A heritage of stories -- Growing up stories, riddles, and songs. Gathering herbs and stories ; Squirrel hunting ; Old Joe Clark ; Mule eggs ; Grandpa and the hand glider ; Ashcakes and corn flitters ; The hardest whipping ; The potato on the stick ; Sourwood Mountain ; Broom straws and sweethearts ; Lazy John -- Jack tales. Orville on Jack ; Jack and the robbers ; Jack and the varmints ; Big Jack and Little Jack ; Jack and the Devil ; The cat and the mouse ; Sheepskin ; Jack and the king's mountain -- Other traditional tales. Soap, soap, soap ; The bear, the boy, and the baking soda ; The man on the moon ; Gallymander ; Catskin -- A folktale in the making. Little boy of the Blue Ridge -- Stories behind Orville's stories -- Orville and the little people -- Orville Hicks and Jack tales and mountain yarns : a scholar's (and friend's) afterword / by Thomas McGowan -- In Orville's words -- For futher thought -- Orville in books and recordings -- What people say about Orville.