CONTENTS.


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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