Читать книгу Up in Maine: Stories of Yankee Life Told in Verse - Holman Day - Страница 2

PREFACE

C. LITTLEFIELD.

‘ROUND HOME

AUNT SHAW’S PET JUG

OLD BOGGS’S SLARNT

CY NYE, PREVARICATOR

UNCLE BENJY AND OLD CRANE

“PLUG”

THE SONG OF THE HARROW AND PLOW

HOORAY FOR THE SEASON OF FAIRS

HAD A SET OF DOUBLE TEETH

GRAMPY’S LULLABY

HOSKINS’S COW

AN OLD STUN’ WALL

THE STOCK IN THE TIE-UP

EPHRUM WADE’S STAND-BY IN HAYING

RESURRECTION OF EPHRUM WAY

LOOK OUT FOR YOUR THUMB

THE TRIUMPH OF MODEST MARIA

SON HAS GOT THE DEED

AN IDYL OF COLD WEATHER

BUSTED THE “TEST YOUR STRENGTH”

“WHEN A MAN GETS OLD”

I’VE GOT THEM CALVES TO VEAL

THE OFF SIDE OF THE COW

THE LYRIC OF THE BUCK-SAW

MISTER KEAZLE’S EPITAPH

PLAIN OLD KITCHEN CHAP

TAKIN’ COMFORT

EPHRUM KEPT THREE DOGS

LAY OF DRIED-APPLE PIE

ONLY HELD HIS OWN

GRAMPY SINGS A SONG

UNCLE MICAJAH STROUT

THE TRUE STORY OF A KICKER

MORAL.

ZEK’L PRATT’S HARRYCANE

THOSE PICKLES OF MARM’S

“THE MAN I KNEW I KILLED”

’LONG SHORE CRUISE OF THE “NANCY P.”

TALE OF THE SEA-FARING MAN

CAP’N NUTTER OF THE “PUDDENTAME”

GOOD-BY, LOBSTER

CURE FOR HOMESICKNESS

ON THE OLD COAST TUB

TALE OF THE KENNEBEC MARINER

DRIVE, CAMP, AND WANGAN

THE LAW ’GAINST SPIKE-SOLE BOOTS

THE CHAP THAT SWINGS THE AXE

THE SONG OF THE WOODS’ DOG-WATCH

FIDDLER CURED THE CAMP

THE SONG OF THE SAW

DOWN THE TRAIL WITH GUM PACKS

REAR O’ THE DRIVE

MATIN SONG OF PETE LONG’S COOK

OFF FOR THE LUMBER WOODS

HERE’S TO THE STOUT ASH POLE

MISTER WHAT’S-HIS-NAME OF SEBOOMOOK

HA’NTS OF THE KINGDOM OF SPRUCE

THE HERO OF THE COONSKIN CAP

UP IN MAINE

A HAIL TO THE HUNTER

HOSSES

THEM OLD RAZOOS AT TOPSHAM TRACK

TO HIM WHO DRIV THE STAGE

HE BACKED A BLAMED OLD HORSE

B. BROWN—HOSS ORATOR

“JEST A LIFT”

BART OF BRIGHTON

GOIN’ T’ SCHOOL

THE PAIL I LUGGED TO SCHOOL

THE PADDYWHACKS

THAT MAYBASKET FOR MABEL FRY

THE MYSTIC BAND

AT THE OLD “GOOL”