CAPE COD BALLADS AND OTHER VERSE

By Joseph C. Lincoln

With Drawings by Edward W. Kemble

1902

          To My Wife          This book is affectionately dedicated

Preface

A friend has objected to the title of this book on the ground that, asmany of the characters and scenes described are to be found in almostany coast village of the United States, the title might, with equalfitness, be "New Jersey Ballads," or "Long Island Ballads," or somethingsimilar.

The answer to this is, simply, that while "School-committee Men" and"Village Oracles" are, doubtless, pretty much alike throughoutYankeedom, the particular specimens here dealt with were individualswhom the author knew in his boyhood "down on the Cape." So, "Cape CodBallads" it is.

The verses in this collection originally appeared in Harper's Weekly,The Youth's Companion, The Saturday Evening Post, Puck, Types, TheLeague of American Wheelmen Bulletin, and the publications of theAmerican Press Association. Thanks are due to the editors of theseperiodicals for their courteous permission to reprint.

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