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.
ARNY O'REIRDON was a fisherman of Kinsale, and a heartier fellow neverhauled a net nor cast a line into deep water: indeed Barny,independently of being a merry boy among his companions, a lover of goodfun and good whiskey, was looked up
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