by W. W. Jacobs
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LITTLE MASTERPIECES OF AMERICAN WIT AND HUMOR
VOLUME II
Bret Harte Copyright by Elliott & Fry]
+--------------------------------------------+| LITTLE MASTERPIECES OF || AMERICAN WIT AND HUMOR || || Edited by THOMAS L. MASSON |+--------------------------------------------+| VOLUME II || || _By_ || || Bret Harte James Russell Lowell || Sol Smith Mary Mapes Dodge || John Godfrey Saxe Robert J. Burdette || || and others || || || |+--------------------------------------------+| New York || Doubleday, Page & Company || 1903 |+--------------------------------------------+
Copyright, 1903, byDoubleday, Page & CompanyPublished, October, 1903
CONTENTS
_VOLUME II_
PAGE
SOL SMITH A Bully Boat and a Brag Captain 1
AMBROSE BIERCE The Dog and the Bees 8
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Dislikes 9
G. H. DERBY ("Phoenix," "Squibob") Illustrated Newspapers 13 Tushmaker's Toothpuller 67
MARY MAPES DODGE Miss Malony on the Chinese Question 22
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The Courtin' 27 A Letter from Mr. Ezekiel Bigelow 59
JOHN GODFREY SAXE The Coquette--A Portrait 31
SAMUEL L. CLEMENS ("Mark Twain") Colonel Mulberry Sellers 33
FREDERICK WILLIAM SHELTON Incidents in a Retired Life 43
BRET HARTE Melons 49 The Society upon the Stanislaus 71
CHARLES GODFREY LELAND Ballad 65
JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE The V-a-s-e 74
FRANK R. STOCKTON Pomona's Novel 76
JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE Fred Trover's Little Iron-clad 96
ROBERT JONES BURDETTE The Artless Prattle of Childhood 120
ANONYMOUS St. Peter at the Gate 130
HENRY GUY CARLETON The Thompson Street Poker Club 134
GEORGE T. LANIGAN The Fox and the Crow 140
HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Behold the Deeds! 141
FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN A Rhyme for Priscilla 146
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH A Rivermouth Romance 149
GELETT BURGESS The Bohemians of Boston 161
MARION COUTHOUY SMITH The Composite Ghost 164
BILL NYE A Fatal Thirst 175
GEORGE W. PECK Peck's Bad Boy 178
MISCELLANEOUS Susan Simpson 21 A Boston Lullaby 119 The House That Jack Built 127 An Insurance Agent's Story 144 An Epitaph 148 Some Messages Received by Teachers in Brooklyn Public Schools 171 The Trout's Appeal 174