Cover Club: Shams or Uncle Ben's Experience with Hypocrites

I got this book at a small used book store here in Portland. It's from 1887 and according to the title page is, "A story of simple country life giving a humorous and entertaining picture of every day life and incidents in the rural districts, with Uncle Ben's trip to the city of Chicago and to California, and his experience with the shams and sharpers of the metropolitan world."

You can download a full copy of it here.