Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Captain's Toll-Gate
Francis Richard Stockton, born in Philadelphia in 1834, was, on his father's side, of purely English ancestry; on his mother's side, there was a mixture of English, French, and Irish. When he began to write stories these three nationalities were combined in them: the peculiar kind of inventiveness of the French; the point of View, and the humor that we find in the Old English humorists; and the capacity of the Irish for comical situations.
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