By Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, Elliott Flower, Ellis Parker Butler, Charles Battell Loomis, Wallace Irwin, George Randolph Chester, Ironquill, Caroline M. S. Kirkland, Eliza Leslie, Max Adeler, Frank Roe Batchelder, George William Curtis, Edward E
From Mark Twain to O. Henry, from Saki to Washington Irving—The vintage Humor Megapack reels in not less than forty five vintage brief tales and poems guaranteed to amuse. learn and laugh!
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A DOUBLE-DYED DECEIVER, through O. Henry
LAURA, via Saki
TEETH IS tooth, by means of Ellis Parker Butler
ARAMINTA AND the auto, by means of Charles Battell Loomis
THE RHYME OF THE CHIVALROUS SHARK, by way of Wallace Irwin (poem)
ESPECIALLY males, via George Randolph Chester
THE ANGEL OF THE bizarre, by way of Edgar Allan Poe
THE SIEGE OF DJKLXPRWBZ, by way of Ironquill (poem)
THE SCHOOLMASTER’S development, by way of Caroline M.S. Kirkland
THE WATKINSON night, by means of Eliza Leslie
THE MILLIONAIRES, by way of Max Adeler
THE depraved ZEBRA, by way of Frank Roe Batchelder (poem)
TITBOTTOM’S SPECTACLES, through George William Curtis
MY DOUBLE; and the way HE UNDID ME, via Edward Everett Hale
A stopover at TO THE ASYLUM FOR elderly AND DECAYED PUNSTERS, by means of Oliver Wendell Holmes
AS reliable AS A PLAY, by way of Horace E. Scudder
THE purple wire, by way of Ellis Parker Butler
WANTED—A prepare dinner, through Alan Dale
MRS. JOHNSON, via William Dean Howells
COLONEL STERETT’S PANTHER HUNT, via Alfred Henry Lewis
UNSATISFIED craving, by means of R. okay. Munkittrick (poem)
WOUTER VAN TWILLER, via Washington Irving
THE studies OF THE A.C., via Bayard Taylor
THE CHAMPION CHECKER-PLAYER OF AMERIKY, by way of James Whitcomb Riley
ELDER BROWN’S BACKSLIDE, by way of Harry Stillwell Edwards
THE inn adventure OF MR. red FLUKER, via Richard Malcolm Johnston
THE great humans, by way of Henry Cuyler Bunner
THE BULLER-PODINGTON COMPACT, by means of Frank R. Stockton
COLONEL STARBOTTLE FOR THE PLAINTIFF, by means of Bret Harte
THE DUPLICITY OF HARGRAVES, via O. Henry
AN night MUSICALE, through may well Isabel Fisk
BARGAIN DAY AT TUTT apartment, through George Randolph Chester
THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN AND HIS WATER plenty, through George Pope Morris
THE GRAMMATICAL BOY, by way of invoice Nye
A name, via Grace MacGowan Cooke
HOW THE WIDOW gained THE DEACON, by means of William James Lampton
THE innovations OF THE fool, through John Kendrick Bangs
THE chicken, by way of Saki
THREE males IN a ship (To Say not anything of the Dog), through Jerome ok. Jerome
WHO DO you think that DID IT? by way of Stephen Leacock
OLD POLKA DOT’S DAUGHTER, by way of invoice Nye
THE RUBÀIYÀT OF OHOW DRYYÀM, by way of J. L. Duff (poem)
THE GOLFER’S RUBÁIYÁT, via H. W. Boynton (poem)
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Behind an inscription, my dear sir, there is also an entire people! But behind any of these poems there is nothing but a whim. So then, who will guarantee for us that the same ex pression does not change its meaning radically from one instance to the next? In the separate compositions, or in the very same composition there is, I beg you to observe, not one word which is repeated twice throughout all three poems. ” “ I beg your pardon, I beg your pardon,” the great critic shouted, beside himself, “it is just because of this that the problem is quickly resolved.
By its very nature, a result can be evaluated only in terms of the means employed. Except with God, absolute results do not exist, and the very concept of a result is a relative concept. Results range along an infinite ideal scale, though inside the limits of a single moral value. But let us not digress. ” A tomblike silence had fallen in the office of the great critic. Letting his eyes stare into the void, he pretended not to have heard my question. ’ “ I have only one poem with me,” faltered Y.
You can’t get out of it that easily. Now you’re in danger of relying on a sophism yourself. You are taking it for granted that what is involved is a work of art. But this is precisely what has to be examined: where and what are the criteria you use for your evaluation? Let me sum up my preceding argument. When I said that an inscription has behind it and implies a complex of norms, I meant also that certain of its purely linguistic data are enforced and supported by a knowledge which is not exclusively linguistic: I refer to ethnic knowledge.
