Collection: Osher Map Library Collection

Name: The Travels of Sam Slick from Weathersfield to Paris: A comical combination of curious circumstances for 100 evenings.

Barcode: 58936

Alternative Title: Trips of Japhet Jenkens & Sam Slick: A side-splitting account of Japhet Jenkens and Sally Jones' visit tu Bosting with the old meere and a load of uv pro-duce.

Brief Description: Card game based on the character Sam Slick created by Thomas Chandler Haliburton. The stories which include two booklets are read aloud and the cards are used to fill in the blanks in both.   Thomas Chandler Haliburton was a Nova Scotian politician, judge and author. He created the character Sam Slick of Slicksville whose commentary on colonial life in Nova Scotia, relations with the United States and Britain proved to be very popular with readers. Haliburton's satirical sketches became a series and he was established as one of the founders of North American humor.

Creator: Haliburton, Thomas Chandler

Publisher: Milton Bradley Company

Date/Date Range: 1871

Publishing Location: Springfield, Massachusetts

Language: English

Dimensions: 9 x 12 x 2 cm

LC Call Number: GV 1312 1871.B7

OCLC: 1474745164

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