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Title: The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.)
Author: Various
Editor: Marshall P. Wilder
Release Date: July 1, 2006 [EBook #18734]
Language: English
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THE WIT AND HUMOR OF AMERICA
In Ten Volumes
VOL. III
[Illustration: SAMUEL L. CLEMENS (MARK TWAIN)]
THE WIT AND HUMOR OF AMERICA
EDITED BY MARSHALL P. WILDER
_Volume III_
Funk & Wagnalls Company
New York and London
Copyright MDCCCCVII, BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
Copyright MDCCCCXI, THE THWING COMPANY
CONTENTS
PAGE
Arkansas Planter, An Opie Read 556
Auto Rubaiyat, The Reginald Wright Kauffman 546
Ballade of the "How To" Books, A John James Davies 416
Bohemians of Boston, The Gelett Burgess 519
Courtin', The James Russell Lowell 524
Crimson Cord, The Ellis Parker Butler 470
Diamond Wedding, The Edmund Clarence Stedman 549
Dislikes Oliver Wendell Holmes 536
Dos't o' Blues, A James Whitcomb Riley 486
Dying Gag, The James L. Ford 569
Elizabeth Eliza Writes a Paper Lucretia P. Hale 454
Garden Ethics Charles Dudley Warner 425
Genial Idiot Suggests a Comic Opera, The John Kendrick Bangs 504
Hans Breitmann's Party Charles Godfrey Leland 446
Hired Hand and "Ha'nts," The E.O. Laughlin 419
In Elizabeth's Day Wallace Rice 572
In Philistia Bliss Carman 567
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