Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface VII
3. Contents IX
4. Introduction XV
5. The Talking Turtle 1
6. Blood in the Cellar 5
7. The Curse of Monegaw 7
8. The Foreigner’s Head 9
9. Big Wind at Hurley 11
10. The Well Digger 12
11. Loosening Weeds 13
12. The Wicked Stepmother 16
13. Blind Date on Bull Creek 17
14. The Hollering Story 19
15. It Just Suits Me 20
16. The Big Black Booger 22
17. Big Fraid and Little Fraid 24
18. The Wise Man’s Questions 25
19. Fiddler’s Cave 27
20. The Holy Rollers 29
21. A Little More Cider 31
22. The Spanish Burial 32
23. To Hell with Joplin 34
24. We Call It Lapland 36
25. The Magic Window 38
26. She’s Got One Spoiled Tit 39
27. The Yank Reunion 41
28. Old Man Price’s Boar 43
29. The Two White Springs 44
30. They All Started from Scratch 46
31. Pinkley Was a Fool 48
32. Women Run with the Wolves 50
33. The Silent Rifle 52
34. Jack and the Gower 55
35. He Wasn’t My Son-in-Law 58
36. The Ghost Was Still Mad 59
37. God Damn the Wind 61
38. The Looking Glass 62
39. Harvey and Myra 65
40. Four Aces Ain’t Good 66
41. Tobey the Kingsnake 68
42. Hell Among the Chickens 70
43. Gabe Says It Ain’t So Bad 72
44. The Booger Dog 74
45. An Innocent Man 76
46. Good Country Buttermilk 78
47. What They Told on Jasper 80
48. Paw Won't Like This 83
49. The Lazy Fanner 84
50. A Private Room 86
51. Brains for a Tanner 88
52. They Moved the Graveyard 90
53. Yocum Used his Head 92
54. A Pickard Never Forgets 93
55. The Chili King 95
56. Turtles Grow Fast 97
57. The Bolster 99
58. Ida Street’s Byword 100
59. Tom and Jerry 102
60. Wild Pigeons 103
61. Sam Fenton Was Tempted 105
62. Plumbing in Oklahoma 108
63. Three Silver Legs 110
64. Can Rats Read? 111
65. The Paper Salesman 114
66. He Talked Kind of Slow 115
67. Them Drunken Painters 117
68. The Son of a Bishop 118
69. The Man That Hated Bats 119
70. Gold Is Where You Find It 120
71. Cruelty to Animals 123
72. You Ain’t Coming Back 125
73. They Prayed to the Sun 126
74. The Crow That Talked 129
75. Jack and the Old Witch 130
76. The Death of Little Jemson 133
77. Signs of the Times 135
78. Ice in the Beer 136
79. Teddy Ketchum 137
80. The Bloody Miller 138
81. The Sheriff Give Him Rope 141
82. Dunwoody’s Last Joke 142
83. Riding on the Cars 144
84. The Belled Buzzard 145
85. A Little Piece of Thread 147
86. The Big Rabbits 148
87. How to Get Rid of Doctors 150
88. The Preacher Wouldn’t Eat 151
89. Three Foot Deeper 152
90. The Necessities of Life 154
91. Riddle Me This 155
92. The Man from Texas 156
93. A Barrel of Popcorn 157
94. Change the Name of Arkansas? 159
95. Johnny’s Little Dog 162
96. There’s a Sleight to It 163
97. On Trial for His Life 164
98. Wolves Are My Brothers 166
99. Old Horny 169
100. She Wanted a Divorce 171
101. Backhouse Albert’s Money 172
102. The Cat’s Foot 174
103. Little Toody 175
104. Adam and Eve 177
105. Notes 179
106. Bibliography of Works Cited 221