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Chapter 22

Wise and Gnomic Sayings

Charms and Superstitions

  • Bat! Bat!, 202
  • Black-eyed Peas for Luck, 200
  • Don't Sing before Breakfast, 186
  • How to Make it Rain, 101
  • Jaybird, 14
  • Molly Cottontail, or Graveyard Rabbit, 8
  • My Speckled Hen, 170
  • Periwinkle, 201
  • Speak Softly, 214

Hunting Songs

  • Fox and Geese, 40
  • He will Get Mr. Coon, 28
  • Hunting Camp, The, 43
  • Miss Slippy Sloppy, 100
  • Opossum Hunt, An, 23
  • Rattler, 46

Drinking Songs

  • Aunt Dinah Drunk, 53
  • Bring on your Hot Corn, 29
  • Little Red Hen, 37
  • Brag and Boast, 213
  • Don't Tell All You Know, 214
  • Drinking Razor Soup, 211
  • Fed from the Tree of Knowledge, 212
  • How to Plant and Cultivate Seeds, 208
  • Independent, 209
  • Learn to Count, 207
  • Man of Words, A, 208
  • Old Man Know-all, 211
  • Self-control, 213
  • Speak Softly, 214
  • Still Water Runs Deep, 214
  • Temperance Rhyme, 209
  • That Hypocrite, 210
  • Tongue, The, 212
  • War is On, The, 207