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The Bad Boy at Home, and His Experiences in Trying to Become an EditorThe Bad Boy at Home, and His Experiences in Trying to Become an Editor - 1885 I've been intending ever since I got home from Yourope, to begin ritin' in a diry, but I ain't had no time, cos my chum Jimmy and me...
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Maw's Vacation: The Story of a Human Being in the YellowstoneMaw's Vacation: The Story of a Human Being in the YellowstoneTimes has changed, says Maw to herself, says she. Things ain't like what [1]they used to be. Time was when I worked from sunup to sundown, and we didn't have no daylight-saving contraptions on...
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The American CredoThe American Credo - A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National MindThe superficial, no doubt, will mistake this little book for a somewhat laborious attempt at jocosity. Because, incidentally to its main purpose, it unveils occasional ideas of so inordinate an erroneousness that...
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Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, Volume ILittle Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, Volume IAcknowledgments are made herewith to the following publishers, who have kindly consented to allow the reproduction of the material designated. In addition, the Editor desires to make his personal acknowledgments to the following authors: F. P....
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Love Conquers AllLove Conquers AllThe person or persons who have associated work with this document (the "Dedicator" or "Certifier") hereby either (a) certifies that, to the best of his knowledge, the work of authorship identified is in the public domain of the country from which the...
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Jokes For All OccasionsJokes For All Occasions - Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public SpeakersWit and humor, and the distinction between them, defy precise definition. Luckily, they need none. To one asking what is beauty, a wit replied: "That is the question of a...
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Ade's FablesAde's Fables Ambition came, with Sterling Silver Breast-Plate and Flaming Sword, and sat beside a Tad aged 5. The wee Hopeful lived in a Frame House with Box Pillars in front and Hollyhocks leading down toward the Pike. "I have spent many Hours brooding...
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Knocking the NeighborsKnocking the NeighborsCONTENTS The Roystering Blades The Flat-Dweller The Advantage of a Good Thing The Common Carrier The Heir and the Heiress The Undecided Bachelors The Wonderful Meal of Vittles The Galloping Pilgrim The Progressive Maniac Cognizant of our Shortcomings The Divine Spark Two...
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Ade's FablesAde's FablesCONTENTS The New Fable of the Private Agitator and What He Cooked Up The New Fable of the Speedy Sprite The New Fable of the Intermittent Fusser The New Fable of the Search for Climate The New Fable of the Father Who Jumped...
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Skiddoo!Skiddoo! To the Good Fellows of the Press who have looked upon John Henry with the Eye of Understanding, and who, realizing that these books were never intended to be more than an humble form of entertainment, have written thereof with the Pen of...
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Roughing it De LuxeRoughing it De LuxeIt is generally conceded that the Grand Caon of Arizona beggars description. I shall therefore endeavor to refrain from doing so. I realize that this is going to be a considerable contract. Nearly everybody, on taking a first look at the...
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Love Conquers AllLove Conquers AllThe author thanks the editors of the following publications for their permission to print the articles in this book: Life, The New York World, The New York Tribune, The Detroit Athletic Club News, and The Consolidated Press Association. Old scandals concerning the...
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Humorous Masterpieces from American LiteratureHumorous Masterpieces from American Literature BAYARD TAYLOR Selections from the Experiences of the A.C. WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER. Dobbs His Ferry JOHN WILLIAM DE FOREST. Father Higgins's Preferment JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE. Fred Trover's Little Iron-Clad OLIVER BELL BUNCE. Mr. Bluff Discourses on the Country and...
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More ToastsMore Toasts - Jokes, Stories and QuotationsWhat can be more fitting than that a compiled book should have a compiled introduction? Why should one with great pains and poor prospects of success attempt to do what has already been well done? Knowing that all...
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Peck's Compendium of FunPeck's Compendium of Fun - Comprising the Choicest Gems of Wit, Humor, Sarcasm and Pathos of America's Favorite HumoristWe never had a coal stove around the house until last Saturday. Have always used pine slabs and pieces of our neighbors fence. They burn well,...
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People You KnowPeople You KnowThis little book is not supposed to contain any new information. It is made up of plain observations concerning people who live just around the corner. If the reader will bear in mind that only the people who live around the corner...
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Good Stories Reprinted from the Ladies' Home Journal of PhiladelphiaGood Stories Reprinted from the Ladies' Home Journal of Philadelphia A fat woman entered a crowded street car and, seizing a strap, stood directly in front of a man seated in the corner. As the car started she lunged against his newspaper and at...
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Said the ObserverSaid the ObserverIt is the custom of some authors to preface their earlier works with excuses for sending their "little volume out into the world," and to bespeak in its behalf the leniency of both critic and reader. I have no such apologies, however,...
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Cobwebs from an Empty SkullCobwebs from an Empty SkullThe matter of which this volume is composed appeared originally in the columns of "FUN," when the wisdom of the Fables and the truth of the Tales tended to wholesomely diminish the levity of that jocund sheet. Their publication in...
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Toaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and QuotationsToaster's Handbook: Jokes, Stories, and QuotationsNothing so frightens a man as the announcement that he is expected to respond to a toast on some appallingly near-by occasion. All ideas he may ever have had on the subject melt away and like a drowning man...
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