Excerpt from Locust Bloom: Little Stories of the Ohio River Hills With Verses on Various Themes The hills still call me, as they did in boyhood. The bird songs still thrill me, as they did when I first heard them. The scent of growing corn, the wind-waves swaying in the ripening wheat, the cooling sweetness of the glens, all have a lure for me. Time has only deepened these impressions. 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.