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Short & tall tales : Moose County legends collected by James Mackintosh Qwilleran Cover Image Book Book

Short & tall tales : Moose County legends collected by James Mackintosh Qwilleran

Braun, Lilian Jackson. (Author).

Summary:

Fictional columnist James Qwilleran presents a collection of stories that spotlights the colorful world of Moose County and its residents in such legends as "The Secret of the Blacksmith's Wife" and "The Trevelyan Curse."

Contents:

The legend of the rubbish heap
Secret of the blacksmith's wife
Housecalls on horseback
Hilda the clipper
Milo the potato farmer
The little old man in the woods
My great-grandmother's coal mine
The true history of spunk water
Whooping it up with the loggers
The princess and the pirates
Wildcattin' with an old hog
The scratching under the door
The Dimsdale jinx
The mystery of Dank Hollow
The tale of two tombstones
The pork-and-beans incident at Boggy Bottom
At last, the hospital in the wilderness
Emmaline and the spiral staircase
The curious fate of the Jenny Lee
A scary experience on a covered bridge
A cat tale: Holy terror and the bishop
Those pushy Moose County blueberries
The curse on the apple orchard
Matilda, a family heroine
How Pleasant Street got it's name
The noble sons of the noose
Phineas Ford's fabulous collection.

Item details

  • ISBN: 0399149562
  • ISBN: 9780399149566
  • Physical Description: print
    regular print
    145 pages ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Putnam's, ©2002.
  • Badges:
    • Most Copies: 3 / 5.0

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:
The legend of the rubbish heap
Secret of the blacksmith's wife
Housecalls on horseback
Hilda the clipper
Milo the potato farmer
The little old man in the woods
My great-grandmother's coal mine
The true history of spunk water
Whooping it up with the loggers
The princess and the pirates
Wildcattin' with an old hog
The scratching under the door
The Dimsdale jinx
The mystery of Dank Hollow
The tale of two tombstones
The pork-and-beans incident at Boggy Bottom
At last, the hospital in the wilderness
Emmaline and the spiral staircase
The curious fate of the Jenny Lee
A scary experience on a covered bridge
A cat tale: Holy terror and the bishop
Those pushy Moose County blueberries
The curse on the apple orchard
Matilda, a family heroine
How Pleasant Street got it's name
The noble sons of the noose
Phineas Ford's fabulous collection.

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