Chapter IV: Part 4

Some Funny Things Said by Clever People.
Five Hundred Merry Laughs.
Three Hundred Funny Stories.
Twenty Good Stories.
The Comic Cook Book.
Funny Experiences of Mr. and Mrs. Bowser.
Two Thousand Prize Jokes.
A Bad Boy’s Diary. Part 1.
A Bad Boy’s Diary. Part 2.
Ten Funny Stories. By Opie Read
Blunders of a Bashful Man.
The Travels of a Tramp.
Our Drummer’s Trip Through the Sunny South.
Six Tank Tales. By Clarence Louis Cullen.
New Irish Yarns. By Mickey Finn.
New German Yarns. By J. Joseph Goodwin.
Tales I’ve Heard Told. By Lewis A. Leonard.
Race-Track Stories.
Base-Ball Stories.
Life in New York. By Mickey Finn.
The Funny-Fellows Grab Bag.
The King of Unadilla.
Miss Slimmens’ Boarding House.
Corse Payton’s Joke Book.
Hi Holler’s Joke Book.
On a Fast Train Through Georgia.
Opie Read In Arkansas.
The Smiles I’ve Caused. Part 1.
The Smiles I’ve Caused. Part 2.
The Smiles I’ve Caused. Part 3. By Marshall P. Wilder.
Twelve Kentucky Colonel Stories.
Here’s to Ye; or, Toasts for Everybody.
Weber and Fields’ Funny Sayings.
Weber and Fields’ Stage Whispers.
A Drummer’s Diary.
Stage Jokes. No. 1.
Stage Jokes. No. 2.
New Jokes by Old Jokers. No. 3.
New Jokes by Old Jokers. No. 4.
Drummers’ Samples.
Southwick’s Monologues.
Southwick’s Jokes Without Whiskers.
Talkalogues.
Hot Stuff Jokelets.
A Thoroughbred Tramp.
Actors’ Monologues and Jokes.
On the Hog Train Through Kansas.
Side-Tracked.
Easy Money.
Lew Hawkins in Black and White.
Hiram Birdseed at the Fair.
On an Army Mule Through Virginia.
Ogilvie’s Slow Train.
The Sunny Side of Life. By a Merry Widow.
The Scottish Joker at Home and Abroad. By Harry Lauder.
Going Some.
“The Man of the Hour” Joke Book.
When the World Laughs.
Picture Joke Book.
Foreign Fun.
Flighty Fun.

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Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber:

Dalcassé again dashed=> Delcassé again dashed {pg 106}

intermediate flash was=> intermediate flash was {pg 106}

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