Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs
Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with Taking the Census and Other Alabama Sketches
1st Edition
Published on 14. January 2015
272 pages
978-0-8173-8915-4 (ISBN)
Description
Originally published in 1845, Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs is a series of sketches written in part to parody some the campaign literature of the era. The character, Simon Suggs, with his motto, "e,it is good to be shifty in a new country,"e, fully incarnates a backwoods version of the national archetypes now know as the confidence man, the grafter, the professional flim-flam artist supremely skilled in the arts by which a man gets along in the world. This classic volume of good humor is set in the rough-and-tumble world of frontier life and politics.
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Johnson Jones Hooper
Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs
Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers : Together with ""Taking the Census"" and Other Alabama Sketches
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09/1993
The University of Alabama Press
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction by Johanna Nicol Shields
- Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs
- 1. Introduction-Simon Plays the "Snatch" Game
- 2. Simon Gets a "Soft Snap" Out of His Daddy
- 3. Simon Speculates
- 4. Simon Starts Forth to Fight the "Tiger," and Falls in with a Candidate Whom He "Does" to a Cracklin'
- 5. Simon Fights "the Tiger" and Gets Whipped-But Comes Out Not Much the "Worse for Wear
- 6. Simon Speculates Again
- 7. Simon Becomes Captain
- 8. Captain Suggs and Lieutenant Snipes "Court-Martial" Mrs. Haycock
- 9. The "Tallapoosy Vollantares" Meet the Enemy
- 10. The Captain Attends a Camp-Meeting
- 11. The Captain Is Arraigned before "A Jury of His Country
- 12. Conclusion-Autographic Letter from Suggs
- Taking the Census
- 1. Part First
- 2. Part Second
- Daddy Biggs' Scrape at Cockerell's Bend
