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PREFACE
decided that we should have a volume on toys and games. She
very generously volunteered Ben's services, and this present
book was under way.
That was two years ago, and how I ever thought I could
assemble, organize, and illustrate a book of this magnitude in one
year illustrates a problem I share with King Lear: the acquisition
of age without the acquisition of wisdom. Thus, it is a year late,
but closer to expectations than it was last year.
The contributors-so many of them for this book!-
deserve all our applause. We have included a special index of
contributors as well as one for the toys and games. I have
gleaned this manuscript, and truly hope that I have not left out a
contributor's name.
I hope that I have not left anyone's toy or game out of that
index also, although I know that I have left many of them out of
the book. Collecting for this book could have gone on forever.
Each chapter could have been expanded with more toys and
games, and the book could have included more chapters on
other kinds of toys and games, a chapter on tricks and puzzles,
for instance.
I want to thank the Stephen F. Austin State University
Board of Regents for giving me a development leave this fall of
'88. They really gave me the time off to work on the TFS history,
but I had to get Toys and Games out of the way before I could
start the history, and they are a good sort and will understand.
On behalf of the Texas Folklore Society, I thank William R.
Johnson, President of Stephen F. Austin, and Kirby L. Duncan,
Chairman of the Department of English and Philosophy, for con-
tinuing financial and moral support. And I sincerely thank two of
the Society's secretaries, Carrol Daniels and Carolyn Satterwhite,
one for getting the manuscripts started and the other for finishing
them.
Carolyn Satterwhite is also the assistant editor-sine qua
non!-of Texas Toys and Games, which means that she did the
hard work in getting this manuscript ready for the press. She has
my appreciation and respect.
Francis Edward Abernethy
Stephen F. Austin State University
Nacogdoches, Texas
October 18, 1988viii
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Abernethy, Francis Edward. Texas Toys and Games, book, 1989; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67661/m1/10/: accessed May 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Press.