FARM LEGENDS.
FARM LEGENDS
AUTHOR OF "FARM BALLADS"
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS
FRANKLIN SQUARE
HARPER & BROTHERS,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
THE MEMORY OF A NOBLEMAN,
MY
FARMER FATHER.
The "Farm Ballads" have met with so kind and general a receptionas to encourage the publishing of a companion volume.
In this book, also, the author has aimed to give expression to thetruth, that with every person, even if humble or debased, there may besome good, worth lifting up and saving; that in each human being, thoughrevered and seemingly immaculate, are some faults which deserve pointingout and correcting; and that all circumstances of life, however trivial theyappear, may possess those alternations of the comic and pathetic, the goodand bad, the joyful and sorrowful, upon which walk the days and nights,the summers and winters, the lives and deaths, of this strange world.
He would take this occasion to give a word of thanks to those whohave staid with him through evil and good report; who have overlookedhis literary faults for the sake of the truths he was struggling to tell; andwho have believed—what he knows—that he is honest.
With these few words of introduction, the author launches this secondbark upon the sea of popular opinion; grinds his axe, and enters oncemore the great forest of Human Nature, for timber to go on with his boat-building.
W.C.