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Stories of Comedy, by Various
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Title: Stories of Comedy
Author: Various
Editor: Rossiter Johnson
Release Date: December 30, 2006 [EBook #20229]
Language: English
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LITTLE CLASSICS
EDITED BY
ROSSITER JOHNSON
STORIES OF COMEDY
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1914
COPYRIGHT, 1875, BY JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
CONTENTS.
PAGE
BARNY O'REIRDON THE NAVIGATOR Samuel Lover 7
HADDAD-BEN-AHAB THE TRAVELLER John Galt 58
BLUEBEARD'S GHOST Wm. M. Thackeray 67
THE PICNIC PARTY Horace Smith 102
FATHER TOM AND THE POPE Samuel Ferguson 131
JOHNNY DARBYSHIRE William Howitt 168
THE GRIDIRON Samuel Lover 206
THE BOX TUNNEL Charles Reade 217
BARNY O'REIRDON THE NAVIGATOR.
BY SAMUEL LOVER.
I.
OUTWARD BOUND.
Barny O'Reirdon was a fisherman of Kinsale, and a heartier fellow never hauled a net nor cast a line into deep water: indeed Barny, independently of being a merry bo