In the smoking-room of a Paris hotel, a grizzled, silent American colonel listens to three newly arrived compatriots, then begins telling stories of his own: an ornithological romance, a tombstone dispute, a union meeting, a clerical romance and other deadpan tall tales. Several stories, like their illustrations, rely on the racial stereotypes and language of 1893.
Dry Gilded Age humour by the author of Adventures of Jimmy Brown, best read with its period attitudes in view. Download the free EPUB.