Transcriber's Note

Unlike the other volumes of The Wit and Humor of America in Project Gutenberg, Volume V was not prepared from the "Library Edition," and thus has discontinuous page numbers and will not match the index in Volume X. In addition, a few pieces in Volume V are duplicated in Volume VI, but all have been retained as printed in each edition.


THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH


THE WIT AND HUMOR OF AMERICA

Edited by MARSHALL P. WILDER

VOLUME V

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
NEW YORK AND LONDON
Copyright 1907, by BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
Copyright 1911, by THE THWING COMPANY
Printed in the United States of America