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Author
Falconbridge, 1818-1854
Title
The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes
Credits
Produced by Irma Spehar, David Cortesi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
American wit and humor
Category
Text
eBook-No.
30480
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30480
Release Date
November 15, 2009
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE HUMORS OF FALCONBRIDGE: A COLLECTION OF HUMOROUS AND EVERY DAY SCENES.
  2. 2.BY JONATHAN F. KELLEY. — Philadelphia: T. B. PETERSON, No. 102 CHESTNUT STREET.
  3. 3.TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
  4. 4.A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE LATE JONATHAN F. KELLY.
  5. 5.CONTENTS.
  6. 6.ILLUSTRATIONS
  7. 7.THE HUMORS OF FALCONBRIDGE.
  8. 8.If it ain't right, I'll make it all right in the Morning!
  9. 9.Don't you believe in 'em?
  10. 10.The Old Black Bull
  11. 11.Dobbs makes "a Pint."
  12. 12.Used Up.
  13. 13.The Greatest Moral Engine.
  14. 14.The Story of Capt. Paul.
  15. 15.Hereditary Complaints.
  16. 16.Nights with the Caucusers.
  17. 17.Affecting Cruelty.
  18. 18.The Wolf Slayer.
  19. 19.The Man that knew 'em All.
  20. 20.A Severe Spell of Sickness.
  21. 21.The Race of the Aldermen.
  22. 22.Getting Square.
  23. 23.People Do Differ!
  24. 24.Bill Whiffletree's Dental Experience.
  25. 25.A-a-a-in't they Thick?
  26. 26.A Desperate Race.
  27. 27.Dodging the Responsibility.
  28. 28.A Night Adventure in Prairie Land.
  29. 29.Roosting Out.
  30. 30.Rather Twangy.
  31. 31.Passing Around the Fodder! A Dinner Sketch .
  32. 32.A Hint to Soyer.
  33. 33.The Leg of Mutton.
  34. 34.A Chapter on Misers.
  35. 35.Dog Day.
  36. 36.Amateur Gardening.
  37. 37.The Two Johns at the Tremont.
  38. 38.The Yankee in a Boarding School.
  39. 39.A Dreadful State of Excitement.
  40. 40.Ralph Waldo Emerson.
  41. 41.Humbug.
  42. 42.Hotel Keeping.
  43. 43."According to Gunter."
  44. 44.Quartering upon Friends.
  45. 45.Jake Hinkle's Failings.
  46. 46.What's Going to Happen.
  47. 47.The Washerwoman's Windfall.
  48. 48.We don't Wonder at It.
  49. 49.Old Maguire and his Horse Bonny Doon.
  50. 50.Getting into the "Right Pew."
  51. 51.A Circuitous Route.
  52. 52.Major Blink's First Season at Saratoga.
  53. 53.Old Jack Ringbolt
  54. 54.Who Killed Capt. Walker?
  55. 55.Practical Philosophy
  56. 56.Borrowed finery; or, Killed off by a Ballet Girl.
  57. 57.Legal Advice.
  58. 58.Wonders of the Day.
  59. 59."Don't Know You, Sir!"
  60. 60.A Circumlocutory Egg Pedler.
  61. 61.Jolly Old Times.
  62. 62.The Pigeon Express Man.
  63. 63.Jipson's Great Dinner Party.
  64. 64.Look out for them Lobsters.
  65. 65.The Fitzfaddles at Hull.
  66. 66.Putting Me on a Platform!
  67. 67.The Exorbitancy of Meanness.
  68. 68."Taking Down" a Sheriff.
  69. 69.Governor Mifflin's First Coal Fire.
  70. 70.Sure Cure.
  71. 71.Chasing a Fugitive Subscriber.
  72. 72.Ambition.
  73. 73.Way the Women Fixed the Tale-Bearer.
  74. 74.Penalty of Kissing your own Wife.
  75. 75.Mysteries and Miseries of Housekeeping.
  76. 76.Miseries of a Dandy.
  77. 77.A Juvenile Joe Miller.
  78. 78."Selling" a Landlord.
  79. 79.Scientific Labor.
  80. 80.Who was that Poor Woman?
  81. 81.Infirmities of Nature.
  82. 82.Andrew Jackson and his Mother.
  83. 83.Snaking out Sturgeons.
  84. 84.Mixing Meanings—Mangling English.
  85. 85.Waking up the Wrong Passenger.
  86. 86.Genius for Business.
  87. 87.Have You Got Any Old Boots?
  88. 88.The Vagaries of Nature.
  89. 89.A General Disquisition on "Hinges."
  90. 90.Miseries of Bachelorhood.
  91. 91.The Science of "Diddling."
  92. 92.The Re-Union; Thanksgiving Story.
  93. 93.Cabbage vs. Men.
  94. 94.Wanted—A Young Man from the Country.
  95. 95.Presence of Mind.
  96. 96.The Skipper's Schooner.
  97. 97.Philosophy of the Times.
  98. 98.The Emperor and the Poor Author.
  99. 99.The Bigger Fool, the Better Luck.
  100. 100.An Active Settlement.
  101. 101.A Yankee in a Pork-house
  102. 102.German Caution
  103. 103.Ben. McConachy's Great Dog Sell.
  104. 104.The Perils of Wealth
  105. 105.Nursing a Legacy.
  106. 106.The Troubles of a Mover.
  107. 107.The Question Settled.
  108. 108.How it's Done at the Astor House.
  109. 109.The Advertisement.
  110. 110.Incidents in a Fortune-Hunter's Life.
  111. 111.A Distinction with a Difference.
  112. 112.Pills and Persimmons.
  113. 113.Mysteries and Miseries of the Life of a City Editor.
  114. 114.The Tribulations of Incivility.
  115. 115.The Broomstick Marriage.
  116. 116.Appearances are Deceitful.
  117. 117.Cigar Smoke
  118. 118.An Everlasting Tall Duel
  119. 119.T. B. PETERSON'S LIST OF PUBLICATIONS — WIDDIFIELD'S NEW COOK BOOK: OR, PRACTICAL RECEIPTS FOR THE HOUSEWIFE . — BY HANNAH WIDDIFIELD , — MRS. SOUTHWORTH'S Celebrated WORKS — CHARLES DICKENS' WORKS. — COMPLETE LIBRARY EDITION. — CAPTAIN MARRYATT'S WORKS. — ELLEN PICKERING'S NOVELS. — MRS. CAROLINE LEE HENTZ'S WORKS. — T. S. ARTHUR'S WORKS. — CHARLES LEVER'S NOVELS. — CHARLES J. PETERSON'S WORKS. — EUGENE SUE'S NOVELS. — SIR E. L. BULWER'S NOVELS. — MRS. GREY'S NOVELS. — GEORGE W. M. REYNOLD'S WORKS. — AINSWORTH'S WORKS. — ALEXANDER DUMAS' WORKS. — GEORGE LIPPARD'S WORKS. — B. D'ISRAELI'S NOVELS. — EMERSON BENNETT'S WORKS. — MISS LESLIE'S NEW COOK BOOK. — GEORGE SANDS' WORKS. — HUMOROUS AMERICAN WORKS. WITH ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY DARLEY AND OTHERS, AND BEAUTIFULLY ILLUMINATED COVERS . — THE FOLLOWING ARE THE NAMES OF THE WORKS. — FRENCH, GERMAN, SPANISH, LATIN, AND ITALIAN LANGUAGES. — WORKS BY THE BEST AUTHORS. — WORKS AT TWENTY-FIVE CENTS EACH. — Professor LIEBIG'S Works on Chemistry. — EXCELLENT SHILLING BOOKS. — THE FORGED WILL. — VIOLA; OR, ADVENTURES IN THE FAR SOUTH-WEST. — BY EMERSON BENNETT, — THE ROMAN TRAITOR; OR, THE DAYS OF CICERO, CATO AND CATALINE. — BY HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT, AUTHOR OF "CROMWELL," "THE BROTHERS," ETC. — THE INITIALS: A STORY OF MODERN LIFE. — READ THE TABLE OF CONTENTS — CLARA MORELAND. — BY EMERSON BENNETT. Price Fifty Cents in Paper Cover; or, One Dollar in Cloth, Gilt. — WILD OATS SOWN ABROAD; OR, ON AND OFF SOUNDINGS, — BY A GENTLEMEN OF LEISURE. — T. B. PETERSON'S WHOLESALE AND RETAIL

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