The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.)

by Unknown

EDITED BY MARSHALL P. WILDER

Volume I

Funk & Wagnalls Company
New York and London
Copyright MDCCCCVII, BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
Copyright MDCCCCXI, THE THWING COMPANY

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CONTENTS

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Anatole Dubois at de Horse Show	Wallace Bruce Amsbary	[152]
Billville Spirit Meeting, The	Frank L. Stanton	[188]
British Matron, The	Nathaniel Hawthorne	[192]
Champion Checker-Player of Ameriky, The	James Whitcomb Riley	[156]
Colonel Sterett's Panther Hunt	Alfred Henry Lewis	[98]
Cry from the Consumer, A	Wilbur D. Nesbit	[190]
Curse of the Competent, The	Henry J. Finn	[14]
Darby and Joan	St. John Honeywood	[166]
Day We Do Not Celebrate, The	Robert J. Burdette	[134]
Deacon's Masterpiece, The; or, The Wonderful "One-Hoss Shay"	O.W. Holmes	[9]
Deacon's Trout, The	Henry Ward Beecher	[212]
Disappointment, A	John Boyle O'Reilly	[191]
Distichs	John Hay	[65]
Down Around the River	James Whitcomb Riley	[29]
Enough	Tom Masson	[213]
Experiences of the A.C., The	Bayard Taylor	[116]
Feast of the Monkeys, The	John Philip Sousa	[183]
Fighting Race, The	Joseph I.C. Clarke	[214]
Grammatical Boy, The	Bill Nye	[16]
Grizzly-Gru	Ironquill	[174]
John Henry in a Street Car	Hugh McHugh	[177]
Laffing	Josh Billings	[171]
Letter from Mr. Biggs, A	E.W. Howe	[69]
Medieval Discoverer, A	Bill Nye	[31]
Melons	Bret Harte	[1]
Menagerie, The	William Vaughn Moody	[24]
Mrs. Johnson	William Dean Howells	[74]
Muskeeter, The	Josh Billings	[181]
My Grandmother's Turkey-Tail Fan	Samuel Minturn Peck	[219]
Myopia	Wallace Rice	[151]
Odyssey of K's, An	Wilbur D. Nesbit	[209]
Old Maid's House, The: In Plan	Elizabeth Stuart Phelps	[60]
Organ, The	Henry Ward Beecher	[217]
Partingtonian Patchwork	B.P. Shillaber	[20]
Pass	Ironquill	[91]
Pettibone Lineage, The	James T. Fields	[196]
Psalm of Life, A	Phœbe Cary	[207]
Purple Cow, The	Gelett Burgess	[13]
Quarrel, The	S.E. Kiser	[68]
Similar Cases	Charlotte Perkins Gilman	[56]
Simple English	Ray Clarke Rose	[19]
Spelling Down the Master	Edward Eggleston	[138]
Stage Whispers	Carolyn Wells	[195]
Teaching by Example	John G. Saxe	[91]
Tragedy of It, The	Alden Charles Noble	[194]
Turnings of a Bookworm, The	Carolyn Wells	[182]
Wanted—A Cook	Alan Dale	[35]
What Mr. Robinson Thinks	James Russell Lowell	[131]
When Albani Sang	William Henry Drummond	[92]
When the Frost is on the Punkin	James Whitcomb Riley	[169]
Why Moles Have Hands	Anne Virginia Culbertsonn	[202]
Wouter Van Twiller	Washington Irving	[109]
Yankee Dude'll Do, The	S.E. Kiser	[136]

COMPLETE INDEX AT END OF VOLUME X.

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FOREWORD