Smuggler Tom Outwits Customs in Tin Cart Tale
The letter-writer relays a comic yarn about Tom G. a famed smuggler. Officers raid his hides, trap him in a tin cart stuffed with rags and notions. Tom tips the cart, traps an officer inside, then barrels through past logs and tools as neighbors block the road in a farcical pursuit.
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Lincoln
Matanawcock
Bangor
Betty Fair
Tom
Bolk
Custom House
Tor
Jehu
Yorick
Swadowing
Longfellow
Boniface
Gabon
A Restoration Era Courtship and a Protector’s Dismay
A tale set in Cromwell's era follows Jeremiah White, Cambridge fellow and preacher to the council, as he courts a lady’s maid amid a court wary of Puritan cant. Cromwell discovers the pursuit, but White secures a marriage with the woman in the presence of the Protector, who gives a £500 dowry, while Mrs White later confirms the tale. White outlives the Restoration, dying in 1707 aged seventy eight.
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Jeremiah
Wivite
Trinity College
Cambridge
White
Council of State
Olivier
Jerry White
Indies
Oliver
Jerry
Frances
Hussy
Abigail
Bae
Ace
Charles FL
Dancing at the Buona Visita wedding
A disorderly Civil War era tale describes Pat O'Rouke and companions seeking to attend a wedding dance. General Wool refuses permission to leave camp. Illness prompts a ruse to carry Pat to the hospital, enabling a secret escape to join the festivities.
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Tala
Mississippi
Buona
Ned Sanders
Tom Bertha
Pat O’rouke
General Woot
Yount
Wool
Pat
Haspfis
Temperance tale ends in a dark cooling joke
In a Mississippi river city a jovial hotel publican succumbs to drink and dies. His sober friends, packing him in ice for his absent wife, drift into a last revel. They stage a mock wake with juleps and ice, only to trap themselves when a servant Sam returns with the ice tub. They confront a hidden dark figure and learn the joke ends with a cautionary temperance turn.
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Mississippi River
Sily
Bill
Sam
Stephen
Harmmer
Gemmen
USA
Sons of Temperance
Hlorses Somabimnes
Hen ry Snyder and the Mill Trial on Ti a Mountain
In Western Virginia the Dutch settlers Henry Snyder and brothers George and Jakob Fulwiler clash over a mill. Snyder, deranged yet playful, stages a mock trial from a throne, judging his rivals with absurd questions about tolls water and stones. The farcical scene ends with a sentence about to shear sheep.
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George
Jaku Fulwhler
Hen Snyder
Heaven
Hell
Fulchlers
George Fulwiler
Fulwiler
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Satan the Fisherman and the minister's observation
An observer on the wharf recalls Satan as a fisherman, debating bait and fish with a boat master. The tale likens the sailor’s cunning to sin, noting the trader’s patience and a silent, grave moment when someone nearby is recognized as a minister.
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