A Subtreasury Of American Humor (G-73)

E. B. White and K.S. White, Eds.

STORIES AND PEOPLE

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Benny and the Bird-Dogs

Leonard Q. Ross

Christopher K*a*p*l*a*n

Frank R. Stockton

The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine (part I)

Anita Loos

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Ch.I)

Sinclair Lewis

George F. Babbitt Starts the Day

John Mosher

Lady’s Room

Edward Streeter

Two Letters from a Rookie to His Girl

Dorothy Parker

Glory in the Daytime

Arthur Kober

Boggains in the Bronx

Heywood Broun

Mrs. Heywood Cox Broun

Mark Twain

His Grandfather’s Old Ram

Ring Lardner

Alibi Ike

FABLES AND OTHER MORAL TALES

James Thurber: Fables for Our Time

The Owl Who Was God

The Shrike and the Chipmunks

The Moth and the Star

The Unicorn in the Garden

George Ade: Fables in Slang

The Professor Who Wanted to Be Alone

The Waist-Band That Was Taut up to the Moment It Gave Way

The Ninny Who Swam Away from the Life Preserver

Don Marquis

Fable of the Iron Dogs

Milt Gross

Ferry-Tail from Keeng Mitas for Nize Baby

Ambrose Bierce: Fantastic Fables

The Disinterested Arbiter

The Party Over There

Cat and King

Revenge

Officer and Thug

Saint and Soul

E.B. White

The Parable of the Family Which Dwelt Apart

ALL SORTS OF DILEMMAS

Frank Moore Colby

Confessions of a Gallomaniac

St. Clair McKelway

An Affix for Birds

Frederic S. Cozzens

An Invitation to a Party

Max Adeler

A Very Dangerous Invention

Francis Steegmuller

A Ride with Ralph

James T. Fields

A Watch That “Wanted Cleaning”

Cornelia Otis Skinner

It’s a Wise Parent

Ring Lardner

Large Coffee

Donald Moffat

“Doucement, Doucement!”

HISTORY, POLITICS, AND AFFAIRS OF STATE

Washington Irving

The Most Horrible Battle Ever Recorded in Poetry or Prose

Orpheus C. Kerr

The Latest Improvements in Artillery

James Russell Lowell

Sunthin’ in the Pastoral Line

Petroleum V. Nasby

The Great Presidential Excursion

Mark Twain

The Hunting of the Cow

Finley Peter Dunne

Mr. Dooley on the Power of Music

James M. Cain

The Governor

Frank Sullivan

A Weekend at Lady Astor’s

PARODIES AND BURLESQUES

Eugene Field

Excerpts from “The Tribune Primer”

Robert C. Benchley

Christmas Afternoon

Happy Childhood Tales

The Blue Sleeve Garter

More Songs for Meller

Ring Lardner

Odd’s Bodkins

Frank Sullivan

A Garden of Ibids

Donald Ogden Stewart

The Whisky Rebellion

E.B. White

Dusk in Fierce Pajamas

Franklin P. Adams

Selections from “The Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys”

Wolcott Gibbs

Shakespeare, Here’s Your Hat

Death in the Rumble Seat

Corey Ford

The Norris Plan

James Thurber

If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox

Nunnally Johnson

Dr. C-dm-n’s Daily

Bret Harte

Jungle Folk

S.J. Perelman

Waiting for Santy

FOR (OR AGAINST) CHILDREN

Lucretia P. Hale

The Peterkins Celebrate the Fourth of July

Sally Benson

Appreciation of Art

Booth Tarkington

Whitey

Mark Twain

Huck and Jim Talk about Kings

Clifford Orr

Savage Homecoming

SATIRE—BROAD AND OTHERWISE

Artemus Ward

The Shakers

James Thurber

The Greatest Man in the World

Benjamin Franklin

Three Love Letters

H.L. Mencken

The Wedding: A Stage Direction

Kenneth Fearing

Portrait

Russell Maloney

Inflexible Logic

Finley Peter Dunne

Mr. Dooley on the Education of the Young

Mr. Dooley on Golf

Geoffrey Hellman

Mother Taft’s Chickens

Frank Sullivan

The Jukes Family

The Vanderbilt Convention

Ring Lardner

On Conversation

FOLKLORE AND TALL STORIES

Marc Connelly

A Fish Fry

Mark Twain

A Mississippi Pilot

Joel Chandler Harris

Miss Cow Falls a Victim to Mr. Rabbit

“M.”

Going to Bed before a Young Lady

Glen Rounds

Why There Are No Trees on the Desert

A.J. Liebling

Natural History

George W. Harris

Mrs. Yardley’s Quilting

Alfred Henry Lewis

The Man from Yellowhouse

Roark Bradford

The Adulteration of Old King David

NONSENSE

S.J. Perelman

In Old Chinatown

The Idol’s Eye

Frances Warfield

Fpafm

Morris Bishop

Limericks

Ring Lardner

Sit Still

N.P. Willis

Miss Albina McLush

Josh Billings

Animated Natur

Ogden Nash

The Strange Case of Mr. Fortague’s Disappointment

Will Cuppy

A Short History of Man

Don Marquis

archy and mehitabel

THE CRITICS AT WORK

Mark Twain

Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses

Alexander Woollcott

“Manhattan”

Capsule Criticism

S. J. Perelman

Down with the Restoration!

Clifton Fadiman

Getting Gertie’s Ida

Faulkner, Extra-Special, Double Distilled

Frank Moore Colby

When Nature Lovers Write Books

Novels and Hats

The Loeb Classics

Wolcott Gibbs

Crying in the Wilderness

The Theatre in Flushing

Robert C. Benchley

La Presse Perverse

Edgar Allen Poe

William Ellery Channing

Persis Greely Anderson

Lengthy Symphony

Phyllis McGinley

Public Journal

George Jean Nathan

Back to Methuselah

Dorothy Parker

The Highly Recurrent Mr. Hamilton

Re-enter Margot Asquith

THE REPORTERS AT WORK

Wolcott Gibbs

Time…Fortune…Life…Luce

Joseph Mitchell

Tanya

Alva Johnston

How to Become a Great Writer

Sanderson Vanderbilt

Owl Man

E.J. Kahn, Jr.

At Home with the Paleys

John McNulty

Atheist Hit by Truck

A.J. Liebling

In Mulberry Street

The Talk of the Town

Suits for Jimmy

Isadora’s Brother

Tea Party

Gtde Stein

Under the Lindens

The Japanese Army

Wind and Water

Pastoral Scene

Young Man in the Bed

Geoffrey Hellman

Boy Meets Bullfinch

St. Clair McKelway and A.J. Liebling

Who Is This King of Glory?

REMINISCENCE

Clarence Day

The Noblest Instrument

Joseph Mitchell

The Downfall of Fascism in Black Ankle County

Richard Lockridge

What Did You Do, Grandfather?

Lee Strout White

Farewell, My Lovely!

Ruth McKenney

The Sock Hunt

M.R.A.

Memoirs of a Master

Wolcott Gibbs

Ring Out, Wild Bells

H.L. Mencken

Brief Gust of Glory

William Saroyan

The Summer of the Beautiful White Horse

James Thurber

The Night the Bed Fell

Ludwig Bemelmans

The Ballet Visits the Splendide’s Magician

Thanks to the contributor:

John Peterson