A BOOK OF AMERICAN PROSE HUMOR

270 pages

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