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A Spray of Kentucky Pine
Placed at the Feet of the Dead Poet James Whitcomb Riley

A Spray of Kentucky Pine Placed at the Feet of the Dead Poet James Whitcomb Riley

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The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Spray of Kentucky Pine, by George Douglass Sherley

Title: A Spray of Kentucky Pine

Author: George Douglass Sherley

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

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A SPRAY OF KENTUCKY PINE***



E-text prepared by David Garcia
and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
from digital images generously made available by
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Note: The layout of this document, including serif vs. sans-serif, boldface, indentation and size are an accurate representation of the typography used in the original. The author is known for eclectic choices in this respect—this particular work is one of the milder examples.

Images of the original pages can be seen online at the Kentuckiana Digital Library http://kdl.kyvl.org/










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—










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,

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