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The Clockmaker: The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville (New Canadian Library)
The Clockmaker The Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville - New Canadian Library Author:Thomas Chandler Haliburton Sam Slick of Slickville, Connecticut, is a Yankee clock-peddler who accompanies a visiting English gentleman on an unforgettable tour of early nineteenth-century Nova Scotia. His shrewd observations and witty commentaries make up the thirty-three sketches of The Clockmaker. — First serialized in 1835 and 1836 and then published together in... more » late 1836 in response to public demand, the sketches of The Clockmaker established Judge Thomas Chandler Haliburton as a satirical humorist of international stature.
The New Canadian Library edition is an unabridged reprint of the complete original text.