The Book of Humorous Verse

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Title; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; I

BANTER; The Played-Out Humourist; The Practical Joker; To Phœbe; Malbrouck; Mark Twain: A Pipe Dream; From a Full Heart; The Ultimate Joy; Old Fashioned Fun; When Moonlike Ore the Hazure Seas; When the Frost is on the Punkin; Two Men; A Familiar Letter to Several Correspondents; The Height of the Ridiculous; Shake, Mulleary and Go-ethe; A Rondelay; Winter Dusk; Comic Miseries; Early Rising; To the Pliocene Skull; Ode to Work in Springtime; Old Stuff; To Minerva; The Legend of Heinz Von Stein; The Truth About Horace; Propinquity Needed. In the CatacombsOur Native Birds; The Prayer of Cyrus Brown; Erring in Company; Cupid; If We Didn't Have to Eat; To My Empty Purse; The Birth of Saint Patrick; Her Little Feet; School; The Millennium; Exactly so

Companions; The Schoolmaster; A Appeal for Are to the Sextant of the Old Brick Meetinouse; Cupid's Darts; A Plea for Trigamy; The Pope; All at Sea; Ballad of the Primitive Jest; Villanelle of Things Amusing; How to Eat Watermelons; A Vague Story; His Mother-In-Law; On a Deaf Housekeeper; Homœopathic Soup; Some Little Bug; On the Downtown Side of an Uptown Street. Written After Swimming from Sestos to AbydosThe Fisherman's Chant; Report of an Adjudged Case; Prehistoric Smith; Song; Lying; Strictly Germ-Proof; The Lay of the Lover's Friend; Man's Place in Nature; The New Version; Amazing Facts About Food; Transcendentalism; A Caudal Lecture; Salad; Nemesis; Mona Lisa

The Siege of Djklxprwbz; Rural Bliss; An Old Bachelor; Song; The Quest of the Purple Cow; St. Patrick of Ireland, My Dear!; The Irish Schoolmaster; Reflections on Cleopathera's Needle; The Origin of Ireland; As to the Weather; The Twins; II

THE ETERNAL FEMININE; He and She. The KissThe Courtin'; Hiram Hover; Blow Me Eyes!; First Love; What is a Woman Like?; Mis' Smith; Triolet; Bessie Brown, M.D.; A Sketch from the Life; Minguillo's Kiss; A Kiss in the Rain; The Love-Knot; Over the Way; Chorus of Women; The Widow Malone; The Smack in School; 'späcially Jim; Kitty of Coleraine; Why Don't the Men Propose?; A Pin; The Whistler; The Cloud; Constancy; Ain't it Awful, Mabel?; Wing Tee Wee; Phyllis Lee; The Sorrows of Werther; The Unattainable; Rory O'More; or, Good Omens; A Dialogue from Plato; Dora Versus Rose; Tu Quoque; Nothing to Wear; My Mistress's Boots. Mrs. SmithA Terrible Infant; Susan; I Didn't Like Him

My Angeline; Nora's Vow; Husband and Heathen; The Lost Pleiad; The New Church Organ; Larrie O'Dee; No Fault in Women; A Cosmopolitan Woman; Courting in Kentucky; Any One Will Do; A Bird in the Hand; The Belle of the Ball; The Retort; Behave Yoursel' Before Folk; The Chronicle: A Ballad; Buxom Joan; Oh, My Geraldine; The Parterre; How to Ask and Have; Sally in Our Alley; False Love and True Logic; Pet's Punishment; Ad Chloen, M.A.; Chloe, M.A.; The Fair Millinger; Two Fishers; Maud; Are Women Fair?; The Plaidie; Feminine Arithmetic