| The Magic Egg and Other Stories | Stockton, Frank Richard, 1834-1902 | en | | The magic egg -- His wife's deceased sister -- The widow's cruise -- Captain Eli's best ear -- Love before breakfast -- The staying power of Sir Rohan -- A piece of red calico -- The Christmas wreck -- My well and what came out of it -- Mr. Tolman -- My unwilling neighbor -- Our archery club. | | Short stories; United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction | 1996-02-01 |
| The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) | Various | en | | An April Aria, by Munkittrick -- "As Good as a Play", by Scudder -- The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, by Holmes -- The Briefless Barrister, by Saxe -- A Cable-Car Preacher, by Foss -- Cæsar's Quiet Lunch with Cicero, by Fields -- Cheer for the Consumer, by Waterman -- Comin' Home Thanksgivin', by Naylor -- A Complaint of Friends, by Hamilton -- The Coupon Bonds, by Trowbridge -- Crankidoxology, by Irwin -- Desolation, by Masson -- A Desperate Race, by Kelley -- De Stove Pipe Hole, by Drummond -- The Economical Pair, by Wells -- The Family Horse, by Cozzens -- Girl from Mercury, by Vielé -- The Grand Opera, by Baxter -- The Greco-Trojan Game, by Johnson -- How to Know the Wild Animals, by Wells -- How We Bought a Sewin' Machine and Organ, by Allen -- I Remember, I Remember, by Cary -- In a State of Sin, by Wister -- The Loafer and the Squire, by Crayon -- The Love Sonnets of a Husband, by Smiley -- Meditations of a Mariner, by Irwin -- A Modern Advantage, by Becker -- A Modern Eclogue, by Carman -- My Honey, My Love, by Harris -- Ponchus Pilut, by Riley -- Praise-God Barebones, by Cortissoz -- The Raggedy Man, by Riley -- The Shooting-Match, by Longstreet -- Sonnet of the Lovable Lass and the Plethoric Dad, by Foley -- Story of the Two Friars, by Field -- The Two Husbands, by Wells -- The Two Pedestrians, by Wells -- The Two Prisoners, by Wells -- Victory, by Masson -- The Wolf at Susan's Door, by Warner. | Wilder, Marshall Pinckney, 1859-1915 [Editor] | American wit and humor; American literature -- Humor | 2006-07-07 |