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Introduction
Mark Twain (1835<N>1910)
How to Tell a Story
The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
The Story of the Good Little Boy
The McWilliamses and the Burglar Alarm
William Dean Howells (1837<N>1920)
Christmas Every Day
Ambrose Bierce (1842<N>1914 ?)
Curried Cow
An Imperfect Conflagration
George Ade (1866<N>1944)
The Wonderful Meal of Vittles
The Patient Toiler Who Got It in the Usual Place
The Fable of How the Fool-Killer Backed Out of a Contract
The Fable of the Copper and the Jovial Undergrads
Everybody's Friend and the Line Bucker
Finley Peter Dunne (1867<N>1936)
On War Preparations
On His Cousin George
On Reform Candidates
Frank McKinley "Kin" Hubbard (1868<N>1930)
The People
Gossip
The Amy Purviance Murder Case
Don Marquis (1878<N>1937)
Introducing the Old Soak
Look Out for Crime Waves!
The Barroom and the Arts
Ring Lardner (1885<N>1933)
Alibi Ike
Haircut
Sinclair Lewis (1885<N>1951)
George F. Babbitt Begins His Day
James Thurber (1894<N>1961)
The Night the Bed Fell
University Days
Ruth McKenney (1911<N>1972)
A Loud Sneer for Our Feathered Friends
Erma Bombeck (1927<N>1996)
Don't Worry... I'll Manage
The Garage Sale
The Ides of May
"Mom and Dad! I'm Home"
Mike Royko (1932<N>1997)
A Pitch for Opening Day
View from Hoosierdome
Indiana's Not Alone
Donald Kaul (1925<N> )
House Calls and Other Folk Medicine
Eat Your Heart Out, Luther Burbank
Calvin Trillin (1935<N> )
Alice, Let's Eat
Missouri Uncompromised
Pinko Problems
Garrison Keillor (1942<N> )
Home
P. J. (Patrick Jake) O'Rourke (1947<N> )
Intellectual Wilderness, Ho—A Visit to Harvard's 350th Anniversary Celebration
Bill Bryson (1951<N> )