A book filled with humorous words of wisdom.

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A BOOK OF AMERICAN PROSE HUMOR

CONTENTS

ARTEMUS WARD (Charles Farrar Browne)
 The Shakers
 A Business Letter

JOSH BILLINGS (Henry W. Shaw)
 Oats
 Our Oldest Inhabitants—Two of Them

MARK TWAIN (Samuel L. Clemens)
 The Interviewer
 Scotty Briggs and the Clergyman

BILL NYE (Edgar Wilson Nye)
 Milling in Pompeii
 All About Oratory
 My Mine

JOSIAH ALLEN'S WIFE (Marietta Holley)
 Samantha At Saratoga

E. W. TOWNSEND
 Chimmie Meets The Duchess
 Chimmie Enters Polite Society

JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
 The Genial Idiot On The Four Hundred

HENRY M. BLOSSOM, JR.
 “Checker’s” Letter

GEORGE ADE
 The Fable of the Two Mandolin Players And the Willing Performer
 Claudie

MR. DOOLEY (F. P. Dunne)
 On The French Character
 On the Victorian Era
 On Golf

HAYDEN CARUTH
 In The Country

GEORGE V. HOBART
 John Henry on Butting-In
 Mr. and Mrs. Dinkelspiel Discuss Literary Matters
 Dinkelspiel Explains the Dreyfus Case

BILLIE BAXTER (W. J. Kountz, Jr.)
 At the Opera
 In Love

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