Up in Maine: Stories of Yankee Life Told in Verse
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
List of Illustrations
I don’t know how to weave a roundelay,
I couldn’t voice a sighing song of love;
No mellow lyre that on which I play;
I plunk a strident lute without a glove.
The rhythm that is running through my stuff
Holman Day
UP IN MAINE
Stories of Yankee Life Told in Verse
With an Introduction by C. E. Littlefield
1900
PREFACE
C. LITTLEFIELD.
‘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
AN IDYL OF COLD WEATHER
BUSTED THE “TEST YOUR STRENGTH”
“WHEN A MAN GETS OLD”
I’VE GOT THEM CALVES TO VEAL
THE OFF SIDE OF THE COW
THE LYRIC OF THE BUCK-SAW
MISTER KEAZLE’S EPITAPH
PLAIN OLD KITCHEN CHAP
TAKIN’ COMFORT
EPHRUM KEPT THREE DOGS
LAY OF DRIED-APPLE PIE
ONLY HELD HIS OWN
GRAMPY SINGS A SONG
UNCLE MICAJAH STROUT
THE TRUE STORY OF A KICKER
MORAL.
ZEK’L PRATT’S HARRYCANE
THOSE PICKLES OF MARM’S
“THE MAN I KNEW I KILLED”
’LONG SHORE CRUISE OF THE “NANCY P.”
TALE OF THE SEA-FARING MAN
CAP’N NUTTER OF THE “PUDDENTAME”
GOOD-BY, LOBSTER
CURE FOR HOMESICKNESS
ON THE OLD COAST TUB
TALE OF THE KENNEBEC MARINER
DRIVE, CAMP, AND WANGAN
THE LAW ’GAINST SPIKE-SOLE BOOTS
THE CHAP THAT SWINGS THE AXE
THE SONG OF THE WOODS’ DOG-WATCH
FIDDLER CURED THE CAMP
THE SONG OF THE SAW
DOWN THE TRAIL WITH GUM PACKS
REAR O’ THE DRIVE
MATIN SONG OF PETE LONG’S COOK
OFF FOR THE LUMBER WOODS
HERE’S TO THE STOUT ASH POLE
MISTER WHAT’S-HIS-NAME OF SEBOOMOOK
HA’NTS OF THE KINGDOM OF SPRUCE
THE HERO OF THE COONSKIN CAP
UP IN MAINE
A HAIL TO THE HUNTER
HOSSES
THEM OLD RAZOOS AT TOPSHAM TRACK
TO HIM WHO DRIV THE STAGE
HE BACKED A BLAMED OLD HORSE
B. BROWN—HOSS ORATOR
“JEST A LIFT”
BART OF BRIGHTON
GOIN’ T’ SCHOOL
THE PAIL I LUGGED TO SCHOOL
THE PADDYWHACKS
THAT MAYBASKET FOR MABEL FRY
THE MYSTIC BAND
AT THE OLD “GOOL”
