Witty Pieces by Witty People

Witty Pieces by Witty People
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Various. Witty Pieces by Witty People

Witty Pieces by Witty People

Table of Contents

AT PLAY

WITTY PIECES BY WITTY PEOPLE

A COLLECTION

MR. AND MRS. BOWSER

The Former Decides to Give a Progressive Euchre Party

Reasonable

Few Things Boston Girls Don't Know

Saved His Honor

A Bricklayer

A Business Term

NOW SHE IS THIN AND HE IS FAT

The Wonderful Case of the Mullenhausers, Who Bathed at Coney Island

Was Qualified

Where They Might Economize

Just Why

She Knew One When She Saw It

An Incentive to Study

Connoisseurs

THE LIMEKILN CLUB

How Major Drawbar Jones Escaped Expulsion on Serious Charges

A Good Trade

A Poetical Cook

Knowledge Is Power

A Good Reason for Stopping a Newspaper

With Interest

Three Periods of Love

Where Hens Are Useful

Not so Mad After All

Practical Theology

How it Affects Them

Cheap Postage

A MODEST TALE

It Is Cheerfully Told by a Georgia Munchausen

Hugging the Shore

A Night of Terror

Where the Gold Comes From

His Cure for Sleeplessness

Hard to Believe

AFTER A CLEW

Methods of the Modern Detective Illustrated by a Small Incident

Two of a Kind

A Change of Manœuver

The Latest Style

Certainly

Knew All the Ladies

The Collar Line

A Foregone Conclusion

A Simple Fish Story

An Unwelcome Invention

No Balm on Sunday

An Explanation

She Could Smell It

Offended

Journalistic Comprehensiveness

A Fatal Mistake

Successful Speculation

Her Business

Burdette on Womankind

It Was a Bad Mixing Up

Last Year's Trouble

At the Ball

A Thrilling Social Episode

THE IRISH WIDOW

Mrs. Magoogin's Promised Donation to the World's Fair Committee

His Awful Confession

An Accommodating Boss

High Up

Her Perennial Experiences

"Kin a Quack Move?"

Sleeping With the Baby

Out of Practice

What it Did

As He Knew Them

Needs an Amendment

THE IRISH WIDOW

Mrs. Magoogin Discusses a Proposed Trip to Paris

Lived on Water

Unpatriotic

She Knew the Vegetable

The Wisdom of Babes

A Cutting Remark

Their First Season

The Rascal Responded Promptly

Reveries of the Season

Not So Tough as That

She Considered it a Deliberate Insult

MR. BOWSER ON DECK ONCE MORE

He Delivers a Lecture Upon the Carelessness of Women

Both in Hard Luck

He Got There All the Same

The Course of True Love Never Did Run Smooth

Willing to Pay in Trade

Here Again

A Substitute

Wrong Train

An Unreliable Symptom

A Financial Solomon

Four Too Many

Too Much of a Denial

A Puzzled Celt

A Suitable Adviser

Broke In

Dog Days

The Firm Schoolmistress

At the London Law Courts

The Pensive Maiden

Our Cunning Kids

He Was

HE WAS ONERY BUT INNOCENT

No Evidence to Convict Thomas of Stealing the Hog

Not in His Line

Outwitted

The Reason

A Sense of Safety

New England Courtship as it Was and Is

Trotters' Rival

Everything in Its Place

MAKING A HIT

A Consolation

It Was Perfumed

Quite Sure

Only a Matter of Form

Weighed Down

Quite a Different Thing

A Negro Who Doesn't Like Chicago Manners

Too Late Even for Lecocq

MR. BOWSER AS A WHITEWASHER

He Is Not a Howling Success at Inside Decorating

The Latest About Kissing

Conclusive

THE HONEYMOON

The Sly Way in Which Prohibition Works

His Last Resort

How She Told the Latest Joke

On General Principles

His First Shave

Two Kinds of Accompaniment

A Sure Sign

A Fair Estimate

Didn't Intend to Hit Him

Eager for Absorption

MR. BOWSER IN THE COUNTRY

He Enjoys Fresh Air and Mosquitoes to His Heart's Content—His Original Method of Milking Not Indorsed by the Cow

The Hard Luck of Some People

A Disastrous Clerical Error

His Complexion Was Against Him

The Difference

Sir Wilfred Lawson's Story

Expected It

Truth in Absence

Another Kind of Habit

Family Loyalty

Not Related

One of Chauncey's Latest

But They Read of It

Oklahoma Hotel Rules

Electricity Will Do Away With All This

A Bitter Reflection

A Mistake at Table

Answering the Question

How Appearances Deceive

One Idea of It

A Truthful Statement

A Controlling Feature

A Jersey Idyl

A Point Usually Overlooked

Still Alive

Devoted Admirers, Both

A New Definition of a Bobtail Flush

She Wasn't Posted

Very Necessary

A Righteous Judge

A Family Peculiarity

Taking One Too Literally

Had No Regrets

About to Strike Dead Luck

March Winds

Reconciliation

Confiding

A Nun-Like Girl and Her Mischievous Friend

Very Serious

A WOMAN AT BANK

The Trouble she gives the Receiving Teller

An Effective Mule Invigorator

He Got the Trousers

A Curiosity

Clean in the Faith

A Large Party

MRS. FLYNN AND THE GOAT

The Lady's Stirring Narrative, with Spring Lamb Trimmings

Sam Wellerisms

Accounting for the Edition

Twenty-five Cents Ahead

Not Very Flattering

Two Kinds of Bands

It Hurt His Feelings

Young Man of Killarney

THE ELIXIR OF LIFE.—By H. C. R

Just Discovered

A Blush Absorber

An Unpardonable Error

Too Dangerous

Times Have Changed

From the Oklahoma "Snorter."

Herr Yager on the Marriage Question

Attached

Not Saving His Bacon

Her Attraction

Deaf But Sensible

JOURNAL OF SOLOMON SIDESPLITTER

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A collection of the funniest sayings, best jokes, laughable anecdotes, mirthful stories, etc., extant

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The Pensive Maiden.

Our Cunning Kids.

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