There Ain't No Such Animal

by Brett, Bill

• ISBN13: 9781585440733
• ISBN10: 1585440736
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr

Summary

The stories in this book are the kind you might hear sitting on the porch past dark listening to distant hounds after a fox in the southeast Texas bottoms, tales with some truth and some lies and much pleasure taken in the telling and the listening, tales with a strong sense of place and people, rooted firmly in the oral tradition.

Table of Contents

There Ain't No Such Animal	p. 3
Old Fightin' Murphy	p. 33
Uncle Jubal's Story about Mr. Stone's Trial	p. 39
A Ghost Story	p. 45
Justice	p. 51
The Big Fight at Old Man Kyser's	p. 57
A Twenty-Four-Hour, Seven-Days-a-Week Preacher	p. 63
Horse Trading	p. 71
The Killings	p. 77
Just Talking	p. 87
Courting	p. 91
Death	p. 97
A Three-Year-Old Unmarked Boar	p. 103
The Education of Robert	p. 107
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