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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.


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Library Edition
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THE   WIT   AND   HUMOR
OF   AMERICA

In Ten Volumes

VOL. IV


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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 IV




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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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

Desolation    Tom Masson 686

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

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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

Victory    Tom Masson 714

Wolf at Susan’s Door, The    Anne Warner 626




COMPLETE INDEX AT THE END OF VOLUME X.











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