HUSKS AND NUBBINS.
BYALICE D. O. GREENWOOD.
CONCORD, N. H.: The Rumford Press. 1899.
COPYRIGHT, 1899,
BY ALICE D. O. GREENWOOD.
DEDICATED
TO THE MEMORY
OF
MY FATHER,
HON.
OLIVER P. DAVIS,
OF
VERMILLION CO.,
INDIANA.
PREFACE.
Having a natural predilection for the corn-fields, being "born and brought up" on their borders, and by virtue of that fact able to discriminate between a perfect ear and one that is immature, and with an eye to the "eternal fitness of things," I have, after carefully comparing this little volume with others more pretentious, decided upon its name, sincerely regretting the superabundance of husks, and the absence of perfect grain. In order to place it within reach of those upon whom (as upon myself) Fate, in her distribution of prizes, has bestowed neither Aladdin's lamp nor the "goose that lays the golden egg," it is bound in this simple fashion, with a hope that it may find its way to humble firesides, where we ourselves, forgetting for the time the strife and turmoil of the busy world outside, would gladly bask once more in the sunshine of the smiles of "the folks we used to know."
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