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

Author: Various

Editor: Marshall P. Wilder

Release Date: September 18, 2006 [EBook #19324]

Language: English

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THE WIT AND HUMOR OF AMERICA

In Ten Volumes

VOL. VI

[Illustration: FINLEY PETER DUNNE (MR. DOOLEY)]

THE WIT AND HUMOR OF AMERICA

EDITED BY MARSHALL P. WILDER

_Volume VI_

Funk & Wagnalls Company
New York and London

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

CONTENTS

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Abou Ben Butler John Paul 1167
Advertiser, The Eugene Field 1101
After the Funeral James M. Bailey 1146
Apostasy of William Dodge, The Stanley Waterloo 1084
Ballad of Grizzly Gulch, The Wallace Irwin 1073
Banty Tim John Hay 1173
Bear Story, The James Whitcomb Riley 1047
Book-Canvasser, The Anonymous 1113
Bully Boat and a Brag Captain, A Sol Smith 1208
Bumblebeaver, The Kenyon Cox 1145
Casey at the Bat Ernest Lawrence Thayer 1148
Chad's Story of the Goose F. Hopkinson Smith 993
Colonel Carter's Story of
the Postmaster F. Hopkinson Smith 1052
Comic Miseries John G. Saxe 1121
Coquette, The John G. Saxe 1127
De Gradual Commence Wallace Bruce Amsbary 1164
Evening Oliver Wendell Holmes 1175
Fairport Art Museum,