Anonymous
Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 250
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ..." when the master spoke, To " Back!" or " G'long!" and always know Enough to halt at the sound of " Whoa!" And this is the way the settlers went Through hamlet, and town, and settlement. One bl ight morning at hist they came Full in sight of their little " claim "--Fertile acres as ever lay Out of doors, in the light of day; And the bright spot seemed to the woman's eyes A very vision of paradise. There, by the edge of the dense, dark wood, Was the litttle c cbin, homely and rude, Built by the husband's ready hands, And overlooking the pleasant lands. Safe in the welcome haven at last, The " prairie schooner" her anchor cast--Lay at her moorings just before The little log cabin's open door; While, freed from the yoke, the cattle pass To their ev'ning feast in the tender grass; And the household goods, a meagre store, Lie scattered about on the puncheon floor; Water, anon, from the spring is brought, And an armful of seasoned fuel sought Wherewith to kindle a blazing (ire, And the yellow flames rise high, and higher In the chimney's throat, and the black pot swings On the long, dark crane, and the tea-kettle sings Its cheery song. And the bright young wife Begins the work of her frontier life; Spreads the board for her plain repast, And when the darkness shuts in at last, Weary and drowsy, repairs to her rest--The queen of a home in the glorious West! Brightly the morn of the morrow broke In the rosy Eat, and the twain awoke, And gazed without on the new, strange hind--Bright and beautiful, broad and grand! And the wide expanse of the flow'r-gem'd sod Seemed fair as the garden where Adam trod, When he and Eve, the primal pair, Went into the apple-business there. Clear, in the forest...