Down the Hill and Across the Road: A Book of Short Stories

Down the Hill and Across the Road: A Book of Short Stories

by James Gray
Down the Hill and Across the Road: A Book of Short Stories

Down the Hill and Across the Road: A Book of Short Stories

by James Gray

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Overview

This book is about the growing years a boy who was part of a large family during the nineteen forties and fifties in the Missouri Ozarks.


Life is filled with humorous events. The book is about these humorous times and events. As you read, the book will make you laugh, other parts will make your imagination kick into gear and you may feel a tear run down your cheek.


The setting of the book is the Missouri Ozarks which gives it a hillbilly flavor. If you enjoy humor from a young person's propspective you will, no doubt, find youreself re-reading this book.


For the older readers I am sure they will identify with many of the conditions mentioned and will recall similar times in their own life.


I pray my stories make you laugh or at the least bring a smile to your face.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781632638717
Publisher: Booklocker.com, Incorporated
Publication date: 07/20/2018
Pages: 98
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.23(d)

About the Author

James (Jim) got his inspiration to write by telling stories with his grandchildren. He is a U. S. Army veteran and a retired Baptist Minister. His short stories are inspired by his growing up, years in the Ozarks, plus his life as a Father, Grandfather and Baptist Minster.

Table of Contents

Table Utensils

Sleeping in an Unfinished House

Cutting a Christmas Tree

Eatin Cracklins and Drinkin Sassafras Tea

Falling Through the Ice while Crossing the Creek

A Fight

Graduating Eighth Grade

Driving Sand Ridge Road when it’s Muddy

Baptizing in Honey Creek

Putting up the TV Antenna

Meeting my Wife Shirley

The Steer Head and the Outdoor Toilet

Reading in First Grade

Lunches at the One Room School

Women’s Coats, Cold Biscuits and Peanut Butter

Wild Blackberry Patches In the Missouri Ozarks

Gas in the One Room School House

My Mom would not Drive a Car

The Sewer Rat

Moving Hillbilly Style

The Outdoor Toilet

I Honestly Thought the Pig was Dead

Buildin Wagons and Butcherin Chickens

The Chicken in the Kitchen

Coming Home

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