeppa”]
• [A Black Bear at Onalaska]
• [A Dead Sure Thing]
• [A Fashion Item]
• [A Good Land Enough]
• [A Lecturer Should Know What He Talks About]
• [A Loan Exhibition]
• [A New Sparking Scheme]
• [An Odorous Bohemian]
• [Base Ingratitude]
• [Buttermilk Bibbers]
• [Cats on the Fence]
• [Christmas Trees]
• [Col. Ingersoll Praying]
• [Comforting Compensations]
• [Convenient Currency]
• [Crushing Nihilism]
• [Enterprising Chicago!]
• [Fish Hatching in Wisconsin]
• [Frozen Ears]
• [Gathered Waists!]
• [Geological Survey]
• [Give us War]
• [Good Templars on Ice]
• [Hard on Fond Du Lac]
• [He Would’nt Have His Father Called Names]
• [How Farmers May Get Rich]
• [“How Sharper Than a Hound’s Tooth!”]
• [How to Invest a Thousand Dollars]
• [How to Reach Young Men]
• [Hunting Dogs]
• [Insecure Abodes]
• [Lunch on the Cars]
• [Mattie Mashes Minnesota]
• [Merrie Christmas]
• [More Dangerous Than Kerosene]
• [Mrs. Langtry]
• [One of Beecher’s Converts]
• [Preparing for War]
• [Raising Elephants]
• [Registry of Electors]
• [Selling Clams]
• [She was no Gentleman]
• [Southern “Honaw”]
• [Spurious Tripe]
• [Sure of Heaven]
• [Supreme Court Judges and U.S. Senators]
• [Ten Days in Love]
• [The Advent Preacher and the Balloon]
• [The Day We Reached Canada]
• [The Dog Law]
• [The Glorious Fourth of July]
• [The Mule not the Eagle]
• [The Old Sweet Songs]
• [The Political Outlook]
• [The Power of Eloquence]
• [The Thirsty Gopher]
• [The Universalist Bath]
• [The Universal Object]
• [The Wicked Mon Kee]
• [The Wrong Corpse]
• [Three Inches of Leg]
• [To What Vile Uses May We Come]
• [Too Particular by Half]
• [What the Country Needs]
• [What the Democrats Will Do]
• [We Will Celebrate]
• [Why not Raise Wolves?]

ILLUSTRATIONS.

• [A Scene in Paradise]
• [“Ah, my Friends, Look Down Into That Burning Lake!”]
• [An Intrusive Nigger]
• [At the Telephone]
• [Behind the Scenes]
• [Bossing the Pillow]
• [“Do not Pass me by!”]
• [Drummers Trying to Pray]
• [“Get Thee to a Nunnery!”]
• [“Happy New Year, Mum!”]
• [Hiawasamantha, the Dusky Daughter of the Golden West]
• [“I Want to be an Angel”]
• [It Looked Like an old Dripping Pan]
• [“It is F-f-four Sizes too Big!”]
• [John McCullough Killing a Texas Steer]
• [“Just as I am”]
• [“Keno!”]
• [Martindale Climbs a Pole]
• [“Me Long Lost Duke!”]
• [Mystery of a Woman’s Clothes]
• [New Way of Taking Seidlitz Powders]
• [No More Apples for the Minister]
• [“Oh, That Will be all Right”]
• [“Pa Grabbed Her by the Polonaise”]
• [“Sard,” and the Greek Slave]
• [Sacred Memories]
• [Slippery Oysters]
• [Swallow-Tails on the Climb]
• [The Lady of the Seventh Ward]
• [The Old Back Number Girl]
• [The Old Man Tries His Hand]
• [The Resorter]
• [The Rotund Urso]
• [The Sexton in all His Glory]
• [The Startled Cat]
• [The Tenor Arrayed in all His Glory]
• [The Wandering Oyster]
• [“Thereby Hangs a Tail.”]
• [“This is too Allfired Much!”]
• [“Too Late, Pa, I Die at the Hand of an Assassin!”]
• [Turning the Proper Dingus]
• [“Yell, or go Down!”]

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PECK’S COMPENDIUM OF FUN.