Greetings from old Kentucky.
This is a 1947 book, GREETINGS From Old Kentucky by Allan M. Trout. These are columns published by the author in The Courier-Journal newspaper (Louisville) from the 1920s to 1940s. It has fascinating glimpses into local history, stories, and anecdotes from Frankfort, Yorkville (Gibson County), Churc...
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Table of Contents:
- It is bad some days, worse on others
- The woodbine twineth to memory land
- A mountain hog's snout is tough
- How far is a piece? Oh, not far
- Old Ike taught him to fish and hunt
- Country men take to town life
- These remarkable hogs slide down hill
- The plural of mongoose is mongooses
- A critic rakes me over the coals
- A scared calf in a pond of water
- Gin is no mountain drink, anyway
- Boss Oliver gets cold on a pallet
- The animals have taught man
- Hubbub durn near stops the syllabus
- Roosters pay no mind to incubators
- 'Twas coal oil Johnny, not kerosene Johnny
- Drummer Dan T. Curd gets ambushed
- 50 cents for 2 live tumble bugs
- Carefree Charley vs. Gloomy Gus
- Wooden shoe pegs save the day
- The big road is now a rural highway
- Wood smoke spirals in silvery curls
- The shameful way Christmas is observed
- James Hatcher advises his devisees
- Ever experience a fine-tooth comb?
- Ground hog day is too big to pin down
- Uncle Lon will not truckle to Yankees
- Homemade sin is the ugliest of all
- Aunt Tude's treat of cold kraut
- Man has erred three times
- A club that turns out to be no club
- Uncle Jess and his mud turtles
- It is sad when a clock stops ticking
- A mule turns his tail to weather
- The guineas made Uncle Cad nervous
- Ridge runner once, ridge runner always
- Professor Gillis botches a problem
- The old hen scratches once, twice, thrice
- His mother was tired, but not too tired
- Man, too, begins to die at the top
- Mullins shouted: "Feller Citizens!"
- The egg problem throws me for a loss
- Ah, the glory of the mountains!
- The ears of man and mule grow bigger
- Sentiment is the stuff that endures
- Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson
- Fleas serve a useful purpose
- The old hen steals her nest honestly
- I find that Grant tricked General Lee
- Another Kentucky ghost was laid that day
- What is square about a square meal?
- My investigators begin to complain
- I am accused of pure laziness
- Wanted to trade: spats for a bullet mold
- A $2,250 shaving mug bemuses me
- How her father could build fires!
- Young and old have got the fidgets
- I get shaved with a dull razor
- Druggists are handy, friendly fellows
- Let us, like tumble bugs, roll up hill
- A peg leg is sawed off by mistake
- An old felt hat never wears out
- Pole beans always reach for the pole
- The C.-J. organization is scientific
- Nature keeps order in the cow pasture
- The Somerset Rotary Club asks me one
- The evolution of Kentucky colonels
- Big meetin' time down in Trigg county!
- Varmints recognize district boundaries
- Ridge runners populate the country
- My Hopkinsville experts report
- A fine little Christmas story
- I do not claim to know it all
- Folklore is irrespressible cussedness.