From The Wit and Humor of America, edited by Marshall P. Wilder, Volume IV, New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls and Company, 1911; pp. i-vi.
Library Edition
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In Ten Volumes
VOL. IV
THE
WIT AND HUMOR
OF AMERICA
EDITED BY
MARSHALL P. WILDER
Volume IV
Funk & Wagnalls Company
New York and London
Copyright MDCCCCVII, BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
Copyright MDCCCCXI, BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
CONTENTS
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April Aria, An R. K. Munkittrick 711
“As Good as a Play” Horace E. Scudder 749
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, The Oliver Wendell Holmes 753
Briefless Barrister, The John G. Saxe 585
Cable-Car Preacher, The Sam Walter Foss 647
Cæsar’s Quite Lunch with Cicero James T. Fields 760
Cheer for the Consumer Nixon Waterman 740
Comin’ Home Thanksgivin’ James Ball Naylor 763
Complaint of Friends, A Gail Hamilton 604
Coupon Bonds, The J. T. Trowbridge 654
Crankidoxology Wallace Irwin 688
Desperate Race, A J. F. Kelley 742
De Stove Pipe Hole William Henry Drummond 774
Economical Pair, The Carolyn Wells 602
Family Horse, The Frederic S. Cozzens 715
Girl from Mercury, The Herman Knickerbocker Vielé 779
Grand Opera, The Billy Baxter 693
Greco-Trojan Game, The Charles F. Johnson 595
How to Know the Wild Animals Carolyn Wells 650
How We Bought a Sewin’ Machine and Organ Josiah Allen’s Wife 729
I Remember, I Remember Phœbe Cary 652
In a State of Sin Owen Wister 696
Loafer and the Squire, The Porte Crayon 767
Love Sonnets of a Husband, The Maurice Smiley 725
Meditations of a Mariner Wallace Irwin 713
Modern Advantage, A Charlotte Becker 642
Modern Eclogue, A Bliss Carman 645
My Honey, My Love Joel Chandler Harris 691
Ponchus Pilut James Whitcomb Riley 624
Praise-God Barebones Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz 765
[vi]Raggedy Man, The James Whitcomb Riley 643
The Shooting-Match A. B. Longstreet 666
Sonnet of the Lovable Lass and the Plethoric Dad J. W. Foley 723
Story of the Two Friars, The Eugene Field 588
Two Husbands, The Carolyn Wells 587
Two Pedestrians, The Carolyn Wells 603
Two Prisoners, The Carolyn Wells 641
Wolf at Susan’s Door, The Anne Warner 626
COMPLETE INDEX AT THE END OF VOLUME X.