Charles Neville Buck (1879-1930) was the author of The Key to Yesterday (1910), The Lighted Match (1911), The Portal of Dreams (1912), The Call of the Cumberlands (1913), The Battle Cry (1914), The Code of the Mountains (1915), Destiny (1916), The Tyranny of Weakness (1917), When 'Bear Cat' Went Dry (1918), A Pagan of the Hills (1919), The Tempering (1920), The Roof Tree (1921), Alias Red Ryan (1923), The Rogue's Badge (1924) and The Flight to the Hills (1926). ""When a feller an' a gal washes their hands in the same basin at the same time, it's a tol'able good sign they won't git married this year. " The oracle spoke through the bearded lips of a farmer perched on the top step of his cabin porch. The while he construed omens, a setter pup industriously gnawed at his boot-heels. "
