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INTRODUCTION

ALEXANDER JESSUP.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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-)

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THE HOTEL EXPERIENCE OF MR. PINK FLUKER

BY RICHARD MALCOLM JOHNSTON (1822-1898)

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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-)

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MR. J. BELMONT VAN KAMP,

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EDWARD EASTMAN ELLSWORTH, ESQ.,

J. BELMONT VAN KAMP.

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A CALL

By Grace MacGowan Cooke (1863-)

HOW THE WIDOW WON THE DEACON

By William James Lampton (-1917)

GIDEON

By Wells Hastings (1878-)