| Introduction | p. 15 |
| Comical-Tragical Tales | |
| "Clothes Make the Man" | p. 29 |
| "Jack Schmidt, Arts Administrator" | p. 41 |
| "Ex Parte" | p. 48 |
| "Confessions of a Humorist" | p. 57 |
| "The Mourner" | p. 64 |
| "The Death of Julius Caesar" | p. 70 |
| "Broadway Complex" | p. 78 |
| Shameless Frivolity | |
| "Contributors to This Issue" | p. 93 |
| "Hymn to Ham" | p. 94 |
| "Song to Bacon" | p. 96 |
| "Song to Grease" | p. 97 |
| "A Look at Organized Crime" | p. 98 |
| "There Ain't No Justice" | p. 101 |
| "Wally Ballou Visits Sturdley House" | p. 103 |
| "Exam Time" | p. 108 |
| "Reader's Digest Threatened . . ." | p. 110 |
| "Captain Blood" | p. 111 |
| "The Retort Transcendental" | p. 115 |
| "More Songs for Meller" | p. 117 |
| "A Strange Story" | p. 119 |
| "The Prisoner of Zembla" | p. 120 |
| The Horace Greeley Story | p. 122 |
| "Maxims from the Chinese" | p. 125 |
| The Human Muddle | |
| Briefly Speaking | p. 131 |
| "Tain't So" | p. 131 |
| "The Busy-Body, No. 4" | p. 135 |
| "The Drinker's Dictionary" | p. 138 |
| "Add Hot Water; Serves Fourteen Million" | p. 143 |
| "A Comedy in Rubber" | p. 148 |
| "How to Tell a Fine Old Wine" | p. 152 |
| "Fake French in Nine (Neuf) Easy Lessons" | p. 155 |
| Briefly Speaking | p. 158 |
| "Bye-Bye, Silver Bullets" | p. 158 |
| Duke and Douphin Excerpt from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | p. 161 |
| Emmeline Excerpt from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | p. 166 |
| Briefly Speaking | p. 170 |
| This Sex Problem | |
| A Perplexing Question | p. 175 |
| Briefly Speaking | p. 177 |
| "Fate Keeps On Happening" | p. 177 |
| "How Much Should a Woman Eat?" | p. 185 |
| "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" | p. 187 |
| "What Did We Do Wrong?" | p. 191 |
| Three Letters | p. 198 |
| "Old Mistresses Apologue" | p. 203 |
| "Somewhere a Roscoe . . ." | p. 204 |
| Parody, Burlesque, Criticism, and Pain | |
| "What He Told Me" | p. 213 |
| "Pornocopia" | p. 216 |
| "Cloudland Revisited: Roll On, Thou Deep and Dark Scenario, Roll" | p. 222 |
| "A Talkative Jerk" | p. 227 |
| "The Correspondent-School Linguist" | p. 233 |
| "How Love Came to General Grant" | p. 234 |
| "My Cat Book Won't Come" | p. 242 |
| "Sitting on a Seesaw" | p. 245 |
| "Muck-a-Muck" | p. 249 |
| "A Book Review" | p. 254 |
| "The Making of Theodore H. White" | p. 257 |
| "From There to Infinity" | p. 261 |
| Briefly Speaking | p. 265 |
| Family Life | |
| "Society Wedding: A Swinging Social Soiree" | p. 271 |
| "To Irving Hoffman" | p. 274 |
| Briefly Speaking | p. 275 |
| Excerpt from Vital Parts | p. 276 |
| "How to Eat an Ice-Cream Cone" | p. 290 |
| "A Hard Case" | p. 295 |
| "Stop Ironing the Diapers" | p. 296 |
| Four Dialogues | p. 299 |
| "Ode to Thanksgiving" | p. 304 |
| Excerpt from Portnoy's Complaint | p. 307 |
| "To Harry Kurnitz" | p. 310 |
| Geographical Sneers | |
| Briefly Speaking | p. 315 |
| "The Hazards of Journalism..." | p. 315 |
| "Can New York Save Itself?" | p. 317 |
| "The Foolish Woman" | p. 326 |
| "A Nation of Shopkeepers Loses Three of Them through Contact with a Nation of Violence" | p. 327 |
| "The Capital of a Great Republic" | p. 333 |
| "Third World Driving Hints and Tips" | p. 334 |
| Briefly Speaking | p. 338 |
| "Texas Observed" | p. 338 |
| Politics and Patriots | |
| "Man and Lightning" | p. 347 |
| Lieutenant Scheisskopf | p. 347 |
| "How Old Abe Received the News of His Nomination" | p. 358 |
| "A Romance - William Barker, the Young Patriot" | p. 359 |
| "The Draft in Baldinsville" | p. 360 |
| "Nasby Shows Why He Should Not Be Drafted" | p. 363 |
| "Nasby Writes His Flock from a Union Jail" | p. 364 |
| Cables from the White House | p. 366 |
| "Two Letters, Both Open" | p. 368 |
| "Woman Suffrage" | p. 372 |
| "Salmagundi No. XI" | p. 374 |
| "Coolidge" | p. 379 |
| "Call This a Govment!" Excerpt from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | p. 382 |
| "Backwacking: A Plea to the Senator" | p. 384 |
| "The Great Starch Debate" | p. 389 |
| Briefly Speaking | p. 394 |
| Media | |
| "The Years with Navasky" | p. 399 |
| "The XI P.M. Report" | p. 403 |
| "Journalese, or Why English Is the Second Language of the Fourth Estate" | p. 405 |
| "The Lowell-Hawthorne Incident" | p. 414 |
| "Informed Opinion, the Lifeblood of Our Way of Life | p. 416 |
| "Partners" | p. 418 |
| "Press Relations" | p. 420 |
| "A Matter of Style" | p. 425 |
| "The Cape Codder" | p. 429 |
| "Drill for a Rookie" | p. 431 |
| Fable, Lore, and Fantasy | |
| "The Patient Toiler Who Got It in the Usual Place" | p. 443 |
| "The Fable of How the Fool-Killer Backed Out of a Contract" | p. 444 |
| "The Fable of the Slim Girl Who Tried to Keep a Date That Was Never Made" | p. 445 |
| "The Fable of the Copper and the Jovial Undergrads" | p. 446 |
| "The Two Turkeys" | p. 448 |
| "The Tiger Who Understood People" | p. 449 |
| "The Lion Who Wanted to Zoom" | p. 450 |
| "The Sheep in Wolf's Clothing" | p. 451 |
| "The Tortoise and the Hare" | p. 452 |
| Talking Mule Story | p. 453 |
| Competition for a Girl | p. 454 |
| Woman's Strength Story | p. 455 |
| Squinch Owl Story | p. 458 |
| "the coming of archy" | p. 459 |
| "mehitabel was once cleopatra" | p. 461 |
| "mehitabel and her kittens" | p. 462 |
| "mehitabel dances with boreas" | p. 466 |
| "How to Tell a True Princess" | p. 470 |
| "A Bedtime Story" | p. 471 |
| God Visits Hell | p. 474 |
| Ten Primer Lessons | p. 477 |
| "The Angel of the Odd" | p. 483 |
| Looking Back | |
| "Uncle Dockery and the Independent Bull" | p. 495 |
| "Reunion in Gehenna" | p. 500 |
| Uncle Harold | p. 505 |
| "My Old Man and the Lascivious Special Award" | p. 511 |
| "The Night the Old Nostalgia Burned Down" | p. 523 |
| "Father and His Pet Rug" | p. 527 |
| "The Night the Ghost Got In" | p. 531 |
| A Gnashing of Humorists | |
| "Sauce for the Gander" | p. 541 |
| Letter to John J. McCarthy | p. 545 |
| "The Fundamentals of Contemporary Courtesy" | p. 546 |
| Excerpts from The Devil's Dictionary | p. 552 |
| "Fear of Flying Isn't Groundless" | p. 554 |
| "Manners" | p. 556 |
| "The Joggers' Prayer" | p. 559 |
| "The Waiting Game" | p. 560 |
| "Political Economy" | p. 561 |
| "My Watch" | p. 566 |
| "A Little Flight Music" | p. 568 |
| "Uncle Edith's Ghost Story" | p. 571 |
| Notes on the Contributors | p. 575 |
| Copyright Acknowledgments | p. 587 |
| Index | p. 595 |
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