A Fish Story
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Henry A. Beers
|
916
|
|
The Cameronian Cat
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Unknown
|
917
|
|
The Young Gazelle
|
Walter Parke
|
918
|
|
The Ballad of the Emeu
|
Bret Harte
|
921
|
|
The Turtle and Flamingo
|
James Thomas Fields
|
923
|
|
|
|
XV: JUNIORS
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|
Prior to Miss Belle's Appearance
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James Whitcomb Riley
|
925
|
|
There Was a Little Girl
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Unknown
|
926
|
|
The Naughty Darkey Boy
|
Unknown
|
927
|
|
Dutch Lullaby
|
Eugene Field
|
928
|
|
The Dinkey-Bird
|
Eugene Field
|
929
|
|
The Little Peach
|
Eugene Field
|
931
|
|
Counsel to Those that Eat
|
Unknown
|
932
|
|
Home and Mother
|
Mary Mapes Dodge
|
932
|
|
Little Orphant Annie
|
James Whitcomb Riley
|
934
|
[Pg xxiii]
|
|
A Visit From St. Nicholas
|
Clement Clarke Moore
|
935
|
|
A Nursery Legend
|
Henry S. Leigh
|
937
|
|
A Little Goose
|
Eliza Sproat Turner
|
938
|
|
Leedle Yawcob Strauss
|
Charles Follen Adams
|
940
|
|
A Parental Ode to My Son, Aged Three Years and Five Months
|
Thomas Hood
|
941
|
|
Little Mamma
|
Charles Henry Webb
|
943
|
|
The Comical Girl
|
M. Pelham
|
946
|
|
Bunches of Grapes
|
Walter Ramal
|
947
|
|
|
|
XVI: IMMORTAL STANZAS
|
|
The Purple Cow
|
Gelett Burgess
|
948
|
|
The Young Lady of Niger
|
Unknown
|
948
|
|
The Laughing Willow
|
Oliver Herford
|
948
|
|
Said Opie Reed
|
Julian Street and James Montgomery Flagg
|
948
|
|
Manila
|
Eugene F. Ware
|
949
|
|
On the Aristocracy of Harvard
|
Dr. Samuel G. Bushnell
|
949
|
|
On the Democracy of Yale
|
Dean Jones
|
949
|
|
The Herring
|
Sir Walter Scott
|
949
|
|
If the Man
|
Samuel Johnson
|
949
|
|
The Kilkenny Cats
|
Unknown
|
950
|
|
Poor Dear Grandpapa
|
D'Arcy W. Thompson
|
950
|
|
More Walks
|
Richard Harris Barham ["Thomas Ingoldsby"]
|
950
|
|
|
|
|
Indifference
|
Unknown
|
950
|
|
Madame Sans Souci
|
Unknown
|
950
|
|
A Riddle
|
Unknown
|
951
|
|
If
|
Unknown
|
951
|
THE BOOK OF HUMOROUS VERSE
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I
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BANTER
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THE PLAYED-OUT HUMOURIST
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Quixotic is his enterprise and hopeless his adventure is, Who seeks for jocularities that haven't yet been said; The world has joked incessantly for over fifty centuries, And every joke that's possible has long ago been made. I started as a humourist with lots of mental fizziness, But humour is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse; For my stock-in-trade, my fixtures and the good-will of the business No reasonable offer I am likely to refuse. And if anybody choose He may circulate the news That no reasonable offer I am likely to refuse. Oh, happy was that humourist—the first that made a pun at all— Who when a joke occurred to
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