Excerpt from Farm Ballads IT has been deemed best to revise and enlarge this book, bringing it up in size to other mem bers of the farm series. The additional numbers are of two classes poems written some-ten years ago, and omitted in former editions, and those written during the past year. The author has not taken pains to distinguish these from each other by inserting dates; he prefers to let each one stand upon its own merits, or stumble against its own de merits, without the advantage or disadvantage of a published birth-year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.