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Herbert S. Stone & Co.

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Subjects
American wit and humor, Comedy sketches

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Cover of: A book of American prose humor
A book of American prose humor: being a collection of humorous and witty tales, sketches, etc.
1907, Duffield & Company
in English
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Cover of: A book of American prose humor
A book of American prose humor: being a collection of humorous and witty tales, sketches, etc.
1904, Herbert S. Stone & Co.
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Table of Contents

The Shakers ; A business letter / Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne)
Oats ; Our oldest inhabitants
two of them / Josh Billings (Henry W. Shaw)
The interviewer ; Scotty Briggs and the clergyman / Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens)
Milling in Pompeii ; All about oratory ; My mine / Bill Nye (Edgar Wilson Nye)
Samantha at Saratoga / Josiah Allen's wife (Marietta Holley)
Chimmie meets the Duchess ; Chimmie enters polite society / E.W. Townsend
The genial idiot on the four hundred / John Kendrick Bangs
"Checker's" letter / Henry M. Blossom, Jr.
The fable of the two mandolin players and the willing performer ; Claudie / George Ade
On the French character ; On the Victorian era ; On golf / Mr. Dooley (F.P. Dunne)
In the country / Hayden Caruth
John Henry on butting-in ; Mr. and Mrs. Dinkelspiel discuss literary matters ; Dinkelspiel explains the Dreyfus case / George V. Hobart
At the opera ; In love / Billie Baxter (W.J. Kountz, Jr.).

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Classifications

Library of Congress
PN6161 .S74 1904

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Pagination
x, 249, [1] p. ;

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OL7182356M
Internet Archive
bookofamericanpr00stoniala
LCCN
03031980
OCLC/WorldCat
3061965

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