Riding through Nova Scotia beside the narrator, Sam Slick of Slickville, Connecticut, peddles clocks by flattery and soft sawder, and holds forth in broad Yankee dialect on the province’s sleepy farmers, its politics, its Blue-noses and the push of his own countrymen. The Nova Scotian judge Haliburton used the sketches to scold his neighbours and laugh at Americans in the same breath.
The book that fixed the shrewd Yankee in popular imagination and made Sam Slick a byword on both sides of the Atlantic. Download the free EPUB.