Introduction / Alexander Jessup
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
A call / Grace MacGowan Cooke
How the widow won the deacon / William James Lampton.