Peck's Compendium of Fun. George W. Peck

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        Anna Dickinson as “Mazeppa”

        A Black Bear at Onalaska

        A Dead Sure Thing

        A Fashion Item

        A Good Land Enough

        A Lecturer Should Know What He Talks About

        A Loan Exhibition

        A New Sparking Scheme

        An Odorous Bohemian

        Base Ingratitude

        Buttermilk Bibbers

        Cats on the Fence

        Christmas Trees

        Col. Ingersoll Praying

        Comforting Compensations

        Convenient Currency

        Crushing Nihilism

        Enterprising Chicago!

        Fish Hatching in Wisconsin

        Frozen Ears

        Gathered Waists!

        Geological Survey

        Give us War

        Good Templars on Ice

        Hard on Fond Du Lac

        He Would’nt Have His Father Called Names

        How Farmers May Get Rich

        “How Sharper Than a Hound’s Tooth!”

        How to Invest a Thousand Dollars

        How to Reach Young Men

        Hunting Dogs

        Insecure Abodes

        Lunch on the Cars

        Mattie Mashes Minnesota

        Merrie Christmas

        More Dangerous Than Kerosene

        Mrs. Langtry

        One of Beecher’s Converts

        Preparing for War

        Raising Elephants

        Registry of Electors

        Selling Clams

        She was no Gentleman

        Southern “Honaw”

        Spurious Tripe

        Sure of Heaven

        Supreme Court Judges and U.S. Senators

        Ten Days in Love

        The Advent Preacher and the Balloon

        The Day We Reached Canada

        The Dog Law

        The Glorious Fourth of July

        The Mule not the Eagle

        The Old Sweet Songs

        The Political Outlook