Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture
Transcriber’s Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
PALMER COX,
AUTHOR OF “QUEER PEOPLE,” “THE BROWNIES,” ETC., ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
EDGEWOOD PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1889, by
HUBBARD BROS.,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C.
Not only is truth stranger than fiction, but it is funnier also. Just as some men have no eye for colors, but are color blind; so some men have no eye for fun, but are fun blind. Happy is the man who can see the humor which bubbles up in daily life; doubly happy he who, having seen, can tell the fun to others and so spread the glad contagion of a laugh; but thrice happy is the man who, having seen, can tell the fun; and having told, can picture it for others’ eyes and so roll on the rollicking humor, for the brightening of a world already far too sad.
Palmer Cox is one who sees, and tells, and pictures all the fun within his reach, as this volume of Frontier Humor will certainly attest.
I Sing the woe and overthrow
Palmer Cox
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PUBLISHERS’ PREFACE.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
NEW YEAR’S CALLERS.
SCENES ON THE SIDEWALK.
SAM PATTERSON’S BALLOON.
MY CANINE.
JIM DUDLEY’S FLIGHT.
TRIALS OF THE FARMER.
A CUNNING DODGE.
A TERRIBLE TAKE IN.
A FAMILY JAR.
THE ROD OF CORRECTION.
GONE FROM HIS GAZE.
ST. PATRICK’S DAY.
THE CONTENTED FROG.
ALL FOOLS’ DAY.
FINDING A HORSE-SHOE.
AN EVENING WITH SCIENTISTS.
OUR TABLE GIRL.
AN OLD WOMAN IN PERIL.
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE.
ODE ON A BUMBLE-BEE.
DUDLEY AND THE GREASED PIG.
CORA LEE.
A BRILLIANT FORENSIC EFFORT.
VISITING A SCHOOL.
THE REJECTED SUITOR.
A NIGHT OF TERROR.
MY DRIVE TO THE CLIFF.
SECOND SIGHT.
THE THIEF.
A STARTLING CAT-ASTROPHE.
A TRIP TO THE MOUNTAINS.
AN IMPATIENT UNDERTAKER.
SERMON ON A PIN.
DUDLEY’S FIGHT WITH THE TEXAN.
ROLLER SKATING.
A TERRIBLE NOSE.
A MASKED BATTERY.
THE PRIZE I DIDN’T WIN.
THE COUNTRYMAN’S TOOTH.
MINING STOCKS.
ODE ON A FLEA.
FIGHTING IT OUT ON THAT LINE.
DUDLEY’S FIGHT WITH DR. TWEEZER.
MY NEIGHBOR WORSTED.
THE BREATHING SPELL.
A VISIT TO BENICIA.
TOO MUCH OF INDIAN.
GOING UP THE SPOUT.
THE GLORIOUS FOURTH.
JIM DUDLEY’S SERMON.
THE POISONED PET.
SEEKING FOR A WIFE.
DAVID GOYLE, THE MILLER MAN.
HEELS UP AND HEAD DOWN.
THE BITTER END.
A TRIP TO THE INTERIOR.
HUNTING WITH A VENGEANCE.
THE ART GALLERY.
A ROLLING STONE.
RIDING IN THE STREET CARS.
SIMON RAND.
THE VALUE OF A COLLAR.
QUAINT EPITAPHS.
MISTAKEN IDENTITY.
FLIRTING, AND WHAT CAME OF IT.
THE CHAMPION MEAN MAN.
THE COBBLER’S END.
THE LAST OF HIS RACE.
JIM DUDLEY’S RACE.
OLEOMARGARINE.
DINING UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
COURT-ROOM SCENES.
THE MASON’S RIDE.
JUNE
THE ANNIVERSARY.
A COUNTRY TOUR.
A TRIP ACROSS THE BAY.
CHRISTMAS EVE.
