Excerpt from West-Country Ballads and Verses The author owes his best thanks to Messrs Cassell for permission to republish the first portion of Devon Lassies from the 'maga zine of Art.' The dialect-piece A Devon Wife appeared in 'longmans' Magazine'; Autumn in the 'speaker'; In the G01 den Wood in the 'pall Mall Magazine'; and A Song of Devon was printed in the Summer Number of the 'western Morning News, ' 1898. With these exceptions, the con tents of this little volume make their first appearance. 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.