Category: Short Stories
A good after-dinner speech 16 Afternoon teas 174 Alexander 46 Almost won the bet 23 Any port in a storm 34 Artemus Ward at the theatre 159 Awful lot of practice, an 135 Axioms 14 Bashful bridegroom, a 84 Boo! 96 Boomerang stories 113 Brandied peaches 63 Business boy, a promisi...
A good after-dinner speech 16 Afternoon teas 174 Alexander 46 Almost won the bet 23 Any port in a storm 34 Artemus Ward at the theatre 159 Awful lot of practice, an 135 Axioms 1...
2. Part 2Once upon a time there was a minister, a very orthodox man, and he was very fond of pepper-sauce, and he liked it piping hot, the very strongest kind on the market. Distrusting...
3. Part 3On another occasion this same clergyman was annoyed by a bustling preacher who walked up to him in public, and, in a voice that arrested the attention of all within hearing, cha...
4. Part 4"Say ----" continued Spoopendyke, growing quite confidential, "I had a queer experience the other night. My wife she says I snore. Well, mebby I do. Most men do. But women snore...
5. Part 5"Mamma," said a little girl, "George Washington never told a lie, did he?" Being so assured, she continued: "And I guess pretty nearly everybody else did?" This being likewise a...
6. Part 6"Then the patient Adam, trying to saw enough kitchen wood to last over Sunday, with a piece of flint for a saw, would have to pause and gather up enough words to say:
7. Part 7"One very stormy night I was coming home late, and noticed a light in the window of a room where I knew a poor woman lived whose husband was lost at sea. I wondered what kept he...
8. Part 8Deacon Broadbent, an honest and pious man, was conducting a Christmas revival with great success. In a word, his powerful exhortations had brought Calhoun White, the town's wors...