With the bark on: popular humor of the Old South

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"