Artemus Ward The Shakers Among the spirits Among the free lovers

Josh Billings The mule Laffing Answers to contributors Pioneers

Frederick Swartout Cozzens Living in the country - "The Sparrowgrass Papers"

Max Adeler The obituary poet - "Out of the hurly-burly"

Edward Eggleston The spelling-bee - "The hoosier school master"

Mark Twain The jumping frog - "Sketches new and old"

Bill Nye Skimming the Milky Way - "Bill Nye's Red Book"

James Whitecomb Riley The champion checker-player - "From the biographical edition of the complete works of James Whitecomb Riley.

Eugene Field The cyclopeedy - "A little book of profitable tales"

Ruth McEnery Stuart The deacon's medicine - "Moriah's mourining"

Finley Peter Dunne On New Year's resolutions -"Mr. Dooley in Peace and War" On firemen - "Mr. dooley in Peace and War" On Books - "Mr. dooley in Peace and War"

Anne Virginia Culbertson How Mr. Terrapin lost his beard

George Horace Lorimer The beginning of wisdom - "Letters of a self-made Merchant to his son"

Anne Warner Mis Clegg's adopted - "Susan Clegg and her friend, Mrs. Lathrop"

Tom Masson The man who came back - "A corner in Women" Geography - "A corner in women"

Ellis Parker Butler The adventure of the Crimson Cord - "Perkins of Portland"

Montague Glass Diamond cut diamond - "the saturday evening post"

George Fitch Ole Skjarsen's first touchdown - "At good old Siwash"

Stephen Leacock Spoof. A thousand-Guinea Novel. New! Facinating! Perplexing! - "Moonbeams from the larger lunacy"

Irving S. Cobb "Speaking of Operations ..." - from "Speaking of operations" Eating in two or three languages - from "Eating in tow or three languages" A plea for old cap Collier - from "A plea for old cap Collier"

Harry Leon Wilson the red splash of romance - "Somewhere in red gap"

John Kendrick Bangs The idiot goes Christmas shopping - "Half-hours with the idiot"

Don Marquis Preface to a book of fishhooks - "Prefaces" Preface to a volume of poetry - "Prefaces"

George Ade The fable of the spotlighters and the spotter - "hand-made fables" The Fable of the waist band that was taut up to the moment it gave away - "hand-made fables"

Octavus Roy Cohen Noblesse obliged - Assorted Chocolates

Ring W. Lardner Ritchey - "The big town"

Oliver Herford Are cats people? - "Neither here nor there" Our leisure Class - "Neither here nor there"

Robert C. Benchley The tortures of week-end visiting - "Of all things!" Call for Mr. Kenworthy! - "Of all things!"

Christopher Ward The blunderer of the wastland - "The triumph of the nut"

Sam Hellman Low bridge - "Low bridge and Punk Pungs."