Books: Mountain Frolics

TALES FROM THE CLOUD WALKING COUNTRY (270 pp.)—Marie Campbell—Indiana University ($4.50).

If a person goes up into the mountain country of eastern Kentucky, up along Defeated Creek or Betty's Troublesome or Caney, and if he'll just sit down and rest a minute, he's likely to hear a fine mort of olden tales. Schoolma'am Marie Campbell, who put together this book, was pleasured a heap to sit alistening to the olden tales and to write them down so they would keep.

By traveling a far piece to all the frolics and play-parties in the mountain country, Schoolma'am Campbell became friendlylike with Aunt Lizbeth...

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