Chapter I: Front Matter

Library Edition

THE WIT AND HUMOR OF AMERICA

In Ten Volumes

VOL. I

THE WIT AND HUMOR OF AMERICA

EDITED BY MARSHALL P. WILDER

_Volume I_

Funk & Wagnalls Company New York and London

Copyright MDCCCCVII, BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY Copyright MDCCCCXI, THE THWING COMPANY

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 Phoebe 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 Culbertson 202
Wouter Van Twiller Washington Irving 109
Yankee Dude'll Do, The S.E. Kiser 136

COMPLETE INDEX AT END OF VOLUME X.