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The Humour of America

by Angus Evan Abbott

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  1. 1Note
  2. 2My Dog
  3. 3Knee-Deep in June
  4. 4Baked Beans and Culture
  5. 5The Nice People
  6. 6The Eureky Rat-Trap
  7. 7The School Examination
  8. 8“Wouldn’t You Like to Know?”
  9. 9The Artless Prattle of Childhood
  10. 10Speech on the Babies
  11. 11On Cyclones
  12. 12Our Correspondent Has the Honour to Be
  13. 13Yawcob Strauss
  14. 14The Minister’s Wooing
  15. 15Albina McLush
  16. 16A Long Time Ago
  17. 17The Professor Under Chloroform
  18. 18Our Travelled Parson
  19. 19A Railroad “Recussant”
  20. 20An Unmarried Female
  21. 21The Courtin’
  22. 22The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story
  23. 23Pomona’s Novel
  24. 24Tempest in a Tub
  25. 25The Stout Gentleman
  26. 26My Summer in a Garden
  27. 27The Quaker Coquette
  28. 28Cat-Fishing
  29. 29Captain Stick and Tony
  30. 30“Items” From the Press of Interior California
  31. 31An Avalanche of Drugs
  32. 32Music
  33. 33Maxims
  34. 34Model of a Letter of Recommendation of a Person You Are Unacquainte…
  35. 35Echo-Song
  36. 36Colonel Mulberry Sellers
  37. 37The Owl-Critic
  38. 38Annihilates an Oberlinite
  39. 39An Economical Project
  40. 40Miss Mehetabel’s Son
  41. 41Peck’s Bad Boy
  42. 42A Captive Maiden
  43. 43Mrs. Partington in Court
  44. 44The Music-Grinders
  45. 45Miss Crump’s Song
  46. 46A Polyglot Barber
  47. 47At the Giant’s Causeway
  48. 48Hans Breitmann’s Barty
  49. 49Our New Bedstead
  50. 50A Quilting
  51. 51A Patented Child
  52. 52A Talk About Tea
  53. 53A Petition of the Left Hand
  54. 54Women’s Fashions
  55. 55The Newsboy
  56. 56The Boys Around the House
  57. 57Mr. Doty Mad
  58. 58Our Two Opinions
  59. 59One of Mr. Ward’s Business Letters
  60. 60The Showman’s Courtship
  61. 61Ye Pedagogue
  62. 62Settling Under Difficulties
  63. 63Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe
  64. 64Going to California
  65. 65“Roughing It”
  66. 66The Head-Writer
  67. 67Peleg W. Ponder; or, the Politician Without a Side
  68. 68The Shakers
  69. 69“Early Rising”
  70. 70How Santa Claus Came to Simpson’s Bar
  71. 71The Breach of Promise Case
  72. 72Epitaph for Himself
  73. 73The Duke of Bridgewater
  74. 74A Visit to Brigham Young
  75. 75Duet for the Breakfast-Table
  76. 76Kitty Answers
  77. 77Puck
  78. 78The Revenge of St. Nicholas
  79. 79An Aphorism and a Lecture
  80. 80Aphorisms
  81. 81An English Funeral
  82. 82A Lost Child
  83. 83Among the Spirits
  84. 84Poetry and the Poet
  85. 85A New System of English Grammar
  86. 86Biographical Index of American Humorists

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