BY SCARLET TORCH
AND BLADE
BY
ANTHONY EUWER
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY THE AUTHOR
G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
The Knickerbocker Press
Copyright, 1923
by
Anthony Euwer
Second printing, January, 1926
Made in the United States of America
To the Memory of
MY SISTER
MARIAN
WHOSE NEVER FAILING ENCOURAGEMENT
WENT FAR TOWARD THE MAKING OF
THIS BOOK.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
To all the joy that colors give beneath the sun and moon; to allpleasurable sounds and wholesome odors of the earth and air and sea;to the warmth and glow of genial firesides and to the bite of winterwinds; to the rain upon the lichens; to the majesty of mountainsand the awfulness of high places; to the darkness of caves and thefriendliness of far-off trails; to every furry thing—the shy, the dumb,and whatsoever creature has found expression in his fancy; to both thenobler and the meaner natures of men; to life’s laughter and life’stears and to all fruitful experience; to these sources, for whatsoever[Pg viii]good may here be found, the author makes acknowledgment.
A number of the rhymes in the present volume have previouslyappeared in the Associated Press, Judge, Leslie’s, the Oregon SundayJournal, and The Open Road. For permission to reprint the drawings theauthor is indebted to the publishers of Scribner’s Magazine.
CONTENTS
| PART ONE | |
| THE OPEN SPACES | |
| PAGE | |
| By Scarlet Torch and Blade | |