Short and tall tales : Moose County legends collected by James Mackintosh Qwilleran Cover Image

Short and tall tales : Moose County legends collected by James Mackintosh Qwilleran / Lilian Jackson Braun.

Record details

ISBN: 0399149562
ISBN: 9780399149566
Physical Description: 145 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Putnam's, [2002]
Copyright: ©2002

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Legend of the rubbish heap -- Secret of the Blacksmith's wife -- Housecalls on horseback -- Hilda the clipper -- Milo the potato farmer -- Little old man in the woods -- My great-grandmother's coal mine -- True (?) history of Squunk water -- Whooping it up with the loggers -- "Princess" and the pirates -- Wildcattin' with an old hog -- Scratching under the door -- Dimsdal jinx -- Mystery of Dank Hollow -- Tale of two tombstones -- Pork-and-beans incident at Boggy Bottom -- At last, a hospital in the wilderness -- Emmaline and the spiral staircase -- Curious fate of the Jenny Lee -- Scary experience on a covered bridge -- Cat tale: Holy terror and the Bishop -- Those pushy Moose County blueberries -- Curse on the apple orchard -- Matilda, a family heroine -- How plesant street got its name -- Noble sons of the noose -- Phineas Ford's fabulous collection.