Inside My Father's Clock

____________. Winter Danger. San Diego, California: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , a 1990 reprint of a 1954 release. 131 pages. Trade paperback. $3.95. This is the story of eleven-year-old Caje Amis and takes place in the Holston River watershed in East Tennesse in pioneer times. Caje is torn between his father's lifestyle as a long hunter and the life of his mother's people back in the frontier settlements. Still, James. Rusties and Riddles and Gee-Haw Whimmy Diddles. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky a 1989 reprint of two volumes in one—Way Down Yonder On Troublesome Creek, 1974, and The Wolfpen Rusties: Appalachian Riddles and Gee-Haw Whimmy-Diddles, 1975. 102 unnumbered pages. Hardback in dust jacket illustrated by Jane McCaffery. $15.00. This is a very attractive and authentic book of folklore—especially riddles and short rhymes—put together by one of the region's most respected authors. James Still came to Hindman, Kentucky, in the 1930s, from Lincoln Memorial University . He remains at Hindman today, best-known as the author of River ofEarth, a novel first published in 1940. Van Hook, Beverly Hennen. The Secret ofDevil Mountain: Supergranny #4. Rock Island, Illinois: Holderby and Bierce, 1989. 101 pages. Hardback. $7.95. Trade paperback. $2.95. The author, a native of Huntington, West Virginia, sets this book in her popular series of mysteries, in her home state. The backdrop for the story is the HatfieldMcCoy feud on the West Virginia-Kentucky border. Inside My Father's Clock Our carpenter father, in his slow time left us loose pockets and a clock he meant to finish. It's completed now, Clears the air—with a voice more velvet than his vindication should allow: for, hexed and vexed he ticked away his time, complaining hour on hour, His tongue, a pendulum, non-stopping. His chimes, that tumble down the stairwell, and lilt each quarter-hour alive— I'd wish him back, dusty coveralls And all, to hear its plushy sonnet. Oh, had we reckoned tuneful lives before he died! Oh, for the gold he kept to self inside, the latent Coming ... of our father's obscure love. -Marijane G. Ricketts 79 ...