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Title: The Dead Men's Song
Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its
Author Young Ewing Allison

Author: Champion Ingraham Hitchcock

Release Date: September 17, 2006 [EBook #19273]

Language: English

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YOUNG EWING ALLISON

--_A REMINISCENCE_

[Illustration: _Photograph By Cusick._
Young Ewing Allison]

"The man who wrote such a poem should not be unknelled, unhonored
and unsung."

--_Walt Mason._

THE DEAD MEN'S SONG:

BEING THE
STORY OF A POEM AND A REMINISCENT SKETCH
OF ITS AUTHOR

YOUNG EWING ALLISON

TOGETHER WITH A BROWSE THROUGH OTHER
GEMS OF HIS AND RECOLLECTIONS
OF OLDER DAYS

BY

HIS FRIEND AND ASSOCIATE

CHAMPION INGRAHAM HITCHCOCK

_Incorporated with which are Facsimiles
of Certain Interesting Manuscripts_

LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY

1914

COPYRIGHT BY CHAMPION INGRAHAM HITCHCOCK

1914

IN THESE PAGES

A WORD SAID BEFOREHAND

Explaining How a Certain "Chap" Lost His Temper and Found It Again
Very Quickly.

DERELICT, By Young Ewing Allison

A Reminiscence of Stevenson's "Treasure Island" Based On the
Quatrain of Captain Billy Bones.

PICTURING THE INDIVIDUAL

With Some Observations About A Man Whom I Have the Honor to Call
Friend.

MAN AND NEWSPAPER MAN

A Peep Into Personal Records of the Past With Some Comments of a
Current Nature.

JUST BROWSING AROUND

Excursions Into the "Higher Altitudes" With Something About the
Books Up There.

IN THE OPERATIC FIELD

Being a Look Behind the Scenes With Some Glimpses of a Pursuing
Jinx.

BALLAD OF DEAD MEN

The Same Being Mostly About Able Pirates And the Very Able