Second Edition.

THE

AMERICAN JOE MILLER:

A Collection of Yankee Wit and Humour,

COMPILED BY

ROBERT KEMPT.

"I love a teeming wit as I love my nourishment."- Ben Jonson.
"Oh, you shall see him laugh till his face be like a wet cloak ill laid up!”

Shakespeare.

LONDON:

ADAMS AND FRANCIS, 59, FLEET STREET.

[ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.]

1865.

LONDON:

CLAYTON AND CO., PRINTERS,

17, BOUVERIE STREET.

ΤΟ

SAM SLICK,

OF SLICKVILLE,

THE FIRST OF AMERICAN HUMOURISTS,

This Volume

IS

(BY PERMISSION)

ADMIRINGLY AND GRATEFULLY

Dedicated.