| Joel Chandler Harris.
1848–1908. |
Humor in America |
| Benjamin Franklin.
1706–1790. |
Poor Richard to the ‘Courteous Reader’ |
| The Whistle |
| Dialogue between Franklin and the Gout |
| Friends and Acquaintances |
| Franklin as a Teetotaler |
| Maxims |
| The Ephemera |
| Model of a Letter of Recommendation of a Person You are Unacquainted With |
| To Miss Georgiana Shipley |
| Franklin at Versailles |
| Epitaph for Himself |
| Francis Hopkinson.
1737–1791. |
The Battle of the Kegs |
| James Kirke Paulding.
1778–1860. |
The Revenge of Saint Nicholas |
| Washington Irving.
1783–1859. |
Wouter Van Twiller |
| Wilhelmus Kieft |
| Peter Stuyvesant |
| Antony Van Corlear |
| General Van Poffenburgh |
| The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
| Fitz-Greene Halleck.
1790–1867. |
A Fragment |
| Domestic Happiness |
| Augustus Baldwin Longstreet.
1790–1870. |
The Horse-Swap |
| Georgia Theatrics |
| Seba Smith.
1792–1868. |
My First Visit to Portland |
| William Cullen Bryant.
1794–1878. |
The Mosquito |
| Robert Charles Sands.
1799–1832. |
A Monody |
| Albert Gorton Greene.
1802–1868. |
Old Grimes |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne.
1804–1864. |
The British Matron |
| Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment |
| Mr. Higginbotham’s Catastrophe |
| Nathaniel Parker Willis.
1806–1867. |
Miss Albina McLush |
| Love in a Cottage |
| Tom Fane and I |
| Edmund Quincy.
1808–1877. |
Who Paid for the Prima Donna? |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes.
1809–1894. |
An Aphorism and a Lecture |
| Foreign Correspondence |
| Music-Pounding |
| Dislikes |
| The Deacon’s Masterpiece |
| My Aunt |
| The Ballad of the Oysterman |
| The Height of the Ridiculous |
| A Walk with the Schoolmistress |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe.
1811–1896. |
The Minister’s Wooing |
| William Tappan Thompson.
1812–1882. |
A Proposal |
| Practical Jokes |
| Henry Ward Beecher.
1813–1887. |
Deacon Marble |
| The Deacon’s Trout |
| Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber.
1814–1890. |
Fancy Diseases |
| Bailed Out |
| Seeking a Comet |
| Going to California |
| Mrs. Partington in Court |
| Mrs. Partington’s Oracular Pearls |
| Sayings of Mrs. Partington |
| Joseph Glover Baldwin.
1815–1864. |
Ovid Bolus, Esq. |
| Johnson J. Hooper.
1815–1862. |
Taking the Census, Part Second |
| James Thomas Fields.
1817–1881. |
The Owl-Critic |
| The Alarmed Skipper |
| The Pettibone Lineage |
| John Godfrey Saxe.
1816–1887. |
The Coquette |
| The Stammering Wife |
| My Familiar |
| Early Rising |
| Ego et Echo |
| The Little Maid and the Lawyer |
| The Briefless Barrister |
| Frederick Swartwout Cozzens.
1818–1869. |
Living in the Country |
| A Family Horse |
| Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw).
1818–1885. |
Natral and Unnatral Aristokrats |
| The Bumblebee |
| To Correspondents |
| Marriage |
| The Bizzy Body |
| Tight Boots |
| A Hen |
| The Gote |
| James Russell Lowell.
1819–1891. |
A Letter from Mr. Ezekiel Biglow |
| The Yankee Recruit |
| What Mr. Robinson Thinks |
| A Letter |
| The Soldier’s Return |
| The Courtin’ |
| Without and Within |
| Richard Grant White.
1822–1885. |
My Lord Entertains Two Americans |
| Edward Everett Hale.
1822–1909. |
My Double and How He Undid Me |
| Donald Grant Mitchell (Ik Marvel).
1822–1908. |
Over a Wood Fire |
| George Horatio Derby.
1823–1861. |
Illustrated Newspapers |
| Tushmaker’s Toothpuller |
| George William Curtis.
1824–1892. |
Miss Minerva Tattle at Saratoga and Newport |
| Aurelia |
| Charles Godfrey Leland.
1824–1903. |
Hans Breitmann’s Party |
| Ballad: ‘Der noble Ritter Hugo’ |
| Breitmann in Battle |
| A Musical Duel |
| William Allen Butler.
1825–1902. |
Nothing to Wear |
| John Townsend Trowbridge.
1827–1916. |
Fred Trover’s Little Iron-Clad |
| Charles Graham Halpine.
1829–1868. |
Irish Astronomy |
| Charles Dudley Warner.
1829–1900. |
My Summer in a Garden |
| Plumbers |
| How I Killed a Bear |
| Louisa May Alcott.
1832–1888. |
Street Scenes in Washington |
| Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens).
1835–1910. |
Colonel Mulberry Sellers |
| The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County |
| Bayard Taylor.
1825–1878. |
Selections from the Experiences of the A. C. |
| Palabras Grandiosas |
| Edmund Clarence Stedman.
1833–1908. |
The Diamond Wedding |
| Pan in Wall Street |
| Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne).
1834–1867. |
Among the Spirits |
| The Shakers |
| One of Mr. Ward’s Business Letters |
| On ‘Forts’ |
| Artemus Ward and the Prince of Wales |
| A Visit to Brigham Young |
| The Tower of London |
| A. W. to his Wife |
| The Showman’s Courtship |
| Woman’s Rights |
| Artemus Ward in London |
| Frank Richard Stockton.
1834–1902. |
Pomona’s Novel |
| A Piece of Red Calico |
| Chauncey Mitchell Depew.
1834–1928. |
The New Netherlanders |
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
1836–1907. |
A Rivermouth Romance |
| Portsmouth Originals and the Railroad |
| A Christmas Fantasy, with a Moral |
| Fitz Hugh Ludlow.
1836–1870. |
Brace of Boys |
| Robert Henry Newell.
1836–1901. |
The American Traveler |
| William Livingston Alden.
1837–1908. |
Gibberish |
| An Unnecessary Invention |
| William Dean Howells.
1837–1920. |
Mrs. Johnson |
| Gentlemen of Leisure |
| Mary Mapes Dodge.
1831–1905. |
Miss Malony on the Chinese Question |
| Francis Hopkinson Smith.
1838–1915. |
A Dinner with Colonel Carter |
| Bret Harte.
1836–1902. |
Melons |
| The Society upon the Stanislaus |
| To the Pliocene Skull |
| Her Letter |
| Plain Language from Truthful James; or, the Heathen Chinee |
| Miggles |
| John Hay.
1838–1905. |
Little Breeches |
| Jim Bludso |
| The Mystery of Gilgal |
| The Fairs |
| George Wilbur Peck.
1840–1916. |
Peck’s Bad Boy |
| Melville De Lancey Landon (Eli Perkins).
1839–1910. |
Doctors’ Wit and Humor |
| James Montgomery Bailey.
1841–1894. |
After the Funeral |
| Joaquin (Cincinnatus Hiner) Miller.
1837–1913. |
That Faithful Wife of Idaho |
| That Gentleman from Boston |
| William Brown of Oregon |
| Charles Edward Carryl.
1841–1920. |
The Walloping Window-Blind |
| Edward Rowland Sill.
1841–1887. |
Five Lives |
| Eve’s Daughter |
| Charles Bertrand Lewis (M Quad).
1842–1924. |
The Patent Gas Regulator |
| Two Cases of Grip |
| The Island of Cyprus |
| David Law Proudfit.
1842–1897. |
Prehistoric Smith |
| Katharine Kent Child Walker.
1833–1916. |
The Total Depravity of Inanimate Things |
| Robert Jones Burdette.
1844–1914. |
The Romance of the Carpet |
| The Artless Prattle of Childhood |
| The Vacation of Mustapha |
| The Legend of Mimir |
| Rheumatism Movement Cure |
| The Great American Traveler |
| Marietta Holley.
1836–1926. |
An Unmarried Female |
| A Pleasure Exertion |
| Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.
1844–1911. |
An Old Maid’s Paradise |
| George Thomas Lanigan.
1845–1886. |
The Amateur Orlando |
| The Ahkoond of Swat |
| Fables |
| Charles Henry Parkhurst.
1842–1933. |
A Remarkable Dream |
| Maria Louise Pool.
1841–1898. |
The Last Straw |
| James Jeffrey Roche.
1847–1908. |
The V-a-s-e |
| A Boston Lullaby |
| Joel Chandler Harris.
1848–1908. |
The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf |
| Uncle Remus Has Peculiar Dreams |
| Mr. Rabbit Grossly Deceives Mr. Fox |
| The Pimmerly Plum |
| Sarah Orne Jewett.
1849–1909. |
The Passing of Sister Barsett |
| Eugene Field.
1850–1895. |
The Cyclopeedy |
| Baked Beans and Culture |
| The Little Peach |
| Dibdin’s Ghost |
| The Truth about Horace |
| Edgar Wilson (Bill) Nye.
1850–1896. |
A Fatal Thirst |
| On Cyclones |
| The Garden Hose |
| How to Hunt the Fox |
| In the South |
| Harlan Hoge Ballard.
1853–1934. |
In the Catacombs |
| Richard Kendall Munkittrick.
1853–1911. |
The Patriotic Tourist |
| ’Tis Ever Thus |
| What’s in a Name? |
| Irwin Russell.
1853–1879. |
The Origin of the Banjo |
| James L. Ford.
1854–1928. |
The Dying Gag |
| The Society Reporter’s Christmas |
| Bessie Brown, M.D. |
| Henry Cuyler Bunner.
1855–1896. |
Behold the Deeds! |
| Candor |
| Isaac Kahn Friedman.
1870–1931. |
Hungry Henry’s Touching Tale |
| Five Fingers and Five Dollars |
| A Beggar’s Strategy |
| Henry Guy Carleton.
1856–1910. |
The Thompson Street Poker Club |
| Agnes Repplier.
1855–1950. |
A Plea for Humor |
| Edward Waterman Townsend.
1855–1942. |
Chimmie Fadden Makes Friends |
| Chimmie Meets the Duchess |
| Chimmie and the Duchess Marry |
| ’Er Grace, de Duchess of Fadden |
| The Horse Show |
| Edward Sandford Martin.
1856–1939. |
Epithalamium |
| Infirm |
| Sam Walter Foss.
1858–1911. |
A Modern Martyrdom |
| The Prayer of Cyrus Brown |
| A Philosopher |
| The Ideal Husband to His Wife |
| The Meeting of the Clabberhuses |
| Charles Fletcher Lummis.
1859–1928. |
A Poe-em of Passion |
| Frank Dempster Sherman.
1860–1916. |
A Rime for Priscilla |
| Love’s Seasons |
| In Parenthesis |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
1860–1935. |
Similar Cases |
| Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman.
1852–1930. |
Timothy Samson, the Wise Man |
| James Whitcomb Riley.
1849–1916. |
When the Frost is on the Punkin |
| A Old Played-Out Song |
| The Elf-Child |
| A Liz-Town Humorist |
| Albert Bigelow Paine.
1861–1937. |
Mis’ Smith |
| Sary ‘Fixes Up’ Things |
| Holman Francis Day.
1865–1935. |
Tale of the Kennebec Mariner |
| Cure for Homesickness |
| Grampy Sings a Song |
| John W. Jones |
| The Ballad of Doc Pluff |
| A Settin’ Hen |
| Gelett Burgess.
1866–1951. |
The Bohemians of Boston |
| George Ade.
1866–1944. |
The Fable of the Preacher who Flew his Kite, but not Because he Wished to Do so |
| The Fable of the Caddy who Hurt his Head While Thinking |
| The Fable of the Two Mandolin Players and the Willing Performer |
| Finley Peter Dunne.
1867–1936. |
On Gold-Seeking |
| On Expert Testimony |
| Home Life of Geniuses |
| The City as a Summer Resort |
| Avarice and Generosity |
| Work and Sport |
| George Horace Lorimer.
1869–1937. |
The Advantages of Travel |
| Good Counsel |
| A Word to the Wise |
| George Vere Hobart.
1867–1926. |
John Henry at the Musicale |
| John Henry at the Races |
| Oliver Herford.
1863–1935. |
Child’s Natural History |
| Metaphysics |
| Gold |
| Strickland W. Gillilan.
1869–1954. |
Finnigin to Flannigan |
| Paul West.
1871–1918. |
The Cumberbunce |
| Guy Wetmore Carryl.
1873–1904. |
The Touching Tenderness of King Karl the First |
| Caffiard |
| Josephine Daskam Bacon.
1876–1961. |
The Woman Who Was Not Athletic |
| The Woman Who Used Her Theory |
| The Woman Who Helped Her Sister |
| Nathaniel Shatswell Dodge (John Carver).
1810–1874. |
Country Burial-Places |
| Sam Post Davis.
1850–1918. |
The First Piano in a Mining-Camp |
| Simeon Ford.
1855–1933. |
The Discomforts of Travel |
| At a Turkish Bath |
| A Gentle Complaint |
| Boyhood in a New England Hotel |
| Jarvis Keiley. |
The Song of the Jellyfish |
| Andrew V. Kelley (Parmenas Mix). |
He Came to Pay |
| Ben King.
1857–1894. |
The Pessimist |
| If I Should Die To-Night |
| William J. Kountz, Jr.
1867?–1899. |
In Society |
| Danforth Marble. |
The Hoosier and the Salt-Pile |
| Stephen Leacock.
1869–1944. |
My Financial Career |
| Joshua S. Morris. |
The Harp of a Thousand Strings |
| Ed Mott. |
The Old Settler |
| Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock).
1850–1922. |
Borrowing a Hammer |
| Ernest Lawrence Thayer.
1863–1940. |
Casey at the Bat |
| Eva L. Ogden. |
The Sea |
| William Pitt Palmer.
1805–1884. |
Smack in School |
| Florence E. Pratt. |
Courting in Kentucky |
| Frances Lee Pratt. |
Captain Ben’s Choice |
| Albert Gallatin Riddle.
1816–1902. |
A Poem of Every-Day Life |
| James Gardner Sanderson. |
The Conundrum of the Golf-Links |
| Harrison Robertson.
1856–1939. |
Kentucky Philosophy |
| Frederick William Shelton.
1814–1881. |
Incidents in a Retired Life |
| Joseph Bert Smiley.
1864–1903. |
St. Peter at the Gate |
| Sol Smith.
1801–1869. |
A Bully Boat and a Brag Captain |
| Marion Couthouy Smith.
1853–1931. |
The Composite Ghost |
| Alaric Bertrand Start. |
The Jim-Jam King of the Jou-Jous |
| William Henry McElroy.
1838–1918. |
An Old War-Horse to a Young Politician |
| Carolyn Wells.
1862–1942. |
The Poster Girl |
| The Tragedy of a Theater Hat |
| A Memory |
| One Week |
| The A B C of Literature |
| College Humor. |
Won the Pot |
| The Rocks of Mt. Desert |
| Mutability |
| A College Widow |
| L’Envoi |
| To My Meerschaum |
| From the Rubaiyat of Mr. Hennessy |
| The Retort Courteous |
| At the Eighth Tee |
| Freshman Themes No. 2: Thanksgiving |
| A Coincidence |
| Cross-Purposes |
| Capriciousness |
| A University Catechism |
| Extra! |
| A Lovely Scene |
| A Silent Partner |
| A Pious Remonstrance |
| A Lost Opportunity |
| The Darktown Nine |
| L’Envoi |
| The Flight of Time |
| I Doubt It |
| Logic and the Co-Ed |
| A Football Song |
| Drinking-Song |
| Aunt Phœbe’s Remonstrance |
| Two of a Kind |
| A Merry, Blue-Eyed Laddie |
| An Echo of Junior Week |
