THE BIG BEAR OF ARKANSAS, 13
By T. B. THORPE, Esq. of Louisiana.

JONES'S FIGHT, 32
A Story of Kentucky—By an Alabamian.

THE GREAT KALAMAZOO HUNT, 42
A Story of Michigan—by a New-Yorker.

THAT BIG DOG FIGHT AT MYERS'S, 54
A Story of Mississippi—By a Mississippian.

HOW SIMON SUGGS “RAISED JACK,” 62
A Story of Georgia—By an Alabamian.

SWALLOWING AN OYSTER ALIVE, 80
A Story of Illinois—By a Missourian.

A TEXAN JOKER “IN A TIGHT PLACE,” 87
A Story of that Ilk—By an Editor.

BILLY WARRICK'S COURTSHIP AND WEDDING, 90
A Story of the “Old North State”—By a County Court Lawyer.

A BULLY BOAT AND A BRAG CAPTAIN, 106
A Story of Steamboat Life on the Mississippi—By SOL. SMITH.

LETTER FROM BILLY PATTERSON HIMSELF, 115
“Who hit Billy Patterson?”

A SWIM FOR A DEER, 118
A Story of Mississippi—By the “Turkey Runner.”

CHUNKEY'S FIGHT WITH THE PANTHERS, 128
A thrilling Hunting Adventure in Mississippi.

A YANKEE THAT COULDN'T TALK SPANISH, 140
By JOHN A. STUART, Esq. of South Carolina.

“OLD SENSE,” OF ARKANSAS, 143
By “N” of that .

STONE STOUT, OF LOUISANA, 147
By Thorpe and of the

LIFE AND MANNERS IN ARKANSAS, 154
By an of a

ANECDOTES OF THE ARKANSAS , 159
By a

ALLEN, OF MISSOURI, 164

PULLING TEETH IN MISSISSIPPI, 167
By Uncle Johnny.

THE WAY “” SHADDOCK “SCARED OF A ,” 175

COUSIN SALLY , 178
A legal , in the “Old ”