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Sprees and splashes, or, Droll recollections of town and country : a book for railroad rides and odd half-hours / by Henry Morford.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morford, Henry, 1823-1881.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 240 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Other Title:
- Droll recollections of town and country
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Carleton, 1863.
- Contents:
- Billy Burton's botheration; or, Two sells for one theatre
- Old Joe Bramby
- Sympathy and small change
- Ten dollars' worth of dog
- Why Tom Burt didn't swear
- Billy Radford's lost pup
- Captain Crabbe and his speculation in harness
- Bursting up a quorum
- Piloting without a license
- The major's horse-operation
- The Long Branch murder
- Editorial phrenology at midnight
- My last Sunday on skates
- The great Shortport burglary - Extra drumming at the Old Broadway
- The two-forty funeral
- Sam Brown's mush
- Paying off a partner
- How Watty Briggs died, and how Squire Horton resurrected him
- Starvation by railroad
- Two big shots at wild-fowl
- Deacon Jones' mince-pies
- Surrogate Cooke's urgent reason
- The swindle on Postmaster Fowler
- Fun among the boot-blacks
- Bill Fraser's big luxury
- Hats and coats at donation visits.
- Notes:
- Short stories.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has label of Geo. W. Alexander Binder, New York.
- OCLC:
- 3263100
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