PINE TREE BALLADS

Rhymed Stories of Unplaned Human Natur’ Up in Maine

By Holman F. Day

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company

1902

  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

CONTENTS

DEED OF THE OLD HOME PLACE

OUR HOME FOLKS

THANKSGIVIN’ JIM

“OLD POSH”

THE SUN-BROWNED DADS OF MAINE

“HEAVENLY CROWN” RICH