Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture [Comic Yarns]

517 pp. Includes black-and-white illustrations. Canadian humorist most famous for The Brownies, his cartoon comic strip of mischievous sprites wreaking innocent havoc, Palmer Cox writes in Frontier Humor a lighthearted array of hilarious poetry and short prose. Cox was gifted with the ability to see joy and amusement in everyday life. His writing is "for the brightening of a world already far too sad."