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Title: Peck's Compendium of Fun
Author: George W. Peck
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PECK'S COMPENDIUM OF FUN
Comprising the Choicest Gems of Wit, Humor, Sarcasm and Pathos of
America's Favorite Humorist,
GEORGE W. PECK,
Editor of "Peck's Sun" Milwaukee
Illustrated by Eminent Artists
Chicago
1886

CONTENTS.
About Hell Another Dead Failure Anna Dickinson A Bald-headed Man
Most Crazy A Case of Paralysis A Doctor of Laws A Hot Box at a
Picnic A Lively Train Load A Mad Minister A Musical Critique A
Peck at the Cheese A Plea for the Bull Head A Sewing Machine Given
to the Boss Girl A Safe Investment A Tony Slaughter-House A Trying
Situation An Arm That is not Reliable An Editor Burglarized Banks
and Banking Bounced from Church for Dancing Boys and Circuses
Boys will be Boys Broke up a Prayer Meeting Buying a Stone Crusher
"Cash!" Camp Meetings in the Dark of the Moon Church Keno Colored
Concert Troupes Dogs and Human Beings Effects of Mineral Water
Expedition in Search of a Doughnut Failure of a Solid Institution
Fishing for Pieces of Women Fooling with the Bible George
Washington Granite Head Cheese Internal Improvements Joke on the
Hat Killing Big Game Large Mouths are Fashionable La Crosse

Nebecudnezzer Water Laying up Apples in Heaven Mr. Peck's Sunday
Lecture Nearly Broke up the Ball Our Blue-Coated Dog-Poisoners Our
Christian Neighbors Have Gone Palace Cattle Cars
PECK'S BAD BOY AND HIS PA. He Becomes a Druggist He is too
Healthy He Quits the Drug Business His Pa an Inventor His Pa
Dissected His Pa Goes Calling His Pa Goes Skating His Pa Gets Boxed
His Pa Gets Mad His Pa Joins a Temperance Society His Pa Jokes Him
His Pa is Discouraged His Pa Kills Him His Pa Mortified
Religion and Fish Rope Ladders Sardineindianapolis Seven Year Old
Horses Summer Resorting Take Your Latin Straight Terror in Church
The Bob-Tailed Badger The Boy and the Goat The Difference The
Difference in Horses The Fire New Year's Day The Giddy Girl's
Quarrel The Gospel Car The Infidel and His Silver Mine The Knight
and the Bridal Chamber The Legend of the Lake The Man from
Dubuque The Mistake About It The Naughty But Nice Church Choir
The New Coal Stove The Sudden Fire-Works at Racine The Uses of
the Paper Bag The Waters of La Crosse The Way to Name Children
The Way Women Boss a Pillow The Woodcock Those Bold Bad
Drummers Those Step Ladders! Tragedy on the Stage Trains Without
Conductors Try to Save Two Shillings Unscrewing the Top of a Fruit
Jar Why the Fever Did'nt Spread Woman-Dozing a Democrat Wonders
of the Stage
ELECTRIC FLASHES.
Anna Dickinson as "Mazeppa" A Black Bear at Onalaska A Dead Sure
Thing A Fashion Item A Good Land Enough A Lecturer Should Know
What He Talks About A Loan Exhibition A New Sparking Scheme An
Odorous Bohemian Base Ingratitude Buttermilk Bibbers Cats on the
Fence Christmas Trees Col. Ingersoll Praying Comforting
Compensations Convenient Currency Crushing Nihilism Enterprising
Chicago! Fish Hatching in Wisconsin Frozen Ears Gathered Waists!
Geological Survey Give us War Good Templars on Ice Hard on Fond
Du Lac He Would'nt Have His Father Called Names How Farmers
May Get Rich "How Sharper Than a Hound's Tooth!" How to Invest a
Thousand Dollars How to Reach Young Men Hunting Dogs Insecure

Abodes Lunch on the Cars Mattie Mashes Minnesota Merrie Christmas
More Dangerous Than Kerosene Mrs. Langtry One of Beecher's
Converts Preparing for War Raising Elephants Registry of Electors
Selling Clams She was no Gentleman Southern "Honaw" Spurious
Tripe Sure of Heaven Supreme Court Judges and U.S. Senators Ten
Days in Love The Advent Preacher and the Balloon The Day We
Reached Canada The Dog Law The Glorious Fourth of July The Mule
not the Eagle The Old Sweet Songs The Political Outlook The Power
of Eloquence The Thirsty Gopher The Universalist Bath The Universal
Object The Wicked Mon Kee The Wrong Corpse Three Inches of Leg
To What Vile Uses May