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Short sketches relating the humourous side of life in 1910. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than any other living author. One may say he is one of the greatest jesters, the greatest humorist of the age." – A. P. Herbert (Summary by TriciaG and Wikipedia)

Year of Publication: 1910Genres: Short Stories , General Fiction , Humorous Fiction

Running Time: 4 hours 40 minutes 16 seconds

#	Chapter Name
1	01 - My Financial Career TriciaG	6:04
2	02 - Lord Oxhead's Secret TriciaG	13:46
3	03 - Boarding-house Geometry TriciaG	2:21
4	04 - The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones TriciaG	6:13
5	05 - A Christmas Letter TriciaG	2:39
6	06 - How to Make a Million Dollars TriciaG	8:56
7	07 - How to Live to Be 200 TriciaG	7:49
8	08 - How to Avoid Getting Married TriciaG	7:23
9	09 - How to Be a Doctor TriciaG	9:10
10	10 - The New Food TriciaG	2:54
11	11 - A New Pathology TriciaG	8:28
12	12 - The Poet Answered TriciaG	2:24
13	13 - The Force of Statistics TriciaG	3:02
14	14 - Men Who Have Shaved Me TriciaG	9:24
15	15 - Getting the Thread of It TriciaG	7:17
16	16 - Telling His Faults TriciaG	2:50
17	17 - Winter Pastimes TriciaG	8:36
18	18 - Number Fifty-Six TriciaG	14:48
19	19 - Aristocratic Education TriciaG	4:49
20	20 - The Conjurer's Revenge TriciaG	5:02
21	21 - Hints to Travellers TriciaG	5:51
22	22 - A Manual of Education TriciaG	5:07
23	23 - Hoodoo McFiggin's Christmas TriciaG	6:48
24	24 - The Life of John Smith TriciaG	8:38
25	25 - On Collecting Things TriciaG	6:04
26	26 - Society Chit-Chat TriciaG	6:54
27	27 - Insurance Up to Date TriciaG	3:26
28	28 - Borrowing a Match TriciaG	3:11
29	29 - A Lesson in Fiction TriciaG	7:55
30	30 - Helping the Armenians TriciaG	2:46
31	31 - A Study in Still Life: The Country Hotel TriciaG	3:51
32	32 - An Experiment with Policeman Hogan TriciaG	12:16
33	33 - The Passing of the Poet TriciaG	12:13
34	34 - Self-Made Men TriciaG	6:44
35	35 - A Model Dialogue TriciaG	3:13
36	36 - Back to the Bush TriciaG	11:03
37	37 - Reflections on Riding TriciaG	4:26
38	38 - Saloonio TriciaG	6:44
39	39 - Half-Hours with the Poets TriciaG	15:43
40	40 - A, B, and C TriciaG	11:35
41	41 - Acknowledgments TriciaG	1:53