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