Mister Ron's Basement
Catalog of George Ade Stories




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George Ade's 'Fables in Slang' originally written around the turn of the 20th Century, hold up extremely well in the years of the 21st Century. They are virtually all quite short, and incredibly funny!



101 George Ade - To Make a Hoosier Holiday - 1904
102 George Ade - Fable of Why Sweetie Flew the Track - 1900
103 George Ade - The Attenuated Attorney Who Rang In the Associate Counsel - 1904
109 George Ade - The Night-Watch and the Would-Be Something Awful -1904
110 George Ade - The Fable of the Fatal Album and the Leap for Life - 1902
116 George Ade - The Fable of the Long-Range Lover, The Lollypaloozer, and the Line of Talk - 1902
117 George Ade - The Two Old Pals and the Call for Help - 1904
123 George Ade - Fable of the Roundabout Way in which Gilbert Made Himself Strong with Alice - 1902
124 George Ade - The Experimental Couple and the Three off-Shoots 1904
130 George Ade - The Fable of the Author Who Was Sorry for What He Did to Willie 1900
131 George Ade - The Fable of the Base Ball Man Who Took the Only Known Cure - 1899
137 George Ade - The Fable of How Gertrude Could Keep It Up until Ten O'Clock in the Morning - 1904
138 George Ade - The Fable of How He Never Touched George - 1899
144 George Ade - The Regular Kind of Place and the Usual Way it Turned Out - 1904
145 George Ade - Fable of Paducah's Favourite Comedians and the Mildewed Stunt - 1899
149 Goin' Hollywood - George Ade - The Fable of How Uncle Brewster Was Too Shifty for the Tempter - 1900
151 George Ade - The Maneuvers of Joel and the Disappointed Orphan Asylum - 1904
152 George Ade - The Fable of How One Brave Patsy Worked Himself Into the King's Row - 1902
158 George Ade - The Fable of the Professor Who Wanted to Be Alone - 1899
159 George Ade - The Man Who Had a True Friend to Steer Him Along - 1904

165 George Ade - The Fable of The Boston Biologist and The Native With the Blue Hardware - 1901
166 George Ade - The Fable of the Family That Worked Overtime in Taking Care of Nellie - 1904

172 George Ade - The Fable of The Bureau of Public Comfort & The Man in Charge - 1901
173 George Ade - The Fable of Eugene who Walked the Length of the Counter Before Making His Selection - 1902
179 George Ade - The Fable of the One Who Got What Was Coming to Him and Then Some More - 1904
180 George Ade - The Fable of Flora and Adolph and a Home Gone Wrong - 1899
186 George Ade - The Fable of the Single-Handed Fight for Personal Liberty - 1904
187 George Ade - The Fable of the General Manager of the Love Affair Who Demanded a Furlough - 1901
193 George Ade - The Fable of the Day's Work and The Morning After - 1901
194 George Ade - The Fable of the Crafty Love-Maker who Needed a Lady Manager - 1902
200 George Ade - What Father Bumped into at the Culture Factory- 1903
201 George Ade - The Fable of How Aggie had Spells that the Home Remedies Could Not Touch - 1902
207 George Ade - The Escape of Arthur and the Salvation of Herbert - 1904
208 George Ade - The Fable of The Satiated Globe-Trotter Who Found a New Kind of Nerve Tonic Waiting for Him at Home - 1901
214 George Ade - Hazel's Two Husbands and What Became of Them - 1904
215 George Ade - The Patient Toiler Who Got It in the Usual Place - 1903
221 George Ade - The Attempt to Spruce Up the Family and Give It a Standing - 1904
222 George Ade - The Fable of the Third and Last Call - 1901
228 George Ade - The Fable of the Grass Widow and the Mesmeree and the Six Dollars - 1900
229 George Ade - The Fable of the Cut-up who Came very Near Losing His Ticket, but who Turned Defeat into Victory - 1902
235 George Ade - The Unruffled Wife and the Gallus Husband - 1912
236 George Ade - The Fable of the Horse Maniac & What Caused the Filing of the Suit - 1901
242 George Ade - The Fable of the Poor Woman Who Had to Live in a House that was Over-Run by Anecdotes - 1904
243 George Ade - The Galley Slave Who Was Just About To but Never Did - 1904
249 George Ade - The Fable of The Boy With the Steadfast Ambition - 1904
250 George Ade - The Fable of the Man Who Didn't Care for Story Books -1899
256 George Ade - The Fable of the Unfortunate Has-Been and the Sympathetic Conductor - 1904
257 George Ade - The Fable of How the Canny Commercial Salesman Guessed the Combination - 1904
263 George Ade - What They Had Laid Out for Their Vacation - 1903
264 George Ade - The Fearsome Feud Between the First Families - 1904
270 George Ade - The Fable of the Girl Who Could Compromise in a Pinch - 1901
271 George Ade - The Sickly Dream and How It Was Doctored Up - 1903
277 George Ade - The Search for the Right House and How Mrs. Jump Had Her Annual Attack - 1903
278 George Ade - The Fable of The Wise Piker Who Had the Kind of Talk That Went - 1901
281 George Ade - Self-Made Hezekiah and His Message of Hope to this Year's Crop of Graduates - 1903
284 George Ade - The Thoughtful Wife Who Tried to Give Henry a Restful Vacation - 1904
285 George Ade - The Fable of the Foozle and the Successful Approach - 1901
291 George Ade - The Fable of the Veteran Club-Girl who had no Theories to Offer - 1902
292 George Ade - The Fable of Another Brave Effort to Infuse Gentility into our Raw Civilization - 1904
298 George Ade - Two Young People, Two Photographers, and the Correspondence School of Wooing - 1903
299 George Ade - The Married Couple That Went to Housekeeping and Began to Find Out Things - 1903
305 George Ade - The Fable of the Martyr Who Liked the Job - 1899
306 George Ade - The Fable of the Cottillon Leader from the Huckleberry District with the Intermittent Memory - 1900
312 George Ade - The Fable of the Two Ways of Going Out After the Pay Envelope - 1904
313 George Ade - The Fable of What Horace Stood For in Order to Land the Queen -1904

319 George Ade - The Fable of The Crustacean Who Tried to Find Out by Reading a Book - 1901
320 George Ade - The Fable of the Fatal Album and the Leap for Life (re-recording) - 1902

326 George Ade - The Fable of the Author Who Was Sorry for What He Did to Willie (re-recording) - 1900
327 George Ade - The Fable of the Misdirected Sympathy and the Come-Back of the Proud Steam-Fitter - 1904
333 George Ade - The High Art That Was a Little Too High for the Vulgarian Who Paid the Bills - 1903
334 George Ade - The Fable of the Lawyer Who Brought in a Minority Report - 1899
340 George Ade - The Kind of Music That is Too Good for Household Use - 1903
341 George Ade - The Fable of How Economical Edward got His Quietus - 1902
347 George Ade - The Fable of the Girl Who Wanted to Warm Up When It Was Too Late - 1904
348 George Ade - The Fable of The Brotherhood of States & The Wife Who Was Responsible for the Jubilee- 1901
354 George Ade - The Fable of Sister Mae, Who Did as Well as Could Be Expected - 1899
355 George Ade - The Fable of the Slim Girl Who Tried to Keep a Date That Was Never Made - 1899
361 George Ade - The Fable of the Adult Girl Who Got Busy Before They Could Ring the Bell On Her - 1900
362 George Ade - The Fable of The He-Gossip and The Man's Wife and The Man - 1900
368 George Ade - The Fable of the Cruel Insult and The Arrival of the Lover from No. 6 - 1900
369 George Ade - The Fable of Women's True Friend & The Hopeful Antique - 1901
375 George Ade - The Fable of Why Essie's Tall Friend Got the Fresh Air - 1900
376 George Ade - The Fable of the Good Fairy of the Eighth Ward and the Dollar Excursion of the Steam-Fitters - 1901
386 George Ade - The Fable of the Unintentional Heroes of Centreville - 1899

387 George Ade - The Fable of the Misfit Who Lost His Ticket Because He Got the Wrong Hold - 1902
393 George Ade - The Fable of Lutie, the False Alarm, and How She Finished About the Time That She Started 1900
394 George Ade - The Fable of the Parents Who Tinkered With The Offspring - 1899
400 George Ade - The Fable of a Statesman Who Couldn't Make Good - 1899
401 George Ade - The Fable of the Parlor Blacksmith Who Was Unable to put it Right Over the Plate - 1902
407 George Ade - The Lecture Tickets That Were Bought but Never Used - 1904
408 George Ade - The Fable of the Lonesome Trolley-Riders and Their Quest of Harmless Amusement - 1904
414 George Ade - The Willing Collegian Who Was Hunting for a Foothold - 1904
415 George Ade - The Fable of the Coming Champion Who Was Delayed - 1899
421 George Ade - The Fable of the Honest Moneymaker and the Partner of His Joys - 1900
422 George Ade - The Fable of the Apprehensive Sparrow and Her Daily Escape - 1900
428 George Ade - The Ninety Pound Knight-Errant and His Lady Fair - 1904
429 George Ade - The Fable of the Syndicate Lover, the Pickled Papa, and the Rest of the Bunch - 1902

435 George Ade - How An Humble Beginner Moved from One Pinnacle to Another and Played the Entire Circuit - 1903
436 George Ade - The Fable of the Taxpayers' Friend Who Ran to an Empty Grand Stand and Finished Outside the Money - 1904
442 George Ade - The Fable of What Our Public Schools and the Primary System Did for a Poor but Ambitious Youth - 1904
443 George Ade - The Fable of the Undecided Brunette & The Two Candidates - 1901
449 George Ade - The Wonderful Meal of Vittles - 1912
450 George Ade - The Fable of The Day's Work & The Morning After - 1901
575 Railroad Stories - George Ade - The New Fable of the Father Who Jumped In - 1914
678 George Ade - The Unhappy Financier and the Discontented Rube - 1904
698 George Ade - The Fable of the Superguy and the Double Harness - 1917
699 George Ade - The Fable of Her Birthday and the Dwindling Generosity - 1917
700 George Ade - The Fable of Getting A Rise from the Lady Slacker - 1917
701 George Fade - A spoof of George Ade's Fables from University of British Columbia - 1925
752 George Ade - In Babel - The Dip - 1903
759 George Ade - In Babel - And Josephine Forgave - 1903
765 George Ade - In Babel - The Barclay Lawn Party - 1903
772 George Ade - In Babel - Why Gondola Was Put Away - 1903
779 George Ade - In Babel - Effie Whittlesy - 1903
786 George Ade - In Babel - The Feud- 1903
793 George Ade - In Babel - Tall-Stoy - 1903
800 George Ade - In Babel - The Other Girl - 1903
807 George Ade - In Babel - The Judge's Son - 1903
814 George Ade - In Babel - House in Mercedes Street - 1903
821 George Ade - In Babel - Hickey Boy and the Grip - 1903
828 George Ade - In Babel - The Set of Poe - 1903
835 George Ade - In Babel - Dubley '89 - 1903
842 George Ade - In Babel - The Money Present- 1903
849 George Ade - In Babel - Best of the Farleys- 1903
856 George Ade - In Babel - Mr. Wimberly's Trousers- 1903
863 George Ade - In Babel - The Former Kathryn- 1903
870 George Ade - In Babel - Cupid in Buttons- 1903
877 George Ade - In Babel - The The Buell Cherry - 1903
884 George Ade - In Babel - An Incident in The Pansy - 1903
891 George Ade - In Babel - Miss Tyndall's Picture - 1903
898 George Ade - In Babel - Mr. Payson's Satirical Christmas - 1903
905 George Ade - In Babel - Life Insurance - 1903
912 George Ade - In Babel - Our Private Romance - 1903

918 George Ade - In Babel - Mr. Lindsay on San Jewan - 1903
925 George Ade - In Babel - The Relatives- 1903
932 George Ade - In Babel - George's Return - 1903
939 George Ade - In Babel - Harry and Ethel - 1903
950 George Ade - In Babel - Buck and Gertie - 1903
957 George Ade - In Babel - The Scapegoat- 1903
964 George Ade - In Babel - Willie Curtin - A Man- 1903
971 George Ade - In Babel - Opening of Navigation - 1903
978 George Ade - In Babel - No Clarence - 1903
985 George Ade - In Babel - When Father Meets Father - 1903

1089 My Maiden Effort - George Ade - A Basket of Potatoes - 1881
1097 The Stag Cookbook - George Ade - Scolloped Oysters - 1922
1180 George Ade - The Fable of the Caddy Who Hurt His Head While Thinking - 1899
1181 George Ade - The Fable of the Visitor Who Got A Lot for Three Dollars - 1899
1182 George Ade - The Fable of the Inveterate Joker Who Remained in Montana - 1900
1183 George Ade - The Fable of the Reckless Wife who had no One to Watch Her - 1902
1489 George Ade - The Fable of The Husband Who Showed Up & Did the Best He Knew How - 1901
1490 George Ade - The Fable of The Man Who Was Going to Retire - 1901
1491 George Ade - The Fable of Handsome Jethro, Who Was Simply Cut Out to Be A Merchant - 1899
1492 George Ade - The Fable of the Bohemian Who Had Hard Luck - 1899
1538 George Ade - The Dancing Man - 1912
1545 George Ade - The Fable of Successful Tobias and Some of His Happy New Years - 1904
1627 George Ade - The Fable of the New York Person Who Gave the Stage Fright to Fostoria, Ohio - 1899
1628 George Ade - The Fable of the Good Fairy with the Lorgnette, and Why She Got It Good - 1899
1629 George Ade - The Fable of the Lodge Fiend, and the Delilah Trick Played by His Wife - 1900
1630 George Ade - The Fable of The Preacher Who Flew His Kite, But Not Because He Wished to Do So - 1899

1748 George Ade - Non-Essentials - 1922
1749 George Ade - Adipose - 1922
1750 George Ade - The Joys of Single Blessedness - 1922
1751 George Ade - Letters of Introduction - 1922
1858 George Ade - The Honorable Ransom Peabody - 1911
1951 George Ade - What the College Incubator Did for One Modest Lambkin - 1904
1952 George Ade - The Prodigal Souse, the Never-Again Feeling and the Ride On the Sprinkling Cart - 1903
1953 George Ade - The Fable of the Society-Trimmers and What Broke Up the Experience Meeting - 1904
1954 George Ade - The Fable of the Base Ball Man Who Took the Only Known Cure - 1899


All of the stories in Mister Ron's Basement are indexed on the Catalog Page at: http://ronevry.com/Mister_Rons_Full_Catalog.html