The American Joe Miller: A Collection of Yankee Wit and Humor
Philosophy
The American Joe Miller: A Collection of Yankee Wit and Humor
American wit and humor
Extraordinary Motto, 52
Eye to Business, An, 130
Failed for a Good Reason, 19
Fair Retort, A, 161
Falling in Love, 171
Familiar Acquaintance, 151
Fancy her Feelings, 85
Feeling her Way, 18
Female Admirable Crichton, 102
Fine Stream, A, 196
Fine Writing, 107
"Fire at the Crisis", 173
Firm Foundation, 187
First Marriage, The, 42
Five Outs and One In, 151
Floating Population, A, 102
Fond of Society, 197
Forcible Eviction, 204
Forensic Eloquence, 18
Forest-Born Orator, A, 70
Forlorn Hope, 146
4-tunate Young Man, A, 2
Four Points of a Case, 2
Franklin, Dr., 161
Franklin and Hancock, 203
Friendly Notice, 185
Gallant Correction, 187
Gem, A, 165
General no Pattern, The, 175
German Wines, 175
Getting down a Ladder, 98
Gin and Water, 205
Gone Home, 137
Good Eyesight, 172
Governor and the Justice, The, 119
Graham System, The, 13
Grandpa's Spectacles, 71
Grant, General, 172
Great Scarcity, 123
Great Traveller, A, 136
Grieving for a Wife, 105
Grim Welcome, 22
Guarded Answer, A, 78
Habitual Thirst, 170
Habits of a Great Man, 28
Half Guilty, 177
Hairs, not Bristles, 60
Happiest of Vowels, The, 117
Hard Feathers, 163
Hard Hearing, 187
Hard Lying, 4
Hard Scrabble, 90
Hard up 73, 144
Having the Coffin Handy, 41
He had him that time, 17
Heady, 172
Heavenly Bodies, The, 117
Heavy Top-Dressing, 60
Height of Meanness, The, 105
Hen Persuaders, 70
Her Marriage Gift, 196
Her Poor Jerry, 130
Highly Probable, 103
His First Step, 64
His Reasons for Leaving, 133
His Wife's Cousin, 66
Holding the Stakes, 74
Homely Flag of Truce, 16
Horrified Dandy, A, 27
Hot Pies, 57
Hotel Accommodation in the South, 81
Hotel Rules at the "Diggins", 79
Household Words, 132
How a "Copperhead" was Shaved, 10
How Ale strengthened him, 67
How Mr. Lincoln shakes Hands, 89
How Sam was Caught, 84
How to do Business, 97
How to get a Seat, 95
How to go Mad, 101
Huggin', 192
Human Nature, 138
Hunting up a Soft Place, 39
I would if I could, 90
Illegible Manuscripts, 88
"I'm the Baggage", 20
In Black and White, 77
In Love with the Devil, 89
Incident and Epigram, An, 137
Inducement to Young People, 102
Inducement Unnecessary, 148
Infant Teacher, An, 206
Infantile Idea of Distance, 126
Inflammable and Dangerous, 51
Ingenious Boot-Black, 35
Inquiring Mind, An, 23
Insinuating Rejoinder, 156
Interesting Announcement, 142
Interesting Experiment, 99
Interesting to the Parties concerned, 14
Interrupting the Sermon, 84
Irish Bull at Bull's Run, An, 131
Irish Exhortation, 89
Irish Negro, 99
It follows, 175
Jefferson, Thomas, 203
Jemmy O'Neil and President Jackson, 61
Jew D'Esprit, A, 157
Job's Patience--as viewed by a Lady, 38
John and the Widdah, 150
Joke by Jenkins, A, 104
Joke by the President, 143
Jonathan's Guess, 178
Jonathan of All Trades, 167
Judge and his Coachman, The, 75
Judgment of Solomon, The, 6
Just got Married, 137
Keen and Significant, 85
Keeping a Secret, 139
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