HORACE GREELEY.
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 |