Last Dollar of Skeleton Gulch Miner Find Sparks Gold Rush
Zeke Jolmann and Frank Strong uncover a vein of eight to ten dollar gold ore in Skeleton Gulch and invite the camp to fund a stamp mill. A con men scheme with a barroom setup collapses as a monkey dumps gold dust sacks from a rope ladder cache, revealing ten pounds per sack and a hidden gold cache.
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Skeleton Gulch
Zeke Jolmann
Frank Strong
Zeke
Frank
Lone Star
Yaas
Josh Ford
Noah
Mount Ararat
Tom
Harry
Cme
Geome
Montis
Mr. Jones
Idaho
Clift Carson
Mose
Mrr. Jones
Liewsomever
Hades
Diggings
Joe
Felf
Ind
Terra Firma
Johnny
Uncle Abes Hunting Cat and a Tennessee Rabbit Hunt
A humorous reminiscence by Dan De Quille recounts training a stump-tailed cat to hunt rabbits in early Tennessee. The storyteller describes disguising the cat with a rabbit head and ears, the fun of rabbit drives, clashes with Jackman’s cat, and a comical chase ending with a wild tale of a rabbit up a tree and an exaggerated devil story among neighbors.
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Uncle Abe
Dan DE Quille
William Wright
Tennessee
Bledsoe County
Sequatchie
Pikeville
Bledsoe
Jackman
Squire Baxter
Ole Jackman
Guy Jackman
Cate
Darky
Ephraim
Eph
America
Old- Eph
Old Eph
Debbie
Baxter
Breddren
Cat
Rich Christmas Cakes From a Historic Recipe
A vintage single page recipe presents two Christmas cake methods. The first creates a rich fruit cake with butter, flour, raisins, sultanas, currants, mixed peel, water, whisky, baking powder, and a slow bake. The second, an inexpensive cake, uses flour, currants, raisins, butter, sugar, eggs, treacle, spice, soda, milk, and rapid mixing, baked for one and a half to two hours.
Teacher and pupil joke on creditors and home absence
A teacher asks what a creditor is and a quick reply from a young pupil reframes the concept as a man told that his father is not at home. The quip uses wordplay to highlight misunderstanding of the term creditor.
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Jones
Celicium
Mart
Jim
Tre
Goel
Yoyself
Eran
Sherif
Rockies
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Howard Dwight Smiley
Str. Jones
Ayamet
Lake Fotice
Paris
Geller
Dick Smith
Dogo
van Janes
Monkey
Pacific Slope
Virginia City
Nevada
Mark Twain
Twain
Dan
Virginia
United States
Robert Louis Stevenson
Jim Throng
Scorch Meyer
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