{"product_id":"2940013599222","title":"THE BEST AMERICAN HUMOROUS SHORT STORIES","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e_Alexander Jessup_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE LITTLE FRENCHMAN AND HIS WATER LOTS (1839)\u003cbr\u003e_George Pope Morris_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE ANGEL OF THE ODD (1844)\u003cbr\u003e_Edgar Allan Poe_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE SCHOOLMASTER'S PROGRESS (1844)\u003cbr\u003e_Caroline M.S. Kirkland_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE WATKINSON EVENING (1846)\u003cbr\u003e_Eliza Leslie_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTITBOTTOM'S SPECTACLES (1854)\u003cbr\u003e_George William Curtis_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMY DOUBLE; AND HOW HE UNDID ME (1859)\u003cbr\u003e_Edward Everett Hale_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA VISIT TO THE ASYLUM FOR AGED AND DECAYED PUNSTERS (1861)\u003cbr\u003e_Oliver Wendell Holmes_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY (1865)\u003cbr\u003e_Mark Twain_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eELDER BROWN'S BACKSLIDE (1885)\u003cbr\u003e_Harry Stillwell Edwards_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE HOTEL EXPERIENCE OF MR. PINK FLUKER (1886)\u003cbr\u003e_Richard Malcolm Johnston_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE NICE PEOPLE (1890)\u003cbr\u003e_Henry Cuyler Bunner_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE BULLER-PODINGTON COMPACT (1897)\u003cbr\u003e_Frank Richard Stockton_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCOLONEL STARBOTTLE FOR THE PLAINTIFF (1901)\u003cbr\u003e_Bret Harte_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE DUPLICITY OF HARGRAVES (1902)\u003cbr\u003e_O. Henry_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBARGAIN DAY AT TUTT HOUSE (1905)\u003cbr\u003e  _George Randolph Chester_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA CALL (1906)\u003cbr\u003e  _Grace MacGowan Cooke_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHOW THE WIDOW WON THE DEACON (1911)\u003cbr\u003e  _William James Lampton_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGIDEON (1914)\u003cbr\u003e  _Wells Hastings_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACKNOWLEDGMENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_The Nice People_, by Henry Cuyler Bunner, is republished from his\u003cbr\u003evolume, _Short Sixes_, by permission of its publishers, Charles\u003cbr\u003eScribner's Sons. _The Buller-Podington Compact_, by Frank Richard\u003cbr\u003eStockton, is from his volume, _Afield and Afloat_, and is republished\u003cbr\u003eby permission of Charles Scribner's Sons. _Colonel Starbottle for the\u003cbr\u003ePlaintiff_, by Bret Harte, is from the collection of his stories\u003cbr\u003eentitled _Openings in the Old Trail_, and is republished by permission\u003cbr\u003eof the Houghton Mifflin Company, the authorized publishers of Bret\u003cbr\u003eHarte's complete works. _The Duplicity of Hargraves_, by O. Henry, is\u003cbr\u003efrom his volume, _Sixes and Sevens_, and is republished by permission\u003cbr\u003eof its publishers, Doubleday, Page \u0026amp; Co. These stories are fully\u003cbr\u003eprotected by copyright, and should not be republished except by\u003cbr\u003epermission of the publishers mentioned. Thanks are due Mrs. Grace\u003cbr\u003eMacGowan Cooke for permission to use her story, _A Call_, republished\u003cbr\u003ehere from _Harper's Magazine_; Wells Hastings, for permission to\u003cbr\u003ereprint his story, _Gideon_, from _The Century Magazine_; and George\u003cbr\u003eRandolph Chester, for permission to include _Bargain Day at Tutt\u003cbr\u003eHouse_, from _McClure's Magazine_. I would also thank the heirs of the\u003cbr\u003elate lamented Colonel William J. Lampton for permission to use his\u003cbr\u003estory, _How the Widow Won the Deacon_, from _Harper's Bazaar_. These\u003cbr\u003estories are all copyrighted, and cannot be republished except by\u003cbr\u003eauthorization of their authors or heirs. The editor regrets that their\u003cbr\u003epublishers have seen fit to refuse him permission to include George W.\u003cbr\u003eCable's story, \"_Posson Jone'_,\" and Irvin S. Cobb's story, _The Smart\u003cbr\u003eAleck_. He also regrets he was unable to obtain a copy of Joseph C.\u003cbr\u003eDuport's story, _The Wedding at Timber Hollow_, in time for inclusion,\u003cbr\u003eto which its merits--as he remembers them--certainly entitle it. Mr.\u003cbr\u003eDuport, in addition to his literary activities, has started an\u003cbr\u003einteresting \"back to Nature\" experiment at Westfield, Massachusetts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Footnote 1: This I have attempted in _Representative American Short\u003cbr\u003eStories_ (Allyn \u0026amp; Bacon: Boston, 1922).]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Footnote 2: Will D. Howe, in _The Cambridge History of American\u003cbr\u003eLiterature_, Vol. II, pp. 158-159 (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1918).]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Footnote 3: _A History of American Literature Since 1870_, p. 317\u003cbr\u003e(The Century Co.: 1915).]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Footnote 4: _A History of American Literature Since 1870_, pp 79-81.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Footnote 5: \"The Works of Bret Harte,\" twenty volumes. The Houghton\u003cbr\u003eMifflin Company, Boston.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Footnote 6: _The Cambridge History of American Literature_, Vol. II,\u003cbr\u003ep. 386.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Footnote 7: See this Introduction.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Footnote 8: _The Cambridge History of American Literature_, Vol. II,\u003cbr\u003ep. 385.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Footnote 9: Fred Lewis Pattee, in The Cambridge History of American\u003cbr\u003eLiterature, Vol. II, p. 394.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       *        *        *       *       *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo: CHARLES GOODRICH WHITING, Critic, Poet, Friend\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       *        *        *       *       *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE LITTLE FRENCHMAN AND HIS WATER LOTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBY GEORGE POPE MORRIS (1802-1864)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[From _The Little Frenchman and His Water Lots, with Other Sketches of\u003cbr\u003ethe Times_ (1839), by George Pope Morris.]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Look into those they call unfortunate,\u003cbr\u003e  And, closer view'd, you'll find they are unwise.--_Young._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Let wealth come in by comely thrift,\u003cbr\u003e  And not by any foolish shift:\u003cbr\u003e        ‘Tis haste\u003cbr\u003e        Makes waste:","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068775776496,"sku":"2940013599222","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013599222_p0.jpg?v=1763582833","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013599222","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}