Ben Brierley: Ab-o'th'-Yate in Yankeeland. (original) (raw)
DEDICATION
T
O SAMUEL GRADWELL, ESQ.,
T
HE COMPANION OF MY FIRSTTRIP TO AMERICA,
T
HIS BOOK I GRATEFULLYINSCRIBE.
THE AUTHOR.
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FIRST TRIP, 1880.
CONTENTS:
CHAPTER I.
The Voyage Out
CHAPTER II.
Ab on Storms and other things.�His First Letter to his Wife
CHAPTER III.
A Yankee done "slick."�Ab's Second Letter
CHAPTER IV.
New York and New Yorkers. � Ab's Third Letter to his Wife
CHAPTER V.
A City of the Dead
CHAPTER VI.
On the way to Niagara.�Ab's Fourth Letter to his Wife
CHAPTER VII.
Ab's Fourth Letter to his Wife Continued � At the Great Falls
CHAPTER VIII.
Ab's Fifth Letter to his Wife.�Whiteweshin' a Nigger
CHAPTER IX.
Ab's Fifth Letter to his Wife Continued. "Miss Kitties," and Rapids
CHAPTER X.
An Old Battlefield
CHAPTER XI.
An Indian Village
CHAPTER XII.
Ab's Sixth Letter to his Wife.�Lost and Left
CHAPTER XIII.
Ab's Seventh Letter to his Wife.�Yankee Lads and Lasses
CHAPTER XIV.
Ab's Seventh Letter Continued.�"Uncle George" and Decoration Day
CHAPTER XV.
Ab's Eighth and Last Letter to his Wife.�The Quaker City
CHAPTER XVI.
Ab's Eighth Letter Continued.�In the Adirondack Region
CHAPTER XVII.
And Conclusion of First Trip.�Homeward Bound
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SECOND TRIP, 1884.
CHAPTER I.
A Lively Time on the Atlantic
CHAPTER II.
New York
CHAPTER III.
American Progress
CHAPTER IV.
American Feeling towards England
CHAPTER V.
A Human Cattle Market�A Whit-Monday on the Hudson.
CHAPTER VI.
American Hospitality
CHAPTER VII.
International Holiday�A Cure for Bad Trade
CHAPTER VIII.
On the Trail of the War Path
CHAPTER IX.
"Cooling Off."�Arrested as Dynamitards
CHAPTER X.
The Garden of America
CHAPTER XI.
How Englishmen have Risen in America
CHAPTER XII.
Concluding Notes
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