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PINE TREE BALLADS

Rhymed Stories of Unplaned Human Natur' Up in Maine

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company

TO THE HONORABLE JOHN ANDREW PETERS, LL.D. FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT OF MAINE I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME IN MEMORY OF MANY YEARS OF FRIENDSHIP AND IN SINCERE APPRECIATION OF THE JURIST AND WIT WHO HAS IN ALL DIGNITY EVER TURNED A SMILING FACE TOWARD HIS MAINE THAT HAS SMILED LOVINGLY BACK AT HIM

FOREWORD

The frontispiece to this volume is from a photograph of "Uncle Solon" Chase, the widely known sage of Chase's Mills in Andros-coggin county. In Greenback days he won national fame as "Them Steers" and his quaint sayings have traveled from the Atlantic to the Pacific. There is no man in Maine who better typifies the homespun humor, honesty, and intelligence of Yankeedom. The picture opposite page 126 is from a photograph of the late Ezra Stephens of Oxford county, famed years ago as "the P. T. Barnum of Maine." He originated the dancing turkey, the wonderful bird that appears in the story of "Ozy B. Orr." In another picture is shown "Jemimy" at her old loom and beside her are the swifts and the spinning wheel. The pictures illustrating "Elkanah B. Atkinson" and "John W. Jones" are character studies that will appeal to those who are acquainted with Maine rural life.

PINE TREE BALLADS

OUR HOME FOLKS

FEEDIN' THE STOCK

Hear the chorus in that tie-up, runch, ger-

runch, and runch and runch!

--There's a row of honest critters! Does me

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