The Fish Horn Alarm: More Stories of Country Folk Life

Interlaken, New York: Empire State Books, 1994. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x0x8. First printing. Wrappers slightly toned. 1994 Trade Paperback. 128 pp. The second collection of New York folktales by the author of The Groaning Tree. Includes: The Fish Horn Alarm; Old Hazards of Trolley Riding; Train Watchers; Poverty Huddle & Hobo Hell; Ghost of Eliza O'Brien; Sign That Became a Beacon; Happy Makers; Mystery Cottage; Privy Art; Bears, Wolves and the U.S. Mail; The Strange Experience of Bertha Connelly; A Short Circuit that Started a Multi-Million Dollar Industry; The Man With the Healing Touch; The Fairy Farm; Guarding Troop Trains; Train Robbery Attempt; The Unexpected Scoop; A Baby Betrothal; The Phantom Train; The Pond With the Tropical Monsters; The Great Wagon Sales; The World's Largest Radio Set; Musicians; The Runaway Slave; Mud Pies Helped Build the Panama Canal; Superlatives; When the Threat of Hell Scared the Hell Out of Victor; Cannonading the Thruway; Local Quotes; Jacqua and Soeka Gahgwa; The Locomotive Bob Sled; Fire Fighting Hazards; Ancestors Not a Social Disease.