미국인의 재치와유머의 소작품 1권.Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, by Various

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미국인의 재치와유머의 소작품.Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, by Various
CONTENTS
WASHINGTON IRVING
Wouter Van Twiller 1
Wilhelmus Kieft 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 Billings")
Natral and Unnatral Aristokrats 77
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
The Yankee Recruit 81
What Mr. Robinson Thinks 170
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
My Summer in a Garden 90
FREDERICK S. COZZENS
Living in the Country 111
CHARLES GODFREY LELAND
Hans Breitmann's Party 127
FRANCES M. WHICHER
Tim Crane and the Widow 129
JOHN GODFREY SAXE
The Stammering Wife 135
ANDREW V. KELLEY ("Parmenas Mix")
He Came to Pay 139
MARIETTA HOLLEY
A Pleasure Exertion 144
EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN
The Diamond Wedding 162
MISCELLANEOUS
Why He Left 23
A Boy's Essay on Girls 38
Identified 47
One Better 48
A Rendition 57
A Cause for Thanks 73
Crowded 103
The Wedding Journey 105
A Case of Conscience 126
He Rose to the Occasion 136
Polite 137
Lost, Strayed or Stolen 138
A Gentle Complaint 141
Music by the Choir 173
MARK TWAIN
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calveras County 177