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Peggy Poe Stern

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Description:Buck from Staggs Creek: Appalachian Tall Tales – One, Colloquial Dialect Edition, (Peggy’s 25th book, general fiction), 28,500 words, 90 pages (paperback)From Chapter 1: As I came up the winding trail to the Jones place, I saw her dipping up a pail of water from the spring branch. The house was just outta sight over the rise behind a clump of birches. She turned around and saw me and just stood there awaiting. The sight of her pretty nigh stopped the wind in my throat. Her sleeves were rolled up, and her arms, throat, and feet were all bare and white as anything I ever saw. Her eyes were shining like a fresh-opened buckeye, and her hair was like sunshine reflecting off a chunk of coal. I swallowed a time or two afore I spoke.“Morning Laurel,” I say right proper like, as I took off my favorite cap. “How are you-all this morning?”Water dripped off her pail onto a bare foot. “Maw’s spotted boar hog took a right severe chunk out of Fred’s left buttock last night, outside of that, we all be a doing fine.”I reckoned her runt brother was never going to figure out how to ride that hog, else he’d a done it already. Fool kid. Boar hogs were nothing to ride. Like setting on a log, but Fred was a bit slow. Course, I’d never mention such a notion to Laurel. She’s right partial to her brothers.“Are you glued to that mule?” She wanted to know.“No ma’am,” I say as I climbed down and reached for her pail. “Let me tote that heavy pail fur you.” I say in my best would-be courting voice.She started to let me take it from her, then reared back and took a closer look at me. She drew that pail back from my hand right fast. “You been a fighting again,” she accused.“Weren’t nothing,” I say as I remembered the scratch. “Weren’t a fight. We were just playing.”“Done gone and ruined another shirt,” she continued as she pointed a finger at my knifed shirt. “Who was it you fought with this time?”“Weren’t nobody. Just Joel Sexton. You know good and well he’s not got no playing manners. Playing fair just ain’t in him.”“You fight too much.”“Weren’t a fight.” I make a point of telling her again. “He threw off on Critter, here. Said I ought to get myself a horse to ride. Said it weren’t right for a jackass to ride a jackass.”“Who licked?”“Why,” I say, plumb shocked at her for asking such a foolish question. “Don’t I always lick?”Odd enough, she seemed irritated. “You think you’re the gall-fired toughest thing walking around these parts.”I answered her as truthfully as I knew how. “Fact is I am, except for my own pap.” Pap and I both knew he could put a right severe licking on me when he set his mind to it.Truth didn’t seem to be what she was after. She whirled around and took a step closer me, her eyes blazing. “You haven’t never fought none of my brothers or my pap,” she spouted off in her bragging way.Now that was a true statement.“That’s right,” I agreed. “They are your brothers and your pap. I’ve taken a right smart of sass off them hooligans because of you. Didn’t want to hurt none of your kin.”Gals can be mighty funny about some things. Truth is one of the things, I reckon.“Oh, is that so!” she says. “Let me tell you something, Buckingham Hullahand, the littlest of my brothers could put a whipping on you plenty good, and if you ever lay one finger on one of them, I’ll fix your mangy hide! And just so you know, I&rsquWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Buck from Staggs Creek: Appalachian Tall Tales - One, Light Dialect Edition. To get started finding Buck from Staggs Creek: Appalachian Tall Tales - One, Light Dialect Edition, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Buck from Staggs Creek: Appalachian Tall Tales – One, Colloquial Dialect Edition, (Peggy’s 25th book, general fiction), 28,500 words, 90 pages (paperback)From Chapter 1: As I came up the winding trail to the Jones place, I saw her dipping up a pail of water from the spring branch. The house was just outta sight over the rise behind a clump of birches. She turned around and saw me and just stood there awaiting. The sight of her pretty nigh stopped the wind in my throat. Her sleeves were rolled up, and her arms, throat, and feet were all bare and white as anything I ever saw. Her eyes were shining like a fresh-opened buckeye, and her hair was like sunshine reflecting off a chunk of coal. I swallowed a time or two afore I spoke.“Morning Laurel,” I say right proper like, as I took off my favorite cap. “How are you-all this morning?”Water dripped off her pail onto a bare foot. “Maw’s spotted boar hog took a right severe chunk out of Fred’s left buttock last night, outside of that, we all be a doing fine.”I reckoned her runt brother was never going to figure out how to ride that hog, else he’d a done it already. Fool kid. Boar hogs were nothing to ride. Like setting on a log, but Fred was a bit slow. Course, I’d never mention such a notion to Laurel. She’s right partial to her brothers.“Are you glued to that mule?” She wanted to know.“No ma’am,” I say as I climbed down and reached for her pail. “Let me tote that heavy pail fur you.” I say in my best would-be courting voice.She started to let me take it from her, then reared back and took a closer look at me. She drew that pail back from my hand right fast. “You been a fighting again,” she accused.“Weren’t nothing,” I say as I remembered the scratch. “Weren’t a fight. We were just playing.”“Done gone and ruined another shirt,” she continued as she pointed a finger at my knifed shirt. “Who was it you fought with this time?”“Weren’t nobody. Just Joel Sexton. You know good and well he’s not got no playing manners. Playing fair just ain’t in him.”“You fight too much.”“Weren’t a fight.” I make a point of telling her again. “He threw off on Critter, here. Said I ought to get myself a horse to ride. Said it weren’t right for a jackass to ride a jackass.”“Who licked?”“Why,” I say, plumb shocked at her for asking such a foolish question. “Don’t I always lick?”Odd enough, she seemed irritated. “You think you’re the gall-fired toughest thing walking around these parts.”I answered her as truthfully as I knew how. “Fact is I am, except for my own pap.” Pap and I both knew he could put a right severe licking on me when he set his mind to it.Truth didn’t seem to be what she was after. She whirled around and took a step closer me, her eyes blazing. “You haven’t never fought none of my brothers or my pap,” she spouted off in her bragging way.Now that was a true statement.“That’s right,” I agreed. “They are your brothers and your pap. I’ve taken a right smart of sass off them hooligans because of you. Didn’t want to hurt none of your kin.”Gals can be mighty funny about some things. Truth is one of the things, I reckon.“Oh, is that so!” she says. “Let me tell you something, Buckingham Hullahand, the littlest of my brothers could put a whipping on you plenty good, and if you ever lay one finger on one of them, I’ll fix your mangy hide! And just so you know, I&rsquWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Buck from Staggs Creek: Appalachian Tall Tales - One, Light Dialect Edition. To get started finding Buck from Staggs Creek: Appalachian Tall Tales - One, Light Dialect Edition, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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