The Wit of Women

About this eBook

Author

Sanborn, Kate, 1839-1917

Title

The Wit of Women Fourth Edition

Credits

E-text prepared by Bryan Ness, Jen Haines, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from digital material generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries ( www.archive.org/details/americana)

Language

English

LoC Class

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

Subject

Wit and humor

Category

Text

eBook-No.

28503

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28503

Release Date

April 5, 2009

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.E-text prepared by Bryan Ness, Jen Haines, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net ) from digital material generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries ( http://www.archive.org/details/americana ) — THE WIT OF WOMEN
2. 2.INTRODUCTION.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.PROEM. [a]
5. 5.THE WIT OF WOMEN.
6. 6.CHAPTER I. — THE VEGETABLE GIRL.
7. 7.CHAPTER II. — THE TALKING LADY. — THE SENSIBLE WOMAN. — THE FIRST QUARREL. — FUN AND PHILOSOPHY.
8. 8.CHAPTER III. — JOSHUA'S COURTSHIP. — SAM LAWSON'S SAYINGS. — THE CANAL-BOAT.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. — MISS LUCINDA'S PIG. — A GIFT HORSE. — MISS SLIMMENS SURPRISED.
10. 10.CHAPTER V. — AUNT ANNIKY'S TEETH. — THE RADICAL CLUB.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. — THE INDIAN AGENT. — MISTRESS O'RAFFERTY ON THE WOMAN QUESTION. — DOCHTHER O'FLANNIGAN AND HIS WONDHERFUL CURES. — THE OLD-TIME RELIGION. — AUNTY DOLEFUL'S VISIT. — A THANKSGIVING GROWL.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. — OLD-TIME CHILD LIFE. — MRS. MEEKER. — PARSON MEEKER. — A FATAL REPUTATION. — A BLACKSMITH IN LOVE. — "MISS LOIS." — THE CIRCUS AT DENBY. — NEW YORK TO NEWPORT.
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. — THE FIRST NEEDLE. — THE FUNNY STORY. — A SONNET. — WANTED, A MINISTER. — THE MIDDY OF 1881. — INDIGNANT POLLY WOG. — "KISS PRETTY POLL!" — THANKSGIVING-DAY (THEN AND NOW). — CONCERNING MOSQUITOES. — THE STILTS OF GOLD. — JUST SO. — THE INVENTOR'S WIFE. — AN UNRUFFLED BOSOM. — HAT, ULSTER AND ALL. — AUCTION EXTRAORDINARY. — A APELE FOR ARE TO THE SEXTANT.
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. — A MODERN MINERVA. — THE BALLAD OF CASSANDRA BROWN. — THE TENDER HEART. — PLIGHTED: A.D. 1874. — A FRAGMENT. — THE THREE POETS. — BEDTIME. — THE ROBIN AND THE CHICKEN. — WHY POLLY DOESN'T LOVE CAKE! — KITTEN TACTICS. — BOTH SIDES.
15. 15.CHAPTER X. — STRUGGLING GENIUS. — ACT I.
16. 16.INDEX.

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