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- Wit and Humor of America, The Vol 03
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The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the third volume, 45 short stories and poems have been gathered from 33 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)
The Wit and Humor of America series was edited by American humorist Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1859 - 1915)(from Wikipedia)
- Chapters
- 00 - Our New Neighbors at Ponkapog by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- 01 - My First Trip To Portland by Major Jack Downing
- 02 - Wild Animals I Have Met by Carolyn Wells
- 03 - A Ballade of the 'How To' Books by John James Davies
- 04 - The Tree-Toad by James Whitcomb Riley
- 05 - The Hired Hand and Ha'nts by E.O. Laughlin
- 06 - Maxioms by Carolyn Wells
- 07 - Garden Ethics by Charles Dudley Warner
- 08 - A Traveled Donkey by Bert Leston Taylor
- 09 - Selecting the Faculty by Baynard Rust Hall
- 10 - Little Orphant Annie by James Whitcomb Riley
- 11 - Hans Breitmann's Party by Charles Godfrey Leland
- 12 - Rollo Learning to Read by Robert J. Burdette
- 13 - Elizabeth Eliza Writes a Paper by Lucretia P. Hale
- 14 - Mr. Stiver's Horse by James Montgomery Bailey
- 15 - The Crimson Cord by Ellis Parker Butler
- 16 - The Rhyme of the Chivalrous Shark by Wallace Irwin
- 17 - The Plaint of Jonah by Robert J. Burdette
- 18 - A Dos't O'Blues by James Whitcomb Riley
- 19 - Morris and the Honorable Tim by Myra Kelly
- 20 - The Genial Idiot Suggests a Comic Opera by John Kendrick Bangs
- 21 - Wamsley's Automatic Pastor by Frank Crane
- 22 - The Bohemians of Boston by Gelett Burgess
- 23 - A Letter From Home by Wallace Irving
- 24 - The Courtin' by James Russell Lowell
- 25 - The Tower of London, And Science And Natural History by Artemus Ward
- 26 - Dislikes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- 27 - Uncle Simon and Uncle Jim by Artemus Ward
- 28 - The Little Mock-Man by James Whitcomb Riley
- 29 - Mammy's Lullabye by Strickland W. Gillilan
- 30 - My Sweetheart by Samuel Minturn Peck
- 31 - The Auto Rubaiyat by Reginald Wright Kauffman
- 32 - The Two Ladies by Carolyn Wells
- 33 - The Diamond Wedding by Edmund Clarence Stedman
- 34 - An Askansas Planter by Opie Read
- 35 - The Two Young Men by Carolyn Wells
- 36 - The Two Housewives by Carolyn Wells
- 37 - In Philistia by Bliss Carman
- 38 - The Dying Gag by James L. Ford
- 39 - In Elizabeth's Day by Wallace Rice
- 40 - The Two Automobilists by Carolyn Wells
- 41 - The New Version by W.J. Lampton
- 42 - Southern Sketches by Bill Arp
- 43 - The Two Business Men by Carolyn Wells
- 44 - The Retort by George P. Morris