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if the ramp is common to woods of the 

 country generally, and has not taken its 

 place in literature on account of never hav- 

 ing been adopted by polite society. The 

 modern dictionaries say little or nothing 

 about it, but I find in Bailey's Dictionary 

 (edition 1794), "Rampions, a root proper 

 for sal lads. Rapunculas esculentus" I 

 would add slightly esculentus. 



Come who may, the visitor to the Wil- 

 liams River country will find himself re- 



paid, and if he should come in June of the 

 present year he may smell the smoke of my 

 camp-fire, and if he comes not, like calami- 

 ties, in battalions, he may share a breakfast 

 of fried trout with me. So long as he leaves 

 me a camp site out of hearing of his nightly 

 revels, reasonable allowance of my own 

 tinned stuff and my share of the trout fish- 

 ing, he is welcome to " holler" to his wild 

 heart's content, and he may have all the 

 bears — and the rampions. 



WANDERER 



BY ROSCOE BRUMBAUGH 



THE whitethroats sing for him at morn 

 Their most enchanting, plaintive lay; 

 The bob- whites in the fragrant corn 

 Call out to him along the way. 



Mayhap he tarries here and there, 

 When weary, at some open door, 



Then lg^ves behind the weight of care, 

 And journeys lightly as before. 



There are no tales like those he hears 

 Within the pages thousands turn — - 



He knows the secret joy of tears 



Which we have found it hard to learn. 



His heart is free; and, unconfmed, 

 His footsteps wander where they will- 



A gypsy, like the roving wind, 

 He starts across another hill. 



