PREFACE.
HUMOROUS READINGS
RECITATIONS.
ACCOMPANIED ON THE FLUTE.
F. Anstey.
THE TROUBLES OF A TRIPLET.
W. Beatty-Kingston.
SLIGHTLY DEAF.
Bracebridge Hemming.
THE LADY FREEMASON.
H. T. Craven.
WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT!
From the French of M. Charles Monselet, by F. B. Harrison .
THE FATAL LEGS.
Walter Browne.
THE CALIPH'S JESTER.
A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF NOTHING.
Wilkie Collins.
GEMINI AND VIRGO.
C. S. Calverley.
KING BIBBS.
James Albery.
MOLLY MULDOON.
Anonymous.
THE HARMONIOUS LOBSTERS.
Robert Reece.
THE PROVINCIAL LANDLADY.
H. Chance Newton.
MY MATRIMONIAL PREDICAMENT.
Leopold Wagner.
ETIQUETTE.
W. S. Gilbert.
A LOST SHEPHERD.
Frank Barrett.
A MATHEMATIC MADNESS.
F. P. Dempster.
WAITING AT TOTTLEPOT.
J. Ashby-Sterry.
MARRIED TO A GIANTESS.
Walter Parke.
THE VISION OF THE ALDERMAN.
Henry S. Leigh.
THE DEMON SNUFFERS.
Geo. Manville Fenn.
THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER.
Lewis Carroll.
MY BROTHER HENRY.
J. M. Barrie.
A NIGHT WITH A STORK.
W. E. Wilcox.
THE FAITHFUL LOVERS.
F. C. Burnand.
THE WAIL OF A BANNER-BEARER.
Arthur Matthison.
THE DREAM OF THE BILIOUS BEADLE.
Arthur Shirley.
MY FRIEND TREACLE.
Watkin-Elliott.
THE VOICE OF THE SLUGGARD.
ARTEMUS WARD'S VISIT TO THE TOWER OF LONDON.
Ch. Farrar Browne.
MR. CAUDLE HAS LENT AN ACQUAINTANCE THE FAMILY UMBRELLA.
Douglas Jerrold.
DOMESTIC ASIDES.
Tom Hood.
THE CHARITY DINNER.
Litchfield Moseley.
ACTING WITH A VENGEANCE.
W. Sapte, Jun.
MY FORTNIGHT AT WRETCHEDVILLE.
George Augustus Sala.
THE SORROWS OF WERTHER.
W. M. Thackeray.
MORAL MUSIC.
(By An Experimenter.)
BILLY DUMPS, THE TAILOR.
Charles Clark.
ON PUNNING.
Theodore Hook.
SEASIDE LODGINGS.
Percy Reeve.
