American Wit and Humor edited by Joel Chandler Harris

This 1907 book was published by the New York firm Review of Reviews Co. There is an introduction by Joel Chandler Harris. It has vignettes by one hundred famous writers and humorists of the day.

There is a four page contribution by George W. Peck. The excerpt is taken from Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, Chapter XIX : His Pa is "Nishiated".