Hoosier Stories of His Boyhood Days in Indiana, as Told by Dr. S. W. Heath
A longhand recollection of a late-19th-century boyhood in Monroe Township, Delaware County, Indiana. Available in the Genealogy Center, call number 977.201 D37HS.
Table of Contents:
Title Page
Photos
Preface
Map of Mt. Zion Neighborhood
Sale of Great-Grandfather's Slaves
Ralph Heath's Cabin, 1828
Father Kills a Wild Cat
Boy Who Couldn't Resist Temptation
A School Tragedy
Grandmother's Room
Kale Dewees Going Courting
The Old Log Church, Mt. Zion
The Preacher and the Fiddle
Adam No. 2
Brook Noname
Hunting Presbyterians
The Last Old Rooster
Old Ramshackle Church, Yorktown
Going to Mill to Ramshakle Town
Our First Day of School
Gape Seed for Sale
A Financier
Country Jakes, Town Boys
A Ghost Story
Dead Drunk
Liable to Explode
Old Fashioned Comforts
Old Mormon Preacher and His Boys
Golly, Wuznt That a Whopper!
The Old "Swimin" Hole
Doc Helm's Melon Patch
Fifty Dollars for an Owl's Gizzard
My Only Successful Coon Hunt
Nutting
A Mad Dog Scare
A Hoosier Sugar Camp
Stealing Away to the Sugar Camp
Breaking the Home Ties
The Little Early "Rizer"
Playing Hooky
Truants at a Mayapple Picnic
My (No) Study Corner
The Wolf Hunt
C. M. Tuttle
White Oak School, 1875
Last Day of School: The Banquet
Butternut Pins, Copperhead War
A Liar and a Coward
Raid on the Dunkard Meeting
Riot at the County Fair
Tar and Feather Treatment
A Bit of Cussedness
Playing the Flute
A Case of Trance
Snake Stories
The Country Store
The Country Store Gang
Stuffing the Old Farmer
Line Up After Church at Mt. Zion
A Shouting Time at Old Mt. Zion
Epitaphs
Buried Alive
A Wedding
The Woodpile of Reconsideration
Finding a Good Thing
Scared Man Praying in a Well
Man Who Couldn't Take Pills
Quit, Quit, Quit, Quit
Beefsteak for Landlord...
Free Delivery
The Old Town Indian Ghost
Scaring Out a Poor Tenant
The Confession
Bear Scratching
A Light Joke
A Capet Tack Joke
How the Joker Got the Job
The Farmer and the Traveling Man
Col. Sanford's Story
A Yankey Trick
Three Card Monte at the County Fair
It Didn't Work
High Populorum; Yanke Maroo
A Meeting of the Dragons
Snoring; Is Ma After Pa, Too?
How Infidels Are Made
Father's Still Dead
How an Old Farmer Got Rid of Straw
Return of a Prodigal Son
The Use of Masonry
Prof. Harper
Beat at His Own Game
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
Country Boarding
Farmer's Tricks
Skinning the Farmer
Skinning Another Farmer
Stories by the Dakota Farmer
A Spiritual Seance
Materializing Spirits
A Parlor Spiritual Seance
The Mind Reader
The Rat Show
Spelling Class and Hinglish Teacher
English as Spoken
Among Hoosier Domestics
Jim Riley's Bear Story
Good Night
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