From the inside cover: "Way back yonder there was a widow woman and her son Jack and they were poor as Job's turkey. The way some tell it, their homeseat was here on Wolfpen Creek. Or around about.
Well,..."
Everyone knows how Jack went to market to sell his cow and came back with only three beans, and how his mother was so mad she threw them out the window, and how they grew clear up to the sky and Jack climbed up an found a giant and his wife at the top. But the giant never said, "Fee, fie, chew tobacco, I smell the toes of a tadwhacker!" and few have ever heard the familiar tale told quite like this before.
James Still, a resident of Knott County, Kentucky and well known for his stories of Appalachia has combined his talents with those of Margot Tomes to bring us a new and down-home version of this much-loved classic.
Well,..."
Everyone knows how Jack went to market to sell his cow and came back with only three beans, and how his mother was so mad she threw them out the window, and how they grew clear up to the sky and Jack climbed up an found a giant and his wife at the top. But the giant never said, "Fee, fie, chew tobacco, I smell the toes of a tadwhacker!" and few have ever heard the familiar tale told quite like this before.
James Still, a resident of Knott County, Kentucky and well known for his stories of Appalachia has combined his talents with those of Margot Tomes to bring us a new and down-home version of this much-loved classic.
