Tar-Heel Tales in Vernacular Verse

This collection presents comic vernacular verse that renders rural southern speech into humorous tall tales and character sketches, narrated in a rustic persona. Poems recount mischievous schoolroom incidents, fishing-town schemes, local superstitions, and domestic scenes, blending satire of religious and social pretensions with affectionate depiction of everyday hardships. The verse alternates narrative ballads, light satire, and lyrical asides, often relying on phonetic dialect, vivid anecdotes, and occasional illustrations to create a lively, folksy tone.