title: Christmas Eve On Lonesome 'Hell-Fer-Sartin' and Other Stories.
author: Jr. JOHN: FOX
description: John Fox Jr. was the novelist that brought Appalachia, the wilderness, and the new frontiers to readers in the East, romanticizing life in the back woods, and the homey side of life. Here is a collection of stories that includes the classics Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Hell for Satan (Sairtin and other spellings), and also includes the Army of the Callahan, The Last Stetson, The Pardon of Becky Day, A Crisis for the Guard, and Christmas Eve with Satan. Color frontispiece with tissue depicts little girl in store with Satan, &quot;only a woolly little black dog, and surely no dog was ever more absurdly misnamed&quot; (p. 203).
zlib_text: Hell Fer Sartain & Other Stories
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  Hell Fer Sartain & Other
  Stories
  By John Fox, Jr.
  
  Hell Fer Sartain & Other Stories
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  ON HELL-FER-SARTAIN
  CREEK
   Thar was a dancin'-party Christmas night on ``Hell fer Sartain.''  Jes
  tu'n up the fust crick beyond the bend thar, an' climb onto a stump, an'
  holler about ONCE, an' you'll see how the name come.  Stranger, hit's
  HELL fer sartain!  Well, Rich Harp was thar from the head- waters, an'
  Harve Hall toted Nance Osborn clean across the Cumberlan'. Fust one ud
  swing Nance, an' then t'other.  Then they'd take a pull out'n the same
  bottle o' moonshine, an'--fust one an' then t'other--they'd swing her agin.
  An' Abe Shivers a-settin' thar by the fire a-bitin' his thumbs!
  Well, things was sorter whoopin', when somebody ups an' tells Harve
  that Rich had said somep'n' agin Nance an' him, an' somebody ups an' tells
  Rich that Harve had said somep'n' agin Nance an' HIM.  In a minute,
  stranger, hit was like two wild-cats in thar.  Folks got 'em parted, thoug