DOG TALES

Notes: WALKING ON WATER was collected from Loyal Jones, Director of Berea College Appalachian Center, 1975. This is one of the most widespread dog stories. (see also RIDDLE and RIFLE TOTING MONKEY)

Notes: THE PICKUP TRUCK was composed by Ruby Altizer, a Berea College student in 1977.

Notes: USELESS’S OLD DOG was aired on Kentucky Educational Television in a program of a video tape interview with Ulysses (pronounced useless) Vanover of McCreary County, Kentucky and aired on January 5, 1977.

Notes: NO TRESPASSING was collected from Bert Killian, Murphy, North Carolina in 1969. (see also FASTEST DOG IN THE WORLD)

Notes: OLD HOUND DOG was collected from Mona Coleman, a Berea College student in 1976.

Notes: FLEA BIT was collected from Lewis Lamb of Paint Lick, Kentucky in 1980. I transcribed the tale from a recording of Lewis’s telling of a true story. (see also COUNTING DOG, RABIES SHOTS and SS-FF)

Notes: HONEST SAM was told by Samuel Clemens in his autobiography.  Twain concludes Chapter 30 with these words, “Now then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.”  

And I add: that is Sam’s tale, more-or-less. You can read the tale in his own words in The Autobiography of Mark Twain, edited by Charles Neider, Harper and Row, New York, 1959, pp 155-159.

Notes: SOUND SHOOTING BACKFIRES was collected from a Berea College student.

Notes: ZIG ZAG LIPS—see Johnson, F. Roy, How and Why, Johnson Publishing Company, Murfreesboro, North Carolina, 1971; source T. K. Warren of Hereford County, North Carolina in 1966. Used by permission of author.

Notes: THE VENTRILOQUIST  I failed to note where I heard this tale but it is fairly well spread.