Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 14815-h.htm or 14815-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/8/1/14815/14815-h/14815-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/4/8/1/14815/14815-h.zip) PECK'S COMPENDIUM OF FUN Comprising the Choicest Gems of Wit, Humor, Sarcasm and Pathos of America's Favorite Humorist, GEORGE W. PECK, Editor of "Peck's Sun" Milwaukee Illustrated by Eminent Artists Chicago 1886 CONTENTS. About Hell Another Dead Failure Anna Dickinson A Bald-headed Man Most Crazy A Case of Paralysis A Doctor of Laws A Hot Box at a Picnic A Lively Train Load A Mad Minister A Musical Critique A Peck at the Cheese A Plea for the Bull Head A Sewing Machine Given to the Boss Girl A Safe Investment A Tony Slaughter-House A Trying Situation An Arm That is not Reliable An Editor Burglarized Banks and Banking Bounced from Church for Dancing Boys and Circuses Boys will be Boys Broke up a Prayer Meeting Buying a Stone Crusher "Cash!" Camp Meetings in the Dark of the Moon Church Keno Colored Concert Troupes Dogs and Human Beings Effects of Mineral Water Expedition in Search of a Doughnut Failure of a Solid Institution Fishing for Pieces of Women Fooling with the Bible George Washington Granite Head Cheese Internal Improvements Joke on the Hat Killing Big Game Large Mouths are Fashionable La Crosse Nebecudnezzer Water Laying up Apples in Heaven Mr. Peck's Sunday Lecture Nearly Broke up the Ball Our Blue-Coated Dog-Poisoners Our Christian Neighbors Have Gone Palace Cattle Cars PECK'S BAD BOY AND HIS PA. He Becomes a Druggist He is too Healthy He Quits the Drug Business His Pa an Inventor His Pa Dissected His Pa Goes Calling His Pa Goes Skating His Pa Gets Boxed His Pa Gets Mad His Pa Joins a Temperance Society His Pa Jokes Him His Pa is Discouraged His Pa Kills Him His Pa Mortified