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From Hell to Breakfast edited by Mody C. Boatright and Donald Day |
How far is it from hell to breakfast? Out in the cow country a man upon returning from a trip might say that he had traveled from hell to breakfast. Nobody could tell you in miles just how far he had been, but everybody would know that he had traveled a far piece and covered a lot of territory.
This book contains something about hell and something about breakfast and something about a lot of things in between. If we have rambled too far, maybe the range boss, J. Frank Dobie, will throw us back on the trail when he gets through rambling from hell to breakfast.
The book contains Negro baptizings; adventures of a ballad hunter; Carrie-Dykes—midwife; Big Sam and De Golden Chariot; tale of the two companions; Mexican Münchausen; some odd Mexican customs; legend of the tengo frío bird; leaves of mesquite grass; dancing makes fun; dancing makes rain; Indian sign on the Spaniard's cattle; ear marks; white Comanches; panther yarns; more about "Hell in Texas"; oil patch talk; Old Newt, the practical joker; moron jokes; the musical snake; the song of the little Llano; the threshing crew; the low down on Jim Bowie.
From Hell to Breakfast
+ ISBN 0-929398-099-7 paper $18.95s
Folklore #19. 222 pp.
Publication Date: 2000.
