By Trench and Trail in Song and Story

By ANGUS MACKAY (Oscar Dhu) Author of Donald Morrison—The Canadian Outlaw A Tale of the Pioneers Poems of a Politician Pioneer Sketches Etc., Etc. Illustrated MACKAY PRINTING & PUBLISHING CO. Seattle and Vancouver 1918

Copyright 1918 by ANGUS MACKAY

A number of the songs in this collection have been heard by campfire and trail from the camps of British Columbia to the lumber camps of Maine. Several of the songs have been fired at the Huns somewhere in France, no doubt with deadly effect. And also at the Turks on the long long hike to Bagdad and beyond.
And it is not impossible that some of my countrymen are now warbling snatches of my humble verse to the accompaniment of bagpipes on the streets of the New Jerusalem! Many of the verses have appeared from time to time in leading publications from Vancouver, B. C., to the New England States and Eastern Canada; while others appear in print here for the first time.
From all parts of the land I have received letters at various times asking for extra copies of some particular song in my humble collection, which I was not in a position to supply at the time.
I therefore decided to publish some of the songs for which a demand had been expressed, and in so doing offer to the reading public in extenuation of my offense the plea that in a manner this humble volume is being published by request.
I offer no apology for my dialect songs as they have already received the approval of music lovers whose judgment is beyond criticism.