Introduction
The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras County
Journalism in Tennessee
The facts in the great beef contract
How I edited an agricultural paper
Experience of the McWilliamses with membranous croup
The invalid's story
The McWilliamses and the burglar alarm
Playing courier
The Fourth of July
Plymouth Rock and the pilgrims
Woman, God bless her!
Glove purchases in Gibraltar
Parisian shave
Billfinger
Guide-English
Shortage of soap
A sort of people
A skinning
An ancient playbill
Guying the guides
Turkish bath
That girl in Yalta
"Jericho"
A party of eight
King Solomon-in-all-his-glory
A fearless man
The Benton House
The great pyramid of Cheops
Cookery complaints
A newspaper valedictory
The cayote
When the buffalo climbed a tree
A hundred and ten tin whistles
A genuine Mexican plug
Mr. Arkansas
The great landslide case
Buck Fanshaw's funeral
The story of the old ram
Fetch her out!
Tom Quartz
"Blanketing" the animal
The Greeley correspondence with Erickson
Markiss, king of liars
A practical joke
Jim Baker's bluejay yarn
The great French duel
Cholley Adams
The laborious ant
Nicodemus Dodge
An American party
American in Europe
Ascending the Riffelberg
The awful German language
Keelboat talk and manners
An incognito exploded
The house beautiful
Manufactures
The art of inhumation
Pap, his own self
The duke and the dauphin
Curing a cold
Aurelia's unfortunate young man
The facts in the case of the Senate doorkeeper
Female suffrage
The facts concerning the recent resignation
My late senatorial secretaryship
Private habits of Horace Greeley
Last words of great men
A mystery cleared up
The late Benjamin Franklin
The reception at the president's
The widow's protest
About barbers
A burlesque biography
An encounter with an interviewer
The frog jumping of the County of Calaveras
Punch, brothers, punch
Remarkable gold mines
A petition to the queen of England
A cure for the blues
Traveling with a reformer
Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses
My first lie, and how I got out of it
Amended obituaries
Sources
Index.