Up in Maine: Stories of Yankee Life Told in Verse. Holman Day

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066135614

Table of Contents

       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