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Tables of Contents for Mark Twain's Library of Humor
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction to the Modern Library Humor and Wit Series
ix
Steve Martin
Introduction
xiii
Roy Blount, Jr.
Editorial Note
xxi
Introduction
xxvii
Index of Authors
xxxv
Index of Titles
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
3
7
Mark Twain
Warm Hair
10
1
Mark Twain
A Fight with a Trout
10
6
Charles Dudley Warner
The Villager and the Snake
16
1
George Thomas Lanigan
How We Astonished the Rivermouthians
17
10
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The Legend of Mimir
27
2
Robert Jones Burdette
Tushmaker's Toothpuller
29
2
John Phœnix
The Tomb of Adam
31
1
Mark Twain
Rev. Cream Cheese and the New Livery, etc.
32
12
George William Curtis
Carrie's Comedy
44
3
William Livingstone Alden
To Correspondents
47
2
Josh Billings
The Worst Man and the Stupidest Man in Turkey
49
6
Samuel S. Cox
First-Class Snake Stories
55
2
His First Day at Editing
57
5
Eugene Field
Abelard and Heloise
62
5
Mark Twain
A Family Horse
67
7
F. W. Cozzens
A Genuine Mexican Plug
74
4
Mark Twain
A Visit to Brigham Young
78
4
Artemus Ward
The Simple Story of G. Washington
82
3
Robert J. Burdette
The Courtin'
85
4
James Russell Lowell
'Tis Only My Husband
89
10
Joseph C. Neal
A Day's Work
99
6
Mark Twain
Trying to Understand a Woman
105
4
W. D. Howells
A Female Base-Ball Club
109
3
James M. Bailey
Woman
112
1
Josh Billings
The Robin and the Woodpecker
112
1
Ambrose Bierce
The Tar Baby
113
5
Uncle Remus
Dick Baker's Cat
118
4
Mark Twain
The Haunted Room
122
2
R. J. Burdette
A Restless Night
124
5
Mark Twain
Rip Van Winkle
129
15
Washington Irving
The Ostrich and the Hen
144
1
Geo. T. Lanigan
Women's Rights
145
1
Artemus Ward
Nothing to Wear
146
9
William Allen Butler
Illustrated Newspapers
155
8
John Phœnix
Jack Downing in Portland
163
2
Seba Smith
A Dose of Pain Killer
165
3
Mark Twain
Fables of the Hodja
168
3
Samuel S. Cox
The Dog and the Bees
171
1
Ambrose Bierce
Sicily Burns's Wedding
171
5
George W. Harris
Ballad of the Rhine
176
2
Hans Breitmann
The Expensive Treat of Col. Moses Grice
178
15
Richard Malcolm Johnston
One of Mr. Ward's Business Letters
193
1
Artemus Ward
Woman Suffrage
194
1
R. J. Burdette
On ``Forts''
194
1
Artemus Ward
The Fox and the Crow
195
1
Geo. T. Lanigan
European Diet
196
5
Mark Twain
The Vacation of Mustapha
201
3
R. J. Burdette
The First Piano in a Mining Camp
204
7
Sam Davis
Darius Green and His Flying Machine
211
7
J. T. Trowbridge
Plumbers
218
2
Charles Dudley Warner
The Remarkable Wreck of the ``Thomas Hyke''
220
18
Frank R. Stockton
Experience of the McWilliamses with Membraneous Croup
238
6
Mark Twain
The Hodja's Donkey on His Veracity
244
1
S. S. Cox
Little Breeches
245
2
John Hay
Love's Young Dream
247
7
W. D. Howells
The Belle of Vallejo
254
3
W. L. Alden
Kitty Answers
257
7
W. D. Howells
Fourth of July Oration
264
3
Artemus Ward
The Parson's Horse-Race
267
8
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Wrecked in Port
275
2
R. J. Burdette
A Pleasure Exertion
277
10
Marietta Holley
The Ant and the Grain of Corn
287
3
Ambrose Bierce
The Man and the Goose
290
1
Ambrose Bierce
Nevada Nabobs in New York
290
3
Mark Twain
A Jersey Centenarian
293
5
Bret Harte
Phœnix at Sea
298
3
John Phœnix
A Victim of Hospitality
301
4
Rev. F. W. Shelton
The Donation Party
305
2
R. J. Burdette
The Peterkins Decide to Learn the Languages
307
7
Lucretia Peabody Hale
A Fatal Thirst
314
2
Bill Nye
Mrs. Brown's Fate
316
1
Captain Ben's Choice
316
9
Mrs. Francis Lee Pratt
The Mackrel
325
1
Josh Billings
A Quick Eye for Business
326
1
The Owl-Critic
327
2
Jas. T. Fields
The Kind-Hearted She-Elephant
329
1
Geo. T. Lanigan
A Dog in Church
330
3
Mark Twain
A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters
333
6
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Minnesota Wheat
339
1
Getting a Glass of Water
340
2
F. W. Cozzens
The Hodja as a Prophet
342
1
S. S. Cox
Blue-Jays
342
5
Mark Twain
An Italian's View of a New England Winter
347
2
J. M. Bailey
The Nobleman and the Oyster
349
1
Ambrose Bierce
Custom House Morals
350
1
W. D. Howells
A Western Reminiscence
351
1
The Total Depravity of Inanimate Things
351
11
Katherine Kent Child Walker
Oon Criteek de Bernhardt
362
5
Eugene Field
Lectures on Astronomy
367
11
John Phœnix
Little Charles and the Fruit
378
2
Our Italian Guide
380
5
Mark Twain
She Had to Take Her Things Along
385
1
Robert J. Burdette
The Garden and its Enemies
386
3
Charles Dudley Warner
The Hodja Makes Up His Mind to Marry
389
1
S. S. Cox
The Old Settler
390
4
Edward Harold Mott
Boy the Destroyer
394
2
Charles Dudley Warner
The Type-Writer
396
1
Robert J. Burdette
High-Handed Outrage at Utica
397
1
Artemus Ward
At Niagara
397
3
W. D. Howells
A New System of English Grammar
400
6
John Phœnix
In Sis's Interest
406
1
The Deacon's Masterpiece
407
3
O. W. Holmes
``Not Like in Like, but Like in Difference''
410
1
R. J. Burdette
Lost in the Snow
411
7
Mark Twain
Uncle Joshua Downing in Boston
418
5
Seba Smith
John Phœnix Renders the Editor of the ``San Diego Herald'' an Account of His Stewardship
423
3
John Phœnix
Economical Indeed
426
1
Hans Breitmann's Party
427
1
Hans Breitmann
A New Patent Medicine Operation
428
4
Q. K. Philander Doesticks
The Centipede and the Barbaric Yak
432
1
G. T. Lanigan
The Cayote
433
3
Mark Twain
The Hodja's House
436
1
S. S. Cox
The Boy and the Tortoise
436
1
Ambrose Bierce
The Friend of My Youth
437
13
T. B. Aldrich
The Camel and the Zebra
450
1
Ambrose Bierce
``Success with Small Fruits''
451
1
R. J. Burdette
Natral and Unnatral Aristokrats
452
2
Josh Billings
Examples of Turkish Justice
454
3
S. S. Cox
A Great Fit
457
2
Orpheus C. Kerr
Artemus Ward and the Prince of Wales
459
3
Artemus Ward
Brilliant Drunkards
462
1
Charles Dudley Warner
Train Manners
463
3
R. J. Burdette
Their First Quarrel
466
3
W. D. Howells
The Neat Person
469
1
Josh Billings
Railway Volapuk
470
1
R. J. Burdette
Simon Suggs Gets a ``Soft Snap'' on His Daddy
471
11
Johnson J. Hooper
Found
482
1
Josh Billings
Colonel Sellers at Home
482
15
Mark Twain
Interview with President Lincoln
497
3
Artemus Ward
The Alarmed Skipper
500
2
J. T. Fields
How I Killed a Bear
502
7
Charles Dudley Warner
The Grasshopper and the Ant
509
1
G. T. Lanigan
A Sleeping-Car Experience
509
6
Bret Harte
The Shopper
515
1
R. J. Burdette
The Bumble Bee
516
1
Josh Billings
Another Chance for Sorosis
517
1
R. J. Burdette
After the Funeral
517
2
J. M. Bailey
Cannibalism in the Cars
519
8
Mark Twain
Pie
527
1
Charles Dudley Warner
Butterwick's Little Gas Bill
528
2
Anonymous
Pistol Shooting---A Counter Challenge
530
2
John Phœnix
Boston
532
6
Artemus Ward
Sewing-Machine---Feline Attachment
538
2
John Phœnix
The Merchant of Venice and The Good Samaritan
540
1
G. T. Lanigan
Preaching v. Practice
541
1
R. J. Burdette
The Society Upon the Stanislaus
541
2
Bret Harte
What He Wanted It For
543
1
J. M. Bailey
Ants, Etc.
544
1
Josh Billings
The Romance of the Carpet
544
2
R. J. Burdette
Mr. Simpkins's Downfall
546
3
W. L. Alden
Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox
549
6
Uncle Remus
How I Edited an Agricultural Paper
555
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