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A Treasury of New England Folklore
Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the Yankee People

edited by
B A Botkin

When myth and history combine, a legend is born. . .


COPYRIGHT:1947, no additional printing notations
PUBLISHER: Crown
PAGES: 934 pages measuring 5.5" x 8.5"
CONDITION: Blue cloth boards with minor edgewear and corner bumping. No previous owner's marks. Spine is very slightly sun-faded. No hinge cracking inside or outside at neither the front nor back. The glue used in making the book has aged on the front and rear endpapers near the spine. All pages and covers are tight to the spine. No folded page corners; no page marks. A very solid book! No dustjacket.

As a folklore country, New England has an advantage over other regions in that its lore is part of a well-defined, well-documented tradition. A tradition derives its strength and being from a sense of group identity, on the one hand, and a sense of historical continuity, on the other. Since local history, legend, speech, and folkways give what Whitman calls "that taste of identity and locality which is so dear in literature," they are basic to a regional tradition. This is especially true in New England. Here are the heroes and sages, the saints and scoundrels, the pirates and devils and witches, the undying fabulous figures that are part of the soil and roots of New England. 500 stories and 50 songs - 934 pages of jam-packed New England Folklore!

Places in the index: CONNECTICUT: Berlin • Bethel • Bozrah • Brooklyn • Canaan • Clinton • Colchester • Danbury • Dragon Point • East Canaan • East Haddam • East Hampton • Farmington • Franklin • Goshen • Groton • Guilford • Haddam • Hartford • Huntington • Ledyard • Litchfield • Lyme • Milford • Millington • New Haven • Newington • New London • New Milford • North Stonington • Norwalk • Norwich • Owlsbury • Pomfret • Salem • Saybrook • Stonington • Suffield • Thomaston • Waterbury • Willimantic • Windham County • Windsor • Wolcott

MAINE: Aroostook County • Bangor • Bath • Brewer • Brunswick • Bug Hollow • Castine • Cobbossee • East Deering • Enfield • Georgetown • Glenburn • Greenville • Hallowell • Harpswell • Kennebunkport • Kittery • London Hill • Mechanic Falls • Milford • Minot • Monhegan • Naples • New Gloucester • Noridgewoc • North Edgecomb • Norway • Old Orchard Beach • Old Town • Passamoquoddy • Pemaquid • Penobscot • Penobscot County • Pisquaticus County • Poland • Portland • Pownal • Pownalboro • Searsport • Songo Locks • South Poland • Standish • Wayne • Wells • Wiscasset • York • York Beach

MASSACHUSETTS: Abington • Agawame • Alford • Andover • Auburn • Barnstable • Barnstable County • Barre • Bash-Bish • Bedford • Bedford Springs • Beverly • Billerica • Billingsgate • Blandford • Boston • Brattleboro • Brighton • Brimfield • Brookline • Cambridge • Canton • Cape Cod • Chappaquiddick • Cohasset • Dalton • Danvers • Danversport • Dedham • Deerfield • Dennis • Dorchester • Dudley • Eastham • Egremont • Falmouth • Farmington • Gay Head • Gloucester • Goshen • Great Barrington • Hadley • Halifax • Hancock • Hanover • Haverhill • Hingham • Holyoke • Hyannis • Hyannisport • Ipswich • Leominster • Lexington • Longmeadow • Lynn • Malden • Maldiw • Manchester • Mansfield • Marblehead • Marlborough • Marshfield • Mashpee • Martha’s Vineyard • Medford • Middleboro • Middlesex County • Mingo Beach • Mount Auburn • Nantasket Beach • Nantucket • Natick • Nauset • New Bedford • Newbury • Newburyport • Northampton • Northfield • North Weymouth • Osterville • Palmer • Partridge Field • Pecunit • Peru • Pittsfield • Plymouth • Provincetown • Quabbin • Quincy • Rochester • Salem • Salisbury • Sandisfield • Sandwich • Savoy Hollow • Siasconset • Southampton • South Hadley • South Reading • Springfield • Squantum • Suckanesset • Swansea • Taunton • Turners Falls • Truro • Tyringham • Walpole • Waquoit • Ware • Wareham • Wellfleet • Westborough • West Dennis • Westfield • West Stockbridge • West Warren • Weymouth • Weymouth Landing • Whately • Whitman • Wilbraham • Wilmington • Woburn • Worcester • Yarmouth

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Albany • Agiochook • Ashland • Bow • Bristol • Brookfield • Burton • Candia • Chelmsford • Cheshire County • Colebrook • Concord • Coos • Crawford • Dover • Dublin • Dunstable • Fast Columbia • East Epping • Easton • East Sandwich • Exeter • Francestown • Franconia • Gorham • Hampton • Henniker • Hillsboro • Hinsdale • Hopkinton • Jefferson • Johnson Village • Keene • Lancaster • Littleton • Manchester • Mascoma • Monroe • Mont Vernon • Nashua • New Boston • Newton • North Woodstock • Ossipee • Pinkham’s Grant • Pittsburg • Portsmouth • Poverty Plain • Riverdale • Sandown • Sandwich • Shelburne • Somersworth • Squaw Cove • Stoddard • Sugar Hill • Tioga • Upper Coos • Washington • Waterloo • Whitefield • Wilton • Zealand

RHODE ISLAND: Bristol • Chatham • Exeter • Four Corners • Hardscrabble • Harwich • Hopkinton • King’s County • Kingston • Little Neck • Little Rest • Middletown • Mount Hope • Narragansett • Narragansett Pier • Newport • Newport County • North Kingstown • Peace Dale • Pottawomat • Providence • Purgatory • Rehoboth • South Kingstown • Tiverton • Warwick Neck • Washington County • Westerly • Wickford • Woonsocket

VERMONT: Addison • Bennington • Bristol • Charlotte • Fairlee • Fayetteville • Guildhall • Hardwick • Lincoln • Monkton • Montpelier • Moretown • Newbury • Newfane • Peru • Plymouth • Poultney • Richmond • Rutland • St. Johnsbury • Salisbury • South Fairlee • Sunderland • Swanton • West Newbury • Wildersburgh • Williston • Windham County

MOUNTAINS, ROCKS, AND CLIFFS: Abram’s Rock • Becky’s Ridge • Berkshires • Black Mountain • Carter Dome • Cherry Mountain • Fearing Hill • Franconia Notch • Green Mountains • Halfway Rock • Hockamock Head • Jack Siah's Rock • Joe English Hill • Kinsman Notch • Lovel Mountain • McSparran Hill • Mansfield Mountain • Mill Rock • Moses’ Rock • Monument Mountain • Moore Mountain • Mt. Chocorua • Mt. Madison • Mt. Moosilauke • Mt. Rhighi • Mt. Tom • Mt. Washington • Nancy’s Hill • Pinkham Notch • Profile Notch • Providence Hill • Rag Rock • Ridge Hill • Sampson’s Hill • Squaw Rock • Tempest Knob • Tower Hill • Wasque Bluff • The White Mountains

ISLANDS: Appledore • Apple Island • Block Island • Boon Island • Campobello • Clark’s Island • Conanicut Island • Cuttyhunk Isle • Deer Island • Duck Island • Elizabeth Islands • Fort Warren • George’s Island • Haskell Island • Isle of Rocks • Isles of Shoals • Lost Island • Maine Islands • Mason’s Island • Mctallak Island • Mount Desert Island • Mix's Mate • Plum Island • Ram Island • Thacher's Island

RIVERS LAKES AND PONDS: Allegash Lake • Amonoosuc River • Ameriscoggin River • Androscoggin River • Bash Bish Falls • Blackberry River • Black River • Pride Brook • Chapman Falls • Chaunceys Creek • Cape Pogc Pond • Carbuncle Pond • Cold Pond • Connecticut Lake • Connecticut River • Contoocook River • Coonanlesset Pond • Corn Pond • Dry River • Dyer Brook • Elbow Lake • Fifteen Miles Falls • Five-Mile River • Goochs Creek • Goose Fare Brook • Grand Lake • Grand Lake Stream • Green Harbor River • Housatonic River • Israel’s River • Kennebec River • Lake Champlain • Lake Charcogg-etc.-maugg • Lake Memphremagog • Lake Onata • Lake Umbagog • Lake Winnepesaukee • Lemon Fair River • Little River • Lost River • Marshfield River • Merrimac River • Metichawan Falls • Middlesex Canal • Moosehead Lake • Moosilauke River • Mopang Stream • Mystic River • Nancy’s Brook • New Haven and Northampton Canal • Pawtuxet River • Penobscot River • Petaquamscut River • Pontoosnc Lake • Quonectacut River • Rangely Lakes • River of Pines • Saco River • St. Lawrence River • Salmon River • Sandy River • Santuit Pond • Sasanoa River • Scargo Lake • Sebago Lake • South Sea • Sweet Waters Spring • Twin Lakes • Webster Lake • Weweantet River • Wookinoko River • Yamaska River • York River

BAYS AND HARBORS: Bay of Fundy • Block Island Sound • Boothbay Harbor • Boston Harbor • Buzzard’s Bay • Casco Bay • Hatchet Harbor • Loblolly Cove • Long Island Sound • Massachusetts Bay • Nantasket Road • Nartagansett Bay • Oakum Bay • Pamet Harbor

HEADLANDS CAPES AND POINTS: Boston Neck • Bristol Neck • Cape Ann • Fearing Neck • Gravelly Point • Monomoy • Point Judith • Seaconet Point • Skull Head



Contents:
PART ONE: FABULOUS YANKEES: I. YANKEE PEDDLERS AND TRICKSTERS:
Fabulous Yankee • Yankee Clown • Yankee Wits end Sages • Sharp Yankees • Village Store and Tavern humor • Practical Jokers: Josh Billings on Live Yankees • Factotum for the World • Yankees and Englishmen • Corn Cobs Twist Your Hair • Noble Yankee Race • Comic Yankee Servants • Captain Basil Hall and the Countryman • Road to Walpole • Provincial Phraseology and Hospitality • Yankee in London: Buying Gape-Seed • Yorkshireman of America • Yorkshire Stories • I’m Yorkshire • My Dog is Yorkshire, Too • Yorkshire • Pulling Some Good Ones • Yankee Trader Types • The Swapper • The Jobber • Peddler Peddler’s Progress • Tin Peddler • Peddler’s Reputation • Peddlers’ Tricks of the Trade • A Watch Trade • Razor-Strop Trade • Sam Tolman’s Bonnets • Peddler in Reverse • Gollywhopper’s Eggs • Barnum and the Cherry-Colored Cat • Raising the Wind • Grandma Willey’s Chair • A Deal in Timberland • Horse Jockeys: Tricks of Horses and Men • From Nags to Riches • Horse Had Two Faults • Evening the Score • Cribbing Horse • First-Rate Setter • Horse That Didn’t Look So Good • Reason for Sale • Willing Horses • Smart Merchants and Customers: Sam Temple’s Store: A Rhyming Advertisement • Cordwood • There’s Odds in Deacons • Deaconing • As Good as His Word • Power of Imagination • Draper and the Bible • Turning Water into Grog • Paying for the Cider • The Egg, the Darning-Needle, and the Treat • Paying for the Stolen Butter • Soap Cure • Stolen Cheese • Who Stole the Pork? • Cure for Shop-Lifting • Mending the Needle • Hoist with His Own Petard • Asking the Lord • Store Justice • Hazing New Clerks • Travelers and Taverners • Rival Coach Lines • A Good Trade • I’ll Thank You for It • Unwilling Guest • Outstaying His Welcome • Cape Cod Humor • Jesting Traveler • Projecting Oven • Squire and the Peddler • Borrowing a Horse • Profitable Violation • Escaping the Trap • Franklin and the Oysters • Franklin Forestalling Inquiry • Completing the Poem • Yankee and the Stolen Spoons • Shoe-Pegs Meigs • Practical Widlam • Biter Bit • Caught in His Own Trap • Hunter and the Dutchman • Filling the Bottle • Yankee Sell: Poking a Hat through a Ring • How Samuel Moses, Jr., Raised a Treat • Curing a Man of Stealing Wood • Piling the Wood • The Elder and the Rum • Doctor Hillman’s Prescription • Joe Marsh Taken In • Plupy: A New Hampshire Boy of the Sixties • Church Sociable • Cure for Warts • Lead the Old Blind Horse • Horse Trade • Ministers’ Visit • Greasing the Wheel • Making Up Poetry about the Fellows • Whacking Cat’s Head • Exhibition Day at School • Playing April Fools • Trading for a Cow • Getting Vaccinated • The Devil Is Dead • Kit Potter and the Fourteen Cats • Corpse That Talked • Diving for the Bean • Stone Soup • One Pea Soup • Price of a Dinner • Minister’s Revenge • Constable and the Pigs • Swearing Out the Balance • Little Rest Laughter

II. LOCAL CHARACTERS: “Characters” - Droll Yankees - Yankee Wit: Artemus Ward on New England • Yankeedom against the World • Yankee and the Stranger • A Great Little State • Iowan and the Vermonter • The Yankee and the Southerner • The Vermonter in Texas • Conservative Yankees • Exhuming the Remains • Bringing in the Log • Sylvester and John • How the Old Lady Beat John • Getting at the Right Tooth • Out of Bibles • Salt Water Yankees • The Seven Jurors and the Harbor of Hawaii • Ma’am Hackett’s Garden • How Squire Fearing Piloted the Sloop • Following the Wrong Gulls • Captain’s Hat • How Long from Port? • Counting the Children • Whalers’ Bastards • Captain Peleg’s Letter • Captain Eleazer’s Bulldog • The Captain’s Prescription • The Captain’s Shirts • Thar She Blows! • The Stammering Sailor • I’m His Man • Seagoing Coffin • She Sleeps Six • Cap’n Tibbett and the Body • Wreck’s a Wreck • A Long Wreck Hook for the Preacher • Anecdote Characteristic of Sailors • Yankee Preachers • Fisherman’s Reward • Prayer for Rain • Prayer for Wind • Hurrying Grace • Minister and Fish • The World, the Flesh, and the Devil • A Timely Text • The Rev. Mr. Bulkley’s Advice • The Missionary’s Success • Jonny-Cake under the Stove • The Camel and the Needle’s Eye • The Dominie and the Horse • Yankees and Indians • Indians and Rum • Wickhegan • When the Powder Grows • Head Work • Indian Taverns • A New Way to Make People Happy • Indian Justice • The Englishman with Two Heads • Justice Waban • Yankee Husbands and Wives • Abraham Underhill’s Wife • The Reformed Wife • The Will of the Lord • Thomas Hatch’s Courtship • Pulling the Rope • Don’t Hit That Post Again • Breaking the Pitcher • Rat or Mouse • The Old Couple and the Bear • Yankee Diligence • The Parsimonious Widower • Yankee Drolleries • The Secret of True Economy • Poor Butter • He Gave His Note • Selling the Dog • Jim Edwards’ Galluses and the Stump • Prohibition Whale Oil • Walking on the Water • He Didn’t Kick • The Wrong Man • Misfits • Getting More for His Money • Too Cold to Freeze • The Stupid Hired Man • Recognizing the Broom • Better than That • Borrowing the Saddle • A Cure for the Glanders • The Man from Monkton • Taunton’s Seasons • Jim Eldredge’s Old Mill • More Bacon • A Severe Punishment • The Thief’s Defense • Keeping Out the Deer • Not Bright • Chandler’s Thumb • Clagett and the Teamster • The Dancing Sheriff • Robinson and the Governor’s Sheep • Nignest the Fire • A Dirty Fellow • Too Late • The Medford Fisheries • Mr. Doe’s Brains • Bounding North Weymouth • Lone Wolves • No Eagle • An Honest Man • Clever Retorts and Enigmatic Remarks • Sleeping in Church • Eggs Is Eggs • Super Is Dead • Clock Oil • Without a Cow • Twenty-five Hour Day • Weather Predictions • Weather Lore • Winter before Last’s Snow • Dried Apple Trees • God and the New Hampshire Farmer • A Natural Death • Gallows Wit • An Indian’s Letter to His Friends • Some Kind of Rill • Kit Comstock’s Hair • Answering the Reproof • David Dunn’s Witticisms • Clever Retorts • On Slippery Places • None of Mine • Laying Up Treasures in Heaven • Painting the Meeting-House • The Yankee Joe Miller: Yankee Inventions • A New Use for Niagara • A Sharp Grocer • The Order of Their Going • Yankee Industry • Whittling without a Purpose • City Habits • The Ungallant Suitor • Saving of Fuel • A Couple of Reasons Too Many • Yankee Curiosity • Curing Yankee Inquisitiveness • Answering One Question by Asking Another • Yankee Laconics • Sharp Answers • Fined for Smoking • The Captain’s Pudding • A Long Reason • Old Age • Reckoning His Age • Out of Wives • Diploma Digging • Damaging the Engine • Addressing Cattle • The Yankee’s First Alligator • The Deacon’s Blunder • Lining Out the Hymn • The Minister’s Grace • Pills to Recover Strayed Cattle • Rain, Hail, and Snow • Road Directions • Ready for Either Side • Wind and Water • Asking a Man if He’s a Liar • The Farmer and the Beggar • He Might as Well Have Et • The Pilgrim Mothers • Asking Another • What the American Commander Said to His Men before the Battle of Bunker Hill • Odd Sticks • The Village Do-Nothing • Sacred and Profane • No Store for Him • The Lazy Shopkeeper • Grindstone Out of Cheese • Foony Gerrish • A Good Job of Measuring • A Fair Wage • The Clever Blacksmith • Too Good to Spoil • Boots and Shoes • For Knowing How • Save the Peavies • Captain Baxter • Old Man Abbott’s State • God Strike Me Down • Quite a Storm • Old Jim and the Wind • Sylvester, the Hay, and the Rain • A Letter from General Stark • Old Drew • The Walking Street-Thermometer • Measuring the Cold by Blankets • Weather Prophet • Ephraim Barber • Ungrateful Elisha • Ephraim Hazard’s Perpetual Motion Machine • Saving a Fuss • Timothy- Crumb’s Courtship • Anecdotes of Slaves • Tony and Cuff • Prime, Cuffee and Peter • Fighting for Liberty

III. STOUT FELLOWS AND HARD LIARS:
“Overplus of Expression” - ”I Came to New England Seeking Wonders” • Local Pride and Prejudice: Hyperbole into Yarn • Monstrosities of Mirth • A Yarn • An Hyperbole • A Bigger Story • Hard Lying • The Man Who Bottled Up the Thunder • The Man That Cut Bread So Fast with the Shoe-Knife • Bradley’s Ax • Sam Patch Turns Up Again • Strong Men • John Strong and the Bear • A Hunter’s Story • Copp’s Walk • Harding’s Prowess • Kicking a Potato Home • A Jug of Molasses • Stagers’ Feats • Stout Jeffrey • Jonas Lord • Jigger Johnson, River Boss • Old Sam Hewes, River Man • Measure of Speed • Fast Train • A Fast Horse • Beating the Rain Storm • Nantucket “Sleigh Ride” • Remarkable Hunting and Shooting • Sam Hyde’s Single Shot • Jonathan’s Hunting Excursion • The Vermont Nimrod • Captain Paddock’s Whale Iron • Sharp Shooting • Three Foxes with One Stone • A Gone Coon • The Double-Barreled Shotgun • The Crooked Gun • Hunter’s Luck • Singular Experiences • Old Town Tall Tales • The Cat with the Wooden Leg • Bringing in the Bear • Tagging a Deer • Tying a Knot in a Panther’s Tail • Duck Hunting Yarn • The Green Duck Hunter and the Live Decoys • Jotham Stories • Fisherman’s Luck • Grant’s Tame Trout • Catching Trout by Tickling • The Mink Story • Why I Never Shoot Bears • The Frozen Bass • Walking on Fish • Too Many Fish • Big Toe, Big Bass • Skike Fishing • The Man That Liked to Fish • A Gone Fish • Remarkable Animal Behavior • The Hawk Feather That Ate the Chicken Feathers • Grafting a Sheep Skin on a Horse • The Remarkable Rooster • Fiddling for the Wolves • Milking a She-Bear • The Boar That Hunted Bears • Lemmie and the Big Fellow in a Fur Coat • Trapping Bears with Rum • Local Wonders • Mosquitoes • The Mosquitoes with the Canvas Britches • New Hampshire Rock Farms • Rocky Soil • Lean Pigs • Poor Land • A Steep Field • The Fast Pumpkin • The Giant Pumpkin • The Size of Narragansett Huckleberries • The Doctor and the Muffins • The Huckleberry Jonny-Cake Smile • Giant Puddings • Norwich Puddings and New London Dumplings • The Rival Cooks • Cape Cod Wonders • Housatonic River Valley Wonders • A Hen Plucked by the Gale • Goshen Cold • Big Snow • Frozen Death • Fog Yarn • Fog and Fundy • Shingling Out onto the Fog • Overdoing It • Maine’s Woodland Terrors • The Tote-Road Shagamaw • Gazerium and Snydae • Gyascutus • The Come-at-a-Body


PART TWO: MYTHS, LEGENDS, AND TRADITIONS: I. WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD:
Providences and Prodigies - History versus Myth - Nature Faking - Ghost-Ridden and Devil-Doomed: Singular Occurrences • New Haven Specter Ship • Moodus Noises • Contemporary Accounts • An Interview • Windham Frogs • Great Ipswich Fright • Palatine Light • Dancing Mortar • Mysterious Creatures • Reverend Samuel Peters’ Contributions to the Natural History of Connecticut • Caterpillars and Wild Pigeons • The Whapperknocker • The Cuba • The Dew-Mink • The Humility • The Whippoorwill • Belied Snakes • Tree-Frogs • Cotton Mather’s Snake Stories • New England Sea-Serpent • Moby-Dick • Whistling Whale • Mr. Mittin’s Triton • Haunts and Specters • Harbor Boys of Block Island • The Screeching Woman • Legend of Apple Island • Lady in Black • Nix’s Mate • Watcher of the Isles of Shoals • Blue Rock of Chappaquiddick • Widlam • Black Bellamy’s Shipwreck • Whaling-Boat in the Sky • Devil-Doomed Sand-Man • Harry Main • Old Trickey • Ocean-Born Mary • Ghosts of Georges Bank • Ghost of Mrs. Sam Blood • Moosilauke’s Ghost Doctor • Tim Felt’s Ghost • Ghost of Hannah Mason • The Murdered Traveler • The Bridge That Wasn’t There • At the Sign of Sir Charles • Prophetic Curses • Chocorua’s Curse • Rogers’ Rangers and the Silver Image of St. Francis • Sack of St. Francis • The Disastrous Retreat • Legend of the White Deer of Onota • Miracles and Holy Legends • St. Elmo Sees Them Through • Joseph’s Boat • Mary’s Flower • Three Hinckley Roses • Miracle of the Ice •  Legend of the Bell of Saut St. Louis

II. THE POWERS OF DARKNESS: Monster or Gentleman? - Dancing to the Devil’s Fiddle: The Devil Is in It • Jonathan Moulton and the Devil • Jack-the-Ripper • The Devil and the Card-Players • Cheating the Devil • How Old Sarah Bunganuck Fought the Devil • The Loup-Garou • The Devil and the Loups-Garous • Why Purgatory Was Made • The Devil’s Hole • How the Black Horse Was Beaten • The Witch Is in It • Captain Paddock and Crook-Jaw • The Sea Witch of Billingsgate • The Merwoman and the Finback Whale • How Old Betty Booker Rode Skipper Perkins Down to York • Old Deb and Other Old Colony Witches • The Witch-Weaver • Tom Dunn’s Dance on Rag Rock • Killing the Witch • Old Meg • Granny Mott • Molly Bridget • The Witch Sheep • In Reality • In Romance • The Man Who Could Send Rats • The Man Who Made Weather • The Fatal Glass Eye

III. PLACE LORE: “A Local Habitation and a Name” - ”More Patient Almost of Anything than of Flatness” The Art of Naming Places • There Are No Peruvians in Peru • Yankee Flavor • Names of New England States • Nicknames of the New England States • Naming of Cape Cod • Why the White Mountains Are Called “White” • Names in the White Mountains • Christening of Vermont • South Kingstown, Rhode Island, Place Nicknames • Haunts of the Devil • Naming of Auburn • These Haddams • Which Dover? • Lakte Charcogg, Etc., Maugg • How Lexington in Old Kentucky Was Born • Origin of “Hoosic,” A Satire • After the Fact • Origin of the Name of Wickford • Point Judith • Mount Hope • Squantum • Moose Hillock or Moosilauke? • Lemon Fair River • Stories in Place-Names • Bride Brook • Dragon Point • Hatchet Harbor and Providence Hill • Purgatory • Wolf Bog • Hardscrabble • Abram’s Rock • Rhyme of the Elizabeth Islands • Devil’s Den • Corn Pond • Jack Siah’s Rock • Pomp’s Lot • Squaw Rock • Defiance • Joe Keiler’s Farm • Peru, MA • Bash-Bish • Mingo Beach • The Singing Beach • Old Orchard Beach • Boon Island • Mount Desert Island • The Maine Islands • Sea-Gull Cliffs • Hockamock Head • Bug Hollow • Coos • Nancy’s Brook • Moses’ Rock • Joe English Hill • Bungy-jar • Waterloo • Lost River • Peru, Vermont • Indian and Pseudo-Indian • Lovers’ Leap • The Canoe of the Two Sisters • Carbuncle Pond • Origin of Nantucket • Devil’s Bridge • Siren of Narragansett Bay • Legend of Scargo Lake • Santuit Pond • Bride of Winnepurkit • Legend of Sweet Waters • Spirit Profile of White Swan • Tragedy of Monument Mountain • Legends of the White Mountains • Great Flood • Great Carbuncle • Legend of the Old Man of the Mountains • Metallak Island • Squaw Cove • Local Color and Local Rivalry • How the Windsor Skipper Outwitted His Hartford Rivals • Ghost Train • Giant Kingfisher • Micah Rood Apples • Jemima Was Queer • The Cow and the Cotton Factory • Manager’s White Gloves • Newport “Gentlemen” and “Bullies” “Brats” and “Rats” • Narragansett Rhineinjun Bread versus Boston Brown Bread • TCrime and Punishment of Captain William Carter • Boston as Seen from New York • SS Pierce Pung • Why Boston Streets Are Crooked • Cape Cod Rivalries • How the Cranberry Came to Cape Cod • Scrabbletown • Provincetown and the Devil • How Provincetown Is Split • Why Provincetown Houses Are like Ships • Fishhouse Stories • Fishermen’s Races • Weymouth Herring • Secession in Abington • Philosopher’s Stone • Bugs That Ate Their Way Out of a Table • Luther Maddocks and His Whale • Rats and Cats of Haskell Island • The River That Ran Blood • Captain Clough and Marie Antoinette • Coon Cats and Rabbit Cats • How the Shoalers Walk and Stand • What the Shoalers Don’t Know • A Town Divided • Moving a Town down a Hill • Ephraim Wright and the Underground Railroad

IV. HISTORICAL TRADITIONS: Tradition and History - Bardic Tradition - Yankee as Hero: Legend - and Myth • Fables and Symbols • Priscilla and John Alden • Tradition • History • The Tinker and the Fencing-Master • The Angel of Hadley • Lovel and the Indians • Sarah Hanson’s Song • Cottç in Mather’s Advice to Ben Franklin • Old Put’s Wolf • Yankee Doodle • Boston Tea Party • The Young Rebels • Original Brother Jonathan • Loyal Tory at Hancock • Satisfied Redemptioner • Yarn-Beam Cannon • Skipper Ireson’s Ride • Mrs. Bailey’s Petticoat • John Adams Tries Ditching • Daniel Webster and the Scythe • Daniel Webster and the Woodchuck • The Sacred Codfish • Rogues, Eccentrics, and Heroes • Captain Kidd Legends in New England • Kidd in Narragansett • Kidd Hoaxes • Kidd’s Tomb • Kidd’s Ghost • Lambert’s Gold • Tom Cook, the Leveler • George White, Horse Thief • Dexter’s Profitable Blunders • Sam Hyde, Proverbial Liar • The Old Darnman • Old Leather Man • Crazy Lorenzo Dow • Johnny Appleseed’s Childhood in the Connecticut Valley • Paul Revere: A Hero in Search of a Legend • Exploits of Ethan Allen • His Legend • What He Said at Ticonderoga: A Variant • Hunting Exploits • Chastising Yorkers • He Eats Iron • A Conjurer by Passion • Ethan and the Olives • A Hero and a Hanging • Ethan and Fanny Wall • Drunk or Sober • Ethan and the White Horse • My name is Allen • Ethan Allen Crawford, Giant of the Hills • “Aye” Henry, Lumber Baron • Barnum’s Road to Riches • The Brick Man • It Pays to Advertise • To the Egress • John L. Sullivan, the Strong Boy of Boston • His Size and Strength • How He Knocked Out Jake Kilrain • Daniel Webster, Sportsman • The Enigma of Silent Cal • “You Got to Be Mighty Careful” • His Apparent Irrelevance • His Silence • His Laconic Style • “Kitty”: Yankee Pedagogue



PART THREE: BELIEFS AND CUSTOMS:
I. POWER OF FAITH: Evanescent Clues - The Power of Sympathy • Signs and Warnings • St. Elmo’s Fire • Death Warnings • The Death Watch • Telling the Bees • The Wraith in the Storm • The Girl in the Fog • The Black Newfoundland Dog • The Haunted Ship • The Cradle Will Rock • The Dead Ship of Harpswell • Rooster Talk • The Accusing Ghost • The Dark Day • Luck, Divination, and Conjuration • The Dream Line • Flower Oracles • Apple Divinations • Halfway Rock and Other Sacrifice Rocks • Sailor’s Superstitions • Lucky and Unlucky Ships’ Names • Ship Figureheads • They Talk about Fish • A Nose for Fish • Fish Lore • Say “Minister” • Passing the Curse • Clam Bake Ovens Do Not Bake Well Twice • Why the Flounder Has a Wry Mouth and Two Colors • Snake Lore • A Letter to the Rats • Conjuring Rats • Aunt Weed’s Rat Letter • Driving a Witch Out of the Soap • Shaking the Witches Off • The Fairies Who Didn’t Stay • Weather Lore • Signs and Seasons • Prognostics of the Weather • Signs in the Sea’s Rote • Cures • Simples and Benefits • Roots and Herbs • Tonics and Family Rites • Meetin’ Seed • Plantain • Snake Ball

II. THE FORCE OF CUSTOM: The Good Old Days - Co-operation and Ritual • Old New England Dishes • St. Pompion • Josh Billings on Pumpkin Pie • Cranberry Pie • Narragansett Jouny-Cake • Corn Dishes • Narragansett Fried Smelts and Broiled Eels • Nantucket Quabaugs • New England versus Manhattan Clam Chowder • Rhode Island Clainbakes • Josh Billings on the Briny Codfish • Daniel Webster’s Fish Chowder • Herring Sticks • Lobster Stew • Josh Billings en Baked Beans • Scootin’-Long-the-Shore • New England Boiled Dinner • Muslin Toat • Old Bachelor’s Doughnuts • Nantucket Wonders • Skully-Jo • “Biled Cider Apple Sass” • Salt Horse • Whaleship’s Menu • Flip • Lost Arts and Passing Institutions • Barnum Recalls the Good Old Days • Corn Lore • Bees, Change-Work, and Whangs • Raisings • The Cider-Mill • Sugaring Science • Well Digging • Building a Stone Wall • The Hired Man • Weaving and Spinning Lore • Samplers • Quilting • The Art of the Hooked Rng • How to Make a Birch Splint-Broom • The Horse and Buggy Age in New England • The Carriage Line • The Harness Line • Whip-Making • Sleigh Bells • Coast Traders • Bean’s Maine Hunting Shoe, Etc. • Ride and Tie • Sleighing Rules of the Road • Chebobbins • Stranger’s Fire • Pillow Bears and Feather Voyages • Filling Boots with Flaxseed • Pay • Powder-Horns • Jagger-Knives • Noggin and Piggin • Cat Holes • Boarding Around • Letter Writing • Visiting and Advertising Cards • Keeping Awake in Church • Deaconing the Psalm • The Meetinghouse Bell • Stove and Anti-Stove Factions • Disciplining the Congregation • Bundling • Courting-Sticks • Courting with Stones • Bride Stealing • The Devil’s Fiddle • Shift Marriages • Calendar Customs • Thanksgiving • Its History • Its Customs • Christmas Eve on Beacon Hill • Menin Jesu in Provincetown • Halloween • The Fourth of July • The First Forefather’s Day • Guy Fawkes’ Day • Nantucket Sheep Shearing • Town Meeting Day • Pastimes and Games • Chimney-Corner Story-Telling • The Debating Society • Sleigh Riding • Husking Bees or Frolics • Cattle Show • County Fair • Cockroach and Bedbug Match • The Gain • A Childish Pastime • Horse Chestnut Men • Fly Away, Jack • Smell Brimstone • I Languish • Hailey Over • Violet Fights • Statues • Old Witch • Hoist the Green Sail • Games of Boston Boys • Punk • The Locust • Coasting • Marbles • Kite-Flying • Tops • Stilting • Tip-Cat • Choosing Sides • Games of Nantucket Boys • Cracks and Squares • Pitching Penny Shells and Leadies • Kick Poke • Round Ball


PART. FOUR: WORD LORE: I. YANKEEISMS: Regionalism in Yankee Speech - Folk Speech and Speech Folklore Provincial Speech: Vermont Dialect Areas • The Yankee Twang • The Nasal Tone • An Odd Mixture • Ancient Pronunciation • Kentish Provincialisms in New England • Nantucket Pronunciation of the Points of the Compass • Contributions to the New England Vocabulary and Idiom • From Lowell’s Lexicon • Chiefly from Portsmouth • From Maine and New Hampshire • Stories in Words • The Baldwin Apple • The Bofat • The Cape Cod Cat • Cape Cod Turkey • “Cat” Words • Comfort Powders • A Dead Horse • Drail • Ear-Timers • Gallbuster • Heave and Haul • Herb Tea • Hubbub • Interval • Jonny-Cake • Kennebec Turkey • Killcow • The Minister’s Rib Factory • Mooncussin’ • Mud Time • Munching Drawer • The Pilgrims • P.I.’s and Frenchmen • Pot Luck • Pumpkin-Heads • The Sacred Cod • Schooner • Towner • Twitches • Twizzles • Wangan • Yankee • According to Reverend Gordon • According to Mencken • Names and Nicknames • Old Testament Names in New England • Providential Names • Girl’s Names • Double Christian Names • Portuguese American Names and Nicknames • Ships’ Names • Ships’ Names on Old Barns • ‘Sconset House Names • Poor Old Country Railroad • The Hub • Back Side and Bay Side

II. FOLK-SAY: Mythology in Folk Speech - Local Bywords and Proverbs • Salt of the Sea • Nantucket Nauticalisms • Varieties of Nantucket Wind and Weather • Nantucketisms • Nantucket Similes and Sayings • “As Mad As Tucker” • “As Weak As Annie Burrill’s Tea” • “As Bad As Old Skitzy” • “As Handy As Caleb’s Cheese” • “A Poor Gamaliel” • “You Haven’t Got Dinah Paddock To Deal With” • “Keeping Still Like Uncle Jimmy” • “No More Use For than Meader Had For His Teeth” • Yankee Eloquence • Wit in Yankee Speech • Humor in Yankee Speech • Miscellany • A Vermont “Idioticon” • Seamen’s Sermon • A ‘Sconseter’s Will • Proverbs and Sayings • Old English Proverbs • The Sayings of Poor Ned • Aphorisms of Manners • Hi’s Got Some Great Sayings • Famous Sayings and Allusions • Cold Roast Boston • Stories in Bywords • Better Have Paid Your Washwoman • Boston Folks Are Full of Notions • Combed with a Hatchel • Eighteen Hundred and Freeze to Death • Kilroy Was Here • Mind Your Orts • Oh, Rinehart! • Pick Up Your Feet • “Sock Saunders” Sayings


PART FIVE: SONGS AND RHYMES I. BALLADS AND SONGS: Yankee Songs and Singers - Songs of The Sea and The Woods • Old and New England • Cape Ann • Old Colony Times • Over There • Away Down East • Yankee Manufactures • Hymns of Faith and Freedom • Chester • Free America • Ballad of the Tea Party • The Boston Tea Tax • The Ballad of Bunker Hill • Riflemen’s Song at Bennington • The Constitution and the Guerriere Ballads • The Miller’s Three Sons • Mary of the Wild Moor • The Shining Dagger • Jim Fisk • The Brookfield Murder • The Pesky Sarpent • Michigania • No, Never, No • Sea Songs and Chanteys • The Boston Come-All-Ye • Blow, Boys, Blow • Reuben Renzo • Cape Cod Shanty • The Mermaid • Lumberjack Songs and Ballads • The Lumberman’s Alphabet • Jack Haggerty, or the Flat River Girl • The Lumberman’s Life • Canada I O • Nursery and Humorous Songs • Nantucket Lullaby • The Frog in the Spring • Birds’ Courting Song • The Little Pig • Johnny Sands • Old Grimes • Derby Ram • The Herring Song • The Old Man Who Lived in the Wood • The Lone Fish-Ball • The College Version • The History of the Song • Game and Dance Songs • Pompey • Old Woman All Skin and Bone • Quaker’s Courtship • Hey, Betty Martin! • Devil’s Dream • The Merry Dance • Wild Goose Chase

II. RHYMES AND JINGLES: Children’s Rhymes - Local Rhymes: Play Rhymes • Counting-Out Rhymes • Ball-Bouncing Rhymes • Rope-Skipping Rhymes • Tickling Rhymes • Children’s Taunts • Rhymes for Occasions • Incantations and Formula • The Weather • The Winds • Campaign Rhymes • Sailors’ Rhymes • For Occasions • Rules of the Road, At Sea


Names from the index: John Adams • Bronson Alcott • John Alden • Rev. Timothy Alden • Thomas Bailey Aldrich • Ethan Allen • Ira Allen • Nathaniel Ames • John Appleseed • John Chapman • Gabriel Archer • Bill Arp • Charles Henry Smith • James Atwood • John Osborne Austin • Tony Aveliar • Rev. Braman Ayers • Anna Bailey • Remember Baker • Tuggie Bannocks • Ephraim Barber • John Warner Barber • Joel Barlow • David L Barnes • Mary Elizabeth Barnicle • P T Barnum • Forrest Barrett • Phillips Barry • John Russell Bartlett • Capt. William Baxter • Hon. Elias S Beals • L L Bean • Dr Henry Ward Beecher • Black Bellamy • Earl of Bellomont • Stephen Vincent Benet • Mrs Fanny D Bergen • Hosea Biglow • Josh Billings - Henry Wheeler Shaw • William Billings • Mrs Sam Blood • Betty Booker • Deborah Borden (Burden) - Old Deb • John Collins Bossidy • B A Botkin • Gov. William Bradford • Stephen Bradley • Rev Charles T Brooks • Van Wyck Brooks • Crean Brush • William Cullen Bryant • Rev. Mr Bulkley • Sarah Bunganuck • Richard Burbeck • Dr Andrew Burnaby • Professor James D Butler • Joseph Buzzell • Cornelius Campbell • Raymond R Camp • Parson Carey • James M Carpenter • Thomas Carson • Captain William Carter • Jacques Cartier • Frederic G Cassidy • Robert Chambers • John Chapmen • Mary Ellen Chase • Francis James Child • Mrs Lydia Maria Francis Child • Wyseman Clagett • Grover Cleveland • Captain Samuel Clough • William Coddington • Robert P Tristram • Joanna Carver Colcord • Rev. Robert Collyer • Kit Comstock • Benjamin Congdon • Tom Cook • Calvin Coolidge • Grace Coolidge • Thomas Crafts Jr • Charles Edward Crane • Abel Crawford • Ethan Allen Crawford • Captain Joseph Crocker • Davy Crockett • Andrew Crosby • Samuel McChord Crothers • Timothy Crumb • Captain Clifford Curtis • Richard H Dana • Rev. Mr Davenport • Samuel de Champlain • Major Hertel de Rouville • Timothy Dexter • Raymond Dickens • Jeremiah Digges • Black Dinah • J Frank Dobie • Richard M Dorson • Lorenzo Dow • Jack Downing • Samuel Adams Drake • Samuel G Drake • Gov. Joseph Dudley • David Dunn • Thomas Dunn • Bela Dyer • Alice Morse Earle • Walter Prichard Eaton • Isaac Edwards • Moll Ellis • Joe Enos • Manuel Enos • Richard Falley • Joseph C Farnham • Joseph Felt • Darby Field • Dorothy Canfield Fisher • John Fiske • James Fisk, Jr • Elizabeth Fitch • Benjamin Franklin • Mrs. Robert Frost • Margaret Fuller • Samuel Goodrich • Captain Gosnold • R. E. Gould • Marjorie Barstow Greenbie • John Gyles • Happy Hale • Nathan Hale • Thomas Chandler Halihurton • Goody Hallett • Sarah Hanson • Susan Hanson • Stephen Harding • Marion Harland • Sam Hart • Thomas Hatch • Caroline Hazard • Ephraim hazard • Jonathan N Hazard • Rowland Hazard • (Stout”) Geoffrey Hazard • Sylvester Hazard • Thomas B Hazard • Thomas B. (Nailer Tom) Hazard • Thomas B Hazard • Thomas Robinson Hazard • Franklin H Head • Rev. John Gottlieb Heckewelder • J E (‘Aye”) Henry • Sam Hewes • Hiawatha • George Handel (“Yankee”) Hill • Nathaniel Hobart • Stewart H Holbrook • Oliver Wendell Holmes • John Horton • Rev. Mr. Hosmer • John Camden Hotten • Jane E Howard • John Tasker Howard • William Dean Howells • Frank Howland • Rev. William Hubbard • Hutchinson Family • Governor Thomas Hutchinson • Sam Hyde • Andrew Jackson • George Pullen Jackson • George Stuyvesant Jackson • Henry James • Burges Johnson • Clifton Johnson • Jigger Johnson • Melville Johnson • Mrs. Clifton Johnson • John Josselyn • “Father” Robert Kemp • Robert Kempt • Edward Augustus Kendall • Richard G Kendall • Capt. Kidd • Jake Kilrain • Joe King • Thomas Starr King • George Lyman Kittredge • A. H Krappe • George Philip Krapp • Hans Kurath • Captain Lantberton • George Martin Lane • Lucy Larcom • Sam Lawson • John Ledyard • Prosper Leffingwell • Joseph C Lincoln • Eloise Hubbard Linscott • Reverend S. T Livermore • Alan Lomax • John A Lomax • Jonas Lord • C. Grant Loomis • James Russell Lowell • John Livingston Lowes • Percy MacKayo • Luther Maddocks • Harry Main • Captain Marryat • Hannah Mason • James R Masterson • Cotton Mather • Increase Mather • Reverend Samuel MaCher • Denis McClure • Catherine McGinn • Herman Melville • Reverend Joseph Metcalfe • Edwin Valentine Mitchell • Nathaniel Morton • Captain Mosely • Granny Mott • Jonathan Moulton • Priscilla Mullins • Hon. Lonson Nash • Negroes • Benny Nichols • Debby Nichols • Reverend Seth Noble • Charles Eliot Norton • Jack O’Donnell • Frederick L Olmstead • Harrison Gray Otis • James Otis • Captain Ichabod Paddock • Theophilus Parsons • Sam Patch • Rev. Samuel Peters • Col. Benjamin Pickman • James Pierpont • Reverend John Pierpont • Pocahontas • Ernest Poole • Elisha R Potter • Colonel William Prescott • Isaiah Preston • Reverend Thomas Prince • General Israel (“Old Put”) Putnam • John Randolph • Marion Nicholl Rawson • Simon Ray • David Redding • Paul Revere • Elizabeth Reynard • Captain Richard Rich • Shebnah Rich • Rip Van Winkle • Delilah Roach • Andrew Robinson • Gov William Robinson • Kit Robinson • Moses Robinson • Rowland Robinson • William T Robinson • Tom Rodman • robert Rogers • Thomas Rogers • Micah Rood • Chepa Rose • George R Russell • Sock Saunders • Dorothy Scarborough • Henry Rose Schoolcraft • Capt. Martin Scott • Samuel Sewall • Gardner Shaw • Nathaniel Shaw • Jonathan Sherman • Mercy Short • Dr Shuckburgh • Sam Slick • Capt John Smith • Seba Smith • Capt. Southack • Sigmund Spaeth • Jacob Spalding • Sammy Sprig • Caleb Stark • Gen John Stark • Molly Stark • Bessie Powers Stevens • Charles Stevens • George R Stewart • Eb Stiles • Athanasius Stoddard • Benjamin Storer • John Strong • Edith B Sturgis • John L Sullivan • Jennette Tandy • Arthur Wilson Tarbell • Isaac Taylor • Jonathan Tayntor • Edward Teach (Blackbeard) • Sam Temple • Isaiah Thomas • Robert B Thomas • Seth Thomas • Capt Joseph Thompson • Dr Isaac S Thompson • Harold W Thompson • Zadock Thompson • Henry D Thoreau • Sam Tolman • Jonathan Trumbull • Thomas Tucker • Royall Tyler • Abraham Underhill • Rev. Charles W Upham • George Van Dyke • Ola G Veazie • Elizabeth Vergoose • A Hyatt Verill • Mary Heaton Vorse • Thomas Waban • Tom Walker • Fanny Wall • Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne) • Charles Dudley Warner • Seth Warner • Joseph Warren • Fletcher Webster • Noah Webster • Dixon Wecter • Abigail Weed • John Welch • Margaret Wesson (Old Meg) • Florence Wheeler • William A Wheeler • George White • Rev Henry White • John G Whittier • Elias Wilbour • Jemima Wilkinson • Abiel Williams • Rev John Williams • Roger Williams • Imogene Wolcott • Frost Woodhull • Elizabeth Mary Wright • Ephraim Wright
Subjects from the book: Alewives • Alligators • Almanacs • Anecdotes • Animal comparisons • Apples • April Fool's Day • Barns • Bass • Bay Psalm Book • Beans • Bears • Beaufets • Bees • Beliefs • Bells • Bible • Birds and fowl • Blackfish • Blacksmiths • Blessed Virgin • Bluefish • blue laws • Blue Law State • Boston Tea Party • Brahmins • Bride stealing • Bridges • Brown bread • Bullpout • Bulls • Bundling • Buried treasure • Calendar Isles • Canada • Candlemas Day • Carbuncles • Cards • Cats • Cattle • Chores • clam Chowder • Christmas • Churches • Civil War • Clams • Clergy • Clocks • Cod • Codfish aristocracy • Conjuration • Connecticut Clockmakers • Corn dishes • Courtship • Cures • Curses • Customs • Dancing • Death warnings and omens • Dentists • Devils • Divination • Divining rods • Doctors • Dogs • Dreams • Dutch • Eccentrics • England • Epitaphs • Fables • Fairies • Fairs • Farmers • Fiddlers • Finns • Fish • Fishermen • Flax • Flounder • Flowers • Folk etymology • Folk metaphor • Forefathers' Day • Fort Chambly • Foxes • Frenchmen • Freestone State • French and Indian War • Frogs • Frost-fish • Gam • Games • Ghosts • Indian Giant • Goddams • Goffe • Graveyards • Great carbuncle • Guy Fawkes' Day • Halifax • Halloween • Hangings • Heroes • Hired man • Hooked rugs • Hoosic • Horses • Horse trading • Huckleberries • Hunters • Hyperbole • Indians • Insects • Irishmen • Jonathanisms • Killcow • Kill Devil • Landlords • Law officers • Lawyers • Legends • Battle of Lexington • Liars • "Lining out" • Liqour • Lumbering • Luck • Mariners' Club • Marriage • Mass delusion and hysteria • Mermaids • Millers • Mink • Miracles • Moon • Mooncussers • Moosehillock • Munching drawer • Murdered travelers • Mythical animals and birds: come-at-a-body; cuba; dewmink; ding-ball; gazerium; gyascutus; humility; Little Isaac; rasor-shins; sole-o'-your-foot; shagamaw; skike; snydae; whapper-knocker; will-am-alone • Mythology • Negroes • Nocake • Odd Sticks • Old Colony Club • Old Man of the Mountains • Old Put • Panthers • Peddlers • Pies • Pilgrims • Pirates • Place-name stories • Plum pudding voyage • Politics • Poodic • Practical jokers • Prodigies • Pronunciation, Yankee • Proverbs • Puritans • Quahogs • Quakers • Quarterboards • Quilting • Races • Raggies • Railroads • Raisings • Rhymes • Royal society • Rural locutions • Sabbath • Sacred cod • Sailors • Salt horse • Scotchmen • Scrabbletown • Scrimshaw • Sea• Sea serpents • Sermons • Shad • Shearing • Sheep • Ship figureheads • Ships and boats: cats; clipper; frigate; packet; schooner; snow • Ships phantom • Shoemakers • Shoes • Shotting • Signs and Warnings • Singing Beach • Skimmerton • Skippers • Skully-jo • Slaves • Sleigh riding • Smuggling • Snakes • Soap • Stage coaches • Stammering • Storekeepers • Supernatural phenomena: accusing ghosts; devils; ghost trains; haunted houses; haunted ships; haunts and specters; miracles; witches; storm-raising witches; wizards; wraiths • Superstitions • Swine • Sympton books • Sysiphean labor • Tall Talk • Tautog • Taverns • Tonics • Trade • Tradition • Travelers • Tritons • Underground railroad • Warnings • War of 1812 • Warts • Weather: hail; fog; predictions; rain; rhymes; snow; storms; thunder; vanes; wind • Whales • Whipping post • White Deer • Wigs • Yankee: against the world; Englishmen; Indians; Southerner; stolen spoons; hero; characters; clown; comic; conservative; curiosity; diligence; droll; husbands and wives; industry; laconics; land; nasal tone; pedagogue; peddlers and tricksters; preachers; salt water; servants; twang; wits and sages




















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