Folklore on the American land.
(Book)

American folklore ? Some guideposts ? Folk language and grammar ? A manuscript of the folk language, Samuel M. Van Swearengen : My revenge on old schoolmates for thire cruell treatments in school ; The wild Irish minister at the country school house ? Proverbs and proverbial speech ? AMERICAN NAMES . Place names ; Names of western mining camps and mines ; Cattle brands ; Quilt names ; Names of Ozark fiddle tunes ; Names of racehorses ; Hound dog names ; Nicknames ? CHILDREN?S FOLKLORE . Riddles : The true riddle ; The neck riddle ; The puzzle or problem riddle ; The conundrum ? Nonsense spelling ? Game Rhymes : Jump-rope rhymes ; The counting-out rhymes ; Hide and seek, or I spy ; Teasing Rhymes ? STREET CRIES AND EPITAPHS. Street cries ; Epitaphs ? LEGENDS AND TALES. Legends : Santa Claus ; The cowboy ; Jesse James ; Sam Bass ; Custer?s last charge ; Frankie and Johnny ; Harvard?s Kittredge ? Urban belief tales : The rape trial ; The second blue book ; The runaway grandmother ; The hook ; The boyfriend?s death ; The roommate?s death ; The decapitated victim ; The furry collar ; The ghostly hitchhiker ? The Jack Tales : Mrs. Maud Long introduces the Jack tales ; Jack and the giants? new ground ; Jack and the varmints ? Tales told in the Gullah Dialect : How buh houn got his long mouth ; How buh wasp gets his small waist ; Man git e [his] Adam apple ; B?Allegetter sees trouble ? Tall Tales, Jim Bridger ? The Cante-fable : Little Dickie Whigburn ; The irresistible captain ; Mr. Garfield ? FOLKSONGS AND BALLADS . Historical songs : Free America ; Washington the Great ; Hunters of Kentucky ; The southern soldier ; The bonny blue flag ; The homespun dress ; Good old rebel ; Phil Sheridan ; The iron merimac ; The Cumberland?s crew ; We are coming, Father Abraham ; Father Abraham?s reply to the six hundred thousand ; Mademoiselle from Armentieres ? Sea Shanties : Capstan Shanties ; A-roving or The Amsterdam Maid ; Shenandoah ; Rio Grande ; Rolling home; Homeward bound or Goodbye, fare you well ; Halyard shanties ; The dead horse ; Blow, boys blow ; Roll, Alabama, roll! ; Hanging Johnny ; Short-haul shanties ; Paddy Doyle ; Haul the bowline ; Walkaway or stamp-and-go-shanty ; The drunken sailor ; Forecastle songs ; The sailor?s alphabet ; The loss of the New Columbia ; Captain Ward and the rainbow ? Cow-Country Songs : The Old Chisholm Trail ; Whoopee, ti-yi-o, git along little dogies ; The night-herding song ; Goodbye, Old Paint ; The dying cowboy (bury me not on the lone prairie) ; Little Joe, the wrangler ; The buffalo skinners ; The streets of Laredo ; The Texas Rangers ; The dying ranger ; The trail to Mexico ? Love Songs : The bugaboo ; Home, daughter, home ; Pretty little miss ; Green willow , green willow ; The butcher boy ; Waily, waily ; come all you young and tender ladies, or the Unconstant lover ; Little sparrow ; The cuckoo ; Old Smoky ; Down in the valley ; Careless love ;; The Brazos River ; Last night I dreamed of my true love ; The false true-lover ; Once I courted a pretty little girl ; I asked that girl to marry me ; Oh, love it is a killing thing ; Madam, I have a very fine farm ; Sally Goodin ; Ibby Damsel ; An old man and a young man ; Cindy ; East Virginia ; The cruel war is raging ; The broken token ; The low lands of Holland ; Barbara Allen ; The unquiet grave ? Murder Ballads : Expert town or The Oxford tragedy ; Florella or The Jealous lover ; The lily of the west ; Johnson-Jinkson ; Frankie Silvers ; Mary Hamilton or the four Marys ? FOLK BELIEFS AND SUPERSTITIONS . Folk medicine ; Weatherlore ; Folklore of birth ; Folklore of marriage ; Folklore of death.