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PREFACE My Sixty Years with James Thurber

September 1, 1957

The Lady on 142

The Catbird Seat

Memoirs of a Drudge

The Cane in the Corridor

The Secret Life of James Thurber

What Do You Mean It Was Brillig?

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Here Lies Miss Groby

The Man Who Hated Moonbaum

The Macbeth Murder Mystery

A Ride With Olympy

Destructive Forces in Life

Sex Ex Machina

The Breaking Up of the Winships

The Admiral on the Wheel

A Couple of Hamburgers

Bateman Comes Home

Doc Marlowe

The Wood Duck

The Departure of Emma Inch

There's an Owl in My Room

The Topaz Cufflinks Mystery

Snapshot of a Dog

Something to Say

The Curb in the Sky

The Black Magic of Barney Haller

If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox

The Remarkable Case of Mr. Bruhl

The Luck of Jad Peters

The Greatest Man in the World

The Evening's at Seven

One is a Wanderer

Preface to a Life

The Night the Bed Fell

The Car We Had to Push

The Day the Dam Broke

The Night the Ghost Got In

More Alarms at Night

A Sequence of Servants

The Dog That Bit People

University Days

Draft Board Nights

The Birds and the Foxes

The Little Girl and the Wolf

The Scotty Who Knew Too Much

The Very Proper Gander

The Bear Who Let It Alone

The Shrike and the Chipmunks

The Seal Who Became Famous

The Crow and the Oriole

The Moth and the Star

The Glass in the Field

The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble

The Owl Who Was God

The Unicorn in the Garden

Excelsior By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Oh When I Was...," By A. E. Housman

Barbara Frietchie By John Greenleaf Whittier

The Sands o' Dee By Charles Kingsley

Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight By Rose Hartwick Thorpe

The Pet Department

THE BLOODHOUND AND THE BUG

THE WAR BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN