Beadle's Half Dime Library No. 1033

This issue of Beadle and Adams contains the first installment of "You-Bet Bob's Circus: High Old Times at Hold-Up," by Arizona Cy. The Western adventure opens as narrator Cy and his companion You-Bet Bob travel to the town of Hold-Up for Thanksgiving festivities. En route, they're held up by a masked bandit wearing a paper bag over his head, who relieves them of all their money. Upon arriving at the Grand Central Hotel, broke and hungry, the pair encounters the proprietor Samson Brown. Unable to pay for meals, they attempt to solve their predicament by inviting everyone at the hotel to drinks, hoping their charm will somehow resolve their financial crisis. The narrative employs frontier dialect and focuses on the pair's misadventures and resourcefulness.