Smiley. Folk-Lore from Virginia, etc.

Today's free book is Folk-Lore from Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida by Portia Smiley (1919). For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Hathi Trust (I have not checked for other online sources).


Table of Contents

1. Does a Cow have Pigs?
2. Big-'Fraidand Little-'Fraid 
3. Digdee Owl 
4. Takes No Risk 
5. Don't help the Bear 
6. Wolf's Tail to the Hungry Orphan 
7. The Lord and Toby
8. Master Disguised
9. Dirt-Dauber 
10. How Duck saw Day
11. Out of her Skin 
12. The Lover Warned 
13. The Murderous Mother
14. Us 
15. Witch-Cat 
16. Zip! Zip! 
17. The Blind Old Woman 
18. Running Hand 
19. Incriminating the Other Fellow 
20. Racing a Ghost: Buried Treasure
21. Buried Tail 
22. The Girls who could not talk Proper 
23. Seeking the Lord 
24. The Imitative Choir
25. The Diviner 
26. The Single Ball 
27. The Deer-Stalker 
28. Jonah 
29. Who darkens that Hole?
30. Where did Adam hide?
31. Three Sweethearts 
32. Two Daddies 
33. You ridin', you walkin'?
34. The Little Girl and her Snake 
35. The Deacon and his Son
36. Heaven Hot, Hell Cold
37. Hell in Heaven 
38. Dilatory Buzzard 
RIDDLES 
PROVERBS 
TOASTS AND OTHER VERSES
FOLK WAYS AND NOTIONS