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A QUARTER RACE IN KENTUCKY,
AND
OTHER STORIES.
BY W. T. PORTER, ESQ.
EDITOR OF THE "BIG BEAR OF ARKANSAS," ETC.
CONTENTS.
A Quarter Race in Kentucky—A Shark Story—Lanty Oliphant in Court—Bill Morse on the City Taxes—Ance Veasy's Fight with Reub Sessions—The Fastest Funeral on Record—Going to Bed before a Young Lady—A Millerite Miracle—Old Singletire—"Running a Saw" on a French Gentleman—Breaking a Bank—Taking the Census—Dick Harlau's Tennessee Frolic—"Falling off a Log" in a Game of "Seven up"—The "Werry Fast Crab"—"French without a Master"—A Rollicking 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 Yankee—A "Down-east" Original—Somebody in my Bed—A Day at Sol. Slice's—Cupping on the Starnum—A Bear Story—Playing Poker in Arkansas—&c. &c.
"It is illustrated with original engravings from designs by Darley. The 'Quarter Race in Kentucky' is one of the best stories that 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."—N. O. Picayune.
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THE YANKEE
AMONGST THE MERMAIDS.
BY W. E. BURTON, COMEDIAN.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY DARLEY.