CONTENTS

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[A good after-dinner speech][16]
[Afternoon teas][174]
[Alexander][46]
[Almost won the bet][23]
[Any port in a storm][34]
[Artemus Ward at the theatre][159]
[Awful lot of practice, an][135]
[Axioms][14]
[Bashful bridegroom, a][84]
[Boo!][96]
[Boomerang stories][113]
[Brandied peaches][63]
[Business boy, a promising][117]
[Chief end of man, the][173]
[Clerical corkscrew, a][172]
[College trick, a][31]
[Colored apostles][94]
[Costly dodge, a][164]
[Couldn’t catch up][47]
[Couldn’t help crying][164]
[Cranky couple, a][69]
[Cure for snoring, sure][78]
[Deacon balked, the][180]
[Delirious][136]
[Difference without distinction, a][176]
[Disturbing the solemnity][49]
[Doing the dons][187]
[“Dollars to doughnuts”][66]
[Dutch conundrum, a][91]
[Eccentric great man, an][138]
[Echo, the][54]
[Epitaphs, interesting][170]
[Exeunt omnes][187]
[Extremes meet][60]
[Farm accidents][98]
[Fast train, a][167]
[Finally the worm turned][126]
[Fire screen, a][62]
[First class][144]
[Flank movement, a][102]
[Fool according to his folly, a][47]
[Forbidden fruit, the][107]
[Getting a wife][155]
[“God bless our home”][26]
[Go to father][169]
[Good ear, a][178]
[Great country, a][97]
[Hard witness, a][118]
[He cut it short][100]
[He didn’t get it in the neck][117]
[He warned her][90]
[How the young idea shoots][58]
[How to catch a mule][58]
[Ill-assorted couple][41]
[Impossible, but funny][120]
[Incorrigible][91]
[Inquisitive boy, an][26]
[In search of a restaurant][76]
[In the class-room][74]
[In the way they should go][147]
[It wouldn’t work][151]
[Keen cutters][108]
[Keeping a secret][149]
[Kickin’, a][85]
[Knight errant, a][165]
[Knightly conundrum, a][176]
[Laughed it out of court][57]
[Left-handed compliments][139]
[Lincoln story, a][18]
[Lincoln story, another][19]
[Lionized][56]
[Literature made easy][77]
[Logic is logic][55]
[Logic of grammar, the][135]
[Lonely place, a][103]
[Louder][29]
[Mean company, a][131]
[Michael Maloney’s serenade][15]
[Millinerymania][136]
[“Mounted?”][64]
[Names for the twins][59]
[Naming the apostles][109]
[Near the end of his journey][95]
[Not good looking][101]
[No thoroughfare][148]
[No water in his][128]
[“Old Hoss!”][48]
[Old Man Snuckles][75]
[On the point of a needle][154]
[One place or the other][28]
[Other eye, the][149]
[Part in the play, his][172]
[Pepper-sauce][27]
[Poor business location, a][81]
[Poor, the][36]
[Prayer that was answered, a][25]
[Price of a dog, the][104]
[Protecting the minister][182]
[Punishment made sure][83]
[Pure Scotch][124]
[Rabbits enough][94]
[Raising Cain][129]
[Rear guard, the][112]
[Rest and a change, a][140]
[Right-of-way, the][179]
[Rough on the deacon][93]
[Rural justice][121]
[Same old kind, the][141]
[Sanctum, the][156]
[Sharp reproof, a][150]
[Sharpening their wits][41]
[She came to his aid][161]
[She dried up][20]
[Shrewd selection, a][177]
[Shy boarder, the][176]
[Slow coach, a][168]
[Snolligoster, the][39]
[So many bald heads][70]
[She spoiled the poetry][171]
[Strongest man, the][42]
[Stutterers, the][44]
[Sudden rise, a][48]
[Sure thing, a][133]
[Tact and no tact][52]
[Tale of a sausage, a][82]
[Technique][51]
[Temperance a hundred years ago][37]
[Thackeray and the oyster][166]
[That terrible infant][22]
[Three asses, the][73]
[Timely answer, a][21]
[Too young][80]
[Tough goose-yarn, a][142]
[Turkey was tame, the][112]
[Two polite and spunky boys][67]
[Unanimous action][174]
[Use of riches][24]
[Very good investment, a][34]
[Walla Walla!][183]
[What the statute did not say][17]
[“Who’d ’a’ bin ’er?”][147]
[Why he was a democrat][125]
[Why the Hawkeye man couldn’t pay][105]
[Why they married][42]
[Wicked parrot, the][185]
[Wind and water][72]
[Wonderful climate, a][99]
[Yankees, the—][38]

“Laugh and grow fat is a saying of old,
Whether or no ’tis a cause of obesity,
This much I know that the physical man
Laughter demands as a kind of necessity.
Ha, ha, ha! Ha, ha, ha!
Laughter demands as a kind of necessity.”
—Old Song.

AXIOMS

Tew brake a mule—commence at his head.