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- Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 1
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Volume 1 of a ten volume collection of amusing tales, observations and anecdotes by America's greatest wordsmiths. This work includes selections by such household favorites as Mark Twain, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Benjamin Franklin and Washington Irving.
- Chapters
- Introduction
- Wouter Van Twiller
- Wilhelmus Kieft
- Peter Stuyvesant
- Antony Van Corlear
- General Van Poffenburgh
- Maxims
- Model of a Letter of Recommendation of a Person You Are Unacquainted with
- Epitaph for Himself by Benjamin Franklin
- Why He Left
- Nothing to Wear
- A Boy's Essay on Girls
- Deacon Marble
- The Deacon's Trout
- The Dog Noble and the Empty Hole
- Old Grimes
- Identified
- One Better
- My Aunt
- Miss Albina McLush
- A Smack in School
- A Rendition
- Fancy Diseases
- Bailed Out
- Seeking a Comet
- Going to California
- Mrs. Partington in Court
- Miscellaneous
- The Deacon's Masterpiece; or, the Wonderful 'One-hoss Shay'
- Five Lives
- The Owl-Critic
- A Cause for Thanks
- Little Breeches
- Natral and Unnatral Aristokrats
- The Yankee Recruit
- My Summer in a Garden
- Crowded
- The Alarmed Skipper
- The Wedding Journey
- Foreign Correspondence
- Our Sumatra Correspondence
- Music-Pounding
- Living in the Country
- Love in a Cottage
- A Case of Conscience
- Hans Breitmann's Party
- Tim Crane and the Widow
- The Stammering Wife
- He Rose to the Occasion
- Polite
- Lost, Strayed or Stolen
- He Came to Pay
- A Gentle Complaint
- The Ballad of the Oysterman
- A Pleasure Exertion
- The Diamond Wedding
- What Mr. Robinson Thinks
- Music by the Choir
- The Notorious Jumping Frog