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From The Wit and Humor of America, edited by Marshall P. Wilder, Volume III, New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls and Company, 1911; pp. i-vi.


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Library Edition
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THE   WIT   AND   HUMOR
OF   AMERICA

In Ten Volumes

VOL. III


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[frontispiece]

Black and white crayon sketch of Mark Twain by John Cecil Clay, October 1903, with white hair and a dark moustache, wearing a light suit with a dark softly folded bowtie.


SAMUEL L. CLEMENS (MARK TWAIN)
by John Cecil Clay, October, 1903.



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THE
WIT   AND   HUMOR
OF   AMERICA

EDITED BY

MARSHALL P. WILDER




Black and white woodcut of Minerva, with helmet, seated, reading a book, between two fluted pillars.


Volume III




Funk & Wagnalls Company

New York and London




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Copyright MDCCCCVII, BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY

Copyright MDCCCCXI, BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY



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CONTENTS

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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

Letter from Home, A    Wallace Irwin 522

Little Mock-Man, The    James Whitcomb Riley 540

Little Orphant Annie    James Whitcomb Riley 444

Mammy’s Lullaby    Strickland W. Gillilan 542

Maxioms    Carolyn Wells 424

Morris and the Honorable Tim    Myra Kelly 488

Mr. Stiver’s Horse    James Montgomery Bailey 464

My First Visit to Portland    Major Jack Downing 409

My Sweetheart    Samuel Minturn Peck 544

New Version, The    W. J. Lampton 574

Our New Neighbors at Ponkapog    Thomas Bailey Aldrich 403

Plaint of Jonah, The    Robert J. Burdette 485

Retort, The    George P. Morris 584

Rhyme of the Chivalrous Shark, The    Wallace Irwin 483

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Rollo Learning to Read    Robert J. Burdette 448

Selecting the Faculty    Bayard Rust Hall 437

Southern Sketches    Bill Arp 575

Tower of London, The    Artemus Ward 528

Traveled Donkey, A    Bert Leston Taylor 428

Tree-Toad, The    James Whitcomb Riley 418

TwoAutomobilists, The    Carolyn Wells 573

Two Business Men, The    Carolyn Wells 583

Two Housewives, The    Carolyn Wells 566

Two Ladies, The    Carolyn Wells 548

Two Young Men, The    Carolyn Wells 565

Uncle Simon and Uncle Jim    Artemus Ward 539

Wamsley’s Automatic Pastor    Frank Crane 511

Wild Animals I Have Met    Carolyn Wells 414




COMPLETE INDEX AT THE END OF VOLUME X.











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