Humour

A House-Boat on the Styx

John Kendrick Bangs

Johnny Crow's Garden

L. Leslie Brooke

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 14, 1919

Various

The skipper's wooing, and The brown man's servant

W. W. Jacobs

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 449 Volume 18, New Series, August 7, 1852

Various

The Adventures of a Suburbanite

Ellis Parker Butler

L'ancien Figaro

Anonymous

The Nature Faker

Richard Harding Davis

Fanny and the Servant Problem

Jerome K. Jerome

The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Fables for the Frivolous

Guy Wetmore Carryl

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 11, June 11, 1870

Various

Cupboard Love The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 5.

W. W. Jacobs

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 14, 1891

Various

News from the Duchy

Arthur Quiller-Couch

Les aventures du roi Pausole

Pierre Louÿs

The Bishop's purse

Moffett, Cleveland; Herford, Oliver

Life on the Mississippi, Part 11.

Mark Twain

Keeping Up Appearances Sailor's Knots, Part 12.

W. W. Jacobs

The Adventures of Prickly Porky

Thornton W. Burgess

Les Contes; ou, Les nouvelles récréations et joyeux devis

Bonaventure Des Périers

Quotes and Images From The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer

Charles Lever

Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 24, September 10, 1870

Various

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 10, 1892

Various