Step into a world of laughter and wit with The Best American Humorous Short Stories edited by Alexander Jessup. Delight in a collection of timeless tales from renowned authors, each crafted to tickle your funny bone and leave you smiling long after the last page turns.

Included herein:

The Little Frenchman and his Water Lots by George Pope Morris

The Angel of the Odd by Edgar Allan Poe

The Schoolmaster's Progress by Caroline M.S. Kirkland

The Watkinson Evening by Eliza Leslie

Titbottom's Spectacles by George William Curtis

My Double; and How He Undid Me by Edward E. Hale

A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain

Elder Brown's Backslide by Harry Stillwell Edwards

The Hotel Experience of Mr. Pink Fluker by Richard M. Johnston

The Nice People by Henry C. Bunner

The Buller-Podington Compact by Frank Richard Stockton

Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff by Bret Harte

The Duplicity of Hargraves by O. Henry

Bargain Day at Tutt House by George Randolph Chester

A Call by Grace M. Cooke

How the Widow Won the Deacon by William James Lampton

Gideon by Wells Hastings.