The Little Frenchman and His Water Lots / George Pope Morris ; The Angel of the Odd / Edgar Allan Poe ; The Schoolmaster's Progress / Caroline M.S. Kirkland ; The Watkinson Evening / Eliza Leslie ; Titbottom's Spectacles / George William Curtis ; My Double ; and How He Undid Me / Edward Everett Hale ; A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters / Oliver Wendell Holmes ; The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County / Mark Twain ; Elder Brown's Backslide / Harry Stillwell Edwards ; The Hotel Experience of Mr. Pink Fluker / Richard Malcolm Johnston ; The Nice People / Henry Cuyler Bunner ; The Buller - Podington Compact / Frank Richard Stockton ; Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff / Bret Harte ; The Duplicity of Hargraves / O. Henry ; Bargain Day at Tutt House / George Randolph Chester