Humor

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X)

Boston Ballad, A. Walt Whitman 1479 Branch Library, A. James Montgomery Flagg 1446 Chief Mate, The James Russell Lowell 1482 Columbia and the Cowboy Alice MacGowan 1582 Daniel Come to Judgment, A Edmund Vance Cooke 1399 Darius Green and His Flying Machine J. T. Trowbridge 1539...

Chapters

9. Chapter 9

"I'll sit on his front stoop all night.... Forgive me if I sound flippant; but I mean it." Snow was in the air, and I considered it a great sacrifice on my part to sit on a cold...

8. Chapter 8

I find that a man needs more money in love than he does in debt. This is not to say that I was ever very hard pressed; but I hated to pay ten dollars "on account" when the total...

7. Chapter 7

"I never knowed but one case of a broken heart, and that was in t'other sex, one Washington Banks. He was a sneezer. He was tall enough to spit down on the heads of your grenadi...

6. Chapter 6

"Hello, Carty," said Grady, "glad to see you. I thought you was sick. What can I do? They've stampeded. But it's a great ad. for the show, isn't it? There's four reporters that...

2. Chapter 2

"Yessah. Ef he don' come a-blowin' an' ef he _do_ come _a-singin_', den look out! I allus did notice dat ef Cunnel Blount 'gins to sing 'ligious hymns, somethin's wrong, and som...

10. Chapter 10

"I tell ye what! I'll fly a few times around the lot, To see how 't seems, then soon 's I've got The hang o' the thing, ez likely 's not, I'll astonish the nation, An' all creat...

12. Chapter 12

"I didn't mean to mention any names," said the Idiot. "But you've spotted the victim. Old John De Boodle, who made his $60,000,000 in six months after having kept a saloon on th...

3. Chapter 3

I rather thought that Alexander Would sound well at the font, While mother much preferred Leander For him who swam the Hellespont. Grandfather clamored for Uriah, While grandma...

4. Chapter 4

But why harrow the feelings by lifting the curtain From these scenes of woe? Enough, it is certain, Has here been disclosed to stir up the pity Of every benevolent heart in the...

5. Chapter 5

"Yes, the carriage is waiting," said Mrs. Devereaux. "I am under the doctor's orders, you remember, my dear. I've had a charming Thanksgiving; you don't know how much I apprecia...

14. Chapter 14

"These lands will be abandoned for the present. It may be that at some remote period there will spring up in that region a new kind of agriculture, which will cause a demand for...

13. Chapter 13

"Bet I wouldn't," Gess made answer. "I'd jest as soon sling them old knives--Mr. La Rue said me an' Tell was likely boys to train. I bet Ally'd hold as still as the Signorina 'f...

1. Chapter 1

Boston Ballad, A. Walt Whitman 1479 Branch Library, A. James Montgomery Flagg 1446 Chief Mate, The James Russell Lowell 1482 Columbia and the Cowboy Alice MacGowan 1582 Daniel C...

11. Chapter 11

"Andrew, I want you should go and bring Abilonia over here as soon as you git the work done up. There's so much I want to arrange with her, and you never know what day'll be to-...

15. Chapter 15

"An' what's this game iv goluf like, I dinnaw?" said Mr. Hennessy, lighting his pipe with much unnecessary noise. "Ye're a good deal iv a spoort, Jawnny: did ye iver thry it?"