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The Humors of Falconbridge

by Jonathan F. Kelly

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  1. 1Dedication
  2. 2A Biographical Sketch of the Late Jonathan F. Kelly
  3. 3If It Ain’t Right, I’ll Make It All Right in the Morning!
  4. 4Don’t You Believe in ’Em?
  5. 5The Old Black Bull
  6. 6Dobbs Makes “A Pint”
  7. 7Used Up
  8. 8The Greatest Moral Engine
  9. 9The Story of Capt. Paul
  10. 10Hereditary Complaints
  11. 11Nights With the Caucusers
  12. 12Affecting Cruelty
  13. 13The Wolf Slayer
  14. 14The Man That Knew ’Em All
  15. 15A Severe Spell of Sickness
  16. 16The Race of the Aldermen
  17. 17Getting Square
  18. 18People Do Differ!
  19. 19Bill Whiffletree’s Dental Experience
  20. 20A-a-a-in’t They Thick?
  21. 21A Desperate Race
  22. 22Dodging the Responsibility
  23. 23A Night Adventure in Prairie Land
  24. 24Roosting Out
  25. 25Rather Twangy
  26. 26Passing Around the Fodder! — A Dinner Sketch
  27. 27A Hint to Soyer
  28. 28The Leg of Mutton
  29. 29A Chapter on Misers
  30. 30Dog Day
  31. 31Amateur Gardening
  32. 32The Two Johns at the Tremont
  33. 33The Yankee in a Boarding School
  34. 34A Dreadful State of Excitement
  35. 35Ralph Waldo Emerson
  36. 36Humbug
  37. 37Hotel Keeping
  38. 38“According to Gunter”
  39. 39Quartering Upon Friends
  40. 40Jake Hinkle’s Failings
  41. 41What’s Going to Happen
  42. 42The Washerwoman’s Windfall
  43. 43We Don’t Wonder at It
  44. 44Old Maguire and His Horse Bonny Doon
  45. 45Getting Into the “Right Pew”
  46. 46A Circuitous Route
  47. 47Major Blink’s First Season at Saratoga
  48. 48Old Jack Ringbolt
  49. 49Who Killed Capt. Walker?
  50. 50Practical Philosophy
  51. 51Borrowed Finery; or, Killed Off by a Ballet Girl
  52. 52Legal Advice
  53. 53Wonders of the Day
  54. 54“Don’t Know You, Sir!”
  55. 55A Circumlocutory Egg Pedler
  56. 56Jolly Old Times
  57. 57The Pigeon Express Man
  58. 58Jipson’s Great Dinner Party
  59. 59Look Out for Them Lobsters
  60. 60The Fitzfaddles at Hull
  61. 61Putting Me on a Platform!
  62. 62The Exorbitancy of Meanness
  63. 63“Taking Down” a Sheriff
  64. 64Governor Mifflin’s First Coal Fire
  65. 65Sure Cure
  66. 66Chasing a Fugitive Subscriber
  67. 67Ambition
  68. 68Way the Women Fixed the Tale-Bearer
  69. 69Penalty of Kissing Your Own Wife
  70. 70Mysteries and Miseries of Housekeeping
  71. 71Miseries of a Dandy
  72. 72A Juvenile Joe Miller
  73. 73“Selling” a Landlord
  74. 74Scientific Labor
  75. 75Who Was That Poor Woman?
  76. 76Infirmities of Nature
  77. 77Andrew Jackson and His Mother
  78. 78Snaking Out Sturgeons
  79. 79Mixing Meanings — Mangling English
  80. 80Waking Up the Wrong Passenger
  81. 81Genius for Business
  82. 82Have You Got Any Old Boots?
  83. 83The Vagaries of Nature
  84. 84A General Disquisition on “Hinges”
  85. 85Miseries of Bachelorhood
  86. 86The Science of “Diddling”
  87. 87The Re-Union; Thanksgiving Story
  88. 88Cabbage vs. Men
  89. 89Wanted — A Young Man From the Country
  90. 90Presence of Mind
  91. 91The Skipper’s Schooner
  92. 92Philosophy of the Times
  93. 93The Emperor and the Poor Author
  94. 94The Bigger Fool, the Better Luck
  95. 95An Active Settlement
  96. 96A Yankee in a Pork-house
  97. 97German Caution
  98. 98Ben. McConachy’s Great Dog Sell
  99. 99The Perils of Wealth
  100. 100Nursing a Legacy
  101. 101The Troubles of a Mover
  102. 102The Question Settled
  103. 103How It’s Done at the Astor House
  104. 104The Advertisement
  105. 105Incidents in a Fortune-Hunter’s Life
  106. 106A Distinction With a Difference
  107. 107Pills and Persimmons
  108. 108Mysteries and Miseries of the Life of a City Editor
  109. 109The Tribulations of Incivility
  110. 110The Broomstick Marriage
  111. 111Appearances Are Deceitful
  112. 112Cigar Smoke
  113. 113An Everlasting Tall Duel
  114. 114T. B. Peterson’s List of Publications

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