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Idylls of the Skillet Fork

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Idylls of the Skillet Fork

Payson Sibley Wild

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Down along the Skillet Fork, bootleggers, mockingbirds, and country characters fill the air. Payson Wild spins light idylls of backwoods life, from the possum hunt to Laury at the telephone. Playful sketches of rural mischief and charm. Drop in on a river-bottom world of homespun comedy.

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29 chapters

  1. 1Idylls of the Skillet Fork
  2. 2Foreword
  3. 3Contents
  4. 4I The Skillet
  5. 5II The Bootleg Gang at Sims’
  6. 6III The Mocking Bird
  7. 7IV The Siren
  8. 8V Laury at the ’Phone
  9. 9VI The ’Possum Hunt
  10. 10VII Jupiter
  11. 11VIII Laury’s Lullaby
  12. 12IX Bill Non-Committal
  13. 13X Laury’s “Eats”
  14. 14XI Bill on Seth Watts
  15. 15XII The Katydid
  16. 16XIII Bill’s Vote
  17. 17XIV Bill’s “Risin’”
  18. 18XV Calamitous Days

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