Download or read book Tall Stories From the Liar s Bench written by Paul R. Wonning and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These funny tall tales are anything but true. This classic collection of homespun humor as told by the two men on the Liar’s Bench in Seldon’s Barbershop amuses and sometimes astounds the other occupant of the barbershop, Jason Wells. You will laugh at the hilarious tales spun by the rascals on the liar’s bench. tall tale, hilarious, funny fiction, humor, collection, tall story

Download or read book Hoosier Tall Stories written by Federal Writers' Project (Ind.) and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gardener s Guide to May Wildflowers written by Paul R. Wonning and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardener’s Guide to May Wildflowers includes twenty common early spring woodland wildflowers with photographs. This field guide allows easier identification of spring woodland wildflowers in the field because it is composed only of the earliest wildflowers of the season, the wildflowers that begin bloom in May or late April in Indiana. spring, woodland, indiana,

Download or read book The Tall Tale and Philippe D Alcripe written by Gerald Thomas and published by St. John's : Department of Folklore, Memorial University of Newfoundland : American Folklore Society. This book was released on 1977 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Screams in the Night written by K. K. Ricky and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The source of the screams in the night was a bit astonishing. The neighbors heard screaming at the Sneadly late one night. They called the police. Town marshall Luke Draws pulled up in his police car to investigate. Boy, was he surprised. The humorous short story collections Five More Tales from the Liars Bench and Ten Tales From the Liars Bench contain this funny short story. The humorous short story collections Five More Tales from the Liars Bench and Ten Tales From the Liars Bench contain this funny short story.

Download or read book Stroke and Counterstroke written by K. K. Ricky and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It started with a dead pig’s head and went downhill from there. Jake and Herm were notorious for their practical jokes. But when Jake put a pig’s head in Herm’s car, it ignited a classic practical joke feud. The humorous short story collections Five More Tales from the Liars Bench and Ten Tales From the Liars Bench contain this funny short story.

Download or read book Swapping Stories written by Carl Lindahl and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are more than two hundred oral tales from some of Louisiana's finest storytellers. In this comprehensive volume of great range are transcriptions of narratives in many genres, from diverse voices, and from all regions of the state. Told in settings ranging from the front porch to the festival stage, these tales proclaim the great vitality and variety of Louisiana's oral narrative traditions. Given special focus are Harold Talbert, Lonnie Gray, Bel Abbey, Ben Guiné, and Enola Matthews—whose wealth of imagination, memory, and artistry demonstrates the depth as well as the breadth of the storyteller's craft. For tales told in Cajun and Creole French, Koasati, and Spanish, the editors have supplied both the original language and English translation. To the volume Maida Owens has contributed an overview of Louisiana's folk culture and a survey of folklife studies of various regions of the state. Car Lindahl's introduction and notes discuss the various genres and styles of storytelling common in Louisiana and link them with the worldwide are of the folktale.

Download or read book The American People written by B.A. Botkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This stimulating anthology, prepared by the great folklorist, B.A. Botkin, is comprised of the traditional songs, stories, customs, and beliefs which have been handed down, by word of mouth, for so long that they seem to have a life of their own. For Botkin, they are at the core of peoplehood. When one thinks of American folklore one thinks not only of the folklore of American life, the traditions that have sprung up on American soil, but also of the literature of folklore, the migratory traditions that have found a home in the New World.

Download or read book Alien Cows written by K. K. Ricky and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This funny short story recounts the adventures of two city slickers on holiday from the big city. They round a bend in the highway and have their first encounter with the strange creatures we know as cows. As the two talk about the strange creatures in the field, a silent figure pulls up behind them and hears their conversation. He smiles. Wally watches and listens. He can’t wait to relate his story to the loafers in the barber’s shop. His satisfaction was short lived when Seldon turned the tables on him. Alien Cows is a short fiction story from the series, Tales From the Liar’s Bench. This funny short story series includes the funny stories two older men, Wally and Ben. The fellows enjoy regaling each other with tall stories. The other men in the shop just sit and listen in incredulous disbelief. The humorous short story collection Ten Tales From the Liars Bench contains this funny short story.

Download or read book Whose Kidneys Are These Anyway written by By K. K. Ricky and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hannah was happy to give her ailing husband her kidney until she found out he was diddling her former friend. Then she wanted it back. The humorous short story collections Five Tales from the Liars Bench and Ten Tales From the Liars Bench contain this funny tall tale.

Download or read book Liar s Bench written by Kim Michele Richardson and published by Kensington Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes recipes and a reading group guide (pages [254]-261).

Download or read book The American People in Their Stories Legends Tall Tales Traditions Ballads and Songs written by Benjamin Albert Botkin and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Kentucky Folklore written by R. Gerald Alvey and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1989-09-19 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers proverbs, folk expressions, riddles, customs, and superstitions

Download or read book Tall Tales With Lyman the Liar and Zoom Boom written by Joel Brown and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's harvest time on the farm. Zoom-Boom needs everyone to help with the harvest. Lyman always tells tall tales to get out of work. Zoom-Boom discovers that he isn't telling the truth. Lyman realizes that not telling the truth hurts everyone. He promises not to tell tall tales anymore.

Download or read book The Lying Game written by Ruth Ware and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of the “twisty-mystery” (Vulture) novel In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, and The Turn of the Key comes Ruth Ware’s The Lying Game. Isa Wilde knows something terrible has happened when she receives a text from an old friend. Why would Kate summon her and their two friends to the seaside town where they briefly attended the Salten House boarding school together seventeen years ago? The four friends had quickly bonded over the Lying Game—a risky contest that involved tricking fellow boarders and faculty with their lies. Now reunited, Isa, Kate, Thea, and Fatima discover that their past lies had far-reaching effects and criminal implications that threaten them all. In order to protect their reputations, and their friendship, they must uncover the truth about what really happened all those years ago. Atmospheric and twisty, with just the right amount of chill, The Lying Game will have readers at the edge of their seats, not knowing who can be trusted in this tangled web of lies.

Download or read book Humanity Anonymous written by Allen Bien and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is offered to represent a new opportunity a new beginning and approach to one of the most ancient themes and searches known to man. This book contains answers! Answers to the riddle of the recurring manifestations of the dark side of "human nature" and the mystery of the establishment of God's Kingdom on Earth. Also, this work suggests the initiation of and the creation of a new 12-Step spiritual-societal fellowship, Humanity Anonymous. Thinkers as diverse as Dr. Paul Brunton, Dr. Reinhold Neibuhr, and Barbara Marx Hubbard agree that this type of fellowship, eventually global in scope, is a necessary ingredient to bring about advancements in human evolution, harmony, and peace.

Download or read book Tales as Tools written by National Storytelling Association (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights major areas where storytelling is making a difference: in the teaching of reading, writing, history, science, and other subjects; in multicultural education and the creation of classroom communities; in improving students' emotional health; in enhancing children's grasp of our social and environmental responsibilities.