TY - BOOK AU - Stockton,Frank Richard AU - Henry,O. AU - Twain,Mark AU - Edwards,Harry Stillwell AU - Kirkland,Caroline M. AU - Leslie,Eliza AU - Morris,George Pope AU - Cooke,Grace MacGowan AU - Curtis,George William AU - Jessup,Alexander AU - Bunner,H.C. AU - Hastings,Wells AU - Chester,George Randolph AU - Hale,Edward Everett AU - Harte,Bret AU - Lampton,William James AU - Holmes,Oliver Wendell AU - Poe,Edgar Allan AU - Johnston,Richard Malcolm TI - The Best American Humorous Short Stories AV - PS PY - 2004/// PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Short stories, American N1 - Edited and introduced by Alexander Jessup; The little Frenchman and his water lots / G.P. Morris -- The angel of the odd / E.A. Poe -- The schoolmaster's progress / Caroline M.S. Kirkland -- The Watkinson evening / Eliza Leslie -- Titbottom's spectacles / G.W. Curtis -- My double; and how he undid me / E.E. Hale -- A visit to the asylum for aged and decayed punsters / O.W. Holmes -- The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras county / Mark Twain -- Elder Brown's backslide / H.S. Edwards -- The hotel experience of Mr. Pink Fluker / R.M. Johnston -- The nice people / H.C. Bunner -- The Buller-Podington compact / F.R. Stockton -- Colonel Starbottle for the plaintiff / B. Harte -- The duplicity of Hargraves / O. Henry -- Bargain day at Tutt House / G.R. Chester -- A call / Grace M. Cooke -- How the widow won the deacon / W.J. Lampton -- Gideon / W. Hastings; Public domain in the USA; Electronic text UR - http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10947 ER -