Down on his luck, a farmer raffles off a dead mule. While preparing a Sunday dinner, a woman finds her lost diamond in a chicken gizzard. A rural post office closes for bush hogging and dog dipping. Kirk Neely's down-home stories are about his neck of the woods. Just like his blue jeans after an adventure in Dead Horse Canyon, Neely's tales are caked with red clay. These fifty country tales are set in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the rivers of the Piedmont Carolinas, the cotton mills, and the lumberyard.