THE BOYS AROUND THE HOUSE—_C. B. Lewis_ (“_M 285 Quad_”) MR. DOTY MAD—_Eugene Field_ 287 OUR TWO OPINIONS—_Eugene Field_ 289 ONE OF MR. WARD’S BUSINESS LETTERS—_Artemus 291 Ward_ THE SHOWMAN’S COURTSHIP—_Artemus Ward_ 292 YE PEDAGOGUE—_John Godfrey Saxe_ 295 SETTLING UNDER DIFFICULTIES—_Robert J. 298 Burdette_ MR. HIGGINBOTHAM’S CATASTROPHE—_Nathaniel 300 Hawthorne_ GOING TO CALIFORNIA—_Benjamin Penhallow 316 Shillaber_ (“_Mrs. Partington_”) “ROUGHING IT”—_Samuel L. Clemens_ (“_Mark 318 Twain_”) THE HEAD-WRITER—_C. B. Lewis_ (“_M Quad_”) 322 PELEG W. PONDER; OR, THE POLITICIAN WITHOUT A 326 SIDE—_Joseph C. Neal_ THE SHAKERS—_Artemus Ward_ 332 “EARLY RISING”—_John G. Saxe_ 340 HOW SANTA CLAUS CAME TO SIMPSON’S BAR—_Bret 342 Harte_ THE BREACH OF PROMISE CASE—_Ralph Keeler_ 362 EPITAPH FOR HIMSELF—_Benjamin Franklin_ 373 THE DUKE OF BRIDGEWATER—_Samuel L. Clemens_ 373 (“_Mark Twain_”) A VISIT TO BRIGHAM YOUNG—_Artemus Ward_ 380 DUET FOR THE BREAKFAST-TABLE—_Charles Graham 385 Halpine_ KITTY ANSWERS—_William Dean Howells_ 387 PUCK—_James Whitcomb Riley_ 395 THE REVENGE OF ST. NICHOLAS—_James K. 396 Paulding_ AN APHORISM AND A LECTURE—_Oliver Wendell 412 Holmes_ APHORISMS—_Thoreau_ 419 AN ENGLISH FUNERAL—_William Austin_ 420 A LOST CHILD 420 AMONG THE SPIRITS—_Artemus Ward_ 422 POETRY AND THE POET—_H. C. Bunner_ 426 A NEW SYSTEM OF ENGLISH GRAMMAR—“_John 427 Phœnix_” BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF AMERICAN HUMORISTS 437 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NOTE.