Southern Fried
$75
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Southern Fried William Price Fox
TALL TALES, SHORT STORIES
-and some just plain Lies by WILLIAM PRICE FOX, of Columbia, S. C.
You’ll meet the master moonshiner Coley Moke, who’s trained his redbone hound to lead revenue agents into the swamp * Wilma Moses, who brings strawberry ripple ice cream to the boys in the auto dump after dark * Lonnie Register, sent to work on the road gang in his own home town * Greenwood Keho, the poker shark of Four Holes, S.C. * Leroy Jeffcoat, who wears his baseball uniform 365 days out of the year *
Fleetwood Driggers, who has the best soda-fountain hands in town * And a wild assortment of razor fighters, short-order cooks, square dancers and some of the happiest women South of Mason and Dixon’s line ” … it reflects the humor of a whole people … The entire book, with its concern for the welfare of moonshiners, pigs, dogs, children and Negroes, is a welcome antidote to the harsher side of life in our deep South … ”
The night Oral Roberts’ Tent Show broke up, all eight of Doug’s three-basket Fry-O-Laters were full and going, the big grill was packed solid with hamburgers and every broiler had four steaks with the fat hissing and flashing. The ten curb boys were screaming at the window and slamming on the order bell, the four waitresses up front were pounding on the partition glass and Doug was chewing his cigar and shouting … “Get it out, get it out. Come on, Preach, get it out …. ”
COLEY MOKE
“She said, ‘Coley Moke, you are the sorriest man on God’s green earth. Here it is almost winter, we got no money, we got no food, and you just lay there and stare up at that leaky roof. And what’s more, you’ve gone out and taken our last hog and traded it for another dog.'” “Then I said, ‘Emma Louise, if I told you once I told you a hundred times, I traded that hog and I got me a dog for the plain and simple reason that I can’t go running no fox with no hog …. ‘”
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