Research Catalog

Title

A treasury of laughter : consisting of humorous stories, poems, essays, tall tales, jokes, boners, epigrams, memorable quips, and devastating crushers / selected and edited with an introduction by Louis Untermeyer ; illustrated by Lucille Corcos.

Publication

New York : Simon and Schuster, [1946]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977
• Corcos, Lucille, 1908-1973

Description

xix, 712 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

Consisting of humorous stories, poems, essays, tall tales, jokes etc.

Subject

• Wit and humor
• humor
• Wit and humor

Genre/Form

• Humorous stories.
• Wit and Humor.
• Fictional Work
• Poetry
• Essay
• humor.
• poetry.
• essays.
• short stories.
• Essays
• Fiction
• Humor
• Humorous fiction
• Short stories
• Tall tales
• Wit and humor.
• Humor.
• Humorous fiction.
• Short stories.
• Fiction.
• Poetry.
• Essays.
• Tall tales.
• Humour.
• Nouvelles.
• Romans.
• Poésie.
• Essais.
• Histoires invraisemblables.

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

Pair of sexes ; Rich man / F.P.A. (Franklin P. Adams) -- Fable of the spot-lighters and the spotter ; Ninny who swam away from the life preserver / George Ade -- Obituary poet / Max Adeler -- Jim ; Henry King ; Algernon ; Yak ; Lion ; Four Epigrams: On his books ; On the politician ; On Lady Poltagrue ; Fatigued / Hilaire Belloc -- Elephant cutlet / Ludwig Bemelmans -- Treasurer's report ; Kiddie-kar travel / Robert Benchley -- Between Madison and Park / Sally Benson -- Mule ; Pioneers / Josh Billings -- We have been here before ; Sonnet and limerick ; Limericks long after Lear / Morris Bishop -- Green pastures / Roark Bradford -- My father goes to court / Carlos Bulosan -- Pigs is pigs / Ellis Parker Butler -- Father William ; Jabberwocky ; Humpty Dumpty's recitation ; Mad gardener's song / Lewis Carroll -- Sycophantic fox and the gullible raven ; Vainglorious oak and the modest bulrush / Guy Wetmore Carryl -- "Speaking of operations" / Irvin S. Cobb -- Confessions of a gallo-maniac / Frank Moore Colby -- Another American tragedy ; Mary / John Collier -- Guest / Marc Connelly -- Alas, poor Bollington / A.E. Coppard -- Living in the country / Frederic Swartout Cozzens -- Wit with a whim of iron / Frank Crownin-Shield -- Goldfish ; Pterodactyl ; Plesiosaur / Will Cuppy -- From "Life with father" ; Egg / Clarence Day -- Unselfish hostess / E.M. Delafield -- Alcohol as food ; Mr. Dooley on expert testimony / Finley Peter Dunne -- Seein' things / Eugene Field -- Indomitable duck / Charles G. Finney -- Who was Joe 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 -- Rival curates ; 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, Alan Green -- Wonderful tar baby story / Joel Chandler Harris -- Ransom of Red Chief / O. Henry -- 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 the spa ; Clemo Uti -- "The water lilies" ; I Gaspiri -- "The upholsterers" / Ring Lardner -- Gertrude the governess ; My financial career / Stephen Leacock -- Owl and the pussy-cat ; Ahkond of Swat ; Incidents in the life of my Uncle Arly ; Lear's limericks / Edward Leer -- Rain ; Belle of the Balkans / Newman Levy -- Editor is cross-examined by the author ; What price heaven? / Howard Maier -- From "Arcy and mehitabel / Don Marquis -- Axolotl ; Epitaph to a waiter ; History of education ; Of time and the reader / David McCord -- Sock hunt / Ruth McKenney -- Downfall of a revolutionary / H.L. Mencken -- To a small boy standing on my shoes while I am wearing them -- Evening out -- Seven spiritual ages of Mrs. Marmaduke Moore -- Common cold / Ogden Nash -- Twombley's tale ; Stars / Bill Nye -- You were perfectly fine ; Little words / Dorothy Parker -- Perelman the man ; Nothing but the tooth ; Hold that Christmas tiger / S.J. Perelman -- Education of Hyman Kaplan / Leonard Q. Ross -- Butch minds the baby / Damon Runyon -- Lincoln, the laughing president / Carl Sandburg -- Mouse ; Story-teller / Saki -- Ever fall in love with a midget? ; Fifty-yard dash ; Circus / William Saroyan -- From "The crazy fool" / Donald Ogden Stewart -- Trip to Hollywood / Frank Sullivan -- Quiet afternoon / Booth Tarkington -- -- Sorrows of Werther a credo / WIlliam Makespeace Thackeray -- Casey at the bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer -- Secret life of Walter Mitty ; What do you mean it was Brillig? ; Greatest man in the world / James Thurber -- Celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras county ; Tom whitewashes the fence ; Camel's appetite / Mark Twain -- Bachelor keeps house ; Mother goose up-to-date / 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.

LCCN

46011880

OCLC

• ocm01118202
• 1118202
• SCSB-164121

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library