The creator of the Brownies wrote and drew these comic pieces of frontier life, collected here with his own pictures. There are ballads of a thief and a deadly pie, New Year’s callers, a homemade balloon, a hapless dog, the trials of the farmer, family quarrels and biting pests; some pieces, including the opening one, rely on ethnic caricature typical of their time.
A period collection of North American comic verse, valuable to students of popular humour. Download the free EPUB.