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	SIHR - The Origins of Hockey
		The committee concludes that the reference is not a satisfactory indication that the activity fixed in the author’s mind was hockey and that it actually occurred.
		Haliburton’s most famous fictional character was Sam Slick, an uneducated but street-smart and fast-talking Yankee hustler, who is the central figure in two satirical novels: The Clockmaker and The Attaché.
		Sam Slick’s observations and opinions, on everything from politics and government to nature and everyday human foibles, dominate the novel.
	www.sihrhockey.org /origins_report.cfm (6390 words)

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		He proposes that it may have been by Judge Haliburton, the author of the "Sam Slick" series which was also published by Dick and Fitzgerald.
		Haliburton [“Sam Slick”], Judge Thomas Chandler.- Traits of American Humour, by Native Authors.
		Brown embossed publisher's cloth with image of Sam Slick embossed in the blind on both covers and in gilt on spine along with gilt titling on spine.
	www.gadshill.com /displayroom/category.nhtml?catuid=10008 (3428 words)

	Exceptional Canadians - Resource Centre - Operation Dialogue
		Creator of Sam Slick - a biography, bibliography and links.
		Information on Sir Sam Hughes Minister of Defence during the First World War.
		Sam Steele was connected with many major events in Canadian history, stretching from the Fenian raids to the First World War.
	www.operation-dialogue.com /e/rc/g_exceptionalCanadians.html (2730 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Haliburton, Thomas Chandler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Haliburton's most popular work was a series about the sayings and doings of Sam Slick, which he began in the Nova Scotian; they were collected in The Clockmaker (1836).
		He continued writing about this humorous Yankee clock peddler, a medium for satirizing both Canadians and Americans, in The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England (1843-44) and Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances (1853).
		Inventing Sam Slick; a biography of Thomas Chandler Haliburton.(AMERICAN LITERATURE)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/H/Haliburt.asp (328 words)

	Dictionary of Americanisms, by John Russell Bartlett (1848)
		It's monstrous inconvenient and ridiculous.--Sam Slick in England.
		It was a mortal hot day, and people actually sweated to that degree, it hid the dust.--Sam Slick, 3d ser.
		The name assumed by a political party which sprang up a few years ago, to advocate the rights and privileges of persons born in the United States, in opposition to those of foreigners.
	www.merrycoz.org /voices/bartlett/AMER09.HTM (8813 words)

	Browse By Author: H - Project Gutenberg
		The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete (English)
		The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Volume 01 (English)
		The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Volume 02 (English)
	www.gutenberg.org /browse/authors/h (4303 words)

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