The Best American Humorous Short Stories [Edited by Robert N. Linscott] (1945)

Please do not combine this work, which was edited by Robert N. Linscott, with the work of the same title edited by Alexander Jessup. The contents are almost completely different, even though both are numbered 87 in the Modern Library series.

Contents: Swallowing an oyster alive / John S. Robb -- How daddy played hoss / George W. Harris -- The Shakers / Artemus Ward -- Mrs. McWilliams and the lightning / Mark Twain -- Journalism in Tennessee / Mark Twain -- Brother rabbit takes some exercise / Joel Chandler Harris -- How brother rabbit frightened his neighbors / Joel Chandler Harris -- How Mr. Rooster lost his dinner / Joel Chandler Harris -- Colonel Starbottle for the plaintiff / Bret Harte -- A piece of red calico / Frank R. Stockton -- Mr. Dooley on the game of football / Finley Peter Dunne -- Pigs is pigs / Ellis Parker Butler -- The ransom of Red Chief / O. Henry -- Little gentleman / Booth Tarkington -- Three without doubled / Ring Lardner -- Mr. and Mrs. Fix-It / Ring Lardner -- Death of red peril / Walter D. Edmonds -- Travel is so broadening / Sinclair Lewis -- The crazy fool / Donald Ogden Stewart -- Mr. and Mrs. Haddock abroad / Donald Ogden Stewart -- Benny and the bird-dogs / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -- The legislature / James M. Cain -- The little hours / Dorothy Parker -- But the one on the right / Dorothy Parker -- The snatching of Bookie Bob / Damon Runyon -- An interesting cure / Frank Sullivan -- Gendarmes and the man / Donald Moffat -- Carnival days in sunny Las Los / Robert Benchley -- The guest / Marc Connelly -- Primrose path / Sally Benson -- The secret life of Walter Mitty / James Thurber -- The night the bed fell / James Thurber -- The night the ghost got in / James Thurber -- University days / James Thurber -- The man who hated Moonbaum / James Thurber -- Father and his hard-rocking ship / Clarence Day -- The prince / Ruth McKenney -- Chocolate for the woodwork / Arthur Kober -- The terrible vengeance of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N / Leonard Q. Ross -- Hand in nub / St. Clair McKelway --Down with the Restoration / S.J. Perelman -- Kitchen bouquet / S.J. Perelman -- Dental or mental, I say it's spinach / S.J. Perelman.