Traits of American Humour, Vol. III of III edited

Traits of American Humour, Vol. III of III edited

by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

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Editor: Haliburton, Thomas Chandler, 1796-1865
Title: Traits of American Humour, Vol. 3 of 3
Credits: Produced by Marcia Brooks, Cindy Beyer and the online Project Gutenberg team at www.pgdpcanada.net with images provided by The Internet Archives
Language: English
LoC Class: PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections
Subject: American wit and humor
Category: Text
eBook-No.: 49865
Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49865
Release Date: September 3, 2015
Copyright: Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1.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. — XXVI. DOWN-EAST CURIOSITY. [16] — XXVII. A SAGE CONVERSATION. — TRANSCRIBER NOTES

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