PAGE WASHINGTON IRVING Wouter Van Twiller 1 Wilhelmus Kieft 8 Peter Stuyvesant 13 Antony Van Corlear 15 General Van Poffenburgh 18 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Maxims 21 Model of a Letter of Recommendation of a Person You Are Unacquainted with 21 Epitaph for Himself 22 WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Nothing to Wear 24 HENRY WARD BEECHER Deacon Marble 39 The Deacon's Trout 41 The Dog Noble and the Empty Hole 43 ALBERT GORTON GREENE Old Grimes 45 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES My Aunt 49 The Deacon's Masterpiece; or, the Wonderful "One-hoss Shay" 63 Foreign Correspondence 106 Music-Pounding 109 The Ballad of the Oysterman 142 NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Miss Albina McLush 51 Love in a Cottage 125 WILLIAM PITT PALMER A Smack in School 56 B. P. SHILLABER ("Mrs. Partington") Fancy Diseases 58 Bailed Out 59 Seeking a Comet 59 Going to California 60 Mrs. Partington in Court 61 EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Five Lives 68 JAMES T. FIELDS The Owl-Critic 70 The Alarmed Skipper 104 JOHN HAY Little Breeches 74 HENRY W. SHAW ("Josh Billings") Natral and Unnatral Aristokrats 77 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The Yankee Recruit 81 What Mr. Robinson Thinks 170 CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER