The night the bed fell / James Thurber -- My financial career ; Gertrude the governess, or, Simple seventeen / Stephen Leacock -- Certainly, I play the piano ; Thoughts on the ermine / Will Cuppy -- Father wakes up the village ; Father sews on a button / Clarence Day, Jr. -- On skating / Cornelia Otis Skinner -- Death of Red Peril / Walter D. Edmonds -- The Elder Shute rescues a chicken and rebuilds a barn / Henry A. Shute -- The casting away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine ; Pomona's novel / Frank R. Stockton -- THe party / Booth Tarkington -- Mr. Dooley on the game of football / Finley Peter Dunne -- The treasurer's report / Robert C. Benchley -- On Springfield Mounting / George Horation Derby (John Phoenix) -- David Harum sells a horse / Edward Noyes Westcott --
The war of the chintz roses / E.F. Benson
Down with the Restoration! / Sidney Joseph Perelman
A night of terror / Mark Twain
The madness of Philip / Josephine Daskam Bacon
Grandfather's new automobile / Emily Kimbrough
Peck's bad boy / George Wilbur Peck
4th of July in Jonesville / Marietta Holley (Josiah Allen's wife)
A letter to Mable / Edward Streeter
Mrs. Peterkin wishes to go to drive / Lucretia Peabody Hale
The Morning Argus creates a sensation / Max Adeler (Charles Heber Clark)
A will and a way / W.W. Jacobs
Marius at Sloane Street / Barry Pain
The great Shakespearian controvesy / Bill Nye
The third ingredient / O. Henry.