The Thurber carnival

Preface: My Fifty Years with James Thurber xv --

I Stories Not Collected Before in Book Form --

II from My World and Welcome to It --

III from Let Your Mind Alone! --

IV from The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze --

V My Life and Hard Times, complete --

VI from Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated --

VII from The Owl in the Attic --

VIII from The Seal in the Bedroom --

IX from Men, Women and Dogs --

The Thurber Carnival, 1945 423.

The Lady on 142

The Catbird Seat

Memoirs of a Drudge

The Cane in the Corridor

The Secret Life of James Thurber

Recollections of the Gas Buggy

What do You Mean It was Brillig?

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

Here Lies Miss Groby

The Man Who Hated Moonbaum

The Macbeth Murder Mystery

A Ride with Olympy

Destructive Forces in Life

Sex Ex Machina

The Breaking up of the Winships

The admiral on the wheel

A Couple of Hamburgers

Bateman comes home

Doc Marlowe

The Wood Duck

The Departure of Emma Inch

There's an owl in my room

The Topaz Cufflinks Mystery

Snapshot of a Dog

Something to say

The Curb in the sky

The Black magic of Barney Haller

If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox

The Remarkable Case of Mr. Bruhl

The Luck of Jad Peters

The Greatest man in the World

The Evening's at Seven

One is a Wanderer

Preface to a Life

The Night the Bed Fell

The car we had to Push

The day the Dam Broke

The night the ghost got in

More alarms at night

A Sequence of servants

The Dog that bit People

University Days

Draft Board Nights

A Note at the end

The Birds and the Foxes

The Little Girl and the Wolf

The Scotty who Knew too Much

The Very Proper Gander

The Bear Who Let it Alone

The Shrike and the Chipmunks

The seal who became famous

The crow and the oriole

The moth and the star

The glass in the field

The Rabbits who caused all the trouble

The owl who was god

The unicorn in the garden

Excelsior

``Oh when I was ... ''

Barbara Frietchie

The sands o'dee

Curfew must not ring tonight

The pet department

``With You I Have Known Peace, Lida, and Now You Say You're Going Crazy''

``Are You the Young Man That Bit My Daughter?''

``Here's a Study for You, Doctor

He Faints''

``Mamma Always Gets Sore and Spoils the Game for Everybody''

``For the Last Time

You and Your Horsie Get Away from Me and Stay Away!''

``Well, What's Come Over You Suddenly?''

``Have You People Got Any .38 Cartidges?''

``The Father Belonged to Some People Who Were Driving Through in a Packard''

``Stop Me!''

``I Don't Know. George Got It Somewhere''

``All Right, Have It Your Way

You Heard a Seal Bark''

The Bloodhound and the Bug

``This is Not the Real Me You're Seeing, Mrs. Clisbie''

``What's Come Over You Since Friday, Miss Schemke?''

``Hello, Darling

Woolgathering?''

``It's a Native Domestic Burgundy Without Any Breeding, But I Think You'll Be Amused by Its Presumption''

``Oh, Doctor Canroy

Look!''

``I'd Feel a Great Deal Easier If Her Husband Hadn't Gone to Bed''

``Touche!''

``And This Is Tom Weatherby, an Old Beau of Your Mother's. He Never Got to First Base''

``Perhaps This Will Refresh Your Memory''

`` ... And Keep Me a Normal, Healthy, American Girl''

``It's Parkins, Sir; We're 'Aving a Bit of a Time Below Stairs''

``Darling, I Seem to Have This Rabbit''

``That's My First Wife Up There, and This Is the Present Mrs. Harris''

``You're Not My Patient, You're My Meat, Mrs. Quist!''

``She Has the True Emily Dickinson Spirit Except That She Gets Fed Up Occasionally''

``I Said the Hounds of Spring Are on Winter's Traces

But Let It Pass, Let It Pass!'

``For Heaven's Sake, Why Don't You Go Outdoors and Trace Something?''

``I Don't Want Him to Be Comfortable If He's Going to Look Too Funny.''

``Yoo-hoo, It's Me and the Ape Man''

"Look Out! Here They Come Again!''

``You Wait Here and I'll Bring the Etchings Down''

``Well, Who Made the Magic Go Out of Our Marriage

You or Me?''

House and Woman

``Well, If I Called the Wrong Number, Why Did You Answer the Phone?''

``This Gentleman Was Kind Enough to See Me Home, Darling''

``I Come From Haunts of Coot and Hern!''

``Well, I'm Disenchanted, Too. We're All Disenchanted''

``What Do You Want to Be Inscrutable for, Marcia?''

``You Said a Moment Ago That Everybody You Look at Seems to Be a Rabbit. Now Just What Do You Mean by That, Mrs. Sprague?''

``Why, I Never Dreamed Your Union Had Been Blessed With Issue!''

``Have You Seen My Pistol, Honey-bun?''

``It's Our Own Story Exactly! He Bold as a Hawk, She Soft as the Dawn''

``You and Your Permonitions!''

``All Right, All Right, Try It That Way! Go Ahead and Try It That Way!''

``Well, It Makes a Difference to Me!''

``There's No Use You Trying to Save Me, My Good Man''

Man in Tree

``What Have You Done With Dr. Millmoss?''

The War Between Men and Women.