Short Funny Stories

[ad_1] I Just as the stage rumbled over the rickety old bridge, creaking and groaning, the sun came from behind the clouds that had frowned all the way, and the […]

[ad_1] When Major Pendleton Talbot, of Mobile, sir, and his daughter, Miss Lydia Talbot, came to Washington to reside, they selected for a boarding place a house that stood fifty […]

[ad_1] It had been a day of triumph for Colonel Starbottle. First, for his personality, as it would have been difficult to separate the Colonel’s achievements from his individuality; second, […]

[ad_1] “I tell you, William,” said Thomas Buller to his friend Mr. Podington,“I am truly sorry about it, but I cannot arrange for it this year.Now, as to my invitation—that […]

[ad_1] “They certainly are nice people,” I assented to my wife’s observation, using the colloquial phrase with a consciousness that it was anything but “nice” English, “and I’ll bet that […]

[ad_1] I Mr. Peterson Fluker, generally called Pink, for his fondness for as stylish dressing as he could afford, was one of that sort of men who habitually seem busy […]

[ad_1] Elder Brown told his wife good-by at the farmhouse door as mechanically as though his proposed trip to Macon, ten miles away, was an everyday affair, while, as a […]

[ad_1] In compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and inquired after my friend’s […]

[ad_1] Having just returned from a visit to this admirable Institution in company with a friend who is one of the Directors, we propose giving a short account of what […]

[ad_1] It is not often that I trouble the readers of The Atlantic Monthly. I should not trouble them now, but for the importunities of my wife, who “feels to […]