Volume 2 of a ten volume collection of amusing tales, observations and anecdotes by America's greatest wordsmiths. This work includes selections by such household favorites as Ambrose Bierce, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain and Bret Harte. - Summary by Lynne Thompson
Chapters
1 A Bully Boat and a Brag Captain by Sol Smith 12 min 2 The Dog and the Bees by Ambrose Bierce 2 min 3 Dislikes by Oliver Wendell Holmes 7 min 4 Illustrated Newspapers by G.H.Derby 8 min 5 Susan Simpson - author unknown 2 min 6 Miss Malony on the Chinese Question by Mary Mapes Dodge 8 min 7 The Cross-eyed Woman by Bill Nye 2 min 8 The Courtin' by James Russell Lowell 6 min 9 The Coquette - a Portrait by John Godfrey Saxe 3 min 10 Colonel Mulberry Sellers by Mark Twain 15 min 11 Incidents in a Retired Life from Up the River by Frederick William Shelton 10 min 12 Melons by Bret Harte 15 min 13 A Letter from Mr. Ezekiel Bigelow by James Russell Lowell 7 min 14 Ballad by Charles Godfrey Leland 3 min 15 Tushmaker's Toothpuller by G.H. Derby 7 min 16 The Society Upon the Stanislaus by Bret Harte 4 min 17 The V-A-S-E by James Jeffrey Roche 3 min 18 Pomona's Novel by Frank R. Stockton 33 min 19 Fred Trover's Little Ironclad by John Townsend Trowbridge 39 min 20 A Boston Lullaby - author unknown 2 min 21 The Artless Prattle of Childhood by Robert Jones Burdette 9 min 22 The House That Jack Built - author unknown 5 min 23 St. Peter at the Gate - author unknown 7 min 24 The Thompson Street Poker Club by Henry Guy Carleton 10 min 25 The Fox and the Crow by George T. Lanigan 3 min 26 Behold The Deeds by Henry Cuyler Bunner 5 min 27 An Insurance Agent's Story - author unknown 4 min 28 A Rhyme for Priscilla by Frank Dempster Sherman 4 min 29 An Epitaph - author unknown 1 min 30 A Rivermouth Romance by Thomas Bailey Aldrich 20 min 31 The Bohemians of Boston by Gelett Burgess 4 min 32 The Composite Ghost by Marion Couthouy Smith 10 min 33 Some Messages Received by Teachers in Brooklyn Public Schools by various parents 4 min 34 The Trout's Appeal - author unknown 1 min 35 A Fatal Thirst by Bill Nye 5 min 36 Peck's Bad Boy by George W. Peck 12 min
