The total depravity of inanimate things / A restless night ; European diet ; Experience of the McWilliamses and membraneous croup ; Our Italian guide ; Abelard and Heloise ; How I edited an agricultural paper / Katherine Kent Child Walker. A fight with a trout ; Plumbers ; Pie / Charles Dudley Warner -- How we astonished the Rivermouthians / Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- His first day of editing / Eugene Field -- Trying to understand a woman ; Love's young dream ; Kitty answers / William D. Howells --The female base ball nine / James M. Bailey -- The tar baby ; Mr. Rabbit grossly deceives Mr. Fox / Joel Chandler Harris, aka Uncle Remus -- The haunted room ; Wrecked in port / Robert J. Burdette -- The first piano in a mining camp / Sam Davis -- Fourth of July oration / Artemus Ward -- The parson's horse race / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Captain Ben's choice / Mrs. Francis [i.e. Frances] Lee Pratt -- A visit to the asylum for the aged and decayed punsters / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Getting a glass of water / Frederick W. [i.e. S.] Cozzens -- The total depravity of inanimate things / Katherine Kent Child Walker.
Summary:
BBC Audiobooks America presents 27 classic short stories, taken from the most celebrated humorists from the 19th century.
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