Excerpt from Some Rustic RhymesPrompted by the solicitations Of friends, I have collected from the various publications in which they have appeared these simple rustic rhymes, and now Offer them for the first time in the form of a little book. In them I have endeavored to portray country life as it is; its joys and its sorrows, its humor and its pathos its hopes for the future and its traditions of the past, not as seen from a dis tance, but from the vantage ground of a life spent among rural people.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.