Backwoods Poems e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The little book here presented embraces the rhymes and poems written by me in a period of thirty years, beginning with my boyhood. All of them have already been laid before the public in newspapers and periodicals; but, like autumnal leaves cast on the rushing stream, they have been swept away, and. Only the writer's scrap-book has saved them from oblivion.