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The drama in Pokerville : The bench and bar of Jurytown, and other stories / By "Everpoint," (J.M. Field ... of the St. Louis Reveille) ; With eight illustrations ... by F.O.C. Darley.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Everpoint, 1810-1856.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American wit and humor--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- American wit and humor.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861- (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 200 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Carey and Hart, 1847.
- Contents:
- The drama in Pokerville
- The bench and bar of Jurytown
- A sucker in a warm bath
- An "awful place"
- The Elk runners
- "Old Sol" in a delicate situation
- The "gagging scheme;" or, West's great picture
- Establishing the science
- Old bull in the "solitude"
- How our frined B-'s hair went
- A fancy barkeeper
- "Mr. Nobble!"
- "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 resurrectionist and his freight.
- Notes:
- Added t.-p., illustrated.
- Local Notes:
- Bound with: Corcoran, D. (Dennis). Pickings from the portfolio of the reporter of the New Orleans "Picayune". Philadelphia : Carey and Hart, 1846. (Item 1 of 2)
- Cited in:
- Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1774-1850 (2nd ed.), 953
- Sabin 24282
- OCLC:
- 6743698
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