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•  Time to Laugh • interior artwork by Henry C. Pitz
• vii • Get Ready to Laugh • essay by Phyllis R. Fenner
• 3 • How Pat Got Good Sense • (1940) • short story by Charles J. Finger
• 17 • The Devil's Hide • (1922) • short story by Parker Fillmore
• 36 • Mr. A and Mr. P • (1932) • short story by Margery Williams [as by Margery Bianco]
• 44 • The Simpleton and His Little Black Hen • juvenile • (1887) • short story by Howard Pyle
• 58 • Conal and Donal and Taig • (1900) • short story by Seumas MacManus
• 67 • The Drawbridge • (1939) • short story by Lesley Frost
• 74 • Baby Rainstorm • (1936) • short story by Glen Rounds
• 85 • The Laughing Prince • (1921) • short story by Parker Fillmore
• 108 • The Emperor's New Clothes • (1846) • short story by Hans Christian Andersen (trans. of Kejserens nye Klæder 1837)
• 116 • Ah Mee's Invention • (1925) • short story by Arthur Bowie Chrisman
• 127 • The Ghost's Ghost • (1939) • short story by William Chapman White [as by William C. White]
• 150 • The Three Innkeeper's or The King's Legs • (1940) • short story by Richard Hughes
• 159 • About Elizabeth Eliza's Piano • (1880) • short story by Lucretia P. Hale
• 163 • The Peterkins Try to Become Wise • (1880) • short story by Lucretia P. Hale
• 168 • Gudbrand on the Hill-side • [Norske Folkeeventyr • 18] • (1859) • short story by
  Peter Asbjørnsen^?Peter Asbjoernsen
  and
  Jørgen Moe^?Jorgen Moe
  (trans. of Gudbrand i Lia 1843) [as by G. W. Dasent]
• 175 • Rats • (1937) • short story by J. B. S. Haldane
• 192 • The Palace on the Rock • (1940) • short story by Richard Hughes
• 200 • Juan Cigarron • (1941) • short story by Ruth Sawyer
• 209 • Ebenezer Never-Could-Sneezer • (1936) • short story by Gilbert S. Pattillo
• 217 • The Wee Red Man • (1926) • short story by Seumas MacManus