UP IN MAINE

Stories of Yankee Life Told in Verse

By Holman F. Day

With an Introduction by C. E. Littlefield

Boston: Small, Maynard & Company

1900

     TO MY FRIEND     AND FELLOW IN THE CRAFT OF LETTERS     WINFIELD M. THOMPSON     TO WHOM I AM INDEBTED     FOR MORE THAN ONE OF THE STORIES     TOLD HEREIN     THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED

CONTENTS

PREFACE

'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

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