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The Characteristics of American Humour

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Volume 1

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I. MY FIRST AND LAST SPEECH IN THE GENERAL COURT

II. HOSS ALLEN, OF MISSOURI

III. THE WIDOW RUGBY’S HUSBAND

IV. THE BIG BEAR OF ARKANSAS.[7]

V. JOHNNY BEEDLE’S COURTSHIP.[8]

VI. THE MARRIAGE OF JOHNNY BEEDLE.[9]

VII. JOHNNY BEEDLE’S THANKSGIVING.[10]

VIII. AUNT NABBY’S STEWED GOOSE

IX. DECLINE AND FALL OF THE CITY OF DOGTOWN

X. THE COON-HUNT; OR, A FENCY COUNTRY

XI. A RIDE WITH OLD KIT KUNCKER

XII. SETH WILLET: THE ELK COUNTY WITNESS

XIII. THE TWO FAT SALS.[11]

XIV. WAR’S YURE HOSS?

XV. BOB LEE. A TALE

XVI. THE SHOOTING-MATCH

XVII. THE HORSE SWAP

XVIII. THREE CHANCES FOR A WIFE

XIX. THE YANKEE AMONGST THE MERMAIDS. A YARN, BY A CAPE CODDER

XX. CAPTAIN STICK AND TONEY

XXI. THE WAY BILLY HARRIS DROVE THE DRUM-FISH TO MARKET

XXII. YANKEE HOMESPUN

XXIII. THE INDEFATIGABLE BEAR-HUNTER

XXIV. COLONEL CROCKETT’S RIDE ON THE BACK OF A BUFFALO

XXV. COLONEL CROCKETT’S ADVENTURE WITH A GRIZZLY BEAR

XXVI. COLONEL CROCKETT, THE BEAR AND THE SWALLOWS

XXVII. A PRETTY PREDICAMENT

Volume 2

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I. THE EDITOR’S CREED

II. JOSH BEANPOLE’S COURTSHIP

III. PETER BRUSH, THE GREAT USED UP.[7]

IV. COUSIN SALLY DILLIARD. A LEGAL SKETCH IN THE “OLD NORTH STATE.”

V. THE AGE OF WONDERS

VI. HOW SIMON SUGGS “RAISED JACK.”

VII. MY FIRST VISIT TO PORTLAND.[8]

VIII. BILLY WARRICK’S COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE

CHAPTER I. WARRICK IN DISTRESS

CHAPTER II. WARRICK IN LUCK

CHAPTER III. WARRICK’S WEDDING

IX. OUR TOWN.[9]

X “FALLING OFF A LOG,” IN A GAME OF “SEVEN UP.”

XI. A YANKEE CARD-TABLE.[10]

XII. DICK M’COY’S SKETCHES OF HIS NEIGHBOURS

XIII. KICKING A YANKEE.[11]

XIV. WHY MR. SELLUM DISPOSED OF THE HORSE. A MATTER OF FACT STORY

XV. METAPHYSICS.[12]

XVI. A TIGHT RACE CONSIDERIN’

XVII. A SHARK STORY

XVIII. A BEAR STORY

XIX. THE BEST-NATURED MAN IN THE WORLD.[13]

XX. CHUNKEY’S FIGHT WITH THE PANTHERS

XXI. A BULLY BOAT, AND A BRAG CAPTAIN. A STORY OF STEAM-BOAT LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI

XXII. FYDGET FYXINGTON.[14]

XXIII. DOING A SHERIFF. A GEORGIA SKETCH

XXIV. THE MUSCADINE STORY

XXV. POLLY PEABLOSSOM’S WEDDING.[15]

XXVI. THE MOTHER AND HER CHILD

XXVII. PELEG W. PONDER; OR, THE POLITICIAN WITHOUT A SIDE.[16]

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I. THE THIMBLE GAME

II. MIKE HOOTER’S BAR STORY. A YAZOO SKETCH. SHOWING HOW THE BEAR OUTWITTED IKE HAMBERLIN. BY A MISSOURIAN

III. COUSIN GUSS.[7]

IV. THE GANDER-PULLING

V. HOW MIKE HOOTER. CAME VERY NEAR “WALLOPING” ARCH COONY

VI. AN INTERESTING INTERVIEW

VII. BEN WILSON’S LAST JUG-RACE

VIII. MIKE FINK IN A TIGHT PLACE

IX. OUR SINGING-SCHOOL. A CHAPTER FROM THE HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF. PIGWACKET

X. WHERE JOE MERIWEATHER WENT TO

XI. GEORGIA THEATRICS

XII. TAKING THE CENSUS

XIII. A FAMILY PICTURE.[9]

XIV. COLONEL JONES’S FIGHT. A STORY OF KENTUCKY

XV. THE FASTEST FUNERAL ON RECORD.[10]

XVI. OLD TUTTLE’S LAST QUARTER RACE

XVII. SPEECH ON THE OREGON QUESTION.[11]

XVIII. BILL DEAN, THE TEXAN RANGER.[12]

XIX. THE FIRE-HUNT

XX. A PAIR OF SLIPPERS; OR, FALLING WEATHER

XXI. A SWIM FOR A DEER

XXII. DILLY JONES; OR, THE PROGRESS OF. IMPROVEMENT.[14]

XXIII. LANTY OLIPHANT IN COURT

XXIV. OLD SINGLETIRE.[15] THE MAN THAT WAS NOT ANNEXED

XXV. MAJOR JONES’S COURTSHIP

LETTER I

LETTER II

LETTER III

LETTER V

LETTER VI

LETTER VII

LETTER IX

LETTER X

XXVI. DOWN-EAST CURIOSITY.[16]

XXVII. A SAGE CONVERSATION

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Pullum was the incarnation of misery.

“The divil I don’t! she bit this piece out of my face,” here Suggs pointed to a scar on his cheek, “when I had her on my lap a little girl only five years old. She was always game.”

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