In 1835 Thomas Chandler Haliburton introduced Samuel Slick of Slicksville, Connecticut, into the pages of the Novascotian in order to awaken his fellow citizens to the economic opportunities of their province. From this Halifax newspaper trotted out the Connecticut Yankee, manufacturer and seller of clocks, with his original dialect and unique comic vision, to become the chief character in three Series of The Clockmaker published between 1836 and 1840.
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- C813/.3
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 20
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- 9780773573826 0886292123
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- PS8515.A38
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- C5 1995eb
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- Canada
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Frontispiece 5
- Abbreviations 10
- Foreword 12
- Editor's Preface 14
- Editor's Introduction 18
- Illustration: Map of Eastern Seaboard 104
- Illustration: Map of the Maritimes 106
- The Clockmaker, Series One 108
- Illustration: Title-page of Howe Edition 109
- Table of Contents 110
- Slick's Letter 112
- The Trotting Horse 115
- The Clock Maker 120
- The Silent Girls 124
- Conversations At The River Philip 128
- Justice Pettifog 132
- Anecdotes 136
- Go Ahead 139
- The Preacher That Wandered From His Text 144
- Yankee Eating And Horse Feeding 150
- The Road To A Woman's Heart—The Broken Heart 156
- Cumberland Oysters Produce Melancholy Forebodings 161
- The American Eagle 167
- The Clockmaker's Opinion Of Halifax 174
- Sayings And Doings In Cumberland 181
- The Dancing Master Abroad 186
- Mr. Slick's Opinion Of The British 192
- A Yankee Handle For A Halifax Blade 199
- The Grahamite, And The Irish Pilot 206
- The Clockmaker Quilts A Blue-Nose 213
- Sister Sall's Courtship 219
- Setting Up For Governor 225
- A Cure For Conceit 234
- The Blowin Time 240
- Father John O'Shaughnessy 247
- Taming A Shrew 254
- The Minister's Horn Mug 260
- The White Nigger 267
- Fire In The Dairy 273
- A Body Without A Head 279
- A Tale Of Bunker's Hill 285
- Gulling A Blue Nose 291
- Too Many Irons In The Fire 297
- Windsor And The Far West 305
- The Clockmaker, Series Two 310
- Illustration: Title-page of Howe-Bentley Issue of First Edition 311
- Table of Contents 312
- The Meeting 315
- The Voluntary System 319
- Training A Carriboo 333
- Nick Bradshaw 341
- Travelling In America 354
- Elective Councils 365
- Slavery 373
- Talking Latin 384
- The Snow Wreath 397
- The Talisman 406
- Italian Paintings 415
- Shampooing The English 424
- Putting A Foot In It 434
- English Aristocracy And Yankee Mobocracy 443
- The Confessions Of A Deposed Minister 455
- Canadian Politics 464
- A Cure For Smuggling 475
- Taking Off The Factory Ladies 484
- The Schoolmaster Abroad 496
- The Wrong Room 506
- Finding A Mare's Nest 516
- Keeping Up The Steam 525
- The Clockmaker's Parting Advice 536
- The Clockmaker, Series Three 546
- Illustration: Title-page of First Issue of First Edition 547
- Table of Contents 548
- The Duke Of Kent's Lodge 550
- Playing A Card 558
- Behind The Scenes 569
- The Black Brother 579
- The Great Unknown 587
- Snubbing A Snob 599
- Patriotism, Or The Two Shears's 609
- Too Knowing By Half 618
- Matrimony 626
- The Wooden Horse 636
- The Bad Shilling 647
- Trading In Bed 659
- Knowing The Soundings, Or Polly Coffin's Sandhole 671
- An Old Friend With A New Face 682
- The Unburied One 691
- Definition Of A Gentleman 700
- Looking Up 710
- The Old Minister 719
- The Barrel Without Hoops 730
- Facing A Woman 741
- The Attaché 753
- Explanatory Notes 764
- Bibliographical Description of Copy-texts 858
- Published Versions of the Text 878
- Emendations in Copy-texts 928
- Line-end Hyphenated Compounds in Copy-texts 946
- Line-end Hyphenated Compounds in CEECT Edition 950
- Historical Collation 954
- Appendix: Advertisement, First Edition 974