Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, Volume I

CONTENTS

WASHINGTON IRVING
Wouter Van Twiller	1
Wilhelmus Kieft	8
Peter Stuyvesant	13
Antony Van Corlear	15
General Van Poffenburgh	18
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Maxims	21
Model of a Letter of Recommendation of a
Person You Are Unacquainted with	21
Epitaph for Himself	22
WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER
Nothing to Wear	24
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Deacon Marble	39
The Deacon's Trout	41
The Dog Noble and the Empty Hole	43
ALBERT GORTON GREENE
Old Grimes	45
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
My Aunt	49
The Deacon's Masterpiece; or, the Wonderful
"One-hoss Shay"	63
Foreign Correspondence	106
Music-Pounding	109
The Ballad of the Oysterman	142
NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS
Miss Albina McLush	51
Love in a Cottage	125
WILLIAM PITT PALMER
A Smack in School	56
B. P. SHILLABER ("Mrs. Partington")
Fancy Diseases	58
Bailed Out	59
Seeking a Comet	59
Going to California	60
Mrs. Partington in Court	61
EDWARD ROWLAND SILL
Five Lives	68
JAMES T. FIELDS
The Owl-Critic	70
The Alarmed Skipper	104
JOHN HAY
Little Breeches	74
HENRY W. SHAW ("Josh Billings")
Natral and Unnatral Aristokrats	77
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
The Yankee Recruit	81
What Mr. Robinson Thinks	170
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
My Summer in a Garden	90
FREDERICK S. COZZENS
Living in the Country	111
CHARLES GODFREY LELAND
Hans Breitmann's Party	127
FRANCES M. WHICHER
Tim Crane and the Widow	129
JOHN GODFREY SAXE
The Stammering Wife	135
ANDREW V. KELLEY ("Parmenas Mix")
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