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Swallowing an Oyster Alive"Swallowing an Oyster Alive." from New York Spirit of the Times. Image accompanies story by same name anthologized in Cohen, Hennig and Dillingham, William B., eds. Humor of the Old Southwest. 3rd ed. Athens, GA: U of Georgia P, 1994. View larger version (300 dpi, suitable to download & print).

Anon. "A Bill of Fare Not a Fair Bill." New York Spirit of the Times 14.10 (4 May 1844): 111.

Anon. "A Bootless Search for Boots." New York Spirit of the Time 15.40 (29 November 1845): 465.

Anon. "Frightened at a Gong." New York Spirit of the Times 15.40 (29 November 1845): 468.

Anon. "Getting on 'The Free List.' " New York Spirit of the Times 15.46 (10 January 1846): 546.

Anon. "Incidents on Board a Steamboat." Southern and Southwestern Sketches: Fun, Sentiment, and Adventure. Edited by a Gentleman of Richmond. Richmond: J.W. Randolph, n.d. 145-150.

Anon. "A Western Place Hunter." New York Spirit of the Times 15.8 (19 April 1845): 89.

"Broomstraw." "How Sam Collins Got Broke Playing Agin a Hand Organ." New York Spirit of the Times 30.2 (18 February 1860): 21.

"Harry R." "Table Etiquette in Illinois." New York Spirit of the Times 15.44 (27 December 1845): 518.

"Ib." "Let the Kentuckians Alone." New York Spirit of the Times 10.8 (25 April 1840): 85.

"Old Virginny.""A Kentucky Fiddler and a French Violinist." New Orleans Daily Picayune, 21 February 1841 (no 24). 2nd unnumbered page.

"Yankee Doodle." "Yankee Doodle, Esq., in Arkansas." New York Spirit of the Times, 14.4 (23 March 1844): 37.