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•  Who Blowed Up the Church House?: and Other Ozark Folk Tales • interior artwork by Glen Rounds
• xv • Introduction (Who Blowed Up the Church House?: and Other Ozark Folk Tales) • essay by Vance Randolph
• 3 • Who Blowed Up the Church House? • short story by uncredited
• 6 • She Always Answered No • short story by uncredited
• 7 • Slow Train Trough Arkansas • short story by uncredited
• 10 • The Cookstove and the Circus • short story by uncredited
• 11 • The Deputy's Wife • short story by uncredited
• 13 • The Champion • short story by uncredited
• 14 • Snake in the Bed • short story by uncredited
• 16 • The Stranger and the Beans • short story by uncredited
• 17 • Fill, Bowl, Fill! • short story by uncredited
• 19 • How Kate Got a Husband • short story by uncredited
• 20 • The Heron and the Eel • short story by uncredited
• 22 • The Dumb Supper • short story by uncredited
• 23 • The Boy That Fooled His Folks • short story by uncredited
• 24 • Hoot-Owl Jessup • short story by uncredited
• 25 • The Devil in the Graveyard • short story by uncredited
• 26 • How Booger Done His Wife • short story by uncredited
• 27 • The Porter and the Squire • short story by uncredited
• 29 • The Jenkins Boys • short story by uncredited
• 31 • Hogeye and the Black Snake • short story by uncredited
• 33 • The Boot That Killed People • short story by uncredited
• 35 • Thirty Pieces of Silver • short story by uncredited
• 38 • The Tourist That Went Too Far • short story by uncredited
• 40 • Old Kitty Rollins • short story by uncredited
• 40 • The Snipe Hunters • short story by uncredited
• 42 • Uncle Adam's Cow • short story by uncredited
• 43 • Deacon Spurlock and the Legislature • short story by uncredited
• 45 • Gravels for a Goose • short story by uncredited
• 46 • The Great Badger Fight • short story by uncredited
• 48 • The Big Old Giant • short story by uncredited
• 50 • No Respect for the Dead • short story by uncredited
• 52 • Little Ab and the Scalding-Barrel • short story by uncredited
• 53 • Pennywinkle! Pennywinkle! • short story by uncredited
• 54 • Jay Caught the Devil • short story by uncredited
• 56 • Talking River • short story by uncredited
• 59 • The Little Blue Ball • short story by uncredited
• 60 • Jack Couldn't Make No Change • short story by uncredited
• 62 • The Woman and the Robber • short story by uncredited
• 64 • Them Newcomers Ruined the Meat • short story by uncredited
• 65 • The Banjo-Picking Girl • short story by uncredited
• 67 • Little Weed Marshall • short story by uncredited
• 70 • The Vinegar Jug • short story by uncredited
• 72 • Uncle Johnny's Bear • short story by uncredited
• 73 • The Newfangled Capsules • short story by uncredited
• 75 • High Water at Turkey Ford • short story by uncredited
• 77 • The Abolition of Scott County • short story by uncredited
• 79 • Hunting the Old Iron • short story by uncredited
• 80 • The Deaf Man's Answers • short story by uncredited
• 81 • A Pallet on the Floor • short story by uncredited
• 82 • The Rail Splitter • short story by uncredited
• 83 • Dividing Up the Dead • short story by uncredited
• 84 • Three Little Pigs • short story by uncredited
• 86 • The Pin in the Gatepost • short story by uncredited
• 87 • The Little Boy and the Snake • short story by uncredited
• 89 • Belle Starr and Jim Reed • short story by uncredited
• 91 • The Man from Hockey Mountain • short story by uncredited
• 93 • Shirttail Boys • short story by uncredited
• 94 • The Wool on Pappy's Filly • short story by uncredited
• 95 • The Fellow That Stole Corn • short story by uncredited
• 97 • Jasper Acted Kind of Foolish • short story by uncredited
• 99 • The Poppet Caught a Thief • short story by uncredited
• 101 • The Queen's White Glove • short story by uncredited
• 103 • Strawberries Are Easy Witched • short story by uncredited
• 105 • Naked ABove the Waist • short story by uncredited
• 108 • The Stupid Schoolmaster • short story by uncredited
• 111 • Johnny Appleseed • short story by uncredited
• 113 • The Singing Teacher and the Bear • short story by uncredited
• 115 • Geometry Is What Done It • short story by uncredited
• 118 • The Brown Mare • short story by uncredited
• 119 • She Wouldn't Be a Witch • short story by uncredited
• 121 • The Heirloom • short story by uncredited
• 122 • How the Still Got Busted • short story by uncredited
• 123 • The Little Man and the Granny Woman • short story by uncredited
• 124 • The Horseless Carriage • short story by uncredited
• 126 • Oolah! Oolah! • short story by uncredited
• 127 • The Footloose Family • short story by uncredited
• 130 • Shoes for the King • short story by uncredited
• 133 • Jack and the Little Bull • short story by uncredited
• 135 • A Coonbone for Luck • short story by uncredited
• 137 • The End of the Benders • short story by uncredited
• 139 • The Three Wishes • short story by uncredited
• 140 • Two Seeds in the Spirit • short story by uncredited
• 143 • Under Gravel I Do Travel • short story by uncredited
• 144 • The Mare's Nest • short story by uncredited
• 145 • A Notch Marks the Spot • short story by uncredited
• 146 • He Throwed Down His Gun • short story by uncredited
• 148 • Jack and Old Tush • short story by uncredited
• 150 • The Fiddler's Wife • short story by uncredited
• 152 • Rick Tyler and the Lawyer • short story by uncredited
• 153 • How Betsy Got Drowned • short story by uncredited
• 155 • Scratches on the Bedstead • short story by uncredited
• 158 • The Pea-Green Jug • short story by uncredited
• 160 • Confederates in the News • short story by uncredited
• 163 • Three Black Cats • short story by uncredited
• 164 • The Women Sucked His Blood • short story by uncredited
• 166 • How Jack Got His Big Farm • short story by uncredited
• 168 • Hiram Ain't Here No More • short story by uncredited
• 169 • The Sheriff and the Gallows • short story by uncredited
• 171 • Si Burton's Little Black Dog • short story by uncredited
• 173 • White-Bear Whittington • short story by uncredited
• 175 • The Mare with the False Tail • short story by uncredited
• 179 • Comments of a Folklorist • essay by Herbert Halpert
• 183 • Notes (Who Blowed Up the Church House?: and Other Ozark Folk Tales) • essay by Herbert Halpert and Vance Randolph