Cal Stewart, a vaudeville monologist and early recording star, wrote down the adventures of his character Uncle Josh Weathersby of Punkin Centre, a shrewd old countryman who arrives in New York and tries society, a museum, Wall Street, an auction room and the fire department, then returns home to swap yarns with Si and Ezra in the general store.
Rural dialect comedy of the 1900s phonograph era; a few sketches carry the ethnic stereotypes of their day. Download the free EPUB.