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With the bark on: popular humor of the Old South by and edited with introduction and notes by John Q. Anderson; drawings by Mary Alice Bahler is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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xi, 337 pages : 25 cm Seventy selections of regional humor, many in dialect, taken from magazines and newspapers of the 1835-1860 period Includes bibliographical references 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 Mississip

Author

and edited with introduction and notes by John Q. Anderson; drawings by Mary Alice Bahler

Publisher

[Nashville]: Vanderbilt University Press

Published

1967

Language

EN

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities