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

Author: Various

Editor: Marshall P. Wilder

Release Date: January 26, 2008 [EBook #24434]

Language: English

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Transcriber's Note: To aid in finding items through
the index, the following list contains the page
numbers covered in each volume:

Volume 1 - 1 - 220
Volume 2 - 221 - 402
Volume 3 - 403 - 584
Volume 4 - 585 - 802
Volume 5 is not Library Edition and has
different page numbering
Volume 6 - 985 - 1216
Volume 7 - 1217 - 1398
Volume 8 - 1399 - 1634
Volume 9 - 1635 - 1800
Volume 10 - 1801 - 2042
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Library Edition

THE WIT AND HUMOR OF AMERICA

In Ten Volumes

VOL. X

[Illustration: FRANK L. STANTON]

THE WIT AND HUMOR OF AMERICA

EDITED BY MARSHALL P. WILDER

_Volume X_

Funk & Wagnalls Company
New York and London

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

CONTENTS

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Araminta and the Automobile Charles Battell Loomis 1825
At Aunty's House James Whitcomb Riley 2007
Backsliding Brother, The Frank L. Stanton 1972
Biggs' Bar Howard D. Sutherland 1967
Bookworm's Plaint, A Clinton Scollard 1878
Breitmann in Politics Charles Godfrey Leland 1943
Concord Love Song, A James Jeffrey Roche 1913
Contentment Oliver Wendell Holmes 1952
Demon of the Study, The John Greenleaf Whittier 1869
Der Oak Und Der Vine