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STREAKS OF SQUATTER LIFE
AND
FAR-WEST SCENES.
A SERIES OF HUMOROUS SKETCHES DESCRIPTIVE OF INCIDENTS AND CHARACTER IN THE WILD WEST.
BY "SOLITAIRE,"
(JOHN S. ROBB, of St. Louis, Mo.)
AUTHOR OF "SWALLOWING OYSTERS ALIVE."
With Eight Humorous Illustrations by Darley.
CONTENTS.
The Western Wanderings of a Typo—"Not a Drop more, Major, unless it's sweetened"—Nettle Bottom Ball—A Cat Story—A Spiritual Sister—Hoss Allen's Apology—Natural Acting—A Canal Adventure—The Standing Candidate—An Emigrant's Perils—Fun with a "Bar"—Telegraphing an Express—The Preemption Right—Yaller Pledges—George Munday, the Hatless Prophet—Courting in French Hollow—The Second Advent—Settlement Fun—"Doing" a Landlord—Who is Sir George Simpson?—Letters from a Baby—Seth Tinder's First Courtship—The Death Struggle—"Who are They?"
"Mr. Robb is better known probably as 'Solitaire,' under which name he has written some very broad, farcical sketches of Western manners for the Reveille, of St. Louis. Some of the sketches in this volume are spirited and cleverly written, and they are all lively and full of animal spirits; but they are too brief to contain a development of character. The best sketch is the story of 'Old Sugar,' which is illustrated by an exceedingly fine drawing by Darley. We feel, after inspecting the designs in this book, that we have heretofore underrated the comic powers of this admirable artist; there are evidences in some of these designs of a very high order of genius."—N. Y. Mirror.
Price 50 Cents. (Complete.)