The Best American Humorous Short Stories

Stories include:

• The Little Frenchman and His Water Lots (1839) George Pope Morris;
• The Angel of the Odd (1844) Edgar Allan Poe;
• The Schoolmaster's Progress (1844) Caroline M.S. Kirkland;
• The Watkinson Evening (1846) Eliza Leslie;
• Titbottom's Spectacles (1854) George William Curtis;
• My Double; and How He Undid Me (1859) Edward Everett Hale;
• A Visit to The Asylum For Aged and Decayed Punsters (1861) Oliver Wendell Holmes;
• The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1865) Mark Twain;
• Elder Brown's Backslide (1885) Harry Stillwell Edwards;
• The Hotel Experience of Mr. Pink Fluker (1886) Richard Malcolm Johnston;
• The Nice People (1890) Henry Cuyler Bunner;
• The Buller-Podington Compact (1897) Frank Richard Stockton;
• Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff (1901) Bret Harte;
• The Duplicity of Hargraves (1902) O. Henry
• Bargain Day at Tutt House (1905) George Randolph Chester;
• A Call (1906) Grace Macgowan Cooke;
• How The Widow Won The Deacon (1911) William James Lampton;
• Gideon (1914) Wells Hastings