THANKS DUE many who offered encouragement: "Salty"" who read several early drafts; Bill Craig, rock climber and wordsmith who went over copy as he scales cliffs: an inch at a time; my late first wife, Jean, for pretending to like frogs' legs; my second wife Millie for listening to twice-told tales; my son, Travis, and daughter, Candy, who played the role of squealers long ago whenever the "...fox he chewed on the bones O-o-o-h...; and to family and friends of long ago, who all came by degrees to use George's favorite expression about "Getting your ducks in a row!" - now part of the very artwork on these pages; and to all who suffered the oral versions of these tales and others yet unrecorded, for years before some at least got set down here. Lastly, very special thanks are due Valerie Bedewitz, whose creative "virtual" cyberbook layout is to me, far more "real" than many hardcover editions..

---BWP

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