FRONTIER HUMOR IN VERSE, PROSE AND PICTURE. BY PALMER COX, AUTHOR OF “QUEER PEOPLE,” “THE BROWNIES,” ETC., ETC. ILLUSTRATED. EDGEWOOD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1889, by HUBBARD BROS., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C. [Illustration: COMIC YARNS IN VERSE, PROSE AND PICTURE By PALMER COX AUTHOR OF QUEER PEOPLE, THE BROWNIES, ETC., ETC.] PUBLISHERS’ PREFACE. Not only is truth stranger than fiction, but it is funnier also. Just as some men have no eye for colors, but are color blind; so some men have no eye for fun, but are fun blind. Happy is the man who can see the humor which bubbles up in daily life; doubly happy he who, having seen, can tell the fun to others and so spread the glad contagion of a laugh; but thrice happy is the man who, having seen, can tell the fun; and having told, can picture it for others’ eyes and so roll on the rollicking humor, for the brightening of a world already far too sad. Palmer Cox is one who sees, and tells, and pictures all the fun within his reach, as this volume of Frontier Humor will certainly attest. TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE AH TIE—THAT DEADLY PIE, 17 NEW YEAR’S CALLERS, 21 SCENES ON THE SIDEWALK, 26 SAM PATTERSON’S BALLOON, 31 MY CANINE, 53 JIM DUDLEY’S FLIGHT, 56 TRIALS OF THE FARMER, 67 A CUNNING DODGE 69 A TERRIBLE TAKE IN, 73 A FAMILY JAR, 78 THE ROD OF CORRECTION, 85 GONE FROM HIS GAZE, 89 ST. PATRICK’S DAY, 91 THE CONTENTED FROG, 97 ALL FOOLS’ DAY, 103 FINDING A HORSE-SHOE, 107 AN EVENING WITH SCIENTISTS, 117 OUR TABLE GIRL, 120 AN OLD WOMAN IN PERIL, 122 FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE, 128 ODE ON A BUMBLE-BEE, 131 DUDLEY AND THE GREASED PIG, 135 CORA LEE, 156 A BRILLIANT FORENSIC EFFORT, 162 VISITING A SCHOOL, 169 THE REJECTED SUITOR, 171