CONTENTS.
| PAGE | ||
| 1. | Frontispiece | |
| 2. | Introduction | 7 |
| 3. | Samuel Langhorne Clemens (“Mark Twain”) | 11 |
| 4. | Charles Farrar Browne (“Artemus Ward”) | 24 |
| 5. | Charles Heber Clark (“Max Adeler”) | 34 |
| 6. | Charles B. Lewis (“M. Quad”) | 41 |
| 7. | Henry W. Shaw (“Josh Billings”) | 49 |
| 8. | Jay Charlton Goldsmith (“The P. I. Man”) | 58 |
| 9. | William Tappan Thompson (“Major Jones”) | 63 |
| 10. | Melville D. Landon (“Eli Perkins”) | 69 |
| 11. | Charles Follen Adams (“Yawcob Strauss”) | 74 |
| 12. | Seba Smith (“Major Jack Downing”) | 79 |
| 13. | Will W. Clark (“Gillhooley”) | 84 |
| 14. | Irwin Russell | 89 |
| 15. | John H. Williams (“B. Dadd”) | 94 |
| 16. | James M. Bailey (“Danbury News Man”) | 100 |
| 17. | Charles H. Smith (“Bill Arp”) | 104 |
| 18. | A. Miner Griswold (“Fat Contributor”) | 113 |
| 19. | Bill Nye | 117 |
| 20. | Joseph C. Neal (“Charcoal Sketcher”) | 123 |
| 21. | George H. Derby (“John Phœnix”) | 130 |
| 22. | George W. Peck | 134 |
| 23. | Alexander Edwin Sweet | 138 |
| 24. | Samuel W. Small (“Old Si”) | 143 |
| 25. | Charles Hoyt | 146 |
| 26. | Henry Clay Lukens (“Erratic Enrique”) | 150 |
| 27. | William A. Wilkins (“Hiram Green, Esq.”) | 154 |
| 28. | Charles H. Harris (“Carl Pretzel”) | 161 |
| 29. | Joel Chandler Harris (“Uncle Remus”) | 165 |
| 30. | David Ross Locke (“Petroleum V. Nasby”) | 170 |
| 31. | Robert Jones Burdette (“The Hawkeye Man”) | 175 |
| 32. | Joe C. Aby (“Hoffenstein”) | 183 |
| 33. | Edward E. Edwards | 189 |
| 34. | Eugene Field | 193 |
| 35. | Stanley Huntley (“Spoopendyke”) | 200 |
| 36. | Some Other Funny Fellows | 207 |