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Sixty years of American Humor A prose anthology Edited by Joseph Lewis French - Boston Little, Brown and Company 1925 - 401 p.
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."
American wit and humor
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Sixty years of American Humor A prose anthology Edited by Joseph Lewis French - Boston Little, Brown and Company 1925 - 401 p.
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."
American wit and humor
817 Six 14