Dog Tales

Notes: THE PICKUP TRUCK was composed by Ruby Altizer, a Berea College student in 1977. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-martin-ramsay5/support

Notes: USELESS’S OLD DOG was aired on Kentucky Educational Television in a program of a video tape interview with Ulysses (pronounced useless) Vanover of McCreary County, Kentucky and aired on January 5, 1977. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-martin-ramsay5/support

Notes: NO TRESPASSING was collected from Bert Killian, Murphy, North Carolina in 1969. (see also FASTEST DOG IN THE WORLD) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-martin-ramsay5/support

Notes: OLD HOUND DOG was collected from Mona Coleman, a Berea College student in 1976. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-martin-ramsay5/support

Notes: FLEA BIT was collected from Lewis Lamb of Paint Lick, Kentucky in 1980. I transcribed the tale from a recording of Lewis’s telling of a true story. (see also COUNTING DOG, RABIES SHOTS and SS-FF) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-martin-ramsay5/support

Notes: HONEST SAM was told by Samuel Clemens in his autobiography.  Twain concludes Chapter 30 with these words, “Now then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.”   And I add: that is Sam’s tale, more-or-less. You can read the tale in his own words in The Autobiography of Mark Twain, edited by Charles Neider, Harper and Row, New York, 1959, pp 155-159. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-martin-ramsay5/support

Notes: SOUND SHOOTING BACKFIRES was collected from a Berea College student. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-martin-ramsay5/support

Notes: ZIG ZAG LIPS—see Johnson, F. Roy, How and Why, Johnson Publishing Company, Murfreesboro, North Carolina, 1971; source T. K. Warren of Hereford County, North Carolina in 1966. Used by permission of author. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-martin-ramsay5/support

Notes: THE VENTRILOQUIST  I failed to note where I heard this tale but it is fairly well spread. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-martin-ramsay5/support

Notes: ANNIE was collected from Marshall Roberts, a Berea College student in 1981. He heard the story from Alan Tench of Banks County, Georgia who had it from his grandfather, Hamilton Tench. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-martin-ramsay5/support

Notes: QUISLING was collected from Gwen McVicker in 1980 who has it from Andy McMahan of Louisville, Kentucky. David Macemon of Woodford County, Kentucky says he has heard a Science Fiction story about Thomas A. Edison inventing an intelligence test which he tries on a dog who scores “way off the top.” The dog then admits that he can talk and is killed by other dogs for giving out their secret. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-martin-ramsay5/support

Notes: IN THE LEAD BY A TAIL —see A Treasury of Southern Folklore, ed. by Botkin, New York, Crown Publishers, 1949, pp 128-129. Also in The Old Time Tennessee Orator by John Randall, pp 359-360. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-martin-ramsay5/support

Notes: HOT ROD HOUND was collected from SANDY COPLEN SMITH who got it from her roommate, Susan Adams who got it from her father in Coal City, West Virginia. I have heard the same tale several other times but the subject was a cat who was frozen in a refrigerator and revived with gasoline. This is a favorite of my grandson whose mother’s father, Red Harrison of LaFollette, Tennessee, tells the tale. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-martin-ramsay5/support

Notes: SS-FF was collected from Lewis Lamb of Paint Lick, Kentucky in 1975. Lewis learned this story from a co-worker on a construction project in Cincinnati, Ohio back in the 1940’s but, in retelling the tale he changed it from a horse to a dog. (see also COUNTING DOG, FLEA BIT, and RABIES SHOTS) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-martin-ramsay5/support

Notes: RABIES SHOTS was collected from Lewis Lamb of Paint Lick, Kentucky in 1980.  I transcribed the tale from a recording of Lewis’s telling of a true story. (see also COUNTING DOG, FLEA BIT, and SS-FF) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-martin-ramsay5/support

Notes: TRAINING YOUNG FOX HOUNDS was collected from Mark Rector of Madison County, North Carolina in 1981. This is a true event according to Mark. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-martin-ramsay5/support

Notes: THE BILLY ROUGH was collected from Dear Rathbone, a Berea College student from Haywood County, North Carolina in 1980.  Dean learned this from his uncle Miles Rathbone, also of Fines Creek. A subsequent letter from Dean says that this incident really happened in the Jerry rough.  Dean has written many stories from his home on Fines Creek. (see https://www.facebook.com/groups/1039030522847750/) --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-martin-ramsay5/support

Notes: COUNTING DOG was collected from Lewis Lamb of Paint Lick, Kentucky in 1980. This tales is widely known and is one most likely to be told when one asks for a dog tale. Lewis’s setting in the mountains is unusual and is probably his own addition to the tale. He is a first rate yarn spinner as well as a champion fiddler. (see RABIES SHOTS andSS-FF). --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-martin-ramsay5/support

Notes: RABBIT IN THE WELL was collected from VELNA KEY, a Berea College student in 1980. Velna heard the story from the father, John Key in central North Carolina and he got it from June Peele. Velna says she “grew up hearing such tales.” --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-martin-ramsay5/support

Notes: MAIL DOG was collected from Coreen Brewer of Jackson County, Kentucky in 1979. Coreen learned this from her mother, Eulalia Foutch in about 1960 who learned it from her father, William Keith of Burning Springs, Clay County, Kentucky in about 1925. She said the dog’s name was Bounce. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-martin-ramsay5/support