The Mirth of a nation :  America's great dialect humor / 
edited by Walter Blair and Raven I. McDavid, Jr. 
 - Minneapolis, MN :  University of Minnesota Press,  [1983] 
 - xxvii, 302 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Bibliography: p. 293-297. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0816610223 0816611688 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American literature--19th century.<br/>American wit and humor.<br/>English language--Dialects--Texts.--United States
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS535  / .M53 1983 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>817/.3/08