TO TEE BALKING BUYER 



If rustic joys and rural themes, 

 Adventures with the old ox-teams, 

 And keen delights of hunting 'coons, 

 And dances to the old-time tunes, 



Have charms to please you yet 

 Come, join with me, and, in this book, 

 Let's wander hack and take a look 

 At country scenes of earlier days, 

 Before our artificial ways 



Had caused their sun to set. 



