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• Georgia scenes (Carey and Hart, 1845), by Joseph Jones, Felix Octavius Carr Darley, T.K. & P.G. Collins (Firm), and L. Johnson & Co (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Pigtail of Ah Lee Ben Loo: With Seventeen Other Laughable Tales and 200 Comical Silhouettes (New York and London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1938), by John Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer Among the Indians, and Other Unfinished Stories (Berkeley et al.: University of California Press, 2009), by Mark Twain, ed. by Dahlia Armon and Walter Blair (frame-dependent illustrated HTML at marktwainproject.org)
• The $30,000 Bequest, and Other Stories, by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)
• The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (Harper edition; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, ca. 1917), by Mark Twain (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches (New York: C. H. Webb, 1869), by Mark Twain (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Cornfield Philosophy (Chicago: Blakely Printing Co., 1902), by C. D. Strode, illust. by Percy E. Anderson (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• Editorial Wild Oats, by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)
• Mr. Dooley on Making a Will and Other Necessary Evils (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1919), by Finley Peter Dunne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon; and Other Humorous Tales (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1922), by Richard Edward Connell (Gutenberg text)
• Sketches New and Old, by Mark Twain (Gutenberg text)
• Sketches New and Old (from the Complete Works of Mark Twain; New York: Harper and Bros., ca. 1917), by Mark Twain (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Merry Tales (New York: C. L. Webster and Co., 1892), by Mark Twain, ed. by Arthur Griffin Stedman
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Mr. Dooley's Opinions (New York: Harper and Bros., 1906), by Finley Peter Dunne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Potted Fiction: Being a Series of Extracts from the World's Best Sellers Put Up in Thin Slices for Hurried Consumers (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1908), by John Kendrick Bangs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertations by Mr. Dooley (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1906), by Finley Peter Dunne (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Faro Nell and Her Friends: Wolfville Stories (New York: G. W. Dillingham Co., c1913), by Alfred Henry Lewis, illust. by W. Herbert Dunton and J. N. Marchand (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War (Boston: Small, Maynard and Co., 1899), by Finley Peter Dunne (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen, by Finley Peter Dunne (Gutenberg text)
• Mr. Dooley Says, by Finley Peter Dunne (Gutenberg text)
• Wolfville Nights (1902), by Alfred Henry Lewis (Gutenberg text)
• The mysterious stranger, and other stories (Harper & Brothers, 1922), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Editorial wild oats (Harper, 1905), by Mark Twain and F. Strothmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertations by Mr. Dooley (Harper & Bros., 1906), by Finley Peter Dunne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mr. Dooley in peace and in war (Small, Maynard & Company, 1898), by Finley Peter Dunne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Is sex necessary? or, Why you feel the way you do (Harper & brothers, 1929), by James Thurber and E. B. White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sentimental calendar, being twelve funny stories (C. Scribner's sons, 1886), by Frederic Jesup Stimson and Charles Scribner's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mr. Dooley in peace and in war. (Small, Maynard & Company, 1905), by Finley Peter Dunne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Old Settler, the Squire and Little Peleg (United States book company, 1895), by Edward Harold Mott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The contented horse trader (Albert Whitman & Co., 1963), by Laura Bannon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The man that corrupted Hadleyburg and other stories and essays (Harper & Bros., 1900), by Mark Twain and Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American claimant, and other stories and sketches (Harper, 1899), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches new and old (Harper & brothers, 1917), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wolfville (Grosset, 1897), by Alfred Henry Lewis and Frederic Remington (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guest at the Ludlow (New York Book Co., 1913), by Bill Nye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tale of a meek-eyed mule. (Morrill, Higgins & co., 1892), by Bill Nye (page images at HathiTrust)
• The familiar letters of Peppermint Perkins. (Ticknor, 1886), by Peppermint Perkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches (Belfords, Clarke & Co., 1879), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• The gentle grafter (Doubleday, Page & Company, 1910), by O. Henry, Harry Cornell Greening, N.Y.) S.S. McClure Company (New York, and Page & Company Doubleday (page images at HathiTrust)
• Assorted chocolates (Dodd, Mead and Company, 1922), by Octavus Roy Cohen, J. J. Gould, Mead & Company Dodd, and Decorative Designers (page images at HathiTrust)
• One million pound bank-note (Chatto & Windus, 1893), by Mark Twain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stony Cliff people (Midwest Co., 1930), by Effie W. Merriman and Inez Frances Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ruggles of Red Gap (Grosset & Dunlap, 1935), by Harry Leon Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sketches : new and old (Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1903), by Mark Twain and Harper & Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The amazing adventures of Letitia Carberry, by Mary Roberts Rinehart, illust. by Howard Chandler Christy (Gutenberg ebook)
• Uncle Wiggily's rolling hoop : or, How the bunny gentleman gets mixed up, and Uncle Wiggily and the Snappy Shark, also Uncle Wiggily's bob sled, by Howard Roger Garis, illust. by Lang Campbell (Gutenberg ebook)
• The silica gel pseudomorph, and other stories, by Edward Hart (Gutenberg ebook)
• Tish plays the game, by Mary Roberts Rinehart (Gutenberg ebook)
• Uncle Wiggily's funny auto : or, How the Skillery Skallery Alligator was bumped; and Uncle Wiggily and his snow plow; also How the bunny rabbit gentleman watered the garden, by Howard Roger Garis, illust. by Lang Campbell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Told by the Colonel, by W. L. Alden, illust. by Hal Hurst and Richard Jack (Gutenberg ebook)
• Skizzenbuch (in German), by Mark Twain, illust. by H. Schrödter (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Four-Masted Cat-Boat, and Other Truthful Tales, by Charles Battell Loomis, illust. by Florence Scovel Shinn (Gutenberg ebook)
• Sandburrs, by Alfred Henry Lewis, illust. by George Benjamin Luks and Horace Taylor (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Guest at the Ludlow, and Other Stories, by Bill Nye (Gutenberg ebook)
• Side-stepping with Shorty, by Sewell Ford, illust. by F. Vaux Wilson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Odd Numbers: Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe, by Sewell Ford (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War, by Finley Peter Dunne (Gutenberg ebook)

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