The Fish Horn Alarm: More Stories of Country Folk Life

Interlaken, New York: Empire State Books, 1994. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. First printing. Wrapper a bit toned, newspaper clipping with photograph of author laid in. 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.