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Стивен Ликок. Laugh With Leacock
Laugh With Leacock
Table of Contents
My Financial Career
Buggam Grange: A Good Old Ghost Story
How We Kept Mother’s Day. As Related by a Member of the Family
The Laundry Problem. A Yearning for the Good Old Days of the Humble Washerwoman
The Great Detective
I
II
THE METHOD OF RECONDITE KNOWLEDGE
III. THE TRAMP SOLUTION
THE MURDER WAS COMMITTED BY SOMEBODY ELSE ALTOGETHER DIFFERENT
THE SOLUTION OF THE THOROUGHLY DANGEROUS WOMAN
THE SOLUTION THAT THE MURDER WAS COMMITTED BY BLUE EDWARD
IV
THE CRIMINAL WITH THE HACKING COUGH
The Old, Old Story of How Five Men Went Fishing
Guido the Gimlet of Ghent: A Romance of Chivalry
The Hallucination of Mr. Butt
Cast Up by the Sea. A Sea Coast Melodrama (As Thrown up for 30 cents)—Period, 1880
ACT II—Same Evening. The Kitchen of the Haycroft Farm
ACT III—Two Years Later. The Fore Shore After Sunset. A Gathering Storm
ACT IV
ACT V—Six Months Later. Scene. The Kitchen of the Haycroft Farm
How My Wife and I Built Our Home for $4.90. Related in the Manner of the Best Models in the Magazines
Softening the Stories for the Children. But Don’t Do It: They Prefer Them Rough
The Everlasting Angler
I. THE STORY OF THE FISH THAT WAS LOST
II. STORY OF THE EXTRAORDINARY BAIT
III. BEGINNER’S LUCK, OR THE WONDERFUL CATCH MADE BY THE NARRATOR’S WIFE’S LADY FRIEND
IV. THE STORY OF WHAT WAS FOUND IN THE FISH
Love Me, Love My Letters
The Use of Ink for the First Inklings of Love
I. THE OLD-FASHIONED STYLE
II. THE NEWER STYLE OF TO-DAY
III. TRULY RURAL
IV. HYDRAULIC LOVE
THE ANSWERS THEY GOT
WHAT THE PROFESSOR GOT
WOMANLY EPISTLE SENT FROM POSTAL STATION B-28, NEW YORK, TO ARCADIA P. O., VERMONT
THE ANSWER FROM MISS GEORGIA SIMS, BLOOR STREET, TORONTO
The Golfomaniac
Gertrude the Governess: or, Simple Seventeen. Synopsis of Previous Chapters: There are no Previous Chapters
Letters to the New Rulers of the World
No. I. To the Secretary of the League of Nations
No. II—To a Disconsolate King
No. III—To a Plumber
No. IV—To a Hotel Manager
No. V—To a Prohibitionist
No. VI—To a Spiritualist
The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythias
My Lost Dollar
Personal Experiments with the Black Bass
The Restoration of Whiskers a Neglected Factor in the Decline of Knowledge
Old Junk and New Money. A Little Study in the Latest Antiques
Oxford as I See It
The Snoopopaths or Fifty Stories in One
My Affair with My Landlord
The Give and Take of Travel. A Study in Petty Larceny, Pro and Con
The Retroactive Existence of Mr. Juggins
Homer and Humbug, an Academic Discussion
“We Have with Us To-Night”
Caroline’s Christmas: or, The Inexplicable Infant
Father Knickerbocker—A Fantasy
Simple Stories of Success or How to Succeed in Life
Historical Drama
Humour As I See It
L’Envoi. The Faded Actor
