: The Puddleford Papers; Or Humors of the West by Riley Henry Hiram - Humorous stories; United States Social life and customs 19th century Fiction; Frontier and pioneer life United States Fiction

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Puddleford.--Eagle Tavern.--Mr. and Mrs. Bulliphant.--May Morning.--Birds.--Venison Styles.--General Character of Society.--The Colonel.--Venison Styles's Cabin. 17

Lawsuit: Filkins against Beadle.--Squire Longbow and his Court.--Puddleford assembled.--Why Squire Longbow was a Great Man.--Ike Turtle and Sile Bates, Pettifoggers.--Mrs. Sonora Brown.--Uproar and Legal Opinions.--Seth Bolles.--Miss Eunice Grimes.--Argument to Jury, and Verdict. 34

Wanderings in the Wilderness.--A Bee-Hunt.--Sunrise.--The Fox-Squirrel.--The Blue-Jay.--The Gopher.--The Partridges.--Wild Geese, Ducks, and Cranes.--Blackbirds and Meadow-Larks.--Venison's Account of the Bees' Domestic Economy.--How Venison found what he was in Search of.--Honey secured.--After-Reflections. 54

The Log-Chapel.--Father Beals.--Aunt Graves.--Sister Abigail.--Bigelow Van Slyck, the Preacher.--His Entr?e.--How he worked.--One of his Sermons.--Performance of the Choir.--"Coronation" achieved.--Getting into Position.--Personal Appeals.--Effect on the Congregation.--Sabbath in the Wilderness.--Is Bigelow the only Ridiculous Preacher? 66

Indian Summer.--Venison Styles again.--Jim Buzzard.--Fishing Excursion.--Muskrat City.--Indian Burying-Ground.--The Pickerel and the Rest of the Fishes.--The Prairie.--Wild Geese.--The Old Mound.--Venison's Regrets at the degenerating Times.--His Luck, and Mine.--Reminiscences of the Beavers.--Camping out.--Safe Return. 81

Educational Efforts.--Squire Longbow's "Notis."--"The Saterday Nite."--Ike and the Squire.--Various Remarks to the Point.--Mrs. Fizzle and the Temperance Question.--Collection taken.--General Result. 96

Social War.--Longbow, Turtle & Co.--Bird, Swipes, Beagle & Co.--Mrs. Bird.--Mrs. Beagle.--Mrs. Swipes.--Turkey and Aristocracy.--Scandal.--Husking-Bees, and "such like."--The Calathumpian Band.--The Horse-Fiddle.--The Giant Trombone.--The Gyastacutas.--Tuning up.--Unparalleled Effort.--Puddleford still a Representative Place. 105

Puddleford and Politics.--Higgins against Wiggins.--The Candidates' Personale.--Their Platforms.--Delicate Questions.--Stump Speaking.--Wiggins on Higgins.--Impertinent Interruptions.--Higgins on Wiggins.--Ike Turtle not dead yet.--Commotion.--Squire Longbow restores Order.--Grand Stroke of Policy.--The Roast Ox at Gillett's Corners. 115

Winter upon us.--The Roosters in the early Morning.--The Blue-Jays and the Squirrels.--The Improvident Turkey.--The Domestic Hearth, and who occupied it.--The Old Dog.--The Blessed Old Mail-Horse.--The Newspapers.--Our Come-to-Tea.--Mrs. Brown, her Arrival and Experiences.--Entr?e of Bird, Beagles & Co.--Conflicting Elements, and how Ike Turtle assimilated all.--Gratifying Consequences. 128

The Group at "The Eagle."--Entr?e of a Stranger.--His Opinion of the Tavern.--Bulliphant wakes up.--Can't pick Fowls after Dark.--Sad Case of Mother Gantlet and Dr. Teazle.--Mr. Farindale begins to unbend.--Whistle & Sharp, and their Attorney.--Good Pay.--Legal Conversation.--Going Sniping.--Great Description of the Animal.--The Party start, Farindale holding the Bag.--"Waiting for Snipe."--Farindale's Solitary Return.--His Interview with Whistle & Sharp.--Suing a Puddleford Firm.--Relief Laws.--Farindale gets his Execution.--The Puddleford Bank.--The Appraisers.--Proceeds of the Execution. 166

The "Fev-Nag."--Conflicting Theories.--"Oxergin and Hydergin."--Teazle's Rationale.--The Scourge of the West.--Sile Bates, and his Condition.--Squire Longbow and Jim Buzzard.--Puddleford prostrate.--Various Practitioners.--"The Billerous Duck."--Pioneer Martyrs.--Wave over Wave. 182

Uncommonly Common Schools.--Annual School District Meeting.--Accounts for Contingent Expenses.--Turtle and Old Gulick's Boy.--"That are Glass."--The Colonel starts the Wheels again.--Bulliphant's Tactics.--Have we hired "Deacon Fluett's Darter," or not?--Isabel Strickett.--Bunker Hill and Turkey.--Sah-Jane Beagles.--The Question settled. 190

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