| title | creator | language | description | tableOfContents | contributor | subject | created |
| Fishes of the Wakarusa River in Kansas | | en | | | | | 2010-03-05 |
| How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney Kept New Year's
And Other Stories | Murray, W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison), 1840-1904 | en | | | | | 2005-07-16 |
| Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and the First Christmas of New England | Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 | en | | | | New England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; Christmas stories | 2004-01-01 |
| Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor
Volume I | Various | en | | IRVING -- Wouter Van Twiller -- Wilhelmus Kieft -- Peter Stuyvesant -- Antony Van Corlear -- General Van Poffenburgh -- FRANKLIN Maxims -- Model of a Letter of Recommendation of a Person You Are Unacquainted with -- Epitaph for Himself -- BUTLER Nothing to Wear -- BEECHER Deacon Marble -- The Deacon's Trout -- The Dog Noble and the Empty Hole -- GREENE Old Grimes -- HOLMES My Aunt -- The Deacon's Masterpiece; or, the Wonderful -- "One-hoss Shay" -- Foreign Correspondence -- Music-Pounding -- The Ballad of the Oysterman -- WILLIS Miss Albina McLush -- Love in a Cottage -- PALMER A Smack in School -- SHILLABER ("Mrs. Partington") -- Fancy Diseases -- Bailed Out -- Seeking a Comet -- Going to California -- Mrs. Partington in Court -- SILL Five Lives -- FIELDS The Owl-Critic -- The Alarmed Skipper -- HAY Little Breeches -- SHAW ("Josh Billings") Natral and Unnatral Aristokrats -- LOWELL The Yankee Recruit -- What Mr. Robinson Thinks -- WARNER My Summer in a Garden -- COZZENS Living in the Country -- LELAND Hans Breitmann's Party -- WHICHER Tim Crane and the Widow -- SAXE The Stammering Wife -- KELLEY ("Parmenas Mix") He Came to Pay -- HOLLEY A Pleasure Exertion -- STEDMAN The Diamond Wedding -- MISCELLANEOUS Why He Left -- A Boy's Essay on Girls -- Identified -- One Better -- A Rendition -- A Cause for Thanks -- Crowded -- The Wedding Journey -- A Case of Conscience -- He Rose to the Occasion -- Polite -- Lost, Strayed or Stolen -- A Gentle Complaint -- Music by the Choir -- TWAIN The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calveras County. | Masson, Thomas L., 1866-1934 [Editor] | | 2007-04-21 |
| The Busted Ex-Texan and Other Stories | Murray, W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison), 1840-1904 | en | | The busted ex-Texan -- How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney celebrated New Year's -- The leaf of red rose. | | | 2009-04-05 |
| The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV | Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894 | en | | Deacon Brodie, or the double life -- Beau Austin -- Admiral Guinea -- Macaire. | Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 [Other] | | 2009-12-10 |
| The Deacon of Dobbinsville
A Story Based on Actual Happenings | Morrison, John Arch, 1893-1965 | en | | | | | 2004-06-01 |
| The Best American Humorous Short Stories | | en | Edited and introduced by Alexander Jessup | The little Frenchman and his water lots -- The angel of the odd -- The schoolmaster's progress -- The Watkinson evening -- Titbottom's spectacles -- My double; and how he undid me -- A visit to the asylum for aged and decayed punsters -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County -- Elder Brown's backslide -- The hotel experience of Mr. Pink Fluker -- The nice people -- The Buller-Podington compact -- Colonel Starbottle for the plaintiff -- The duplicity of Hargraves -- Bargain day at Tutt House -- A call -- How the widow won the deacon -- Gideon. | | | 2004-02-01 |
| The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) | Various | en | | Anatole Dubois at de Horse Show, by Amsbary -- The Billville Spirit Meeting, by Stanton -- The British Matron, by Hawthorne -- The Champion Checker-Player of Ameriky, by Riley -- Colonel Sterett's Panther Hunt, by Lewis -- A Cry from the Consumer, by Nesbit -- The Curse of the Competent, by Finn -- Darby and Joan, by Honeywood -- The Day We Do Not Celebrate, by Burdette -- The Deacon's Masterpiece; or, The Wonderful "One-Hoss Shay", by Holmes -- The Deacon's Trout, by Beecher -- A Disappointment, by O'Reilly -- Distichs, by Hay -- Down Around the River, by Riley -- Enough, by Masson -- The Experiences of the A.C., by Taylor -- The Feast of the Monkeys, by Sousa -- The Fighting Race, by Clarke -- The Grammatical Boy, by Nye -- Grizzly-Gru, by Ironquill -- John Henry in a Street Car, by McHugh -- Laffing, by Billings -- A Letter from Mr. Biggs, by Howe -- A Medieval Discoverer, by Nye -- Melons, by Harte -- The Menagerie, by Moody -- Mrs. Johnson, by Howells -- The Muskeeter, by Billings -- My Grandmother's Turkey-Tail Fan, by Peck -- Myopia, by Rice -- An Odyssey of K's, by Nesbit -- The Old Maid's House: In Plan, by Phelps -- The Organ, by Beecher -- Partingtonian Patchwork, by Shillaber -- Pass, by Ironquill -- The Pettibone Lineage, by Fields -- A Psalm of Life, by Cary -- The Purple Cow, by Burgess -- The Quarrel, by Kiser -- Similar Cases, by Gilman -- Simple English, by Rose -- Spelling Down the Master, by Eggleston -- Stage Whispers, by Wells -- Teaching by Example, by Saxe -- The Tragedy of It, by Noble -- The Turnings of a Bookworm, by Wells -- Wanted--A Cook, by Dale -- What Mr. Robinson Thinks, by Lowell -- When Albani Sang, by Drummond -- When the Frost is on the Punkin, by Riley -- Why Moles Have Hands, by Culbertsonn -- Wouter Van Twiller, by Irving -- The Yankee Dude'll Do, by Kiser. | Wilder, Marshall Pinckney, 1859-1915 [Editor] | American wit and humor; American literature -- Humor | 2006-05-28 |
| Yorksher Puddin'
A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the
Pen of John Hartley | Hartley, John, 1839-1915 | en | | Frozen to Death -- Pill Jim's Progress Wi' Johns Bunion -- Moravian Knight's Entertainment -- Sperrit Rappin -- Ther's a Mule I' th' Garden -- A Neet at "Widup's Rest" -- Tinklin' Tom -- Th' New Schooil Booard -- Tha Caps me Nah! -- Nay Fer Sewer! -- Th' Battle o' Tawkin -- "Owd Tommy" -- It Mud ha' been War -- Ha a Dead Donkey Towt a Lesson -- One, Two, Three -- Sammy Bewitched -- Hard to Pleeas -- Ratcatchin' -- Owd Moorcock -- Peace Makkin -- Awr Emma-A False Alarm -- Niver Judge by Appearances -- Mi First Testimonial -- Five Paand Nooat -- Silly Billy -- Put up wi' it -- A Queer Dream -- The Mystery of Burt's Babby -- Mak th' best on't -- Mrs Spaiktruth's Pairty -- Why Tommy isn't a Deacon -- One Amang th' Rest -- What's yor Hurry? -- Ha Owd Stooansnatch's Dowter gate Wed -- Th' New Railrooad -- Mose Hart's Twelvth Mess -- Th' Hoil-i'th'-Hill Statty -- Owd Dawdles -- Property Huntin' -- Abraham's Sparrib -- A Run ovver th' Year | | | 2006-04-14 |
| Children of the Tenements | Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914 | en | | The rent baby -- A story of Bleecker Street -- The kid hangs up his stocking -- The slipper-maker's fast -- Death comes to Cat Alley -- A proposal on the elevated -- Little Will's message -- Lost children -- Paolo's awakening -- The little dollar's Christmas journey -- The kid -- When the letter came -- The cat took the kosher meat -- Nibsy's Christmas -- In the children's hospital -- Nigger Martha's wake -- What the Christmas sun saw in the tenements -- Midwinter in New York -- A chip from the maelstrom -- Sarah Joyce's husbands -- Merry Christmas in the tenements -- Abe's game of jacks -- A little picture -- A dream of the woods -- 'Twas 'Liza's doings -- Heroes who fight fire -- John Gavin, misfit -- A heathen baby -- The christening in Bottle Alley -- In the Mulberry Street court -- Difficulties of a deacon -- Fire in the barracks -- War on the goats -- He kept his tryst -- Rover's last fight -- How Jim went to the war -- A backwoods hero -- Jack's sermon -- Skippy of Scrabble Alley -- Making a way out of the slum. | Relyea, C. M. (Charles Mark), 1863-1932 [Illustrator] | Short stories, American; Tenement houses -- Fiction; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction | 2007-05-23 |
| The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) | Various | en | | An Archæological Congress, by Burdette -- Aunt Dinah's Kitchen, by Stowe -- Ballad, by Leland -- Barney McGee, by Hovey -- The Beecher Beached, by Tabb -- A Boy's View of It, by Stanton -- Budd Wilkins at the Show, by Kiser -- The Colonel's Clothes, by Gilman -- Comin' Thu, by Culbertson -- The Dutchman Who Had the "Small Pox," by Leland -- An Evening Musicale, by Fisk -- Familiar Authors at Work, by Carruth -- Fascination, by Tabb -- The Golfer's Rubaiyat, by Boynton -- Go Lightly, Gal (The Cake Walk), by Culbertson -- Grandma Keeler Gets Grandpa Ready for Sunday-School, by Greene -- The Hoosier and the Salt Pile, by Marble -- How "Ruby" Played, by Bagby -- A Letter, by Nasby -- The Lost Word, by Paul -- Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum, by Irwin -- Mr. Dooley on Gold-Seeking, by Dunne -- Mr. Dooley on Reform Candidates, by Dunne -- Natural Perversities, by Riley -- A Nautical Ballad, by Carryl -- The Old Deacon's Version of the Story of the Rich Man and Lazarus, by Stanton -- Our Best Society, by Curtis -- Plagiarism, by Tabb -- The Recruit, by Chambers -- "Ringworm Frank", by Riley -- A Rival Entertainment, by Field -- Samuel Brown, by Cary -- Seffy and Sally, by Long -- She Talked, by Foss -- The Strike at Hinman's, by Burdette -- The Two Brothers, by Wells -- The Two Farmers, by Wells -- The Two New Houses, by Wells -- The Two Suitors, by Wells -- Vive La Bagatelle, by Burgess -- Walk, by Devere -- The Way it Wuz, by Riley -- Yawcob Strauss, by Adams -- Yes?, by O'Reilly. | Wilder, Marshall Pinckney, 1859-1915 [Editor] | American wit and humor; American literature -- Humor | 2006-05-28 |