# Cream of the jug

Author: Overton, Grant M. (Grant Martin), 1887-1930 [Editor]

Genre: Humorous stories, American

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78305

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Cream+of+the+jug+Overton&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

A good many harsh things are likely to be said about this collection of humorous stories and I may as well get in first by saying a few of them right here. Not all of them are likely to strike any given reader as being humorous; certainly not all of them are humorous in the same sense nor in anything like the same degree. Humor, from the writer's standpoint, can hardly be defined except as a method of presenting material; from a reader's standpoint, as anything and everything conducive to good-natured laughter. Humor may be brief; perhaps is better so; nevertheless I have aimed to include only humorous writing which also tells a fully-rounded story--writing in which the humor is incidenta...

## Chapters

- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/cream-of-the-jug-78305/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/cream-of-the-jug-78305/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/cream-of-the-jug-78305/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/cream-of-the-jug-78305/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/cream-of-the-jug-78305/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/cream-of-the-jug-78305/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/cream-of-the-jug-78305/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/cream-of-the-jug-78305/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/cream-of-the-jug-78305/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/cream-of-the-jug-78305/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/cream-of-the-jug-78305/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/cream-of-the-jug-78305/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/cream-of-the-jug-78305/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/cream-of-the-jug-78305/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/cream-of-the-jug-78305/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/cream-of-the-jug-78305/chapters/16/index.md)
