From Mitch Jayne (school teacher, radio announcer, musician, author), the man who gave us slicker than deer guts on a doorknob and other bits of Ozark wisdom comes Home Grown Stories & Home Fried Lies , subtitled Words With The Bark On Them & Other Ozark Oddments. Use the link on the page to Amazon.com. Check out the sample pages there. Better than that, look up Mitch and Diana somewhere down the road and buy the book from them. You'll get autographs thrown in, and likely an extry word or two.

OK, so this isn't exactly a biography, but you'll get a lot of Mitch along with those wonderful stories and that wonderful Ozark language so quickly passing into history ~~ Jilikins -- wild or unsettled land -- That man lives so far back in the jilikins you cain't get no regular car back to his house. Ah, one more before I start to quote the whole book. That old boy gets around like spit on a stove. (describing someone square dancing)

I just looked at mayberry.com. There you can get that autographed copy I was talking about for only 5 cents more than at Amazon. What a deal!

For more from Mitch, read the Missouri Conservationist December 1995 article, < a href=http://www.conservation.state.mo.us/conmag/1995/dec/jayne.html>Making Sense Out Of Hunting.