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The IdiotJohn Kendrick Bangs The Idiot I For some weeks after the happy event which transformed the popular Mrs. Smithers into the charming Mrs. John Pedagog all went well at that lady's select home for single gentlemen. It was only proper that during the honey-moon, at least, of the happy couple...

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Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward IIPREFACEINTRODUCTIONCAMEO I. ROLF GANGER. (900-932.)CAMEO II. WILLIAM LONGSWORD AND RICHARD THE FEARLESS. (932-996.)CAMEO III. YOUTH OF THE CONQUEROR. (1036-1066.)CAMEO IV. EARL GODWIN. (1012-1052.)CAMEO V. THE TWO HAROLDS. (1060-1066.)CAMEO VI. ...

Fables in SlangGeorge Ade Fables in Slang THE FABLE OF THE VISITOR WHO GOT A LOT FOR THREE DOLLARS The Learned Phrenologist sat in his Office surrounded by his Whiskers.Now and then he put a Forefinger to his Brow and glanced at the Mirror to make sure that he still resembled William Cullen Bryan...

The Re-echo ClubCarolyn Wells The Re-echo Club DIVERSIONS OF THE RE-ECHO CLUB A recent discovery has brought to light the long-hidden papers of the Re-Echo Club. This is a great find, and all lovers of masterpieces of the world's best literature will rejoice with us that we are enabled to publish...

The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IXThe Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) THE NINE LITTLE GOBLINS BY JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY They all climbed up on a high board-fence—Nine little Goblins, with green-glass eyes—Nine little Goblins that had no sense,And couldn't tell coppers from cold minc...

Cobb's Bill-of-FareIrvin S. Cobb Cobb's Bill-of-Fare VITTLES Upon a certain gladsome occasion a certain man went into a certain restaurant in a certain large city, being imbued with the idea that he desired a certain kind of food. Expense was with him no object. The coming of the holidays had tur...

Nightmare AbbeyThomas Love Peacock Nightmare Abbey There's a dark lantern of the spirit,Which none see by but those who bear it,That makes them in the dark see visionsAnd hag themselves with apparitions,Find racks for their own minds, and vauntOf their own misery and want. BUTLER.* * * * *LONDON:...

The Hohenzollerns in AmericaStephen Leacock The Hohenzollerns in America / With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities PREFACEThe proper punishment for the Hohenzollerns, and the Hapsburgs, and the Mecklenburgs, and the Muckendorfs, and all such puppets and princelings, is that they s...

Nonsense NovelsStephen Leacock Nonsense Novels PREFACE THE author of this book offers it to the public without apology. The reviewers of his previous work of this character have presumed, on inductive grounds, that he must be a young man from the most westerly part of the Western States, to whom ...