Idylls of the Skillet Fork

by Payson Sibley Wild

EN·~1 hours·27 chapters

Chapters

27 total

Foreword

1:08

I The Skillet

1:57

II The Bootleg Gang at Sims’

2:30

III The Mocking Bird

2:30

IV The Siren

1:29

V Laury at the ’Phone

1:28

VI The ’Possum Hunt

2:14

VII Jupiter

2:07

VIII Laury’s Lullaby

1:34

IX Bill Non-Committal

3:23

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Description

Reprinted in part from the Chicago Tribune.

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Duration

~1 hours (64K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, 1918.

Credits

Bob Taylor, Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

Jan 29, 2024

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72807

Subjects

Dialect poetry, American Country life -- United States -- Poetry PS

About the author

Payson Sibley Wild

1869–1951

A classicist, literary clubman, and poet of rural America, he moved comfortably between the ancient world and the Illinois countryside. His best-known work, Idylls of the Skillet Fork, turns everyday farm life into warm, musical verse.

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