Excerpt from Old-Time Pictures: And Sheaves of Rhyme Set adrift in the newspapers, like thistle-down in the Fall 'wind, a few poems of mine have lodged at last between the lids of a book. Never thinking seriously about it until it was too late to think at all, I find myself fearing that their meaning to me is a sort of personal property I cannot make over to anybody, and that I should have slipped them in among the leaves of the Family Record, be tween the book of Malachi and the Gospel according to St. Matthew, as being the very place in a world of sinners about the safest from perusal. 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.