The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV, edited

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Editor

Wilder, Marshall P. (Marshall Pinckney), 1859-1915

Title

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.)

Credits

Produced by Suzanne Lybarger and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

American literature -- Humor

Category

Text

eBook-No.

18776

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18776

Release Date

July 7, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Library Edition
2. 2.THE WIT AND HUMOR OF AMERICA — In Ten Volumes — VOL. IV — THE WIT AND HUMOR OF AMERICA
3. 3.Volume IV — Funk & Wagnalls Company New York and London Copyright MDCCCCVII, BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY Copyright MDCCCCXI, THE THWING COMPANY
4. 4.CONTENTS — COMPLETE INDEX AT THE END OF VOLUME X.
5. 5.THE BRIEFLESS BARRISTER — A Ballad — BY JOHN G. SAXE
6. 6.THE TWO HUSBANDS — BY CAROLYN WELLS — MORALS:
7. 7.THE STORY OF THE TWO FRIARS — BY EUGENE FIELD
8. 8.THE GRECO-TROJAN GAME — BY CHARLES F. JOHNSON
9. 9.THE ECONOMICAL PAIR — BY CAROLYN WELLS — MORALS:
10. 10.THE TWO PEDESTRIANS — BY CAROLYN WELLS — MORALS:
11. 11.A COMPLAINT OF FRIENDS — BY GAIL HAMILTON
12. 12.PONCHUS PILUT — BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
13. 13.THE WOLF AT SUSAN'S DOOR — BY ANNE WARNER
14. 14.THE TWO PRISONERS — BY CAROLYN WELLS — MORALS:
15. 15.A MODERN ADVANTAGE — BY CHARLOTTE BECKER
16. 16.THE RAGGEDY MAN — BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
17. 17.A MODERN ECLOGUE — BY BLISS CARMAN — She — He
18. 18.A CABLE-CAR PREACHER — BY SAM WALTER FOSS — I — II — III — IV — V — VI — VII
19. 19.HOW TO KNOW THE WILD ANIMALS — BY CAROLYN WELLS
20. 20.I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER — BY PHŒBE CARY
21. 21.THE COUPON BONDS — BY J.T. TROWBRIDGE
22. 22.THE SHOOTING-MATCH — BY A.B. LONGSTREET
23. 23.DESOLATION [1] — BY TOM MASSON
24. 24.CRANKIDOXOLOGY [2] — BY WALLACE IRWIN — ( Being a Mental Attitude from Bernard Pshaw )
25. 25.MY HONEY, MY LOVE — BY JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
26. 26.THE GRAND OPERA — BY BILLY BAXTER
27. 27.IN A STATE OF SIN [3] — BY OWEN WISTER
28. 28.AN APRIL ARIA — BY R.K. MUNKITTRICK
29. 29.MEDITATIONS OF A MARINER [4] — BY WALLACE IRWIN
30. 30.VICTORY [5] — BY TOM MASSON
31. 31.THE FAMILY HORSE — BY FREDERICK S. COZZENS
32. 32.SONNET OF THE LOVABLE LASS AND THE PLETHORIC DAD [6] — BY J.W. FOLEY
33. 33.THE LOVE SONNETS OF A HUSBAND — BY MAURICE SMILEY — I LOVE YOU STILL — SOUL TO SOUL — YOU SAID THAT YOU WOULD DIE FOR ME — I CAN NOT BEAR YOUR SIGHS — A HAND I HELD — YOUR CHEEK — WITH ALL YOUR FAULTS
34. 34.HOW WE BOUGHT A SEWIN' MACHINE AND ORGAN — BY JOSIAH ALLEN'S WIFE
35. 35.CHEER FOR THE CONSUMER — BY NIXON WATERMAN
36. 36.A DESPERATE RACE — BY J.F. KELLEY
37. 37."AS GOOD AS A PLAY" — BY HORACE E. SCUDDER
38. 38.THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE — BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES — " Our Sumatra Correspondence
39. 39.CÆSAR'S QUIET LUNCH WITH CICERO — BY JAMES T. FIELDS
40. 40.COMIN' HOME THANKSGIVIN' — BY JAMES BALL NAYLOR
41. 41.PRAISE-GOD BAREBONES — BY ELLEN MACKAY HUTCHINSON CORTISSOZ
42. 42.THE LOAFER AND THE SQUIRE — BY PORTE CRAYON
43. 43.DE STOVE PIPE HOLE [7] — BY WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND
44. 44.THE GIRL FROM MERCURY — An Interplanetary Love Story — Being the Interpretation of Certain Phonic Vibragraphs Recorded by the Long's Peak Wireless Installation, Now for the First Time Made Public Through the Courtesy of Professor Caducious, Ph.D., Sometime Secretary of the Boulder Branch of the Association for the Advancement of Interplanetary Communication. — BY HERMAN KNICKERBOCKER VIELÉ — The First Record — The Second Record — THOUGH PROBABLY THIRD COMMUNICATION — The Third Record — The Fourth Record
45. 45.FOOTNOTES: — THE — HEALTH-CARE — OF THE — BABY — By LOUIS FISCHER, M.D.
46. 46.The Care and Training — OF — CHILDREN — By Le GRAND KERR , M.D. — Child Training
47. 47.AS AN EXACT SCIENCE — By George W. Jacoby, M.D. — Vital Helps Toward Body-Building
48. 48.According to the Ling System — By Prof. ANDERS WIDE, M.D. — A New Book Dedicated to All Girls Whose Ambition Is to Lead a Happy, Healthful, Useful Life. — Health and Happiness — A MESSAGE TO GIRLS. — By ELIZA M. MOSHER, M.D. — Exercises for Women

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