From Hell to Breakfast

This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society contains African-American baptizings; adventures of a ballad hunter; Carrie-Dykes a midwife; Big Sam and De Golden Chariot; tale of the two companions; Mexican Mnchausen; some odd Mexican customs; legend of the tengo fro 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; and the low down on Jim Bowie.