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    <title>Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor</title>
    <subTitle>Volume I</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Masson, Thomas L.</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1866-1934</namePart>
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    <dateIssued>2007</dateIssued>
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  <tableOfContents>IRVING: Wouter Van Twiller -- Wilhelmus Kieft -- Peter Stuyvesant -- Antony Van Corlear -- General Van Poffenburgh -- FRANKLIN: Maxims -- Model of a Letter of Recommendation of a Person You Are Unacquainted with -- Epitaph for Himself -- BUTLER: Nothing to Wear -- BEECHER: Deacon Marble -- The Deacon's Trout -- The Dog Noble and the Empty Hole -- GREENE: Old Grimes -- HOLMES: My Aunt -- The Deacon's Masterpiece; or, the Wonderful "One-hoss Shay" -- Foreign Correspondence -- Music-Pounding -- The Ballad of the Oysterman -- WILLIS: Miss Albina McLush -- Love in a Cottage -- PALMER: A Smack in School -- SHILLABER ("Mrs. Partington"): Fancy Diseases -- Bailed Out -- Seeking a Comet -- Going to California -- Mrs. Partington in Court -- -- SILL: Five Lives -- FIELDS: The Owl-Critic -- The Alarmed Skipper -- HAY: Little Breeches -- SHAW ("Josh Billings"): Natral and Unnatral Aristokrats -- LOWELL: The Yankee Recruit -- What Mr. Robinson Thinks -- WARNER: My Summer in a Garden -- COZZENS: Living in the Country -- LELAND: Hans Breitmann's Party -- WHICHER: Tim Crane and the Widow -- SAXE: The Stammering Wife -- KELLEY ("Parmenas Mix"): He Came to Pay -- HOLLEY: A Pleasure Exertion -- STEDMAN: The Diamond Wedding -- MISCELLANEOUS: Why He Left -- A Boy's Essay on Girls -- Identified -- One Better -- A Rendition -- A Cause for Thanks -- Crowded -- The Wedding Journey -- A Case of Conscience -- He Rose to the Occasion -- Polite -- Lost, Strayed or Stolen -- A Gentle Complaint -- Music by the Choir -- TWAIN: The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calveras County.</tableOfContents>
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