The Comic Sketch

The humorous sketch and column — Leacock, Twain, and the masters of the brief comic piece that leaves you laughing.

Short, sharp, and very funny

In this collection

• The Graduate
• The Birthday Party: A Story for Little Folks
• Enter Mitchell
• To Counsel the Doubtful
• Ridiculous
• Fauna of the United States
• A Straight Talk
• Muskrat City
• Thomas the Pretender
• Erastasius of the Whanghoa
• The Canvasser's Tale
• The Reluctant Voyagers
• The Ballad of Ping-Pong (other Verses)
• An Election Night Pantoum
• Tharald's Otter
• The Autobiography of Mark Twain
• The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean
• A Child's Dinner Party
• Dog Trust
• His Client's Case
• A Community of Humorists
• An Hour with our Prejudices
• The Pardoner
• Unseasonable Virtues
• Bits of Clay
• C'est Une Taupe
• The Marquis Goes Donkey-Riding
• Army Tricks
• Not Time to Send for the Colonel

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