The Characteristics of American Humour

Traits of American Humour is a three volume edition which contains numerous short stories, sketches and tales, illustrating the character and wit of American people from North to South and from East to West.

Table of Contents:

Vol. 1:

My First and Last speech in the General Court

Hoss Allen, of Missouri

The Widow Rugby's Husband

The Big Bear of Arkansas

Johnny Beedle's Courtship

The Marriage of Johnny Beedle

Johnny Beedle's Thanksgiving

Aunt Nabby's Stewed Goose

Decline and Fall of the City of Dogtown

The Coon-Hunt

A Ride With Old Kit Kuncker

Seth Willett; The Elk County Witness

The Two Fat Sals

War's Yure Hoss?

Bob Lee

The Shooting-Match

The Horse Swap

Three Chances for a Wife

The Yankee Amongst the Mermaids

Captain Stick and Tony

The Way Billy Harris Drove the Drum-Fish to Market

Yankee Homespun

The Indefatigable Bear-Hunter

Colonel Crockett's Ride on the Back of a Buffalo

Colonel Crockett's Adventure with a Grizzly Bear

Colonel Crockett's, The Bear, and the Swallows

A Pretty Predicament

Vol. 2:

The Editor's Creed

Josh Beanpole's Courtship

Peter Brush, the Great Used Up

Cousin Sally Dilliard

The Age of Wonders

How Simon Suggs «Raised Jack»

My First Visit to Portland

Billy Warrick's Courtship and Marriage

Our Town

Falling off a Log, in a Game of «Seven Up»

A Yankee Card-Table

Dick M'Coy's Sketches of His Neighbours

Kicking a Yankee

Why Mr. Sellum Disposed of the Horse

Metaphysics

A Tight Race Considerin'

A Shark Story

A Bear Story

The Best-Natured Man in the World

Chunky's Fight With the Panthers

A Bully Boat, and a Brag Captain

Fydget Fyxington

Doing a Sheriff

The Muscadine Story

Polly Peablossom's Wedding

The Mother and Her Child

Peleg Ponder

Vol. 3:

The Thimble Game

Mike Hooter's Bar Story

Cousin Guss

The Gander-Pulling

How Mike Hooter Came Very Near Walloping Arch Cooney

An Interesting Interview

Ben Wilson's Last Jug-Race

Mike Fink in a Tight Place

Our Singing-School

Where Joe Meriweather Went To

Georgia Theatrics

Taking the Census

A Family Picture

Colonel Jones's Fight

The Fastest Funeral on Record

Old Tuttle's Last Quarter Race…