Stories of Comedy, from Little Classics

According to Wikipedia: "Rossiter Johnson (27 January 1840 Rochester, New York - 1931) was an author and editor... In 1883 he became editor of the Annual Cyclopaedia. He devised and edited the series of Little Classics (16 vols., Boston, 1874-1875; two additional vols., 1880; 25th ed., 1887), and has also edited Works of the British Poets, with Biographical Sketches (3 vols., New York, 1876); Famous Single and Fugitive Poems (1877); Play-Day Poems (1878); and, with Charles A. Dana, Fifty Pe...