The Best American Humorous Short Stories : (18 Stories). Includes Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, George Randolph Chester, Henry Cuyler Bunner, Bret Harte, Richard Malcolm Johnston and more

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The Little Frenchman and His Water Lots by George Pope Morris
The Angel of the Odd by Edgar Allan Poe
The Schoolmaster's Progress by Caroline M.S. Kirkland
The Watkinson Evening by Eliza Leslie
Titbottom's Spectacles by George William Curtis
My Double; And How He Undid Me by Edward Everett Hale
A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters by Oliver W. Holmes
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain
Elder Brown's Backslide by Harry Stillwell Edwards
The Hotel Experience of Mr. Pink Fluker by Richard Malcolm Johnston
The Nice People by Henry Cuyler Bunner
The Buller-Podington Compact by Frank Richard Stockton
Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff by Bret Harte
The Duplicity of Hargraves by O. Henry
Bargain Day at Tutt House by George Randolph Chester
A Call by Grace MacGowan Cooke
How the Widow Won the Deacon by William James Lampton
Gideon by Wells Hastings