Best American Humorous Short Stories (1945)
Table of Contents

Benchley, Robert Carnival Days in Sunny Las Los
Benson, Sally Primrose Path
Butler, Ellis Parker Pigs Is Pigs
Cain, James M. The Legislature
Connelly, Marc The Guest
Day, Clarence Father and His Hard-Rocking Ship
Dunne, Finley Peter Mr. Dooley on the Game of Football
Edmonds, Walter D. Death of Red Peril
Harris, George W. How Daddy Played Hoss
Harris, Joel Chandler Brother Rabbit Takes Some Exercise
Harris, Joel Chandler How Brother Rabbit Frightened His Neighbors
Harris, Joel Chandler How Mr. Rooster Lost His Dinner
Harte, Bret Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff
Henry, O. The Ransom of Red Chief
Kober, Arthur Chocolate for the Woodwork
Lardner, Ring Three Without Doubled
Lardner, Ring Mr. and Mrs. Fix-It
Lewis, Sinclair Travel Is So Broadening
McKelway, St. Clair Hand in Nub
McKenney, Ruth The Prince
Moffat, Donald Gendarmes and the Man
Parker, Dorothy The Little Hours
Parker, Dorothy But the One on the Right
Perelman, S.J. Down with the Restoration
Perelman, S.J. Kitchen Bouquet
Perelman, S.J. Dental or Mental, I Say It's Spanish
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan Benny and the Bird-Dogs
Robb, John S. Swallowing an Oyster Alive
Ross, Leonard Q. The Terrible Vengeance of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N
Runyon, Damon The Snatching of Bookie Bob
Stewart, Donald Ogden The Crazy Fool
Stewart, Donald Ogden Mr. and Mrs. Haddock Abroad
Stockton, Frank R. A Piece of Red Calico
Sullivan, Frank An Interesting Cure
Tarkington, Booth Little Gentlemen
Thurber, James The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Thurber, James The Night the Bed Fell
Thurber, James The Night the Ghost Got In
Thurber, James University Days
Thurber, James The Man Who Hated Moonbaum
Twain, Mark Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning
Twain, Mark Journalism in Tennessee
Ward, Artemus The Shakers