Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page

Subject: RE: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall)
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 06:51 PM

There were some really cool story threads in the past, like the Ghost stories thread from back in October, and the Christmas stories thread the year before. (I've told the Silver cobwebs story, Áine) Perhaps some of those should get listed. I'd like to see my rendition of "I've got the keys" added in the storybook.
Tabhair an scealta sin ag teacht!
Risteard

Subject: RE: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: Áine
Date: 26 Feb 01 - 05:57 PM

I just put a timely story by Penny S onto the Storytellers' Page -- if you're in need of a good (and green) chuckle, then please read Meanwhile, Elsewhere in Éire. Enjoy! And thanks, Penny!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: Áine
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 09:58 PM

I am proud to announce that McGrath of Harlow (the Master Songwriter) has submitted a story to The Storytellers' Page -- A Story About Time -- Enjoy, 'Catters, enjoy!

-- Aine (who feels now that the 'beginning' of this wonderful collection of Mudcat stories has really begun -- Naw, Aine, tell us how you really feel ;-) )

Subject: RE: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: Áine
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 04:48 AM

I think A Few Moments in the Life of a Dog fits in just fine, dear Amergin. Thanks!

-- Áine

(and mehitabel -- dats zawrite!)

Subject: RE: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: katlaughing
Date: 25 Feb 01 - 01:07 AM

LOL...nathan!

dearest awchee...that sounds fine..sorry for being so sticklery...:-)

Subject: RE: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: Amergin
Date: 24 Feb 01 - 10:40 PM

Well, Aine....here you go...if it doesn't fit in with the format you had in mind...that is quite alright...

A Few Moments In the Life Of a Dog

He calls me from my slumber..... "Hungry baby girls!! Are you hungry baby girls!!!......I jump up from my safe little nook under the coffee table....run into the kitchen....where he stands there shaking a big bowl of food.

He sets the bowl down....I stick my head inside.....sniff a quick whiff....look back up at him...I think...."you expect me to eat that? Pigs eat better tasting slop than that."....but knowing it will do no good to complain....I commence eating...crunch.....crunch....crunch...Oh good he has his face stuck back in that computer....I run into the utility room....I smell it...a fresh one...mmmm....I get into the catbox....good there it is....LUNCH....I take it out into the livingroom.....Uh oh....he's looking back....he's getting up....he's rushing towards....fuck I dropped my turd....he kicks at me....softly but enough to push me abit......you asshole.....if you would feed us better I wouldn't have eaten that turd....Oh boy....he's yelling now...."Poops outside, poops outside"....the other three dogs go running to the back door...I run out with them into the cold pouring rain...I sit there looking up at him....he glowers down..."off the porch, off the porch"....i slowly hop down the steps....looking back at him....eyes watering....silently pleading.....he watches me go around the back corner of the house....I hear the door shut...I run back up the steps....standing there.....yapping...."let me in you prick!!".....the door opens.....he stands there yelling again...."get off the porch!!"....I stumble down the steps...looking back at him....in sorrow and in anger...."you go poops outside, asshole"...I think at him....he yells again....I run around the corner....ah the door shuts again....I dash back up the steps....i begin to sing...."let me in!! let me in!!".....he opens the door...."oh, alright you can come in now"....and four soaked bodies rush through......I shake myself....crawl back under the coffee table....and sleep.......

Subject: RE: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: Áine
Date: 24 Feb 01 - 08:11 PM

I've added yet more wonderful Mudcatters' stories to the Mudcat Storytellers' Page this evening:

Hazards to Navigation and The Great Fire of 1947 by Kendall

AND

How Cleith O'Possum Got A Pouch by MMario

Check 'em out, 'Catters -- a triad of fantastic storytelling!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: MMario
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 09:43 AM

How Cleigh O'Possum got a Pouch

Subject: RE: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: Áine
Date: 23 Feb 01 - 09:34 AM

This is just fantastic (not really the word I wanted, but it's early in the morning)!! Six stories from a group of the Best Mudcat Storytellers already -- I can't tell you all how much fun this is (and hopefully, will be). Thank you, merci, go raibh maith agat, danke, gracias and cracebo!!!

The latest additions to the Mudcat Storytellers' Page are:

The Emily Beal by Kendall

The Story of Bram Hanson by Lonesome EJ

Coyote and the Bear by Lonesome EJ

We're off to a great start, so keep 'em comin'!

-- Áine

(P.S. dearmehitabel - I wanted to keep the 'feel' of the page as close to a 'telling tales beside the fire/at the kitchen table' state as I could, and that's why I used the 'as told by' style of a byline. I do see your point though, so I've changed the byline style to 'from the telling of'. I hope that will do business for you. Don't forget that your copyright notice is at the bottom of each story page, and the index page does say 'original stories and folktales'. I really want the reader(s) to feel like another 'Catter is telling them the story, instead of reading something out of a book. Hugs & snogs, archie)

Subject: RE: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 09:00 PM

Here is an original Coyote story, within another story

Go

Subject: RE: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: kendall
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 08:54 PM

This is a traditional tale with some of myself mixed in. The original came fro the telling of Don Taverner of Augusta, one of the tellers who appeared on my TV program of Maine humorists.

Subject: RE: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 08:50 PM

Spooky Story

Aine, I'd like to submit the above for consideration :>}

Subject: RE: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 08:36 PM

Aine, darlin, just a point of pendantics, if there is such a thing:-)...my stories aren't really "as told by" they are just "by", as they are original. It wouldn't matter as much, except that you had mentioned others retelling/writing known tales from folklore, in which case the "as told by" would be more applicable. Sorry to be a pain....luvyaLOTS and it IS so good to *hear* you, again! Thank you, thank you,thank you!

luvyakat

Subject: RE: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: kendall
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 08:35 PM

Back in 1902, my grandfather was skipper of the Gloucester fishing schooner EMILY BEAL out of Portland Maine. They had a very good trip, and, coming home with a hold full of Cod. All went well, until, about one day out of Portland, the wind pooched completly. Not a breath of wind, mid summer, and the fish, already a week old, were in danger of rotting in the hold. This cargo was worth thousands of dollars, (1902 dollars) and Gramp was very concerned. He tried everything he knew to get some wind in the sails, he whistled, he soaked the sails, he had the crew run back and forth from port to starboard, but, nothing worked. He even had them lower the life boats and tow her. They came back aboard totally exhausted, and sprawled on deck in the summer sun. Finally, Gramp took to swearing, something he was very good at. That didnt work, so, he resorted to profanity. Everything in the book and some he made up as he went. "Why you mossy faced, snuff colored.... skin of a nightmare hauled over a ...bootjack!"

That didn't work either. Finally, the cook came up from below, a very pious old man. He had had all he could take of the blasphemous language, and he said to Gramp, S "Skipper, you are the best boats Captain in the state of Maine. If it was humanly possible to move this vessel, you would do it. Well, it aint. The best thing you can do is call on the Lord for help, give up a love offering, and I guarantee you will get your wind."

I guess Gramp figured that it was worth a try, so, he pulled from his pocket a silver dollar, threw it as had as he could, and yelled "Sell me some GD wind!" That coin no sooner hit the water when a gale blew up Sou'th East, and drove the EMILY BEAL a full 30 knots straight for Portland Head Light. As she approached, the main ripped right off the yard, and took the gaff with it over the side. Then, the jib let go, and she was at the mercy of the wind. She drove ashore at Cape Elizabeth among the ledges and piled up in a great mess. There was fish, men and what was left of the EMILY all washed up on the shallow beach. It was a miracle, and, as Gramp looked around to see that all hands made it safely ashore, the cook, waving his hands around yelled "YOU GOT YOUR WIND, I TOLD YOU IF YOU CALLED ON THE LORD HE WOULD GIVE YOU SOME WIND, YES SIR!" Gramp, still looking at the wreck said "Ayah, but if I'd a known wind was that cheap, I wouldn't have ordered so much!" .

Subject: RE: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: kendall
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 08:12 PM

You folks have really put me on the spot! Ascerbic and loveable? Hmmm, I'll try. Check the Mudcat storytellers page.

Subject: RE: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: Áine
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 07:58 PM

geez louezz, you're a fast one, mehitabel!

Here you 'Catters, White Blanket Time by kat is now on The Mudcat Storytellers' Page. Enjoy!

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: Áine
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 07:35 PM

(hey there mehitabel! archie is pleased as punch to be back!)

Two wonderful stories in the first day -- I couldn't ask for more -- BUT I WILL ;-) Everyone please read Lady of Pearls and enjoy!

All the best, Áine

Subject: RE: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 07:35 PM

Here is the other...I've pasted it here becaue I needed to fix some html anyway:

WHITE BLANKET TIME

The grass and leaves crunched under the feet of the little children. Above them, the lodgepole pines and aspen whistled with the chill of the gathering evening's wind. "Whooo" said the wind. Off to their side, they could hear little creatures rustling among the bushes; scurrying to settle safely for the night.

The old woman gathered her shawl tighter round her shoulders. Her face was lines with years of living; her eyes rimed, yet somehow bright and with a depth of wisdom. She spoke to the children in a storng, yet soft voice. They stepped lightly in order to hear her better, not wanting to miss a word of the legend she told.

In the days of the Mother's Beginning, we peoples didn't know how to do anything for ourselves. The fox, the lion, the bear, the turlte, the otter, the whale, all these, she swept her arms wide to encompass the earth everywhere, all these brothers and sisters were smarter than us. They lived together and never were cross or mean. When they found the First People, they took them in as cubs and kits. They taught them their ways. This is what we know from our grandmothers and grandfathers. Because of them, our people know how to live and care for one another. She closed her eyes then, still walking. The children stared at her with wonder, stumbling from not watching where they walked.

Her story continued, This time of the Circle, when everything is getting ready to go to sleep, we people have to stay awake and survive. When we grew too big for the dens and parenting of the Wise Four-leggeds, Wingeds, and Water-Dwellers, they finally cast us out. We were arrogant, mocking them for their gentle ways and for resting when the earth had pulled up the white blanket of winter.

That first winter was hard. Many First People did not survive. When the flowers began to blossom, when the trees burst forth with leaves, the People were humbled and grateful for their survival. But, they were not allowed to ever forget their arrogance. That is why we walk among the wood, today, watching for signs of the creatures; as they gather the pinon nuts, as they fatten from eating berries and fish, as they scurry to line their nests and dens, so must we. So, watch little ones, tell me what you see. Are you ready for the white blanket time?

©1999 Kathleen LaFrance all rights reserved

Subject: RE: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 07:03 PM

Hey darlin'...a just wrote a new one the other day for the TFTD thread. You can get it here. I will also go hunt up White Blanket Time.

Thanks very much for what you do with this, Aine. It is really appreciated and wonderfully giving of you.

Wdyat12...I know I owe you a PM..**BG**...but until I get it answered...just know that Kendall is one of the beloved resident curmudgeons around here, no pedastal...he is a doll and way open to being contacted and dman nice about it, too...if you know how to take that ascerbic Mainiac humour! **BG** So...go bug him for a story! I figured you were one of his recruits when you saiud where you lived!

luvya'll...kat

Subject: RE: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: Áine
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 06:31 PM

Dear wdyat12,

Any Mudcatter can contribute to the Storytellers' Page! And I certainly hope that Kendall (my favorite Yankee) will honor us with a contribution (or two, or three). He's a singular fella, ain't he!

Feel free to encourage him to send in something that all the 'Catters can enjoy, OK?

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: wdyat12
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 05:31 PM

aine,

Does kendall contribute to the Mudcat Storyteller's Page? I would certainly enjoy any new stuff from him. I can't beleive I really talked with the great kendall m. from Maine in a few threads. At the time I didn't realize who exactly I was talking with, until kat so kattily made me aware.

wdyat12

Subject: RE: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 05:11 PM

Aw, it really is hung up there. And guess what. You did it while I was AT THE SPRING. In the snow.

~S~

Subject: RE: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 04:53 PM

Wow, that was quick!

wdyat12, a lot of good stuff goes from thread to Book. If you spot someone else's work while you're cruising around the threads, you can tip Aine off and it will probably end up in there too. Songs, stories-- either.

~S~

Subject: RE: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: Áine
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 04:29 PM

Dear wdyat12,

If you mean something you've already posted in a thread here in the Forum; sure, you can put it on the Storytellers' Page as well.

If you can give me the link (a blue clicky thing), I'll even retrieve it from the thread and post it. Y'all do the searchin' and I'll put it up.

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: wdyat12
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 04:21 PM

How about original work recently posted?

wdyat12

Subject: RE: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: Áine
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 04:20 PM

Dear Amergin,

As long as it's not copyrighted (by anyone but yourself), I don't see a problem with submitting your own 'original' re-telling of a folktale.

How's that?

-- Áine

Subject: RE: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: SINSULL
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 04:20 PM

Come to think of it, where is Camisu? She has wonderful stories to tell. Haven't heard from her in a while...

Subject: RE: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: Amergin
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 04:14 PM

So only original ones? Not updated versions of folktales or anything?

Subject: Additions To Mudcat Storytellers' Page
From: Áine
Date: 22 Feb 01 - 04:09 PM

In case you've missed the other thread, there's a new page in The Mudcat Songbook. It's called The Mudcat Storytellers' Page, where we'll be gathering the original stories of all you 'Catters.

I'm proud to announce that I've posted the very first submission, entitled 'Goin' Up Cherry Flats To Fetch Water' by WYSIWYG. Can't think of a better one to start this new venture off with!

If you have an original story to share with the Mudcat world, you can post it on this thread, or send it to me via email - [e-mail] -

So, put down that (fill in name of instrument here) and get to writin'!

-- Áine