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Tar-Heel Tales in Vernacular Verse

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By J. E. P. Doyle
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This collection presents comic vernacular verse that renders rural southern speech into humorous tall tales and character sketches, narrated in a rustic persona. Poems recount mischievous schoolroom incidents, fishing-town schemes, local superstitions, and domestic scenes, blending satire of religious and social pretensions with affectionate depiction of everyday hardships. The verse alternates narrative ballads, light satire, and lyrical asides, often relying on phonetic dialect, vivid anecdotes, and occasional illustrations to create a lively, folksy tone.

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Title: Tar-Heel Tales in Vernacular Verse

Author: J. E. P. Doyle

Illustrator: Bonar

Release date: July 4, 2017 [eBook #55042]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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Tar-Heel Tales
IN VERNACULAR VERSE.

BY MAJOR JEP JOSLYNN.

NEW YORK:

M. Doolady, 98 Nassau Street.

1873.

“LITTLE BOOTS.”

MY RERLIGION.

THE BUZZIN’ BEES OF BERKS.

BOB MUNN OF CAPE COD.

Tar-Heel Tales IN Vernacular Verse.

BY MAJOR JEP JOSLYNN.

ILLUSTRATED BY BONAR.

NEW YORK:

M. DOOLADY, 98 Nassau Street.

1873.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1873,

BY J. E. P. DOYLE,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.