A laugh a day keeps the doctor away
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Chapters (369)
- FOREWORD
- CONTENTS [Topically Arranged]
- § 1 The Untraveled Stranger
- § 2 The Prudent Mr. Finnerty
- § 3 Enough for Wilkins
- § 4 Why the Major Didn’t Suit
- § 5 Grandfather Laughed at This One
- § 6 The Day Denver Was Surprised
- § 7 And Worth the Money, Too!
- § 8 The Spirit of Seventy-six, with Improvements
- § 9 Protecting the Gentler Sex
- § 10 Not at All Singular
- § 11 Strictly in Confidence
- § 12 He Didn’t Believe in Signs
- § 13 Advice to Charlie Chaplin
- § 14 What Aunt Myra Desired
- § 15 When the Dawn of Understanding Came
- § 16 As Translated into the English
- § 17 Absolutely no Hurry about It
- § 18 One Who Desired to Know
- § 19 The Poor Aim of Mr. Zeno
- § 20 Curing the Great Thirst
- § 21 The Ways of the Army
- § 22 Remote from the Real Centers
- § 23 The Way of the Neighborhood
- § 24 A Radical Difference Noted
- § 25 Where the Partnership Dissolved
- § 26 Absolutely Unfitted for the Rôle
- § 27 The Careful MacTavish
- § 28 The Sway of Eloquence
- § 29 The Unuttered Wish
- § 30 The Gift of Tongues
- § 31 He Lacked Storage Space
- § 32 The Voice of the Purist
- § 33 There Spoke Envy’s Voice
- § 34 The Treacherous Warehouse
- § 35 A Scotchman’s Conscience
- § 36 Establishing an Identity
- § 37 An Earnest Cry for Help
- § 38 The Pride of Creative Genius
- § 39 The Prompt Response
- § 40 Once Every Ten Years
- § 41 One Detail Was Missing
- § 42 In Permanent Storage
- § 43 What Might Be Called an Active Man
- § 44 Sauce for the Goose
- § 45 Driven Beyond His Strength
- § 46 The Custom of the Country
- § 47 Sight Unseen, As It Were
- § 48 A Born Snob
- § 49 Maybe Not on the Second Day, Either
- § 50 Calling a Spade a Spade
- § 51 Poor Aim but Good Intent
- § 52 There Spake True Friendship
- § 53 The Tools Were Lacking
- § 54 A Tribute to Moderation
- § 55 The Instantaneous Diagnosis
- § 56 In Fact, a Positive Fad
- § 57 Something Like a Wampus, Probably
- § 58 An Education in Peril
- § 59 A Lover of Statistics
- § 60 History in the Un-Making
- § 61 Solving a Dark Mystery
- § 62 Enough of a Good Thing
- § 63 Absolutely Bored by the Whole Thing
- § 64 The Question Categorical
- § 65 Before or After Taking?
- § 66 A Time for All Things
- § 67 Tuesday Would Be Just Like Sunday
- § 68 A Sort of Circulating Medium, as It Were
- § 69 A Service to the Whole Land
- § 70 Deportment Taught by Wire
- § 71 Speaking of Carrier Pigeons
- § 72 Total Loss!
- § 73 With All Good Wishes
- § 74 A Start from Humble Beginnings
- § 75 The Confusing Geography of Jersey
- § 76 With Credit to S. Blythe
- § 77 When the H. C. of L. Came Down
- § 78 How to Beat the System
- § 79 An Echo from 1865
- § 80 There’d Be a Popular Uprising
- § 81 From the Book of Moses
- § 82 Almost Startling, Really
- § 83 A Violent Indisposition
- § 84 The Simplest of Remedies
- § 85 Proving There’s Something in a Name
- § 86 Question: How Far Did George Go?
- § 87 Natural Proof
- § 88 A Domicile for All Eternity
- § 89 The Man Who Was Thursday
- § 90 The Least of His Worries
- § 91 This One Stood the Test of Time
- § 92 The Prudent Bride
- § 93 As a Favor to the Railroad
- § 94 Where the Real Fault Lay
- § 95 An Appeal to the Senses
- § 96 The Truth from the Inside
- § 97 The Fate of the Saloon
- § 98 What the Case Called For
- § 99 The Light that Failed
- § 100 He’d Have Preferred Union Hours
- § 101 The Perils of Pranking
- § 102 The Really Important Point
- § 103 The Proper Remedy at Last
- § 104 An Anniversary to Be Remembered
- § 105 The Handiwork of the Amateur
- § 106 The Forethoughted Widow
- § 107 Bumpy Times for the Late Lamented
- § 108 The Genesis of an Old Favorite
- § 109 “A Rose by Any Other Name . . .”
- § 110 A Detail of Figures
- § 111 Provision for the Future
- § 112 The Life of the Party, as It Were
- § 113 Something to Look Forward To
- § 114 Me Lady’s One Weak Point
- § 115 At the Crossing of the Ways
- § 116 The Mysterious Stranger
- § 117 A Chronic Loser
- § 118 The Call of the Far East
- § 119 He Wouldn’t Commit Himself Yet
- § 120 A Seasonable and Timely Suggestion
- § 121 Not Vouched For as Absolutely Authentic
- § 122 One Time When the Colonel Balked
- § 123 And No Steam Calliope, Either
- § 124 Absolutely Nothing to Debate
- § 125 Keeping It in the Family
- § 126 Speaking, as It Were, with Frankness
- § 127 Glass of Fashion and Mould of Form!
- § 128 Down to the Solid Portions
- § 129 An Anti-Expectoration Advocate
- § 130 Putting Depew in His Place
- § 131 How Larry Boosted the Game
- § 132 When Goldstein Really Cut Loose
- § 133 Tired of Dealing with Crooks
- § 134 By Way of Compromise
- § 135 The Lady Made Good at Last
- § 136 The Low-Down on the Saw-Milling Business
- § 137 There Spoke a Sympathizing Soul
- § 138 The Inevitable Consequences
- § 139 Not Listed among the Leading Ones Anyhow
- § 140 A Warning to the Yanks
- § 141 In the Nature of a Shock
- § 142 His Worst Fears Confirmed
- § 143 Only Three Had Remained
- § 144 She Who Sought for Peace
- § 145 An Exception for a Native Son
- § 146 Without Professional Assistance
- § 147 Making It Harder Than Ever
- § 148 Why They Called Him Speedy
- § 149 There Would Be Three in All
- § 150 The Colonel’s Checking System
- § 151 The Reunion of the Aged
- § 152 Probably Stewed Kidneys Ran Third
- § 153 Pretty Pol!
- § 154 The Unforgivable Sin
- § 155 The Burden of the Black Brother
- § 156 Openings in the Higher Branches
- § 157 A Distinction and a Difference
- § 158 The Prediction That Came True
- § 159 It Wasn’t His Move, Either
- § 160 Spreading the Feast for the Stranger
- § 161 A Very Natural Request
- § 162 The Voice of a Prophet
- § 163 The Trifles of an Earlier Day
- § 164 In Accordance with the Ritual
- § 165 A Customer Who Wasn’t Wanted
- § 166 The Surest System Yet
- § 167 All According to Specifications
- § 168 The Reason the Artist Quit
- § 169 To the Depths of Dogology
- § 170 Time Was No Object
- § 171 A Diagnosis Made Offhand
- § 172 Remodeling the Calendar
- § 173 Of a Careless Nature
- § 174 The Light That Failed
- § 175 Sir Izaak Walton in Black
- § 176 Doing Something for the Patient
- § 177 The Real Point of the Joke
- § 178 The Mystery of Wednesday
- § 179 The Cockney and the Lady
- § 180 Neither Here Nor There
- § 181 One of the Marvels of Science
- § 182 The Proper End of a Caddy
- § 183 One Way to Beat the Game
- § 184 Absolutely No Reason for It
- § 185 The Withdrawal of the Candidate
- § 186 A Peacemaker Who Blessed Himself
- § 187 The Long Wait at Burlington
- § 188 Where Jimmy’s Education Really Was Shy
- § 189 The Made-in-England Substitute
- § 190 Practically Destitute
- § 191 Assigning G. B. S. to His Place
- § 192 A Voice from the Void
- § 193 Taking Nothing from Nothing
- § 194 The Fate of Poor Harry
- § 195 A Wholesale Order
- § 196 This “Yes” and That “Yes”
- § 197 Satisfactory in Every Respect
- § 198 Precisely the Right Word
- § 199 Touching on London Weather
- § 200 The Detour in the Bridal Path
- § 201 Tuesday May Have Been Worse
- § 202 A Touch of Summer Complaint
- § 203 He Never Went There Anyhow
- § 204 Where Republicans Are Scarce
- § 205 The Sole Drawback to Utter Success
- § 206 Sure Damnation for Somebody
- § 207 The Final Smash
- § 208 Making It Unanimous
- § 209 Advice from Expert Sources
- § 210 A Seeker after Hidden Facts
- § 211 The Curfew in Nebraska
- § 212 The Reward of the Early Riser
- § 213 A Competition Which Was Open to All
- § 214 Not the Order of the Bath
- § 215 The Embarrassing Broad A
- § 216 Tributes to the Late Lamented Ones
- § 217 And the Point of Order Was Sustained
- § 218 The Light That Lies in Bankers’ Eyes
- § 219 A Call for the Prohibited Stuff
- § 220 The Perfect Introduction
- § 221 An Answer Right Off the Ice
- § 222 Where He Could Go for Thirty Cents
- § 223 Overlooking No Side Bets
- § 224 The Lick That Won the Victory
- § 225 No Closed Season on Fanchon
- § 226 Down and Out for the Count
- § 227 The Plan of the Shut-In
- § 228 The Quick-Thinking Referee
- § 229 George, the Forbearing
- § 230 An Old One and Its Younger Half-Brother
- § 231 Corroboration from On High
- § 232 Suffering from a Relapse
- § 233 One Old Enough to Merit Respect
- § 234 The Retort Courteous
- § 235 The Proper Point of View
- § 236 Between the Cloves and the Hiccough
- § 237 War Upon the Reptiles
- § 238 One of Those Nature-Faking Yarns
- § 239 The Unaccommodating Kansan
- § 240 The Happy Return
- § 241 Bringing in the Sheaves
- § 242 Regarding the Brooklyn Boys
- § 243 When O. Henry Met the Poet Scout
- § 244 Our Institutions Approved
- § 245 The Annoyed Mr. Goldstein
- § 246 Darkness Before the Dawn
- § 247 A Scandal in the Family
- § 248 Aiding the Sheriff’s Vision
- § 249 The Affair in Half Moon Street
- § 250 Everything Coming Out Just Right
- § 251 Delivered Through a Middleman
- § 252 Back to God’s Country
- § 253 Hail and Farewell!
- § 254 Calculated to Work Improvements
- § 255 Improvements in the Language
- § 256 An Abiding Delusion, Too
- § 257 Bordering on the Unreasonable
- § 258 A Slight for the Kellys
- § 259 The Luck of the Absentee
- § 260 Everything Happens for the Worst
- § 261 Spreading the Glad Tidings
- § 262 Out of Business Hours
- § 263 In the Ascending Scale
- § 264 A Family of Imitators
- § 265 Two Conundrums and a Tragedy
- § 266 In the Very Lap of Comfort
- § 267 Making It a Sweepstakes
- § 268 Filling a Long-Felt Want
- § 269 Spoken from the Heart Out
- § 270 Where Proper Relief Lay
- § 271 No Repetitions for Hubby
- § 272 There Was No Hurry about It
- § 273 An Attack on the Affiliated Talent
- § 274 The Deceased Had Been Forehanded
- § 275 How the Reform Worked
- § 276 Where Higher Education Would Have Landed Him
- § 277 Scarcely a Lucrative Calling
- § 278 A Plea for Studied Action
- § 279 The Current Rate on Suckers
- § 280 Going and Coming
- § 281 The Evils of Intemperance
- § 282 Not a Family of Musicians
- § 283 The Reverend Had a Little Lamb
- § 284 God Save the King’s English!
- § 285 The Kink in Mr. Jones
- § 286 Better than Believing in Santa Claus
- § 287 The Curse of an Active Mind
- § 288 A Way Out of the Difficulty
- § 289 Stylish Language, Indeed!
- § 291 The Voice of a Husband
- § 292 The Passive Rôle
- § 293 The Suggestion of a Scandal
- § 294 A Warning Word to a Friend
- § 295 Obstructing the Highway
- § 296 In Part Settlement
- § 297 The Apostolic Switch
- § 298 In One of His Tamer Moments
- § 299 That Thick Hotel Crockery
- § 300 A Reduction for Cash
- § 301 Extending Down to the Very Bottom
- § 302 Belated but Sincere
- § 303 An Expert Opinion
- § 304 A Well-Merited Rebuke
- § 305 For Business, Not Pleasure
- § 306 Let There Be Light!
- § 307 A Little Bed Time Tale
- § 308 A Growing Suspicion
- § 309 Caught in the Jam
- § 310 And Getting Worse All the Time
- § 311 A Temptation to His Majesty
- § 312 Giving the Lady the Air
- § 313 Complete in Every Detail
- § 314 A Bare Statement
- § 315 One Right Behind Another
- § 316 How Time Flies, to Be Sure!
- § 317 Honor Where Honor Was Due
- § 318 On Her Own Motive Power
- § 319 Who’s Who in Newark
- § 320 Hives, Perhaps, But No Honey
- § 321 A Mystery Revealed
- § 322 It Very Often Proves Fatal
- § 323 Proving That Figures Don’t Lie
- § 324 The Exact Locality
- § 325 A Two Part Serial
- Part 1
- Part 2
- § 326 A Tribute to the Father
- § 327 The Personal Touch Was Lacking
- § 328 Straight from the Scriptures
- § 329 The Real Fromage, in Fact
- § 330 Practically No Reason for It
- § 331 He Couldn’t Stick to Any One Thing
- § 332 Reserve Ammunition
- § 333 Dust to Dust
- § 334 No Trouble to Show Goods
- § 335 Fun for Little Isadore
- § 336 An Awful Blow for Mr. Barnum
- § 337 An Over Sensitive Deer
- § 338 The Proper Rate of Exchange
- § 339 Classifying the Delinquent
- § 340 A Touch of the Swedish
- § 341 Calling for Night Work, Too
- § 342 Returning in the Regular Manner
- § 343 Or in Other Words, Slightly Confused
- § 344 A Squirrel without a Peer
- § 345 The Triumph of the Novice
- § 346 The Gift of Tongues
- § 347 Inquiry Regarding the Stranger
- § 348 When Appearances Were Deceitful
- § 349 The Curious Ways of Sheep
- § 350 Where They Take Things as They Come
- § 351 A Mystery Unraveled
- § 352 Already Showing Signs of Use
- § 353 A Hint to the Wise Is Ample
- § 354 Just Before the Shooting Started
- § 355 The Limit of Helplessness
- § 356 The Most Unkindest Cut of All
- § 357 The Position of a Young Man
- § 358 No Detail to Be Overlooked
- § 359 At the Extreme Rear
- § 360 He Knew Where to Find Paw
- § 361 Consolation for the Imperilled One
- § 362 Examples of the Higher Criticism
- § 363 The Prize Smell of the Circus
- § 364 A Tribute—with One Reservation
- § 365 Staving Off the Fatal Blow
- § 366 Special Extra—To Be Read Only in Leap Year
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