The Edward T. LeBlanc Memorial Dime Novel Bibliography

Person - Gidley, Will S.

Pseudonym: Nuff, Noah

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1884

Angeline and Her Poodle

1885

Buster Takes the Pledge
Caught Them Both
Changed His Mind
The Diagnosis Didn't Suit
Didn't Like the West
Didn't Want It
The First Encounter
Fitznoodle's First Reception
Fixed for Them
Got What He Was Looking For
Had to Lick Bill First
He Wanted Damages
He Wanted His Mail
He Wanted to be a Schoolma'am
He Wanted to Know
He Wasn't Lonesome
His Mission of Vengeance
Hopefulness
How to Hatch Them
An Interrupted Serenade
James Was Posted
The Late Mr. Shakspere
The Mesmerism Didn't Work
A Narrow Escape for Both
No Raw Bananas for Him
The Old Man Didn't Want a Back Seat
The Scheme Wouldn't Work
Simpson's Sad Mistake
They Knew Each Other
Thought He Was in the Bowery
The Tiger from the Jersey Jungles
The Two-Minute Watch
Young Love's Dream

1886

The Biography of Captain Kidd, Revised Version
Blodgers's Discovery; or, A Night of Revelations
A Chilly Time for Spriggins
A Coney Island Episode
Couldn't Catch Him
Didn't Recognize the Critter
A Distressing Episode
Doolittle on the War-Path
Ephraim's Mistake; or, Almost a Tragedy
A Friend of Sophocles
Got the Information at Last
He "Struck", So Did His Dad
He Had Them in Stock
He Made a Slight Mistake
He Tackled the Wrong Female
His Services Were Not Required
His Theory Went Back on Him
How Uncle Dan'l Cured the Dog
"It Might Have Been"
It Removed the Freckles
"Mighty Poor Moose-Meat"
Missed It All 'Round
Mr. Bloomer's Cold
"Music in the Air"
A Musical Tournament
My Thanksgiving Story
No Ear for Music
No Enterprise in the Place
No Use in the West
Not So Sleepy As He Looked
"An Old Friend of His Wife"
Resigned the Job
A Rural Catastrophe
A Sad Case
A Sanctum Tragedy
Simpson's Mother-in-Law; or, Rough on the Bandits
Sir Isaac and the Fall Pippin
A Slander Repelled
A Smart Lot of Cats
Snagby Tries the "Earth Cure"
Some Warm Weather
Spillkins's Fun with the Old Pioneer
Street-Car Scenes
Tackled the Wrong Place
A Tale of Blighted Love
Telephone Tribulations
The Tramp Abroad
"A Trifle Hard of Hearing"
Waiting at a Country Station
Wamwam and the Pioneer
Why Ethel Genevieve Wept
Why She Refused Him; or, The Fatal Pun

1887

All About a Goat
Biography of the Late J. Caesar, Revised Version
Boggs's "Burglar Bouncer"
A Chanticleer Chase
Didn't See How It Could be Done
A Disappointed Burglar
A Dog-gone Affair
Drawing a Prize
An Enterprising Newspaper
Exit Wiggins
Fact and Fancy
The Folly of Knowing Too Much
"Fowl Play"; or, Fooled by a Newspaper
He Did His Fighting in Canada
He Found the Very Man
His Little Scheme
How Johnson Tended Baby
How We Surprised Buglesnipe
Hunting Rats
Investigating the Dog Tax
"Jest Tookin' a Nap"
Jobbers's Family Horse
Jobbers's Ghost
Jones's Spotted Heifer
Joys of a Ticket Agent
"Money Loaned on Security"
Mr. Foghorn's Calf Chase
"No Poetry in His'n"
No Prize Packages for Her
"No Use"
The Noble League of Pig-Stickers
Not So Slow After All
Nubbins's Generous Employer
Odds and Ends
The Old, Old Story. Revised and Nineteenth - Centuryfied
On the War-Path for Moths
"Our Country Cousins"
Points About the Ancients
Protecting an Orphan
A Reporter's Discovery; or, The Midnight Mystery
The Reward of Virtue
Robinson's Horse
Roundabout Remarks
Sam Sperry's School
"Sassiety" Sketches: Taken on the Spot, or Thereabouts
The Sheriff's Dilemma
Si Sniffles's "Spells"
Sniffles's First Maquerade
Too Much for Jones and Smith
A Tough Customer
Why I Am Not a Poet

1888

Another "L" Outrage
Brave Mr. Jobson
A Canine Episode
A Cold-Blooded Joke
Concluded to Subscribe
Concluded to Trade There
Couldn't Get 'Em Interested
"Declined With Thanks"
Declined Without Thanks
Foghorn Economizes
Foghorn Puts in the Coal
Foghorn's Fuel Cartridge
Formed a "Trust" of His Own
Got What He Needed
He Drew the Line
His Mother's Cooking
How Bloomer Caught Them
How Foghorn Did the Washing
"Interferin' With Providence"
Jingle's Poetry
John Smith vs. John Chinaman
Knew a Cyclorama When He Saw It
Learning by Experience
The Mayor Was In
McGuffin's Ghost
McGuffin's Mule
Meek, But He Drew the Line
Mr. Foghorn's Home-Made Hair-Cut
Muggins's Universal, Etc
My Present
A Natural-Born Poet
Off-Hand Sketches
Old Cusstuggee's Tomahawk
Pickled Paragraphs
Policeman Snaggs's "Tiger"
Pulling Teeth by Installment
Rupert was Bashful, A Leap-Year Episode
Rupert's Revenge
She Had Red Hair
She Only Forgot
Showing How It Worked
Snaggs Objected
Society's Nemesis
Three Times and Out
A Tragedian at Large
The Trials of a Druggist
Two Episodes in Jenkins's Life
An Unfortunate Parody
"When Cheek Meets Cheek"
Willing to Assist Him
Withdrew His Patronage

1889

Almost a Tragedy
And Then They Got Mad
Another Lesson From Foghorn
Bloomer's Blunder
Both Sides of the Question
The Brakeman's Tribulations
A Dangerous Female to Fool With
Diary of a Dudelet
Diary of a Newsdealer
Diary of an "L" Brakeman
The Editor Was Posted on Snakes
The Editor's Woes
The Fatal Phonograph; or, How She Lost Him
Foghorn's Christmas Goose
The Game was Old
Had Heard of It Before
He Got the Pie
He Was an Athlete Himself
He Was Slightly Nervous
The Horse Was Still Dead
How He Suffered
J. Henry's Escape
The Lawyer Got Left
A Lesson in Politeness
Lo! The Poor Brakeman
The Long-Lost Brother
Luck Was Ag'in' Him
The Missing Links; or, The Man, the Basket, and the Dog
Mr. Growler at Home
Mr. Winkle's Mistake
My First Girl
My Joke on Litewaite
No License Required
No Show For Him
"None For Sale"
Objected to Being Laughed At
Pensive Paragraphs
Podgers's Fun
Scaring an Editor
"Scat"; or, Parted By a Word
She Left Them Alone
She Probably Didn't Have 'Em
Some Rapid Freezing
Stood on His Dignity
Taming Ajax
They Didn't Scare
They Wouldn't Work
Too Thin, Indeed!
Took Pity on Him at Last
Uncle Doolittle And the Bears
Wanted to Be Waited On
Why I Left Her

1890

Bloomer and the Gas Company
Boarding-House Chaff: Bliffers as a Tragedian
Boarding-House Chaff: Discussing the "Grip"
Boarding-House Chaff: I. Robinson's Conundrum
Boarding-House Chaff: III. Bliffers Doesn't Feel Well
Boarding-House Chaff: Joggins's First Attempt
Boarding-House Chaff: Robinson Feels Insulted
Boarding-House Chaff: Robinson's Brush With the Landlady
A Case of Ingratitude
Deacon Tubbs and the Cow
The Editor's Dilemma
Foghorn's Letter
He Was on Their Trail
He Was Subject to Chills
How to Keep Him Home
The Law was on Her Side
The Man from Kansas City
Matters and Things: "Un Brav Generale"
Matters and Things: A "Business Woman"
Matters and Things: A Bad Give Away
Matters and Things: A Clam "Pome"
Matters and Things: A Feline Tale
Matters and Things: A New Literary Light
Matters and Things: After the Police
Matters and Things: Canadian Enterprise
Matters and Things: Dollars and Sense
Matters and Things: East To Believe
Matters and Things: He'd Seen Ball Games Before
Matters and Things: How Does That Affect Him?
Matters and Things: It Was
Matters and Things: Just The Man He Wanted
Matters and Things: No Light Housekeeping for Her
Matters and Things: Served Him Right!
Matters and Things: Still a Puzzle
Matters and Things: The Reward of Honesty
Matters and Things: They Will Do It
Matters and Things: Well, Hardly
Robinson's Vacation
Same Old Style
Satisfying a Drummer
She "Had the Rocks"
She Took the Harp
She Was Ungrateful
She, Too, Had "Writ a Diary"
So Lazy He Worked Himself to Death
The Story of a "Personal" or, A Masher's Mistake
Tackled the Wrong Smith
Too Enterprising Entirely
Warding Off an Epidemic
Why He Got the Mitten; or, Reginald De Snooks's Mistake

1891

"He Always Married Widders," But He Didn't This Trip, Just the Same
"Not Like It Used to Was." The Old-Timer Visits the Circus and Comes Away Disappointed.
The Aldermen Were Responsible
And Then They Bought Some
Before and After: A Farce in Two Chapters and a Postscript
Breaking Up "the Grip"
Cleaning Out a Newspaper Office
Drew the Line at Snakes
Dropping the Old Man a Line; or, How Bloomer Captured His Girl's Father
An Eating-House Philanthropist
Ferguson's Blunder
He "Shrunk"
He Objected to Hat Jokes
He Was Looking For Fight, But He Declined to Lick a Man
His Mother's Squash Pie
His Specialty was "Booming."
How She Lost Him; or, Separated by a Kick
In Search of a Job; or, The Postage Stamp Fiend Discourager
Jobson's Christmas Turkey
John Henry's Peril, A Tale of Modern New York
Matters and Things: Clear Case of Lunacy
Matters and Things: Hardware vs. Gold
Matters and Things: He Left All There Was
Matters and Things: Isaac Was Tough
Matters and Things: No Laughing Matter
Matters and Things: Remedy Worse Than The Disease
Matters and Things: Smart Connecticut Dogs
Matters and Things: The Latest from Keeley's Motor
Matters and Things: The Way of Modern Lovers
Matters and Things: Too Much Excitement for Him
Matters and Things: What She Was Aware Of
No Danger from the Police
No Legal Advice Necessary
No Use For a "Disperser"
Preparing for Summer Boarders
She Didn't Need One
Uncle Silas in the Bowery
Uncle Silas on New York Papers
Uncle Silas's Ride on the Elevated
Understood His Business
What "Sal" Forgot, and How the Old Lady Got Even With Her
Who Discovered America?
Woke Him Up
The Woman's Way

1892

"Mariar" Called a Truce
Belligerent Mr. Doodleby
Bloomer's Mean Man
Bloomer's Snake Story
Buggins Forgot Something
A Case of Shrinkage
Christmas Notes
Didn't Know It at First, But Finally Concluded He Had Been Insulted
The Disinfectant Didn't Seem to Sell, But the Vender Was Persevering
Drew the Line at Gun
A Drug-Store Tragedy
The Drummer's Mistake
An Evening With Foghorn, He Tries to Make a Nuisance of Himself and Succeeds
Extracts from the Jimtown Bugle
Had Been There Himself
Had Enough of Columbus
He Begged to Differ
He Saw the Folly of Being a Dude
He Wasn't a Bridge-Jumper
His Memory Was All Right
His Services Were Declined
Jaggers's Home-Made Shirt
Jaggers's Wheat Cakes
Jim and Jerry; or, Tow of a Kind
A Justifiable Case
A Lesson for Silas
Lost His Trade
Matters and Things: A Shy Young Thing
Matters and Things: An Irretrievable Blunder
Matters and Things: Asking Too Much
Matters and Things: He Didn't Go
Matters and Things: Help Yourself, Mr. Jones!
Matters and Things: Her Science Failed This Time
Matters and Things: Nothing To Crow About
Miggs's "Widder"
Muggins's Matinee
A Narrow Escape
No Show for a Patriot
No Use For a "Cyclopedy"
No Use for Him on the "L"
"No Work in His'n"
On the "L" Road
Perkins Was Prejudiced
Perkins Was Trying to Oblige, But His Efforts Were Not Appreciated
Phonographed on the Sly
Rupert Montgomery's Mistake, A Tale of Love in the Rural Districts
Scared Him Out
Seen Under the Gaslight
She Didn't Enthuse
Spring Idyls
A Surprise for the Editor
Took the Wrong Fellow's "Picture"
Two Hot Weather Yarns

1893

The "Grass Widder" and the Agent
Bloomer's "Genuine G. W. Relic"
Bloomer's Tact
A Case of "Blight"
Cause For Alarm
Collecting a Debt, It Is Up Hill Work – Especially When There Is A Stringency In The Money Market
Couldn't Down Him
The Crank Epidemic
Cupid in the Country; or, The Courtship of Silas and Sarah Jane
Deserved Tar-and-Feathers, But He Was so Mean They Decided Not to Gratify Him
Didn't Have the Kind He Wanted
Down on Agents
A Drawn Battle
Drew the Line at Pugs
Foghorn's Conundrums
Foghorn's Lost Hat
Foghorn's Nerve Remedy, It Was Maria's Fault That it Disappeared, of Course
Georgie Was Inquisitive
Had One Already
He Didn't Come Back
He Didn't Scare
He Secured an Engagement
He Was a Devoted Love, But the Test She Proposed Was Too Much for Him
He Was Subject to Dyspepsia, But Something Else Overtook Him First
His Poetry Wasn't Appreciated
His Testimonial; or, The Fatal Shock, A Pateni Medicine Episode
How He Distinguished Himself
How Perkins Got Even
Josh Was Shiftless, But She Got No Sympathy From The Court On That Account
Matters and Things: He Sent It—And it was Published, Too
Matters and Things: Objected to the "Figgers"
The Missing Man from Wayback
Money Was No Object to Him
No Call for Sympathy
No Show for an Honest Man
On the Trail
A Poet-Lariat on the Rampage
Sam Johnson's Failing
A Slight Misunderstanding
Snoggs vs. Hobbs; or, Ferguson's Story of an Assault and Battery Case
Some Smart Children
Spooner Was Ungrateful
They Were Strangers
Train Sketches: Bangs's First Train-Robber
Train Sketches: Forgot His Umbrella
Train Sketches: Mistook Him for the Man who Owned the Road
Train Sketches: The Royal Bengal Tiger, etc., Rode Free
Train Sketches: They Were There
Train Sketches: Why He Didn't Kick
The Tuxedo Suit
What He Was Thinking Of
What Made Him Tired

1894

An Accommodating Bartender
Beating the Boomerang
Bloomer's Fish Story
Bloomer's Horse Story
Bloomer's Turkey Story
Bluffing the Bowery
Buncoed by Blivens
Bunker's Bumblebee Matinee
Bunker's Ham-Thief Trap
Bunker's Narrow Escape
Doings in Snagville
Doolittle Was Grasping, Slightly, as His Account with the "Widder" Showed
Down on "the Wimmen Folks"
The Dude and the Red-Man; or, Having Fun with Buffalo Bill's Indians
The Editor Out-Talked Him, But John Hit Back Soon as He Got a Piece of Paper and an Opportunity
Ferguson Furnishes a Few Facts
He Was a Stranger to the City, But Mr. Boggs was Evidently Able to Take Care of Himself
He Was Sadly Deceived, But the Lawyer Said It Served Him Right
Henry J. and Amelia Jane; or, How Hornswoggle Took the Hint
His Spine Was Injured, So He Said, But He Could Run All the Same
"A Hopeless Case"
How Peters Lost a Fortune
How They Encouraged Spriggins
Humorous Mr. Snaggs
It Failed to Fetch Them
Jimpson's Stove Matinee
Juggins's Great Scheme, It Sounded Big, but the Financier Didn't Invest
Made Himself at Home, But The Janitor Objected
Making It Easy for Him, And Yet William Was Ungrateful
Matters and Things: A Different Sort of "Widder"
Matters and Things: Giving the Entire Facts
Matters and Things: Not So Funny Then
Matters and Things: Settled His Hash
Matters and Things: What It Comes To
McDoodle Took the Hint
Mrs. Spilldyke Knew How, Even If Spilldyke Didn't
New York Was Too Tame For Him, So Uncle Silas Cut His Visit Short
No Demand for Corn Remedies
None But the Brave, Etc.
Objected to Cold Pancakes
Peter Was Slow, But Her Got There at Last
Peters's Mean Man
A Pike County Idyl
Reckless All 'Round
Sam Peters's Nemesis
Struck the Wrong Establishment
Too Slow That Time
Two of a Kind
An Unappreciated Joke
Wanted His Per Capita and Beer, But Somehow He Failed to Connect on Either
Why Bloomer Came Back

1895

"A Victim of Circumstances"
"Born Tired," And Not Even the Sting of a Bee Was Sufficient to Arouse Him
"Business Before Pleasure," Mr. Scruggs Had a Motto and Live Up to It
The "Medicine" Saved Them
"Rassling" With The Question
Bloomer's Cyclone Reminiscences
Bloomer's Overcoat, Mr. Simpson's Bill For Storage, Etc., Rather Surprises Him
Bumberly's Evening at Home
Called to Wallop the Editor, But Concluded to Postpone the Affair for a Few Years
Careful of His Health
Courtship in the Old Style; or, The Love of Samuel and Susan
The Darky and the Sandbag
Dobbins and the Chicago Detective
Dobbins's Detective Experience
Doolittle's Experiment
The Dude's Downfall; or, How Cholly's Friend Slipped Up in His Calculations
Ephraim Was Brave, But Preferred Death in Another Way
Ferguson and the "Englishman"
Ferguson's Fish Story
Ferguson's Narrow Escape
Ferguson's Vacation
The Girls Were Bad Enough, But When Dad And Mam Both Took To Bicycling It Was A Trifle More Than He Could Stand
He Was Subject to Fits, But He Concluded Not to Have One After All
His One Request
It Was a Cold World
Knew a Better Way Than That
Knew His Business, And He Didn't Care For A Ride Just Then
Latest Style of Journalism, As Practiced in Some Newspaper Offices
Looking For a Bunco Steerer, Expected to Make It Lively For Him in Case He Ran Across One
Matters and Things: "Earning a Living"
Matters and Things: A Sad Case
Matters and Things: If P. T. Were Only Alive!
Matters and Things: Ought To Let Them Vote, Anyhow
Matters and Things: Sad for the Ladies
Matters and Things: Serves Him Right
Matters and Things: The Bed of Our Daddies
Matters and Things: What's the Matter With the Men?
Matters and Things: Which and Wherefore?
Missing an Opportunity
No Show to Make an Honest Living
Not a Fifty-Dollar Town
Not A Fin-de-siecle Town
On the Trail of a Liar
A Persecuted Husband, The Law Was On The Side Of The "Old Woman," As He Termed Her
Running the Blockade
She Didn't Back Out
She Wanted to Do All the Talking
Why Ferguson Left Lake George

1896

Concluded Not to Sue
Got the Worth of His Money
Matters and Things: It Cured His Headache, but Left Him Worse Off Than Before
Matters and Things: The Captain's Big Eel
Perkins and the Clothes-Rack

1898

Two Boys and a Bear