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 THE DRAMA AT POKEEVILLE, 



Tlie Bench and Bar of Jurytown, 



AND OTHER 



STOEIES AND INCIDENTS. 

 BY "EVERPOINT," 



(r. M. FIELD, ESQ., OF THE ST. LOUIS REVEILLE.) 



CONTENTS. 



The Drama in Pokerville — The Great Small 

 Affair Announcement — Feeling in Pokerville 

 —The Great Small Affair Opening — The 

 Gieat Pokerville Preliminaries — The Great 

 Small Affair Mystery — The Great Pokerville 

 Re-union — The Great Small Affair Dinner — 

 The Great Pokerville "Saw"— The Great SmaU 

 Affair Scandal — The Great Small Affair Chas- 

 tisement — The Great Small Affair Duel — 

 What was built on the Great Small Affair 

 Foundation — The Bench and Bar of Jury- 

 town — A Sucker in a Warm Bath — An "Aw- 

 ful Place"— The Elk Runners—" Old Sol" in 

 a Delicate Situation — The "Gagging Scheme," 

 or, West's Great Picture — Establishing the 

 Science— Ole Bull in the " Solitude"— How 

 our Friend B 's Hair went — A Fancy Bar- 

 keeper — " Mr. Nobble 1" — " Honey Run" — A 

 Hung Jury — Paternal Gushings — A Werry 

 Grave Exhortation — "Your Turn next, Sir" — 

 Stopping to " Wood"— Death of Mike Fink- 

 Establishing a Connection — A Night in a 

 Swamp — Steamboat Miseries — A Resurrec- 

 tionist and his Freight. 



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 * had better believe it,' we could not pay the 

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A QUARTER RACE IN KENTUCKY, 



AND 



OTHER STORIES. 

 BY W. T. PORTER, ESQ. 



EDITOR OF THE " BIG BE.iR OF ARKANSAS," ETC. 



CONTENTS. 

 A Quarter Race in Kentucky — A Shark 

 Stor}^ — Lanty Oliphant in Court — Bill Morse 

 on the City Taxes — Ance Veasy's Fight with ! 

 Rcub Sessions — The Fastest Funeral on Re- ; 

 eord — Going to Bed before a Young Lady — 

 A Millerite Miracle— Old Singletire—" Run- 

 ning a Saw" on a French Gentleman — Break- 

 ing a Bank — Taking the Census — Dick Har- 

 lan's Tennessee Frolic — " Falling off a Log" 

 in a Game of " Seven up"— The " Werry Fast 

 Crab"—" French without a Master"— A Rol- 

 licking Dragoon Officer — The Georgia Major 

 in Court — Uncle Billy Brown Glorious" — 

 Old Tuttle's Last Quarter Race — Bill Dean, 

 the Texan Ranger — The Steamboat Captain 

 who was averse to Racing — Bob Herring the 

 Arkansas Bear-hunter — McAlpin's Trip to 

 Charleston — ^Indian Rubber Pills— A Murder 

 Case in Mississippi— Kicking a YapJ^^e— A 



"Down-east" Original — Somebody in my Bed 

 — A Day at Sol. Slice's— Cupping on the Star- 

 num — A Bear Story — Playing Poker in Ar- 

 kansas — &c. &c. 



•'It is illustrated with original engravings 

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 was ever penned, and the volume contains a 

 number of others, that have from time to 

 time appeared in the Spirit of the Times, 

 which are hard to beat." — If» 0. Picayune, 



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WAGGERIES and VAGARIES. 



BY W. E. BURTON, 



COMEDIAN 



WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY DARLEY. 



CONTENTS. 



The Yankee amongst the Mermaids; a 

 Yarn by a Cape Codder, with an illustration 

 — Leap Year ; or, A Woman's Privilege — The 

 Two Pigs, a Swinish Colloquy^ — Thaumatur- 

 gia ; Part First, The Yankee in Hell, with an 

 niastration ; Part Second, The Resurrection- 

 ists; Part Third, The Canal-boat ; Part Fourth, 

 The Last and the Least — My First Fight, with 

 an illustration — Immiscible Immigration, a 

 petty Peter Pindaric — Sam Weller, a Solilo- 

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 illustrations — The Poetry of Niagara — A Wet 

 Day at a Watering Place— My First Punch, 

 with an illustration — The Scapegrace and the 

 Scapegoat, a Matter-of-fact Sketch— The Old 

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 Doddicombe, with an illustration — Philadel- 

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 ODD LEAVES FROM THE LIFE 



OF A 



LOUISIANA "SWAMP DOCTOR." 



BY MADISON TENSAS, M.D. 



EX V. P. M. S. U. KT. 



CONTENTS. 

 The City Physician versus The Swamp Doc- 

 tor—My Early Life— Getting acquainted with 

 ' the Medicines— A Tight Race considerin'— 

 Taking Good Advice— The Day of Judgment 

 —A Rattlesnal^e on a Steamboat— Frank and 

 the Professor— The Curious Widow— The Mis- 

 \ sissippi Patent Plan for pulling Teeth— Vale- 

 ' rian and the Panther— Seeking a Location- 

 Cupping an Irishman— Being Examined for 

 , my Degree— Stealing a Baby— The " Swamp 

 ; Doctor" to Esculapius— My First Call in the 

 Swamp— The Man of Aristocratic Diseases— 

 The Indefatigable Bear-hunter— Love in a 

 Garden— How to cureFits— A Struggle forLife. 



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