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The Best American Humorous Short Stories
CONTENTS
| Introduction | v | |
| Alexander Jessup | ||
| The Little Frenchman and His Water Lots | (1839) | 1 |
| George Pope Morris | ||
| The Angel of the Odd | (1844) | 7 |
| Edgar Allan Poe | ||
| The Schoolmaster’s Progress | (1844) | 18 |
| Caroline M.S. Kirkland | ||
| The Watkinson Evening | (1846) | 34 |
| Eliza Leslie | ||
| Titbottom’s Spectacles | (1854) | 52 |
| George William Curtis | ||
| My Double; and How He Undid Me | (1859) | 75 |
| Edward Everett Hale | ||
| A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters | (1861) | 94 |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes | ||
| The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County | (1865) | 102 |
| Mark Twain | ||
| Elder Brown’s Backslide | (1885) | 109 |
| Harry Stillwell Edwards | ||
| The Hotel Experience of Mr. Pink Fluker | (1886) | 128 |
| Richard Malcolm Johnston | ||
| The Nice People | (1890) | 141 |
| Henry Cuyler Bunner | ||
| The Buller-Podington Compact | (1897) | 151 |
| Frank Richard Stockton | ||
| Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff | (1901) | 170 |
| Bret Harte | ||
| The Duplicity of Hargraves | (1902) | 199 |
| O. Henry | ||
| Bargain Day at Tutt House | (1905) | 213 |
| George Randolph Chester | ||
| A Call | (1906) | 237 |
| Grace MacGowan Cooke | ||
| How the Widow Won the Deacon | (1911) | 252 |
| William James Lampton | ||
| Gideon | (1914) | 260 |
| Wells Hastings | ||