THE ATHENAEUMThe ClockmakerThomas Chandler Haliburton
Comedy
The Clockmaker
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textSam Slick of Slickville, a Yankee clock pedlar, travels Nova Scotia selling clocks by soft sawder and human natur’, and tells the Nova Scotians what is wrong with them. Thomas Chandler Haliburton, a Nova Scotia judge, first wrote the sketches for Joseph Howe’s newspaper, the Novascotian, in 1835. They were reprinted and pirated everywhere, and Sam Slick was soon famous on both sides of the Atlantic.
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- Reading time
- About 4 hr 55 min
- Where to find it
- The Canadian Room
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #9196. In the public domain in the United States.