The Best American Humorous Short Stories

This Halcyon Classics ebook contains nineteen short stories by several popular American writers of the 19th and early 20th centuries, including Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Bret Harte, and O. Henry. Includes an active table of contents for easy navigation.


THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN AND HIS WATER LOTS
George Pope Morris

THE ANGEL OF THE ODD
Edgar Allan Poe

THE SCHOOLMASTER'S PROGRESS
Caroline M.S. Kirkland

THE WATKINSON EVENING
Eliza Leslie

TITBOTTOM'S SPECTACLES
George William Curtis

MY DOUBLE; AND HOW HE UNDID ME
Edward Everett Hale

A VISIT TO THE ASYLUM FOR AGED AND DECAYED PUNSTERS
Oliver Wendell Holmes

THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY
Mark Twain

ELDER BROWN'S BACKSLIDE
Harry Stillwell Edwards

THE HOTEL EXPERIENCE OF MR. PINK FLUKER
Richard Malcolm Johnston

THE NICE PEOPLE
Henry Cuyler Bunner

THE BULLER-PODINGTON COMPACT
Frank Richard Stockton

COLONEL STARBOTTLE FOR THE PLAINTIFF
Bret Harte

THE DUPLICITY OF HARGRAVES
O. Henry

BARGAIN DAY AT TUTT HOUSE
George Randolph Chester

A CALL
Grace MacGowan Cooke

HOW THE WIDOW WON THE DEACON
William James Lampton

GIDEON
Wells Hastings