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Title: A Spray of Kentucky Pine

Author: George Douglass Sherley

Release Date: January 28, 2005 [eBook #14821]

Language: English

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A SPRAY OF KENTUCKY PINE

--Placed At The Feet Of The Dead Poet--
--James Whitcomb Riley--

By The Hand
Of the Man From
Down On The Farm--
--George Douglass Sherley

--On The Banks
Of Wolf Run--
--1916--

Second Edition

From Ye Olden Printe Shope--
--James M. Byrnes, Esquire--
On Ye Long Highway
Called Shorte in Ye Goodly
Towne Of Lexington Kentucky

The Inscription Two-fold

To The Dead:
Reverently Inscribed
--To the Indiana-Born
World-Wide Poet--
--James Whitcomb Riley--

--This Spray Of Kentucky Pine--

To The Living:
Also Lovingly Inscribed
By The Man From Down
On The Farm To The
Dear Lady Here On The
Banks Of Wolf Run
--His Mother--
On Grateful Commemoration
Of Her Eighty-Fifth Birthday
August 20, 1916

The Prelude

--A Note Explanatory--

With James Whitcomb Riley,
some years ago. This Man From Down On The Farm,
made a Reading Tour, of--in Population--more than
one-half of this Imperial Republic, including
the Cream of the Canadian Provinces.
Of that Tour, at some other time, in some more
leisurely hour, he desires, if able, to make
a full and faithful Record.
This, is but a humble Spray of Kentucky Pine,
placed at the feet of the Dead Poet!

According to a long established Custom,
the Man, in some way, in