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

Author: Various

Editor: Marshall P. Wilder

Release Date: January 26, 2008 [EBook #24432]

Language: English

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THE WIT AND HUMOR OF AMERICA

In Ten Volumes

VOL. VIII

[Illustration: ROBERT J. BURDETTE]

THE WIT AND HUMOR OF AMERICA

EDITED BY MARSHALL P. WILDER

_Volume VIII_

Funk & Wagnalls Company New York and London

Copyright MDCCCCVII, BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
Copyright MDCCCCXI, THE THWING COMPANY

CONTENTS

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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
"Day is Done, The" Phoebe Cary 1628
Dictum Sapienti John Paul 1624
Duluth Speech, The J. Proctor Knott 1606
Enchanted Hat, The Harold MacGrath 1510
Eve's Daughter Edward Rowland Sill 1605
Fate R. K. Munkittrick 1554
Final Choice, The Edmund Vance Cooke 1427
Forbearance of the Admiral, The Wallace Irwin 1553
Gentle Art of Boosting, The John Kendrick Bangs 1575
Girl and the Julep, The Emerson Hough 1401
Grandfather Squeers James Whitcomb Riley 1571
Guest at the Ludlow