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With the bark on: popular humor of the Old South
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Vanderbilt University Press
Publication Date
1967
Language
English
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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 / "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"
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