Category: Humour
_The author thanks_ LIFE, JUDGE, THE CENTURY, THE QUILL, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE LITERARY REVIEW, _and_ THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE _for kind permission to include in this volume certain contributions to those publications. He hopes he has remembered to ask such permission in each ca...
Plury was a cosmopolitan. Her rear axle was Italian, her steering-wheel was French, her magneto was Austrian, and her mudguards were Belgian. It was hard to maintain her neutral...
3. Part 3Be that as it may, these lugubrious specimens are on my hands. I kept them in the living-room till I couldn't stand them there any longer. (Strangers would ask me how I happened...
6. Part 6Becoming purple in the face, my master nearly twisted my crank off. He heaped upon me the most insulting and unjust imprecations, as though it were my fault that my health was g...
2. Part 2Later, when Susie's bright young man, dressed in a nobby Kuppenheimer suit, comes to win her heart with a box of Huyler's, Mama whom Papa still adores because her complexion is...
4. Part 4Thanks to the roadside advertisements, driving a car has become as easy as playing a pianola. You just watch the instructions that appear along the edge, and regulate your lever...
1. Part 1_The author thanks_ LIFE, JUDGE, THE CENTURY, THE QUILL, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE LITERARY REVIEW, _and_ THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE _for kind permission to include in this volume certa...
7. Part 7Beholding his home in flames, the ant rushed back indoors to spread the alarm. Along the highways of the interior he sped, a second Paul Revere, rousing the sleeping insects, of...
8. Part 8Italian opera was made possible by the discovery of spaghetti, the serpentine food that produces coloratura tissue. A few miles of this swallowed daily will keep the palate _leg...