Rowdy Tales from Early Alabama: The Humor of John Gorman Barr

426 Pages·1989·2.69 MB·English

by  John Gorman Barr

Rowdy Tales From Early Alabama : The
title:
Humor of John Gorman Barr
author: Barr, John Gorman.; Hubbs, G. Ward
publisher: University of Alabama Press
isbn10 | asin: 0817304770
print isbn13: 9780817304775
ebook isbn13: 9780585273006
language: English
Tuscaloosa (Ala.)--Fiction, Alabama--Social
subject life and customs--Fiction, American wit and
humor, Alabama--Humor.
publication date: 1981
lcc: PS1074.B124R6 1981eb
ddc: 813/.3
Tuscaloosa (Ala.)--Fiction, Alabama--Social
subject: life and customs--Fiction, American wit and
humor, Alabama--Humor.
Page i
Rowdy Tales from Early Alabama
Page ii
John Gorman Barr in his Mexican War uniform, with sabre, c. 1848.
(Courtesy of Alabama State Department of Archives and History)
Page iii
Rowdy Tales from Early Alabama
The Humor of John Gorman Barr
Collected and Annotated by G. Ward Hubbs
Page iv
First Paperback Printing 1989
Second Paperback Printing 1995
Copyright © 1981 by
The University of Alabama Press
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Barr, John Gorman, 18231858.
Rowdy tales from early Alabama.
CONTENTS: Salted him; or, An auctioneer doing all
the bidding.Old Charley and the President's veto.
Old Charley and his impromptu ride.[etc.]
1. Tuscaloosa, Ala.Social life and customs
Fiction. 2. American wit and humorAlabama.
I. Hubbs, G. Ward, 1952-II. Title.
PZ3.B2716Ro 1981 [PS1074.B124] 813'.3 8019299
ISBN 0-8173-0477-0
Page v
For Pat
Page vii
Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Introduction 1
1. Salted Him, or An Auctioneer Doing All the Bidding 12
2. Old Charley and the President's Veto 19
3. Old Charley and His Impromptu Ride 31
4. A Hand-Around Supper in Alabama 44
5. A Steamboat Captain's Love Adventure 50
6. How Tom Croghan Carved the Turkey 61
7. Spiritualism Explained 69
8. Piscatory Reflections and Reminiscences 78
9. New York Drummer's Ride to Greensboro' 93
10. Jemmy Owen's Fifty Dollar Note; or, "Moind Whay 109
Ye Say"
11. John Bealle's Accidentor, How the Widow Dudu 125
Treated Insanity
12. Relief for Ireland! or, John Brown's Bad Luck With 143
His Pickled Beef
13. A Lively Village; or, Brisk Speculation in a New 162
Commodity
14. Misplaced Confidence; or, Bilking a Boniface! 180
Page viii
Appendix 200
"More Silence!" 200
by Johnson Jones Hooper
"Jemmy Owen on the Senatorial Election" 202
by Johnson Jones Hooper
Notes 206