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
Kind and Sympathetic, 138
Kissing by Proxy, 146
Kissing in Wisconsin, 13
Knocking at the Church Door, 24
Knowing and Not Knowing, 197
Knowing Contraband, A, 172
Knowing Juryman, A, 15
Laconic, 184
Lagging Compliment, A, 121
Lapse of Ages, The, 111
Last Compliment, The, 161
Latest Dog Story, 147
Latest Way, The, 136
Law of Compensation, The, 108
Learned Members of the American Legislature, The, 11
Lee, Gen., and a Son of Erin, 125
Lee, Gen., to General Meade, 158
Legal Advice under Singular Circumstances, 79
Legal Toast, A, 86
Legislation, 194
Letter R, The, 130
Letter S, The, 144
Libellous Assertion, 98
Life in Kentucky, 207
Lincoln on Nigger Mathematics, 37
Literature, 203
Littles, 58
Loafer's Hat, The, 160
Lobster Salad, 43
Logs Wanted, 50
Logic of Congress, 126
Lone Nigger, A, 97
Long and Short of it, 106
Longfellow and Longworth, 141
Long Livers, 188
Look on this Picture and on this, 50
Looking for a Situation, 77
Love-Letter Ink, 163
Lovers' Leap, The, 168
Low-necked Frocks, 100
Luminous Evidence, 68
Lying at the Top, The, 113
"Mails" and Females, 107
Major Downing in London, 154
Making a Man's Coffin before his Death, 7
Marriage Notices, 16
Marriage and Single Blessedness, 69
Meade, Gen., to Gen. Lee, 158
Meat Baby, A, 110
Mighty Thick Fog, A, 57
Mild Assertion, A, 185
Military Tactics, 145
Military Veracity of the North, 3
Millennium at Hand, The, 195
Milwaukee Eloquence, 60
Minister's Reception, The, 108
Mixing the Babies, 30
Model Advertisements, 111
Modern Definitions, 187
Modest Linendraper, A, 137
Modesty, 199
Monster Punch-Bowl, 188
Mooted Question, A, 97
More Copy, 189
More Laughable than Logical, 107
Most too Sudden, 140
Much Virtue in an "If", 167
My Pew, Sir!, 6
Naming Children in America, 106
Nature and Art, 155, 205
Natur's Balances, 149
Natural Mistake, 203
"Naygers," The, 183
Nearing it by Degrees, 205
Negro Sermon, 71
Nerve of Feeling, 200
Nest Egg, The, 44
New, if not True, 164
New Dish, A, 160
Newspaper Borrowers, To, 34
New Way to affix a Stamp, 115
Niagara Falls from Four Points of View, 126
Nice Girl, A, 48
Nigger Explanation, 157
No Doubt, 38
No Justice in that Court, 140
No Patients Living, 72
No Place like Home, 128
No Vices, 173
Nonsense about Love, 144
Not Exactly, 201
Not for Want, 121
Not Particular, 112
Not so, 47
Not to be Done, 32
Not to be wondered at, 76
Not Willing to Die, 130
Note by the Editor, 147
Novel Commentary by a Parson, 42
Novel Effect of a Second Marriage, 103
Novel Hint from the Pulpit, 86
Novel Proposition, 141
Novel Telegraphic Message, 129
Novel Verdict, A, 94
Obeying Orders, 201
Obituary Notice, 206
Objecting to Missions, 64
Obstinacy Cured, 200
Ode on Gas, An, 54
Odd Excuse for not being Hung, 19
Odd Names, 79
Of course not, 101
Ohio Democracy, The, 48
"Old Brains", 119
Old Hen and Chickens, The, 21
Old King's Arm, The, 89
Ole Harry and Ole Nick, 46
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