Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, Volume II

+--------------------------------------------+ | LITTLE MASTERPIECES OF | | AMERICAN WIT AND HUMOR | | | | Edited by THOMAS L. MASSON | +----------------------------------------...

It must not be supposed from the tenor of these remarks that we are opposed to the publication of a properly conducted and creditably executed illustrated paper. "On the contrar...

"Now, look here, old friend, I know the human race; and I know that when a man comes to Washington, I don't care if it's from Heaven, let alone Cherokee Strip, it's because he _...

A seafaring friend just from a tropical voyage had presented me with a bunch of bananas. They were not quite ripe, and I hung them before my window to mature in the sun of McGin...

There were very good reasons why we should go (for of course I would not think of taking such a journey without Euphemia). In the first place, it would be of advantage to me, in...

"It looks that way, ma'am, but really it ain't," replied the girl. "It seemed to me as if it would be a mercy to both of 'em to have the thing settled. So I cleared away a place...

I was fumbling in my pocket for a little change wherewith to dismiss him--for that is usually the easiest way of getting off your premises and your conscience the applicant for...

Lo! here, with hirsute honors doffed, succinct Of saponaceous locks, the priest who linked In Hymen's golden bands the torn unthrift, Whose means exiguous stared through many a...

At five o'clock of the morning of the tenth of July, 1860, the front door of a certain house on Anchor Street, in the ancient seaport town of Rivermouth, might have been observe...

There rested all the Spriggins tribe, each in his little urn, On which the names and dates were carved, as each had died in turn; And Spriggins, _père_, was proud of them, and o...