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With the Bark On : Popular Humor of the Old South /
Seventy selections of regional humor, many in dialect, taken from magazines and newspapers of the 1835-1860 period.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Nashville] :
Vanderbilt University Press,
1967.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The river
- My grandmother's trick: reminiscences of Natchez-under-the-hill / "Yazoo"
- A nightwatch on a flatboat / "Falconbridge"
- The crack captain on the Mississippi / "S"
- Breaking a bank / Sol Smith
- The wrong berth / "Crawfish"
- "It's all right, Captain" / Anonymous
- The tallest snake story / Anonymous
- The backcountry
- A new town in Arkansas / "Concordia"
- One man and two beds / Anonymous
- The Yazoo bottoms revisited / "Col. J.J. Jenks"
- My first and last courtship in the pine barrens / "Neosho"
- Poetry and liquor in east Tennessee / "Roderick"
- Selling chickens to the legislature / "Phil"
- Varmints and hunters
- Old long John and the bear / "Sulphur Fork"
- Bar and deer hunting in Mississippi / "The Turkey Runner"
- Another bear fight / "Ruff Sam"
- Louisiana "boys" and bear hunting / Anonymous
- Joe Harris and the panther / "John of Oxford"
- Chunkey's fight with the panthers / "The Turkey Runner"
- An alligator for a present / "Pardon Jones"
- Dog days in Mississippi / "Chips"
- A wildcat story / Anonymous
- "Blowed up" on a possum hunt / "Pardon Jones"
- Fun and frolic
- A surprise wedding in Georgia / "Uncle Solon"
- A wedding in Mississippi / "The Turkey Runner"
- A wedding frolic in Arkansas / "Skyscraper"
- Commemoration ball in Bates, Missouri / J.N.M. Harding
- Pretty gals and snuff / "Joel Darlin"
- Ducks in summer / "Stahl"
- Fire in the rear / "Megatherium"
- The singing teacher of Snake Hollow / "Rial Owen"
- The professions
- Primitive courts in the Southwest / "Amite"
- Storming an Arkansas courthouse / "Falconbridge"
- A good witness / Maj. Kelly
- Mosquito bait / "Concordia"
- The Louisiana law of cockfighting / Thomas Bangs Thorpe
- Dental surgery / "Amite"
- Uncle Johnny's tooth pulling story / "Obe Oilstone"
- Irregular practice of a regular practitioner / Anonymous
- The harp of a thousand strings / William Penn Brannon
- Daddy Donk and the spirits / "Number Eight"
- Farewell, Brother Crafford! / William Penn Brannon
- Shifting the responsibility / Anonymous
- How to draw sinners / "Subscriber"
- The Good Shepherd / Anonymous
- Jokes and jokers
- Fortunes in prospect / "Jersey"
- A snake story / "Ruff Sam"
- Catching a weasel asleep / Anonymous
- The beautiful widow of Shirttail Bend / "Falconbridge"
- An Arkansas "sell" / "Plenoir"
- Why Phil Weston didn't rise in the profession / "The Little 'Un"
- Getting a railroad subscription / Anonymous
- Masculine amusements
- A quarter race in Kentucky / Anonymous
- Josh Silsbee at the races / "Thomas the Rhymer"
- That big dog fight at Myer's / "Obe Oilstone"
- Up Fool River / "Obe Oilstone"
- Liquoring on the Mississippi / Anonymous
- Soldiering in Mexico / "Pardon Jones"
- Seeing the elephant at the Battle of Buena Vista / "Ruff Sam"
- The barrell movement / "Solitaire"
- A breach of promise case / "Azul"
- Politicians, actors, yokels in the city
- Seeing the elephant / Anonymous
- Electioneering by "Pardon Jones"
- Fun at the capitol of Mississippi / "D. V.M."
- A Texian hero / Anonymous
- An intimate friend / Sol Smith
- Uncle Billy Brown
- "Glorious!" / "Rambler"
- A "crack" hotel / H.P. Leland
- That big fiddle / Anonymous
- A returned Californian in New Orleans / "Lambda."