Table of Contents The Bizzy Body.-"Complete Works" The Gote. "Complete Works" CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER (1829-1900). My Summer in a Garden Plumbers. How I Killed a Bear LOUISA MAY ALCOTT (1832-1888). Street Scenes in Washington.-"Hospital Sketches" ). SAMUEL L. CLEMENS, "Mark Twain" (1835- The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County PAGE 252 262 264 276 284 Acknowledgments Acknowledgments and thanks are gratefully made to the following publishers for permitting the use of selections appearing in this volume: LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD COMPANY, Boston: Selections from "Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington" and "Partington Patchwork," by B. P. SHILLABER. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO., Boston: "The OwlCritic," "The Alarmed Skipper," "The Pettibone Lineage," by JAMES T. FIELDS; "The Coquette," "The Stammering Wife," "My Familiar," "Early Rising," "Ego et Echo," "The Little Maid and the Lawyer," "The Briefless Barrister," by JOHN GODFREY SAXE; "A Letter from Mr. Ezekiel Biglow," "The Yankee Recruit," "What Mr. Robinson Thinks," "The Courtin'," "Without and Within," by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL; "My Lord Entertains Two Americans," by RICHARD GRANT WHITE; "My Summer in a Garden," "Plumbers," "How I Killed a Bear," by CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER. G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, New York: "Living in the Country," "A Family Horse," by FREDERICK S. COZZENS. GEORGE W. DILLINGHAM & CO., New York: "Natral and Unnatral Aristokrats," "The Bumblebee," "To Correspondents," "Marriage," "The Bizzy Body," "Tight Boots," "A Hen," "The Gote," by HENRY W. SHAW. |