For such small paragraphs, anecdotes and witticisms as have been used in these volumes, acknowledgment is hereby made to the following newspapers and periodicals:
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CONTENTS
| WASHINGTON IRVING | |
|---|---|
| Wouter Van Twiller | [1] |
| Wilhelmus Kieft | [8] |
| Peter Stuyvesant | [13] |
| Antony Van Corlear | [15] |
| General Van Poffenburgh | [18] |
| BENJAMIN FRANKLIN | |
| Maxims | [21] |
| Model of a Letter of Recommendation of a | |
| Person You Are Unacquainted with | [21] |
| Epitaph for Himself | [22] |
| WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER | |
| Nothing to Wear | [24] |
| HENRY WARD BEECHER | |
| Deacon Marble | [39] |
| The Deacon's Trout | [41] |
| The Dog Noble and the Empty Hole | [43] |
| ALBERT GORTON GREENE | |
| Old Grimes | [45] |
| OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES | |
| My Aunt | [49] |
| The Deacon's Masterpiece; or, the Wonderful | |
| "One-hoss Shay" | [63] |
| Foreign Correspondence | [106] |
| Music-Pounding | [109] |
| The Ballad of the Oysterman | [142] |
| NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS | |
| Miss Albina McLush | [51] |
| Love in a Cottage | [125] |
| WILLIAM PITT PALMER | |
| A Smack in School | [56] |
| B. P. SHILLABER ("Mrs. Partington") | |
| Fancy Diseases | [58] |
| Bailed Out | [59] |
| Seeking a Comet | [59] |
| Going to California | [60] |
| Mrs. Partington in Court | [61] |
| EDWARD ROWLAND SILL | |
| Five Lives | [68] |
| JAMES T. FIELDS | |
| The Owl-Critic | [70] |
| The Alarmed Skipper | [104] |
| JOHN HAY | |
| Little Breeches | [74] |
| HENRY W. SHAW ("Josh Billings") | |
| Natral and Unnatral Aristokrats | [77] |
| JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL | |
| The Yankee Recruit | [81] |
| What Mr. Robinson Thinks | [170] |
| CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER | |
| My Summer in a Garden | [90] |
| FREDERICK S. COZZENS | |
| Living in the Country | [111] |
| CHARLES GODFREY LELAND | |
| Hans Breitmann's Party | [127] |
| FRANCES M. WHICHER | |
| Tim Crane and the Widow | [129] |
| JOHN GODFREY SAXE | |
| The Stammering Wife | [135] |
| ANDREW V. KELLEY ("Parmenas Mix") | |
| He Came to Pay | [139] |
| MARIETTA HOLLEY | |
| A Pleasure Exertion | [144] |
| EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN | |
| The Diamond Wedding | [162] |
| MISCELLANEOUS | |
| Why He Left | [23] |
| A Boy's Essay on Girls | [38] |
| Identified | [47] |
| One Better | [48] |
| A Rendition | [57] |
| A Cause for Thanks | [73] |
| Crowded | [103] |
| The Wedding Journey | [105] |
| A Case of Conscience | [126] |
| He Rose to the Occasion | [136] |
| Polite | [137] |
| Lost, Strayed or Stolen | [138] |
| A Gentle Complaint | [141] |
| Music by the Choir | [173] |
| MARK TWAIN | |
| The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calveras County | [177] |