Tales of Quails 'n SuchUniv of South Carolina Press, 1985 - 240 pages According to the author, the twenty-six stories collected in Tales of Quails 'n Such are lazy, losse-fingered and rambling accounts of my jaunts afoot. There is not one well organized and plotted tale among them. I suppose I ought to apologize for their formlessness, but that would be apologizing for deficiencies in my own character. A hunting or fishing trip is not by nature a closely planned and scheduled affair. You never know what is going to happen outdoors, for nature is more surprising than a woman. The University of South Carolina Press is proud to republish these stories. The tales were first collected in 1951 and there is a timelessness about them. They are for people who revel in simple things--a bevy of quail scudding over tawny broom sedge; a staunch dog silhouetted against the setting sun; a night's untroubled sleep; the soft swish of a paddle at sunrise; a cooling drink from a sequestered spring at noon-tide. |
Contents
The Old Maid | 3 |
Labor Trouble on the Punkin Vine | 19 |
The Smartest Thing | 39 |
How to Miss Birds | 58 |
You Cant Go Back Again | 78 |
Quail Hunting in the Old Dominion | 97 |
My Husband Is Slightly Off | 115 |
A Bird Hunter Must Walk | 130 |
I Went to See a Man About a Dog | 146 |
Good Bird Hunters Go to Heaven | 162 |
Let em Fall in Love First | 180 |
The Backsliders | 197 |
Possum up de Simmon Tree | 210 |
Hunting BeeTrees | 223 |