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Monksmeg: A Folk Tale from the Kentucky Hills

Monksmeg: A Folk Tale from the Kentucky Hills Delia Slone Appalachian Heritage, Volume 1, Number 3, Summer 1973, pp. 45-47 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1973.0010 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/441951/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 23:22 GMT from JHU Libraries Appalachian Grandmaw 45 Monksmeg A Folk Tale from the Kentucky HiBs as told by Delia Slone Well, it was this way. When we was young we had no books, so we told tales. Monksmeg was an old woman who had two children. Well, one time Monksmeg and her two children, both girls, was a-travelin' through the country and it got dark and they wanted to stay all night. Now they wan't nobody lived in that country but a king and a giant. And so when Monksmeg come to a house, she went up to the door and ast to stay all night. And this was the ?G mean giant's house. The old giant said they could stay, but Mongsmeg was scared of the old giant. The giant ast 'em when they got ready to go to bed, "Had you rather sleep downstairs on a hard bed or upstairs on a feather bed?" The girls said, "We'd rather sleep http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Monksmeg: A Folk Tale from the Kentucky Hills

Slone, Delia.
Appalachian Review , Volume 1 (3) – Jan 8, 2014
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Delia Slone Appalachian Heritage, Volume 1, Number 3, Summer 1973, pp. 45-47 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1973.0010 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/441951/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 23:22 GMT from JHU Libraries Appalachian Grandmaw 45 Monksmeg A Folk Tale from the Kentucky HiBs as told by Delia Slone Well, it was this way. When we was young we had no books, so we told tales. Monksmeg was an old woman who had two children. Well, one time Monksmeg and her two children, both girls, was a-travelin' through the country and it got dark and they wanted to stay all night. Now they wan't nobody lived in that country but a king and a giant. And so when Monksmeg come to a house, she went up to the door and ast to stay all night. And this was the ?G mean giant's house. The old giant said they could stay, but Mongsmeg was scared of the old giant. The giant ast 'em when they got ready to go to bed, "Had you rather sleep downstairs on a hard bed or upstairs on a feather bed?" The girls said, "We'd rather sleep

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Published: Jan 8, 2014

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