Trades and swindles:

Anon."Backing Out a Stranger; Or, The Tennessee Jockies Badly Sold." Southern and Southwestern Sketches: Fun, Sentiment, and Adventure. Edited by a Gentleman of Richmond. Richmond: J.W. Randolph, n.d. 159-165.

Anon. "A Mouthful of Pickled Dog." New York Spirit of the Times, 15.21 (19 July 1845): 244.

Anon. "A Race for a Wife." Spirit of the Times and Life in New York. 7 April 1832 (vol 1, no 17): 1.

Anon. "A Shave." Richmond Semi-Weekly Examiner 20 October 1848: 4.

Anon. "Soft and Hard." New York Spirit of the Times 15.7 (12 April 1845): 71.

Anon. "A Scape Gallows" [& three other short pieces]. New York Spirit of the Times 7.6 (25 March, 1837): 47. University of Virginia Alderman Library.

Anon. "A Yankee Outwitted." New York Spirit of the Times 15.23 (2 August 1845): 265

"G." "The Origin on the Twist in Pig's Tails." New York Spirit of the Times 14.10 (4 May 1844): 109.

Smith, Sol. "Speculation in Whiskers; or, Shaving in a Broker's Office." Southern and Southwestern Sketches: Fun, Sentiment, and Adventure. Edited by a Gentleman of Richmond. Richmond: J.W. Randolph, n.d. 42-46.

"W." "Coming it Over a Buckeye Hunter." New York Spirit of the Times 15.48 (24 January 1846): 561.