ISBN:
9780803285910
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0803285914
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource
Parallel Title:
Print version Welsch, Roger L., author Why I'm an only child and other slightly naughty Plains folktales
DDC:
398.20978
Keywords:
Welsch, Roger L. Welsch, Roger L.
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1900-1999
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Welsch, Roger L
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Welsch, Roger L
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Welsch, Roger L
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Authors, American Biography
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20th century
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Folklore Nebraska
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Folklore
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Authors, American Biography 20th century
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Authors, American Biography 20th century
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Folklore
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Manners and customs
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Folklore
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Folklore & Mythology
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Biographies
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Authors, American
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Nebraska Social life and customs
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Nebraska
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Nebraska Social life and customs
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Nebraska Social life and customs
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Nebraska
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Electronic books Biography
Abstract:
A Brief but Suitably Scholarly and Boring Introduction -- But Enough about Me-What Do You Know about Me? -- Plain Talk about the Plains, Definitions, and What Folklore Is, Isn't, Might Be, and Is Mostly -- A Lesson in Proper Diction -- Why I'm an Only Child -- A Special Announcement -- Dad Instructs Me about Civil Ribaldry Even as I Thought I Was Instructing Him -- Naughty Is in the Ears of the Beholder -- A First Lesson in Military Nomenclature -- Diction Friction -- Evoked and Provoked -- Cipherin' -- Thinking Fast -- Cold . . . and Deep -- Inhouse Outhouses -- Speaking of Treed Raccoons -- Harvard Law -- Urban vs. Rural -- The Eternal Cuckold -- Now's Your Chance -- Using the Imagination -- Ways of the Wise -- Traffic Flow -- Speaking of the Innocence of the Gentle Sex -- Oh, Dat Ole! Oh, Dat Lena! -- Same Idea, Different Names -- No Boyz Aloud -- The Church of What? -- What Did He Say? -- How You Gonna Keep 'Em down on the Farm (after They've Seen the Farm) -- The Birds Do It, Bees Do It -- Indiscreet Secretions -- Why Is It Called a "Fly?" -- Geriatric Indignities -- Callow Youth -- Age Has Nothing to Do with It -- Innocent? Or Simply Not Guilty? -- Other Unmentionables -- An Afterword
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