HORACE GREELEY.
Reading edition
By Jep Joslynn.
Hush! a nation’s pulse stands still! Through it is flashed a thrill Of genuine grief! Grief for the Great and Good— Grief for the one who stood In strong relief, And half a century braved Opinion for the enslaved, To find his name engraved On Life’s clear leaf! A rustic child of ours, Who in Green Mountain bowers Was born to earth, Attained a giant life ’Mid scenes of bitter strife That prov’d his worth! And, dying, leaves behind him, In hearts that have enshrined him Affection’s links that bind him To every hearth! Let the solemn church bell toll For the passing of a soul To peaceful rest: Let tender tears be shed For the illust’rous dead Who’s hand we’ve prest! For hearts to-day are riven— A Light went out at even To glow anew in Heaven Among the Blest! —New York Evening Telegram.
To FREDERIC HUDSON,
THE TALENTED JOURNALIST AND COURTEOUS GENTLEMAN, WHOSE FRATERNAL INTEREST IN YOUNG WRITERS, AND WHOSE CONSIDERATE AND PATIENT TREATMENT OF ALL WITH WHOM HE HAS HAD BUSINESS RELATIONS, HAVE ENDEARED HIM TO THEM, THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED, BY HIS LATE SUBORDINATE AND SINCERE ADMIRER,
The Author.
CONTENTS.
PAGE.
The Curse of Pedergogue Scott 9
Bob Munn of Cape Cod 16
My Rerligion 24
Little Boots 32
The Buzzin’ Bees of Berks 39
That Little Black Pet of Our’n 49
Old Tom Gin 57
The Sign of Joe Ball 66
ILLUSTRATIONS.
Planting the Thistles 13
Bob Munn’s Transfiguration 21
Deacon Sparling’s Devotion 26
The Tar Heel’s Return 35
A Mule’s Baptism 46
Jonah’s Landlord 50
