[6] See Porter’s account of “The Spirit of the Times.”

CONTENTS

OF

THE THIRD VOLUME.

I.
PAGE
THE THIMBLE GAME[1]
II.
MIKE HOOTER’S BAR STORY[22]
III.
COUSIN GUSS[30]
IV.
THE GANDER-PULLING[34]
V.
HOW MIKE HOOTER CAME VERY NEAR “WALLOPING” ARCH COONEY[48]
VI.
AN INTERESTING INTERVIEW[61]
VII.
BEN WILSON’S LAST JUG-RACE[70]
VIII.
MIKE FINK IN A TIGHT PLACE[79]
IX.
OUR SINGING-SCHOOL[88]
X.
WHERE JOE MERIWEATHER WENT TO[106]
XI.
GEORGIA THEATRICS[114]
XII.
TAKING THE CENSUS[120]
XIII.
A FAMILY PICTURE[129]
XIV.
COLONEL JONES’S FIGHT[136]
XV.
THE FASTEST FUNERAL ON RECORD[147]
XVI.
OLD TUTTLE’S LAST QUARTER RACE[154]
XVII.
SPEECH ON THE OREGON QUESTION[160]
XVIII.
BILL DEAN, THE TEXAN RANGER[165]
XIX.
THE FIRE-HUNT[169]
XX.
A PAIR OF SLIPPERS[188]
XXI.
A SWIM FOR A DEER[202]
XXII.
DILLY JONES; OR, THE PROGRESS OF IMPROVEMENT[214]
XXIII.
LANTY OLIPHANT IN COURT[224]
XXIV.
OLD SINGLETIRE[229]
XXV.
MAJOR JONES’S COURTSHIP[234]
XXVI.
DOWN-EAST CURIOSITY[314]
XXVII.
A SAGE CONVERSATION[319]

TRAITS

OF