LINES FER ISAAC BRADWELL, OF INDANOPLIS, IND., COUNTY-SEAT OF MARION
Reading edition
[Writ on the flyleaf of a volume of the author's poems that come in one of gittin' burnt up in the great Bowen-Merrill's fire of March 17, 1890.]
Through fire and flood this book has passed.— Fer what?—I hardly dare to ast— Less'n it's still to pamper me With extry food fer vanity;— Fer, sence it's fell in hands as true As yourn is—and a Hoosier too,— I'm prouder of the book, I jing! Than 'fore they tried to burn the thing!