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SHORT STORIES AND AMUSING
ANECDOTES FOR A DULL HOUR
EDITED AND ARRANGED BY
HENRY MARTYN KIEFFER
Author of “The Recollections of a
Drummer Boy,” “It is to Laugh,” etc.
NEW YORK : : : DODGE
PUBLISHING COMPANY
214-220 East 23d Street
Copyright, 1910, by
DODGE PUBLISHING COMPANY
CONTENTS
Page A good after-dinner speech 16 Afternoon teas 174 Alexander 46 Almost won the bet 23 Any port in a storm 34 Artemus Ward at the theatre 159 Awful lot of practice, an 135 Axioms 14 Bashful bridegroom, a 84 Boo! 96 Boomerang stories 113 Brandied peaches 63 Business boy, a promising 117 Chief end of man, the 173 Clerical corkscrew, a 172 College trick, a 31 Colored apostles 94
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@44643@[email protected]#COSTLY_DODGE" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Costly dodge, a 164 Couldn’t catch up 47 Couldn’t help crying 164 Cranky couple, a 69 Cure for snoring, sure 78 Deacon balked, the 180 Delirious 136 Difference without distinction, a 176 Disturbing the solemnity 49 Doing the dons 187 “Dollars to doughnuts” 66 Dutch conundrum, a 91 Eccentric great man, an 138 Echo, the 54 Epitaphs, interesting 170 Exeunt omnes 187 Extremes meet 60 Farm accidents 98 Fast train, a 167 Finally the worm turned 126 Fire screen, a 62
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@44643@[email protected]#FIRST_CLASS" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">First class 144 Flank movement, a 102 Fool according to his folly, a 47 Forbidden fruit, the 107 Getting a wife 155 “God bless our home” 26 Go to father 169 Good ear, a 178 Great country, a 97 Hard witness, a 118 He cut it short 100 He didn’t get it in the neck 117 He warned her 90 How the young idea shoots 58 How to catch a mule 58 Ill-assorted couple 41 Impossible, but funny 120 Incorrigible 91 Inquisitive boy, an 26 In search of a restaurant 76 In the class-room
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tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">74 In the way they should go 147 It wouldn’t work 151 Keen cutters 108 Keeping a secret 149 Kickin’, a 85 Knight errant, a 165 Knightly conundrum, a 176 Laughed it out of court 57 Left-handed compliments 139 Lincoln story, a 18 Lincoln story, another 19 Lionized 56 Literature made easy 77 Logic is logic 55 Logic of grammar, the 135 Lonely place, a 103 Louder 29 Mean company, a 131 Michael Maloney’s serenade 15 Millinerymania 136 “Mounted?”
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tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">64 Names for the twins 59 Naming the apostles 109 Near the end of his journey 95 Not good looking 101 No thoroughfare 148 No water in his 128 “Old Hoss!” 48 Old Man Snuckles 75 On the point of a needle 154 One place or the other 28 Other eye, the 149 Part in the play, his 172 Pepper-sauce 27 Poor business location, a 81 Poor, the 36 Prayer that was answered, a 25 Price of a dog, the 104 Protecting the minister 182 Punishment made sure 83 Pure Scotch 124 Rabbits enough
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class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">94 Raising Cain 129 Rear guard, the 112 Rest and a change, a 140 Right-of-way, the 179 Rough on the deacon 93 Rural justice 121 Same old kind, the 141 Sanctum, the 156 Sharp reproof, a 150 Sharpening their wits 41 She came to his aid 161 She dried up 20 Shrewd selection, a 177 Shy boarder, the 176 Slow coach, a 168 Snolligoster, the 39 So many bald heads 70 She spoiled the poetry 171 Strongest man, the 42 Stutterers, the 44 Sudden rise, a 48
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Sure thing, a 133 Tact and no tact 52 Tale of a sausage, a 82 Technique 51 Temperance a hundred years ago 37 Thackeray and the oyster 166 That terrible infant 22 Three asses, the 73 Timely answer, a 21 Too young 80 Tough goose-yarn, a 142 Turkey was tame, the 112 Two polite and spunky boys 67 Unanimous action 174 Use of riches 24 Very good investment, a 34 Walla Walla! 183 What the statute did not say 17 “Who’d ’a’ bin ’er?” 147 Why he was a democrat 125 Why the Hawkeye man couldn’t pay
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@44643@[email protected]#page_105" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">105 Why they married 42 Wicked parrot, the 185 Wind and water 72 Wonderful climate, a 99 Yankees, the— 38