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The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI, edited

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI, edited

by Marshall P. Wilder

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Editor
Wilder, Marshall P. (Marshall Pinckney), 1859-1915
Title
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VI. (of X.)
Credits
Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Brian Janes 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.
19324
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19324
Release Date
September 18, 2006
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Library Edition
  2. 2.THE WIT AND HUMOR OF AMERICA — In Ten Volumes — VOL. VI — THE WIT AND HUMOR OF AMERICA
  3. 3.Volume VI — 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.GRAINS OF TRUTH — BY BILL NYE
  6. 6.CHAD'S STORY OF THE GOOSE — BY F. HOPKINSON SMITH
  7. 7.UNCONSCIOUS HUMOR — BY J.K. WETHERILL — THE BEAUTIFUL CIRCUS GIRL
  8. 8.UP AND DOWN OLD BRANDYWINE — BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
  9. 9.JONES — BY LLOYD OSBOURNE — I — II — III — IV — V
  10. 10.THE BEAR STORY — THAT ALEX "IST MAKED UP HIS-OWN-SE'F" — BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
  11. 11.COLONEL CARTER'S STORY OF THE POSTMASTER — BY F. HOPKINSON SMITH
  12. 12.LOVE SONNETS OF AN OFFICE BOY — BY S.E. KISER — I — VI — VIII — XIII — XXVII
  13. 13.MR. DOOLEY ON THE GAME OF FOOTBALL — BY FINLEY PETER DUNNE
  14. 14.THE FAIRPORT ART MUSEUM — BY OCTAVE THANET
  15. 15.THE BALLAD OF GRIZZLY GULCH [1] — BY WALLACE IRWIN
  16. 16.MY PHILOSOFY — BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
  17. 17.THE SOCIETY UPON THE STANISLAUS — BY BRET HARTE
  18. 18.LOST CHORDS — BY EUGENE FIELD
  19. 19.THOUGHTS FER THE DISCURAGED FARMER — BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
  20. 20.THE MODERN FARMER [2] — BY JACK APPLETON
  21. 21.THE APOSTASY OF WILLIAM DODGE — BY STANLEY WATERLOO
  22. 22.SO WAGS THE WORLD — BY ANNE WARNER — (With apologies to Samuel Pepys, Esquire) — February first — February third — February eighth — February twentieth — March nineteenth — April sixteenth — May tenth — June seventh (the Mountains) — August tenth — August twentieth — September sixteenth — October twenty-ninth — November sixth — December ninth — December tenth — January seventeenth — April eleventh — February first
  23. 23.THE PAINTERMINE [3] — BY KENYON COX
  24. 24.THE ADVERTISER — BY EUGENE FIELD
  25. 25.THE FAMOUS MULLIGAN BALL — BY FRANK L. STANTON
  26. 26.THE GENIAL IDIOT DISCUSSES THE MUSIC CURE — BY JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
  27. 27.THE OCTOPUSSYCAT [4] — BY KENYON COX
  28. 28.THE BOOK-CANVASSER — ANONYMOUS
  29. 29.HER VALENTINE — BY RICHARD HOVEY
  30. 30.THE WELSH RABBITTERN [5] — BY KENYON COX
  31. 31.COMIC MISERIES — BY JOHN G. SAXE — I — II — III — IV — V — VI — VII — VIII
  32. 32.THE MERCHANT AND THE BOOK-AGENT — ANONYMOUS
  33. 33.THE COQUETTE — A Portrait — BY JOHN G. SAXE
  34. 34.A SPRING FEELING — BY BLISS CARMAN
  35. 35.WASTED OPPORTUNITIES [6] — BY ROY FARRELL GREENE
  36. 36.THE WEDDIN' — BY JENNIE BETTS HARTSWICK
  37. 37.THE THOMPSON STREET POKER CLUB — Some Curious Points in the Noble Game Unfolded — BY HENRY GUY CARLETON
  38. 38.THE BUMBLEBEAVER [7] — BY KENYON COX
  39. 39.AFTER THE FUNERAL — BY JAMES M. BAILEY
  40. 40.CASEY AT THE BAT — BY ERNEST LAWRENCE THAYER
  41. 41.THE MARTYRDOM OF MR. STEVENS [8] — BY HERBERT QUICK
  42. 42.THE WILD BOARDER [9] — BY KENYON COX
  43. 43.DE GRADUAL COMMENCE — BY WALLACE BRUCE AMSBARY
  44. 44.ABOU BEN BUTLER — BY JOHN PAUL
  45. 45.LATTER-DAY WARNINGS — BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
  46. 46.IT PAYS TO BE HAPPY [10] — BY TOM MASSON
  47. 47.JAMES AND REGINALD — BY EUGENE FIELD
  48. 48.BANTY TIM — REMARKS OF SERGEANT TILMON JOY TO THE WHITE MAN'S COMMITTEE OF SPUNKY POINT, ILLINOIS — BY JOHN HAY
  49. 49.EVENING — By A Tailor — BY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
  50. 50.THE OLD SETTLER — His Reasons for Thinking there is Natural Gas in Deep Rock Gulley — BY ED. MOTT
  51. 51.VERRE DEFINITE — BY WALLACE BRUCE AMSBARY
  52. 52.THE TALKING HORSE — BY JOHN T. McINTYRE
  53. 53.THE OWL-CRITIC — BY JAMES T. FIELDS
  54. 54.THE MOSQUITO — BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT
  55. 55."TIDDLE-IDDLE-IDDLE-IDDLE-BUM! BUM!" — BY WILBUR D. NESBIT
  56. 56.MY FIRST CIGAR — BY ROBERT J. BURDETTE
  57. 57.SHONNY SCHWARTZ — BY CHARLES FOLLEN ADAMS
  58. 58.A BULLY BOAT AND A BRAG CAPTAIN — A Story of Steamboat Life on the Mississippi — BY SOL SMITH
  59. 59.WHEN THE ALLEGASH DRIVE GOES THROUGH — BY HOLMAN F. DAY
  60. 60.FOOTNOTES:

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