Mister Ron's Basement
Catalog of George Ade Stories



678 The Unhappy Financier and the Discontented Rube
575 The New Fable of the Father Who Jumped In
450 The Fable of The Day's Work & The Morning After
449 The Wonderful Meal of Vittles
443 The Fable of the Undecided Brunette & The Two Candidates
442 The Fable of What Our Public Schools and the Primary System Did for a Poor but Ambitious Youth
436 The Fable of the Taxpayers' Friend Who Ran to an Empty Grand Stand and Finished Outside the Money
435 How An Humble Beginner Moved from One Pinnacle to Another and Played the Entire Circuit
429 The Fable of the Syndicate Lover, the Pickled Papa, and the Rest of the Bunch
428 The Ninety Pound Knight-Errant and His Lady Fair
422 The Fable of the Apprehensive Sparrow and Her Daily Escape
421 The Fable of the Honest Moneymaker and the Partner of His Joys
415 The Fable of the Coming Champion Who Was Delayed
414 The Willing Collegian Who Was Hunting for a Foothold
408 The Fable of the Lonesome Trolley-Riders and Their Quest of Harmless Amusement
407 The Lecture Tickets That Were Bought but Never Used
401 The Fable of the Parlor Blacksmith Who Was Unable to put it Right Over the Plate
400 The Fable of a Statesman Who Couldn't Make Good
394 The Fable of the Parents Who Tinkered With The Offspring
393 The Fable of Lutie, the False Alarm, and How She Finished About the Time That She Started
387 The Fable of the Misfit Who Lost His Ticket Because He Got the Wrong Hold
386 The Fable of the Unintentional Heroes of Centreville
376 The Fable of the Good Fairy of the Eighth Ward and the Dollar Excursion of the Steam-Fitters
375 The Fable of Why Essie's Tall Friend Got the Fresh Air
369 The Fable of Women's True Friend & The Hopeful Antique
368 The Fable of the Cruel Insult and The Arrival of the Lover from No. 6
362 The Fable of The He-Gossip and The Man's Wife and The Man
361 The Fable of the Adult Girl Who Got Busy Before They Could Ring the Bell On Her
355 The Fable of the Slim Girl Who Tried to Keep a Date That Was Never Made
354 The Fable of Sister Mae, Who Did as Well as Could Be Expected
348 The Fable of The Brotherhood of States & The Wife Who Was Responsible for the Jubilee
347 The Fable of the Girl Who Wanted to Warm Up When It Was Too Late
341 The Fable of How Economical Edward got His Quietus
340 The Kind of Music That is Too Good for Household Use
334 The Fable of the Lawyer Who Brought in a Minority Report
333 The High Art That Was a Little Too High for the Vulgarian Who Paid the Bills
327 The Fable of the Misdirected Sympathy and the Come-Back of the Proud Steam-Fitter
326 The Fable of the Author Who Was Sorry for What He Did to Willie
320 The Fable of the Fatal Album and the Leap for Life
319 The Fable of The Crustacean Who Tried to Find Out by Reading a Book
313 The Fable of What Horace Stood For in Order to Land the Queen
312 The Fable of the Two Ways of Going Out After the Pay Envelope
306 The Fable of the Cottillon Leader from the Huckleberry District with the Intermittent Memory
305 The Fable of the Martyr Who Liked the Job
299 The Married Couple That Went to Housekeeping and Began to Find Out Things
298 Two Young People, Two Photographers, and the Correspondence School of Wooing
292 The Fable of Another Brave Effort to Infuse Gentility into our Raw Civilization
291 The Fable of the Veteran Club-Girl who had no Theories to Offer
285 The Fable of the Foozle and the Successful Approach
284 The Thoughtful Wife Who Tried to Give Henry a Restful Vacation
281 Self-Made Hezekiah and His Message of Hope to this Year's Crop of Graduates
278 The Fable of The Wise Piker Who Had the Kind of Talk That Went
277 The Search for the Right House and How Mrs. Jump Had Her Annual Attack
271 The Sickly Dream and How It Was Doctored Up
270 The Fable of the Girl Who Could Compromise in a Pinch
264 The Fearsome Feud Between the First Families
263 What They Had Laid Out for Their Vacation
257 The Fable of How the Canny Commercial Salesman Guessed the Combination
256 The Fable of the Unfortunate Has-Been and the Sympathetic Conductor
250 The Fable of the Man Who Didn't Care for Story Books
249 The Fable of The Boy With the Steadfast Ambition
243 The Galley Slave Who Was Just About To but Never Did
242 The Fable of the Poor Woman Who Had to Live in a House that was Over-Run by Anecdotes
236 The Fable of the Horse Maniac & What Caused the Filing of the Suit
235 The Unruffled Wife and the Gallus Husband
229 The Fable of the Cut-up who Came very Near Losing His Ticket, but who Turned Defeat into Victory
228 The Fable of the Grass Widow and the Mesmeree and the Six Dollars
222 The Fable of the Third and Last Call
221 The Attempt to Spruce Up the Family and Give It a Standing
215 The Patient Toiler Who Got It in the Usual Place
214 Hazel's Two Husbands and What Became of Them
208 The Fable of The Satiated Globe-Trotter Who Found a New Kind of Nerve Tonic Waiting for Him at Home
207 The Escape of Arthur and the Salvation of Herbert
201 The Fable of How Aggie had Spells that the Home Remedies could not Touch
200 'What Father Bumped into at the Culture Factory
194 The Fable of the Crafty Love-Maker who Needed a Lady Manager
193 The Fable of the Day's Work and The Morning After
187 The Fable of the General Manager of the Love Affair Who Demanded a Furlough
186 The Fable of the Single-Handed Fight for Personal Liberty
180 The Fable of Flora and Adolph and a Home Gone Wrong
179 The Fable of the One Who Got What Was Coming to Him and Then Some More
173 The Fable of Eugene who Walked the Length of the Counter Before Making His Selection
172 The Fable of The Bureau of Public Comfort & The Man in Charge
166 The Fable of the Family That Worked Overtime in Taking Care of Nellie
165 'The Fable of The Boston Biologist and The Native With the Blue Hardware
159 The Man Who Had a True Friend to Steer Him Along
158 The Fable of the Professor Who Wanted to Be Alone
152 The Fable of How One Brave Patsy Worked Himself Into the King's Row
151 The Maneuvers of Joel and the Disappointed Orphan Asylum
149 The Fable of How Uncle Brewster Was Too Shifty for the Tempter
145 Fable of Paducah's Favourite Comedians and the Mildewed Stunt
144 The Regular Kind of Place and the Usual Way it Turned Out
138 The Fable of How He Never Touched George
137 The Fable of How Gertrude Could Keep It Up until Ten O'Clock in the Morning
131 The Fable of the Base Ball Man Who Took the Only Known Cure
130 The Fable of the Author Who Was Sorry for What He Did to Willie
124 The Experimental Couple and the Three off-Shoots
123 Fable of the Roundabout Way in which Gilbert Made Himself Strong with Alice
117 The Two Old Pals and the Call for Help
116 The Fable of the Long-Range Lover, The Lollypaloozer, and the Line of Talk
110 The Fable of the Fatal Album and the Leap for Life
109 The Night-Watch and the Would-Be Something Awful
103 The Attenuated Attorney Who Rang In the Associate Counsel
102 Fable of Why Sweetie Flew the Track
101 To Make a Hoosier Holiday