Short and tall tales
Subtitle: Moose County legends collected by James Mackintosh Qwilleran
By: Lilian Jackson Braun
Edition: Jove ed.
Publisher: Jove Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780515136357
Copyright date: 2002
Subjects: Moose County (Imaginary place); Fiction
Other titles: Short & tall tales
Description: Fictional columnist James Qwilleran presents a collection of stories that spotlights the colorful world of Moose County and its residents in such legends as "The Secret of the Blacksmith's Wife" and "The Trevelyan Curse."
Table of contents: title: The legend of the rubbish heap; title: Secret of the blacksmiths wife; title: Housecalls on horseback; title: Hilda the clipper; title: Milo the potato farmer; title: The little old man in the woods; title: My great-grandmother's coal mine; title: The true (?) history of Squunk Water; title: Whooping it up with the loggers; title: "The Princess" and the pirates; title: Wildcattin' with an old hog; title: The scratching under the door; title: The Dimsdale jinx; title: The mystery of Dank Hollow; title: Tale of two tombstones; title: The pork-and-beans incident at Boggy Bottom; title: At last, a hospital in the wilderness; title: Emmaline and the spiral staircase; title: The curious fate of the Jenny Lee; title: A scary experience on a covered bridge; title: A cat tale: Holy Terror and the Bishop; title: Those pushy Moose County blueberries; title: The curse on the apple orchard; title: Matilda, a family heroine; title: How Pleasant Street got its name; title: The noble sons of the noose; title: Phineas Ford's fabulous collection.