My Financial Career
by Stephen Leacock When I go into a bank I get rattled. The clerks rattle…
Merry Christmas
by Stephen Leacock “Give me back such days as those, with the old good cheer,…
Men Who Have Shaved Me
by Stephen Leacock A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell…
Lord Oxhead’s Secret
by Stephen Leacock A Romance in One Chapter It was finished. Ruin had come. Lord…
Letter to Sarah Ballou
by Sullivan Ballou Currier & Ives, American Civil War Print, 1861-65 July the 14th, 1861…
Insurance up to Date
by Stephen Leacock A man called on me the other day with the idea of…
How to Make a Million Dollars
by Stephen Leacock I mix a good deal with the Millionaires. I like them. I…
How to Live to be 200
by Stephen Leacock Twenty years ago I knew a man called Jiggins, who had the…
How to Be a Doctor
by Stephen Leacock Certainly the progress of science is a wonderful thing. One can’t help…
How to Avoid Getting Married
by Stephen Leacock Some years ago, when I was the Editor of a Correspondence Column,…