Volume 2 of a ten volume collection of amusing tales, observations and anecdotes by America's greatest wordsmiths. This work includes selections by such household favorites as Ambrose Bierce, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain and Bret Harte.
Latest episodes of the podcast Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 2 by Various
- A Bully Boat and a Brag Captain by Sol Smith
- The Dog and the Bees by Ambrose Bierce
- Dislikes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Illustrated Newspapers by G.H.Derby
- Susan Simpson - author unknown
- Miss Malony on the Chinese Question by Mary Mapes Dodge
- The Cross-eyed Woman by Bill Nye
- The Courtin' by James Russell Lowell
- The Coquette - a Portrait by John Godfrey Saxe
- Colonel Mulberry Sellers by Mark Twain
- Incidents in a Retired Life from Up the River by Frederick William Shelton
- Melons by Bret Harte
- A Letter from Mr. Ezekiel Bigelow by James Russell Lowell
- Ballad by Charles Godfrey Leland
- Tushmaker's Toothpuller by G.H. Derby
- The Society Upon the Stanislaus by Bret Harte
- The V-A-S-E by James Jeffrey Roche
- Pomona's Novel by Frank R. Stockton
- Fred Trover's Little Ironclad by John Townsend Trowbridge
- A Boston Lullaby - author unknown
- The Artless Prattle of Childhood by Robert Jones Burdette
- The House That Jack Built - author unknown
- St. Peter at the Gate - author unknown
- The Thompson Street Poker Club by Henry Guy Carleton
- The Fox and the Crow by George T. Lanigan
- Behold The Deeds by Henry Cuyler Bunner
- An Insurance Agent's Story - author unknown
- A Rhyme for Priscilla by Frank Dempster Sherman
- An Epitaph - author unknown
- A Rivermouth Romance by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- The Bohemians of Boston by Gelett Burgess
- The Composite Ghost by Marion Couthouy Smith
- Some Messages Received by Teachers in Brooklyn Public Schools by various parents
- The Trout's Appeal - author unknown
- A Fatal Thirst by Bill Nye
- Peck's Bad Boy by George W. Peck