Up In Maine

About this eBook

Author

Day, Holman, 1865-1935

Title

Up in Maine: Stories of Yankee Life Told in Verse

Credits

Produced by David Widger from page images generously provided by the Internet Archive

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Maine -- Poetry

Category

Text

eBook-No.

55341

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55341

Release Date

August 11, 2017

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.UP IN MAINE — Stories of Yankee Life Told in Verse
2. 2.By Holman F. Day — With an Introduction by C. E. Littlefield — Boston: Small, Maynard & Company — 1900
3. 3.PREFACE — C. LITTLEFIELD.
4. 4.‘ROUND HOME
5. 5.AUNT SHAW’S PET JUG
6. 6.OLD BOGGS’S SLARNT
7. 7.CY NYE, PREVARICATOR
8. 8.UNCLE BENJY AND OLD CRANE
9. 9.“PLUG”
10. 10.THE SONG OF THE HARROW AND PLOW
11. 11.HOORAY FOR THE SEASON OF FAIRS
12. 12.HAD A SET OF DOUBLE TEETH
13. 13.GRAMPY’S LULLABY
14. 14.HOSKINS’S COW
15. 15.AN OLD STUN’ WALL
16. 16.THE STOCK IN THE TIE-UP
17. 17.EPHRUM WADE’S STAND-BY IN HAYING
18. 18.RESURRECTION OF EPHRUM WAY
19. 19.LOOK OUT FOR YOUR THUMB
20. 20.THE TRIUMPH OF MODEST MARIA
21. 21.SON HAS GOT THE DEED
22. 22.AN IDYL OF COLD WEATHER
23. 23.BUSTED THE “TEST YOUR STRENGTH”
24. 24.“WHEN A MAN GETS OLD”
25. 25.I’VE GOT THEM CALVES TO VEAL
26. 26.THE OFF SIDE OF THE COW
27. 27.THE LYRIC OF THE BUCK-SAW
28. 28.MISTER KEAZLE’S EPITAPH
29. 29.PLAIN OLD KITCHEN CHAP
30. 30.TAKIN’ COMFORT
31. 31.EPHRUM KEPT THREE DOGS
32. 32.LAY OF DRIED-APPLE PIE — ONLY HELD HIS OWN
33. 33.GRAMPY SINGS A SONG
34. 34.UNCLE MICAJAH STROUT
35. 35.THE TRUE STORY OF A KICKER
36. 36.MORAL.
37. 37.ZEK’L PRATT’S HARRYCANE
38. 38.THOSE PICKLES OF MARM’S
39. 39.“THE MAN I KNEW I KILLED”
40. 40.’LONG SHORE CRUISE OF THE “NANCY P.”
41. 41.TALE OF THE SEA-FARING MAN
42. 42.CAP’N NUTTER OF THE “PUDDENTAME”
43. 43.GOOD-BY, LOBSTER
44. 44.CURE FOR HOMESICKNESS
45. 45.ON THE OLD COAST TUB
46. 46.TALE OF THE KENNEBEC MARINER
47. 47.DRIVE, CAMP, AND WANGAN
48. 48.THE LAW ’GAINST SPIKE-SOLE BOOTS
49. 49.THE CHAP THAT SWINGS THE AXE
50. 50.THE SONG OF THE WOODS’ DOG-WATCH
51. 51.FIDDLER CURED THE CAMP
52. 52.THE SONG OF THE SAW
53. 53.DOWN THE TRAIL WITH GUM PACKS
54. 54.REAR O’ THE DRIVE
55. 55.MATIN SONG OF PETE LONG’S COOK
56. 56.OFF FOR THE LUMBER WOODS
57. 57.HERE’S TO THE STOUT ASH POLE
58. 58.MISTER WHAT’S-HIS-NAME OF SEBOOMOOK
59. 59.HA’NTS OF THE KINGDOM OF SPRUCE
60. 60.THE HERO OF THE COONSKIN CAP
61. 61.UP IN MAINE
62. 62.A HAIL TO THE HUNTER
63. 63.HOSSES
64. 64.THEM OLD RAZOOS AT TOPSHAM TRACK
65. 65.TO HIM WHO DRIV THE STAGE
66. 66.HE BACKED A BLAMED OLD HORSE
67. 67.B. BROWN—HOSS ORATOR
68. 68.“JEST A LIFT”
69. 69.BART OF BRIGHTON
70. 70.GOIN’ T’ SCHOOL
71. 71.THE PAIL I LUGGED TO SCHOOL
72. 72.THE PADDYWHACKS
73. 73.THAT MAYBASKET FOR MABEL FRY
74. 74.THE MYSTIC BAND
75. 75.AT THE OLD “GOOL”

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