Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 July 1951 — Page 9

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NOTE: Vance Kandolph is one of the nation’s best-known collectors of authentic American folklore. A scholar, fisherman and crack shot, he has lived among the Ozark mountain people for 80 years. These backwood humorists are “spinning their windles” mainly to keep the tourists happy and excited. But Cojumbia University found their stories such a significant part of American life that Mr, Randolph’s hook, “We Always Lie to Strangers,” has just been published under its sponsorship. This is the second of a se ries of six articles in The Sunday Times from that delightful

_ anthology.

CHAPTER TWO By VANCE RANDOLPH

‘THERE ARE many legends of gigantic beasts and fabulous varmints in the Ozark country. It may be that credulous back-

woodsmen believe some of them even today, but I wouldn't know about that. One story is concerned with an extraordinary reptile called the gowrow which terrorized rural Arkansas in the 1880's. According to the legends, the gowrow was a lizard-like animal about 20 feet long, with enormous tusks. There is a persistent report that gowrows were hatched from eggs, softshelled eggs as big as beer kegs. Some say that the female carried its newly hatched young in a pouch Hke a possum, but the old-timers do not agree about this. The gowrow spent most of its time in caverns and under rock ledges. It was carnivorous, and devoured great numbers of deer, calves, sheep,

and goats. Perhaps the crea- |

ture ate human beings, too. » n on

A GENTLEMAN at Mena,

Ark., told me a long story of | 8 Missourian who claimed to | have captured a gowrow alive, |

This fellow had somehow induced the animal to eat a wagon-load of. dried apples,

burrow. He was exhibiting it in a tent,

of the monster out front, show-

an entire family of cotton farmers. When a good crowd was seat ed, there came a terrible roaring noise backstage, with several shots and a loud clanking

of chains. Then the showman |

staggered out in full view of

is face.

“Run for your lives? he |

They're Sensitive, Too—

SUNDAY, JULY 15, 1951 ~“*We Always Lie to Strangers

| Gigantic Beasts Roamed Hills | Of Arkansas (So Legends Say)

THE GOWROW—It laid softshell eggs as large as beer kegs

yelled, “the gowrow has bro- |

ken loose!” Just then the back part of the tent collapsed, with more thunderous roars and chains rattling and women screaming.

| The spectators rushed out in’

panie, without. stopping. to - get

which "had swelled its body fo |-sheir money Back:

such a degree that the beast | could not get back into its |

DOWN NEAR Agents. Ark. the old-timers used to speak

| jokingly of a mythical ana- { chronism known as the jimplicharging 25 cents admission. | There was a horrible painting |

cute, This was a kind of ghostly dinosaur, an incredible dragon

| or lizard supposed to walk the ing it in the act of devouring |

roads at night, grab travelers by the throat and suck their blood. Another apocryphal varmint

was the famous high-behind, a | lizard as big as a bull, whose |

hind legs were 10 times longer

thar - its forelegs. This crea-| | ture lies in wait for human bethe audience, his clothes torn to, | shreds and blood running down |

ings on the trails at night and “laps 'em up like a toad-frog ketchin’ flies.” I also have heard several

"Fall Over If You're Dead” OPS Employees Are Told

By JOHN ORAMER Roripps-Howard Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, July 14—

(for this purpose. Fifteen copies will be made, three copies to be

sent to the Personnel office, and two to the deceased. The others

tales of white deer called snawfusses wearing flowering the place of ant- | ®rs, In Jasper County, Missouri, they used to tell of a pioneer orchardist who caught an albino fawn, and reared it | as a pet for his thildren. .. grew into a. “horns like 4 rockin’ the man tied the deer up and grafted some fine Arkansas Black scions on its

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LEATHER STANDRIDGE, veteran river-guide who lives in Stone County, Missouri, used-to tell tourists about _ the ponjureen, a kind’ of brant which feeds on wild pepper-berries in Mexico and Central America. This fowl returns to Canada in the spring, and always flies backward as it passes over the Ozarks. If anybody asks why it flies backward, Leather explains with a great show of relictance that the ponjureen must fly that way in order to cool its posterior, burnt up on them damn’ pepper-berries. » ” ”

WILL RICE recalls a turtle killed in the Buffalo River near his home at St. Joe, Ark. It had swallowed a mule that was swimming in the river. When this monster was shot four years later, the mule shoes were found in its stomach. Warmed up, Mr. Rice goes on to tell of a big frog that got under a 30-ton power crane used in building a bridge and carried the whole business upstream on its back. The man who was operating the crane saved his life by jumping onto a gravel bar. Frank Payne, an old-time guide at Galena, Mo, has several good stories about the

galoopus, a big black eagle |

which nested in the bluffs over the James River. This bird lays square eggs, since ordinary eggs would roll to destruction before they could be incubated. Frank told me that in the

early days he and W. D. Mathes

used to gather galoopus eggs by the dozen, boil them very hard, and paste playing-cards neatly on the sides. Mr. Mathes operated the float-trip company in those days, and Frank sold the eggs to tourists for poker-dice. One of Frank's cronies said the galoopus was so big that its shadow wore a trail in the stony: soi} of Barry County,

! Missouri, almost paralleling the

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(Copyright, 1951, by Columbia Universiiy

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