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Various. The Best American Humorous Short Stories
The Best American Humorous Short Stories
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
ALEXANDER JESSUP
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Footnotes
THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN AND HIS WATER LOTS
BY GEORGE POPE MORRIS (1802–1864)
THE ANGEL OF THE ODD
[From The Columbian Magazine, October, 1844.]
BY EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809–1849)
THE SCHOOLMASTER'S PROGRESS
By Caroline M.S. Kirkland (1801–1864)
THE WATKINSON EVENING
[From Godey's Lady's Book, December, 1846.]
TITBOTTOM'S SPECTACLES
BY GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS (1824–1892)
MY DOUBLE; AND HOW HE UNDID ME
By Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909)
A VISIT TO THE ASYLUM FOR AGED AND DECAYED PUNSTERS
By Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894)
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A FEMALE PUNSTER
SECT. I. OF VERBAL EXERCISES
SECT. III. OF DEPORTMENT AT MEALS
THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY
By Mark Twain (1835–1910)
ELDER BROWN'S BACKSLIDE
By Harry Stillwell Edwards (1855- )
II
III
IV
V
THE HOTEL EXPERIENCE OF MR. PINK FLUKER
BY RICHARD MALCOLM JOHNSTON (1822–1898)
I
II
THE NICE PEOPLE
By Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855–1896)
THE BULLER-PODINGTON COMPACT
BY FRANK RICHARD STOCKTON (1834–1902)
COLONEL STARBOTTLE FOR THE PLAINTIFF
By Bret Harte (1839–1902)
THE DUPLICITY OF HARGRAVES
By O. Henry (1862–1910)
DEAR MISS TALBOT:
BARGAIN DAY AT TUTT HOUSE
By George Randolph Chester (1869- )
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
MR. J. BELMONT VAN KAMP,
VII
EDWARD EASTMAN ELLSWORTH, ESQ.,
J. BELMONT VAN KAMP
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
A CALL
By Grace MacGowan Cooke (1863- )
HOW THE WIDOW WON THE DEACON
By William James Lampton ( −1917)
GIDEON
By Wells Hastings (1878- )
