The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V, edited

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Editor

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

Title

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

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Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, 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.

19323

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19323

Release Date

September 18, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Transcriber's Note — THE WIT AND HUMOR OF AMERICA
2. 2.VOLUME V — FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY NEW YORK AND LONDON Copyright 1907, by BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY Copyright 1911, by THE THWING COMPANY Printed in the United States of America
3. 3.CONTENTS — COMPLETE INDEX AT THE END OF VOLUME X. — THE WIT AND HUMOR OF AMERICA
4. 4.THE MARRIAGE OF SIR JOHN SMITH — By Phœbe Cary
5. 5.THE SPRING BEAUTIES — By Helen Avery Cone
6. 6.GOING UP AND COMING DOWN — By Mary F. Tucker
7. 7.THE SET OF CHINA — By Eliza Leslie
8. 8.SUPPRESSED CHAPTERS [1] — By Carolyn Wells
9. 9.OLD GRIMES — By Albert Gorton Greene
10. 10.MISS LEGION — By Bert Leston Taylor
11. 11.HAVE YOU SEEN THE LADY? — By John Philip Sousa
12. 12.THE FUNNY LITTLE FELLOW — By James Whitcomb Riley
13. 13.MUSICAL REVIEW EXTRAORDINARY — By John Phoenix
14. 14.THE RUNAWAY BOY — By James Whitcomb Riley
15. 15.THE DRAYMAN — By Daniel O'Connell
16. 16.BILL'S COURTSHIP — By Frank L. Stanton — I — II — III — IV — V — VI
17. 17.THE WOMAN WHO MARRIED AN OWL — By Anne Virginia Culbertson
18. 18.MR. DOOLEY ON EXPERT TESTIMONY — By Finley Peter Dunne
19. 19.LECTURES ON ASTRONOMY — By John Phoenix — Introductory — Lectures on Astronomy—Part I — CHAPTER I — THE SUN — CHAPTER II — MERCURY — VENUS — THE EARTH — THE MOON — END OF LECTURE FIRST
20. 20.AT AUNTY'S HOUSE — By James Whitcomb Riley
21. 21.WILLY AND THE LADY — By Gelett Burgess
22. 22.THE ITINERANT TINKER — By Charles Raymond Macauley — PEDANTIC PEDAGOGUE
23. 23.THE STRIKE OF ONE — By Elliott Flower
24. 24.SIMON STARTS IN THE WORLD — By J.J. Hooper
25. 25.A PIANO IN ARKANSAS — By Thomas Bangs Thorpe
26. 26.WHAR DEM SINFUL APPLES GROW — By Anne Virginia Culbertson
27. 27.A NIGHT IN A ROCKING-CHAIR — By Kate Field
28. 28.ROLLO LEARNING TO PLAY — By Robert J. Burdette — SPELL AND DEFINE:
29. 29.MR. HARE TRIES TO GET A WIFE — By Anne Virginia Culbertson
30. 30.THE CO-OPERATIVE HOUSEKEEPERS [2] — By Elliott Flower
31. 31.A COMMITTEE FROM KELLY'S — By J.V.Z. Belden
32. 32.QUIT YO' WORRYIN' — By Anne Virginia Culbertson
33. 33.HER "ANGEL" FATHER [3] — By Elliott Flower
34. 34.ESPECIALLY MEN — By George Randolph Chester
35. 35.A LETTER FROM A SELF-MADE MERCHANT TO HIS SON — By George Horace Lorimer
36. 36.FAREWELL — Provoked by Calverley's "Forever" — By Bert Leston Taylor
37. 37.MY RUTHERS — By James Whitcomb Riley
38. 38.THE DUTIFUL MARINER [4] — By Wallace Irwin
39. 39.MELINDA'S HUMOROUS STORY — By May McHenry
40. 40.ABOU BEN BUTLER — By John Paul
41. 41.LATTER-DAY WARNINGS — By Oliver Wendell Holmes
42. 42.IT PAYS TO BE HAPPY [5] — By Tom Masson
43. 43.THE MOSQUITO — By William Cullen Bryant
44. 44."TIDDLE-IDDLE-IDDLE-IDDLE-BUM! BUM!" — By Wilbur D. Nesbit
45. 45.MY FIRST CIGAR — By Robert J. Burdette
46. 46.A BULLY BOAT AND A BRAG CAPTAIN — A Story of Steamboat Life on the Mississippi — By Sol Smith
47. 47.FOOTNOTES:

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