CONTENTS

I: BANTER
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The Played-Out Humorist _W. S. Gilbert_ 25
The Practical Joker _W. S. Gilbert_ 26
To Ph[oe]be _W. S. Gilbert_ 28
Malbrouck _Father Prout_ 29
Mark Twain: A Pipe Dream _Oliver Herford_ 30
From a Full Heart _A. A. Milne_ 31
The Ultimate Joy _Unknown_ 32
Old Fashioned Fun _W. M. Thackeray_ 33
When Moonlike Ore the Hazure Seas _W. M. Thackeray_ 34
When the Frost is on the Punkin _James Whitcomb Riley_ 34
Two Men _Edwin Arlington Robinson_ 35
A Familiar Letter to Several
Correspondents _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 36
The Height of the Ridiculous _Oliver Wendell Holmes_ 38
Shake, Mulleary and Go-ethe _H. C. Bunner_ 40
A Rondelay _Peter A. Motteux_ 41
Winter Dusk _R. K. Munkittrick_ 42
Comic Miseries _John G. Saxe_ 42
Early Rising _John G. Saxe_ 44
To the Pliocene Skull _Bret Harte_ 46
Ode to Work in Springtime _Thomas R. Ybarra_ 47
Old Stuff _Bert Leston Taylor_ 48
To Minerva _Thomas Hood_ 49
The Legend of Heinz Von Stein _Charles Godfrey Leland_ 49
The Truth About Horace _Eugene Field_ 50
Propinquity Needed _Charles Battell Loomis_ 51
In the Catacombs _Harlan Hoge Ballard_ 52
Our Native Birds _Nathan Haskell Dole_ 53
The Prayer of Cyrus Brown _Sam Walter Foss_ 54
Erring in Company _Franklin P. Adams_ 55
Cupid _William Blake_ 56
If We Didn't Have to Eat _Nixon Waterman_ 57
To My Empty Purse