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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Footnotes
THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN AND HIS WATER LOTS : BY GEORGE POPE MORRIS (1802-1864)
THE ANGEL OF THE ODD : BY EDGAR ALLAN POE (1809-1849)
THE SCHOOLMASTER'S PROGRESS : By Caroline M.S. Kirkland (1801-1864)
THE WATKINSON EVENING : By Eliza Leslie (1787-1858)
TITBOTTOM'S SPECTACLES : BY GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS (1824-1892)
MY DOUBLE; AND HOW HE UNDID ME : By Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909)
A VISIT TO THE ASYLUM FOR AGED AND DECAYED PUNSTERS : By Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)
THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY : By Mark Twain (1835-1910)
ELDER BROWN'S BACKSLIDE : By Harry Stillwell Edwards (1855- )
THE HOTEL EXPERIENCE OF MR. PINK FLUKER : BY RICHARD MALCOLM JOHNSTON (1822-1898)
THE NICE PEOPLE : By Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855-1896)
THE BULLER-PODINGTON COMPACT : BY FRANK RICHARD STOCKTON (1834-1902)
COLONEL STARBOTTLE FOR THE PLAINTIFF : By Bret Harte (1839-1902)
THE DUPLICITY OF HARGRAVES : By O. Henry (1862-1910)
BARGAIN DAY AT TUTT HOUSE : By George Randolph Chester (1869- )
A CALL : By Grace MacGowan Cooke (1863- )
HOW THE WIDOW WON THE DEACON : By William James Lampton ( -1917)
GIDEON : By Wells Hastings (1878- )