Mason gathers comic prose and verse from nineteenth-century American writers, each introduced with the year of the author’s birth. A traveller changing trains at Bridgeport for the Naugatuck line, William Allen Butler’s tale of Dobbs his Ferry, John William De Forest’s Father Higgins and pieces by John Townsend Trowbridge are among the selections.
A handy sampler of the comic writing Americans enjoyed in the decades after the Civil War. Download the free EPUB.