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

Author: Various

Editor: Marshall P. Wilder

Release Date: May 28, 2006 [EBook #18465]

Language: English

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THE WIT AND HUMOR OF AMERICA

In Ten Volumes

VOL. II

[Illustration: JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY]

THE WIT AND HUMOR OF AMERICA

EDITED BY MARSHALL P. WILDER

_Volume II_

Funk & Wagnalls Company
New York and London

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

CONTENTS

PAGE
Archaeological Congress, An Robert J. Burdette 390
Aunt Dinah's Kitchen Harriet Beecher Stowe 335
Ballad Charles Godfrey Leland 355
Barney McGee Richard Hovey 223
Beecher Beached, The John B. Tabb 232
Boy's View of It, A Frank L. Stanton 393
Budd Wilkins at the Show S.E. Kiser 352
Colonel's Clothes, The Caroline Howard Gilman 396
Comin' Thu Anne Virginia Culbertson 333
Dutchman Who Had the "Small Pox," The Henry P. Leland 295
Evening Musicale, An May Isabel Fisk 325
Familiar Authors at Work Hayden Carruth 289
Fascination John B. Tabb 222
Golfer's Rubaiyat, The H.W. Boynton 319
Go Lightly, Gal (The Cake Walk) Anne Virginia Culbertson 317
Grandma Keeler Gets Grandpa Ready
for Sunday-School Sarah P. McLean Greene 266
Hoosier and the Salt Pile, The Danforth Marble