Table of Contents
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
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
WHAT MR. ROBINSON THINKS
MUSIC BY THE CHOIR
MARK TWAIN
THE NOTORIOUS JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY2
