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