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The Golden Log Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; No. 31
author
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Boatright, Mody Coggin; Hudson, Wilson Mathis; Allen, Maxwell W.
publisher
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University of North Texas Press
isbn10 | asin
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1574411101
print isbn13
:
9781574411102
ebook isbn13
:
9780585285689
language
:
English
subject
Folklore--Texas.
publication date
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2000
lcc
:
GR1.T4 2000eb
ddc
:
398/.09764
subject
:
Folklore--Texas.
Page i
The Golden Log
Edited by Mody C. Boatright Wilson M. Hudson, Associate Editor Allen Maxwell, Associate Editor
Publications of The Texas Folklore Society Number XXXI
Page ii
Copyright 2000 by The Texas Folklore Society
All rights Reserved
Copyright 1962by TheTexas Folklore Society Southern Methodist University Press
Printed in the United States of America
Permissions: University of North Texas Press P. 0. Box 311336 Denton, Texas 76203 (940) 565-2142 FAX (940) 565-4590
ISBN 1-57441-110-1
Page v
Contents
The Golden Log: an East Texas Paradise Lost
Francis E. Abernethy
3
Thirteen Tales from Houston County
Theodore B. Brunner
8
Homemade Tales
Richard M. Rivers
23
Joe Sap, Wit and Storyteller
A. L. Bennett
34
Tarantula Lore
Lois Brock
41
The Mystery of the Five Graves
John C. Myers
53
The Petroleum Geologist: A Folk Image
Mody C. Boatright
58
From Flygap to Whybark: Some Unusual Texas Place Names
John Q. Anderson
73
Cowboy Comedians and Horseback Humorists
Paul Patterson
99
Page vi
Superstitions in Vermilion Parish
Elizabeth Brandon
108
The Changing Concept of the Negro Hero
Roger Abrahams
119
Don Juan Zurumbete
Riley Aiken
135
Work and Play on a Border Ranch
Rosalinda Gonzalez
141
Cuentos de Susto
Baldemar A. Jimenez
156
Contributors
165
Index
167
Page 3
The Golden Log: An East Texas Paradise Lost
Francis E. Abernethy
I first heard the following East Texas story, with its Paradise Lost theme (A1331), ten years ago from a student of mine at Woodville, Texas, High School. She told it with only the scantiest of detail, and I do not remember whether she accepted it as fact or as fantasy. More recently Walter Lavine of Ruliff, Texas, told me a variant of the story; this time the setting was across the river in Louisiana. I have been passing this tale on for several years, every time I discussed the sources of Paradise Lost. In comparison with the first version I heard, current versions have grown; but this has been a growth in detail, not a change in essence.
There used to be a place where the sawmill and the commissary were on one side of a big, deep creek and the settlement on the other. But the people never had any trouble getting across because there was a big golden log spanning the creek and it was easy to walk across.
Since this was the only crossing for many miles either way, the mill boss and everybody really kept an eye on this golden log to keep anything from happening to it, and there was a general understanding that the log was to walk on and nothing else. But the women got to chipping off a little every once in a while and trading it in to the commissary agent for new clothes and bedspreads and things like that.
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Everybody in the settlement was doing real well and they didn't need the money, but that's the way they were.
Well, they chipped and whittled on the sly and the log got smaller and smaller, but they cut it down so slowly that nobody ever noticed it. There were a few more people than usual falling in the creek, but still nobody thought much about itexcept the women, of course; they knew.
Finally one day a new bride came across, going over to get some flour and a new enamel water dipper. She got to the middle of the log, looked all around, but didn't see anybody, so she bent over and chinked herself out a piece of gold and said to herself, "I believe I'll get me a new dress to look pretty in for the dance next Saturday night." She walked a little farther and said to herself, "It won't hurt to have some new shoes to go with it"; and she looked all around and then cut another little chunk out. She got across the log, stopped, and thought, "Takes a new hat to really get started in." One more look and she stepped back to the log, leaned out a little, and sliced a long sliver right off the top.
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