The rich man / Franklin P. Adams
The fable of the spotlighters and the spotter; The ninny who swam away from the life preserver / George Ade
The obituary poet / Max Adeler
Jim; Henry King; Algernon; The Yak; The lion; Four epigrams / Hilaire Belloc
The elephant cutlet / Ludwig Bemelmans
The treasurer's report; Kiddie-kar travel / Robert Benchley
Between Madison and Park / Sally Benson
The mule; Pioneers / Josh Billings
We have been here before; Sonnet and limerick; Limmericks long after Lear / Morris Bishop
Green pastures / Roark Bradford
My father goes to court / Carlos Bulosan
Pigs is pigs / Ellis Parker Butler
Father William; Jabberwock; Humpty Dumpty's recitation; The mad gardener's song / Lewis Carroll
The sycophantic fox and the gullible raven; The vainglorious oak and the modest bulrush / Guy Wetmore Carryl
Speaking of operations / Irvin S. Cobb
Confessions of a gallomaniac / Frank Moore Colby
Another American tragedy; Mary / John Collier
The Guest / Marc Connelly
Alas, poor Bollington! / A. E. Coppard
Living in the country / Frederic Swartout Cozzens
A with with a whim of iron / Frank Crownin-Shield
The goldfish; The Pterodactyl; The Plesiosaur / Will Cuppy
From "Life with father"; The egg / Clarence Day
The unselfish hostess / E. M. Delafield
Alcohol as food; Mr. Dooley on expert testimony / Finley Peter Dunne
Seein' things / Eugene Field
Who was Jo Miller? / Robert O. Foote.
Wanted, dead or alive / Corey Ford
Brown's descent or, The willy-nilly slide / Robert Frost
Ring out, wild bells / Wolcott Gibbs
The rival curates; The ruler of the Queen's navee; Etiquette / W. S. Gilbert
From pillar to post or, How to raise a dog; Come one, come one or, How to be a host / Jack Goodman and Alan Green
Aunt Eliza; Indifference; Compensation; Uncle Joe; Billy / Harry Graham
The wonderful tar baby story / Joel Chandler Harris
The ransom of Red Chief / O. Henry
The one-hoss shay or, The Deacon's masterpiece; Contentment / Oliver Wendell Holmes
When I was one-and-twenty; Oh, see how thick the goldcup flowers / A. E. Housman
Legend of a sport / Alva Johnston
If men played cards as women do / George S. Kaufman
All Yankees are liars / Eric Knight
Monroe goes back to the indians / Arthur Kober
Alibi Ike; Mr. and Mrs. Fix-it; Cora, or fun at a spa; Clemo Uti
The water lilies; I Gaspiri
The upholsterers / Ring Lardner
Gertrude the governess; My financial career / Stephen Leacock
The owl and the pussycat; The ahkond of swat; Incidents in the life of my uncle Arly; Lear's limericks / Edward Lear
Rain; The belle of the Balkans / Newman Levy
The editor is cross-examined by the author; What price heaven? / Howard Maier
From archy and mehitabel / Don Marquis.
The axolotl; Epitaph to a waiter; History of education; Of time and the reader / David McCord
The sock hunt / Ruth McKenney
Downfall of a revolutionary / H. L. Mencken
To a small boy standing on my shoes while I am wearing them; The evening out; The seven spiritual ages of Mrs. Marmaduke Moore; The common cold / Ogden Nash
Twombley's tale; The stars / Bill Nye
Your were perfectly fine; Little words / Dorothy Parker
Perelman the man; Nothing but the tooth; Hold that Christmas tiger! / S. J. Perelman
The education of Hyman Kaplan / Leonard Q. Ross
Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon
Lincoln, the laughing president / Carl Sandburg
The mouse; The story-teller / Saki
Ever fall in love with a midget?; The fifty-yard dash; The circus / William Sorayan
From "The crazy fool" / Donald Ogden Stewart
A trip to Hollywood / Frank Sullivan
The quiet afternoon / Booth Tarkington
Sorrows of Werther; A credo / William Makepeace Thackeray
Casey at the bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer
The secret life of Walter Mitty; What do you mean it was Brillig?; The greatest man in the world / James Thurber
The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County; Tom whitewashes the fence; The camel's appetite / Mark Twain
A bachelor keeps house; Mother Goose up-to-date: Walter de la Mare tell the listener about "Jack and Jill"; Edgar A. Guest glorifies "The old woman who lived in a shoe" / Louis Untermeyer
Among the spirits / Artemus Ward
David Harum's horse trade / Edward Noyes Westcott
Uncle Fred flits by / P. G. Wodehouse
Entrance fee / Alexander Woollcott
The art of insult or, The devastating crusher.