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Title: The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.)

Author: Various

Editor: Marshall P. Wilder

Release Date: July 7, 2006 [EBook #18776]

Language: English

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THE WIT AND HUMOR OF AMERICA

In Ten Volumes

VOL. IV

[Illustration: JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS]

THE WIT AND HUMOR OF AMERICA

EDITED BY MARSHALL P. WILDER

_Volume IV_

Funk & Wagnalls Company
New York and London

Copyright MDCCCCVII, BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
Copyright MDCCCCXI, THE THWING COMPANY

CONTENTS

PAGE
April Aria, An R.K. Munkittrick 711
"As Good as a Play" Horace E. Scudder 749
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, The Oliver Wendell Holmes 753
Briefless Barrister, The John G. Saxe 585
Cable-Car Preacher, A Sam Walter Foss 647
Caesar's Quiet Lunch with Cicero James T. Fields 760
Cheer for the Consumer Nixon Waterman 740
Comin' Home Thanksgivin' James Ball Naylor 763
Complaint of Friends, A Gail Hamilton 604
Coupon Bonds, The J.T. Trowbridge 654
Crankidoxology Wallace Irwin 688
Desolation Tom Masson 686
Desperate Race, A J.F. Kelley 742
De Stove Pipe Hole William Henry Drummond 774
Economical Pair, The Carolyn Wells 602
Family Horse, The Frederick A. Cozzens 715
Girl from Mercury, The Herman Knickerbocker Viele 779
Grand Opera, The