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INTRODUCTION

WASHINGTON IRVING

WOUTER VAN TWILLER

WILHELMUS KIEFT

PETER STUYVESANT

ANTONY VAN CORLEAR

GENERAL VAN POFFENBURGH

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

MAXIMS

EPITAPH FOR HIMSELF

WHY HE LEFT

WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER

NOTHING TO WEAR

A BOY'S ESSAY ON GIRLS

HENRY WARD BEECHER

DEACON MARBLE

THE DEACON'S TROUT

THE DOG NOBLE AND THE EMPTY HOLE

OLD GRIMES

IDENTIFIED

ONE BETTER

MY AUNT

N. P. WILLIS

MISS ALBINA McLUSH

A SMACK IN SCHOOL

A RENDITION

B. P. SHILLABER ("Mrs. Partington")

FANCY DISEASES

BAILED OUT

SEEKING A COMET

GOING TO CALIFORNIA

MRS. PARTINGTON IN COURT

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

THE DEACON'S MASTERPIECE;

FIVE LIVES

JAMES T. FIELDS

THE OWL-CRITIC

A CAUSE FOR THANKS

JOHN HAY

LITTLE BREECHES

HENRY W. SHAW ("Josh Billings")

NATRAL AND UNNATRAL ARISTOKRATS

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

THE YANKEE RECRUIT

CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER

MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN

CROWDED

THE ALARMED SKIPPER

THE WEDDING JOURNEY

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE

"OUR SUMATRA CORRESPONDENCE

MUSIC-POUNDING

FREDERICK S. COZZENS

LIVING IN THE COUNTRY

LOVE IN A COTTAGE

A CASE OF CONSCIENCE

HANS BREITMANN'S PARTY

FRANCES M. WHICHER

TIM CRANE AND THE WIDOW

THE STAMMERING WIFE

HE ROSE TO THE OCCASION

POLITE

LOST, STRAYED OR STOLEN

HE CAME TO PAY

A GENTLE COMPLAINT

THE BALLAD OF THE OYSTERMAN

MARIETTA HOLLEY

A PLEASURE EXERTION

EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN

THE DIAMOND WEDDING

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

WHAT MR. ROBINSON THINKS

MUSIC BY THE CHOIR

MARK TWAIN

THE NOTORIOUS JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY2