PINE TREE BALLADS
Reading edition
Rhymed Stories of Unplaned Human Natur’ Up in Maine
By Holman F. Day
Boston: Small, Maynard & Company
1902
TO THE HONORABLE JOHN ANDREW PETERS, LL.D. FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT OF MAINE I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME IN MEMORY OF MANY YEARS OF FRIENDSHIP AND IN SINCERE APPRECIATION OF THE JURIST AND WIT WHO HAS IN ALL DIGNITY EVER TURNED A SMILING FACE TOWARD HIS MAINE THAT HAS SMILED LOVINGLY BACK AT HIM
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
PINE TREE BALLADS
OUR HOME FOLKS
FEEDIN’ THE STOCK
JOHN W. JONES
DEED OF THE OLD HOME PLACE
OUR HOME FOLKS
THANKSGIVIN’ JIM
“OLD POSH”
THE SUN-BROWNED DADS OF MAINE
“HEAVENLY CROWN” RICH
OLD “FIGGER-FOUR”
PHEBE AND ICHABOD
WHEN OUR HERO COMES TO MAINE
UNCLE TASCUS AND THE DEED
SONGS OF THE SEA AND SHORE
TALE OF A SHAG-EYED SHARK
THE GREAT JEEHOOKIBUS WHALE
“AS BESEEMETH MEN”
THE NIGHT OF THE WHITE REVIEW
THE BALLAD OF ORASMUS NUTE
THE DORYMAN’S SONG
WE FELLERS DIGGIN’ CLAMS
DAN’L AND DUNK
THE AWFUL WAH-HOOH-WOW
SKIPPER JASON ELLISON
BALLADS OF DRIVE AND CAMP
THE RAPO-GENUS CHRISTMAS BALL
BALLADS OF DRIVE AND CAMP
WHEN THE ALLEGASH DRIVE GOES THROUGH
THE KNIGHT OF THE SPIKE-SOLE BOOTS
’BOARD FOR THE ALLEGASH”
THE WANGAN CAMP
PLUG TOBACCO AT SOURDNAHUNK
O’CONNOR FROM THE DRIVE
JUST HUMAN NATURE
BALLAD OF OZY B. ORR
THE BALLAD OF “OLD SCRATCH”
WHEN ’LISH PLAYED OX
OLD “TEN PER CENT”
DIDN’T BUST HIS FORK
MEAN SAM GREEN
DICKERER JIM
BALLAD OF BENJAMIN BRANN
THE HEIRS
A. B. APPLETON, “PIRUT”
NEXT TO THE HEART
WITH LOVE—FROM MOTHER
THE QUAKER WEDDING
THE MADAWASKA WOOING
THE SONG OF THE MAN WHO DRIVES
THE OLD PEWTER PITCHER
OUR GOOD PREVARICATORS
OUR LIARS HERE IN MAINE
THE BALLAD OF DOC PLUFF
THE BALLAD OF HUNNEMAN TWO
ORADUDOLPH MOODY, REPRESENTATIVE-ELECT
TRIBUTE TO MR. ATKINS’S BASS VOICE
JIM’S TRANSLATION
ELIPHALET JONES—INVENTOR
THE PANTS JEMIMY MADE
BALLADS OF “CAPERS AND ACTIONS”
BALLAD OF ELKANAH B. ATKINSON
BALLAD OF OBADI FRYE
AT THE OLD FOLKS’ WHANG
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD
DRIVIN’ THE STAGE
“DOC”
ANOTHER “TEA REBELLION”
“LIKE AN OLD COW’S TAIL”
PASSING IT ALONG
A SETTIN’ HEN
BALLAD OF DEACON PEASLEE
THE WORST TEACHER
THE TUCKVILLE GRAND BALL
THE ONE-RING SHOW
THE SWITCH FOR HIRAM BROWN
THE JUMPER
ISHMAEL’S BREED