Gathered from his Milwaukee paper Peck’s Sun in 1886, these short sketches range over coal stoves, camp meetings, picnics, summer resorts, fruit jars and church fairs, with several episodes of the Bad Boy tormenting his Pa. Some pieces trade in the ethnic and racial humour common in 1880s newspapers.
A sampler of Gilded Age American comic journalism from a humorist who went on to become governor of Wisconsin. Download the free EPUB.